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Paul Blest
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News editor, Splinter

I have never loved the Eagles more than I love the Eagles right now. Read more

What I love about this is that he will almost singlehandedly end the tradition. Next up he will bar the NFL from even playing the anthem so that players can’t protest it, and we will all be free of these stupid traditions Read more

Hi! Dan from Deadspin here. I have some information to add so the Jezebel commenters can make an informed decision.

It’s more like decades of American political discourse alternating between milquetoast center-left reformism and hard-right extremism (which along the way produced such bipartisan efforts as the Iraq War, deregulation, and destruction of the social safety net) led to Trump, who isn’t the aberration he’s made out to be Read more

I’m pretty sure he never said, “I have a dream we will make continuous references to people’s sexuality and whether they’re white or not... oh, and capitalism is bad too..”
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A badass North Carolina teacher gave me the gift of literacy back in 1989 after struggling for years. Godspeed! Read more

I graduated from a NC school about a decade ago, and I don’t know if I could have asked for a better education. My teachers were engaging and challenging. They developed classes for sports history, and literature from the Holocaust, and our judicial system, and others. My peers and my teachers were diverse, something Read more

An unarmed man who rightfully feared for his life managed to wrestle a gun away from an actual deadly threat. Yet all these shook-ass cops blast away black people because... Read more

People don’t really realize how expensive having a kid is until they have one. I’m not talking about raising a kid, which is an entirely other deal. I’m talking about the actual process of going through pregnancy. Even with insurance. Read more

The thing that is shocking, yet totally unsurprising, is how much white collar crime is going on not just with this administration, but just in general. It’s fucking rampant. Read more

We might as well be Winterfell to you. I’m always fascinated at how red the soil gets when I drive down in North Carolina. Read more

So, in my newly redrawn district in PA, the DCCC and DNC tried to get two candidates (one seemingly fairly left of center, the other very progressive) to drop out. One of them has outraised everyone and has had people hitting doors for weeks. The other just started to roll out her field program. Read more

An American centrist party that’s not the Democrats. Lib Dumbs, if you will. Read more

The program cost $7.2 million? Geez, that won’t even get Scott Pruitt through the quarter. Read more

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