Happy Valentine's Day, from Us to You

Happy Valentine's Day, everybody! While for many this holiday has come to mean packed restaurants, shitty tasting menus or sitting at home pounding through a box of drugstore chocolate by yourself (amateur mistake: wait until tomorrow when all of the candy is on sale), we've decided to take a less cynical approach and…

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Cory Booker Is Melting Guns Into Bracelets and He Gave One to Rachel…

Newark Mayor Cory Booker appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to promote his jewelry line, the Caliber collection, which melts seized guns and turns them into bracelets. Each bracelet has "Newark" and the gun's serial number etched into it. According to the website.

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Your Imaginary Girlfriend: Rachel Maddow

Welcome back to Your Imaginary Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Jezebel's new series in which we explore the wild and entirely fabricated world of dating a famous person. As is the risk with most fan fiction, things might get weird and things might get creepy, but the important thing is that we all have a good time.

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Sandra Fluke Gives the Romney/Ryan Ticket a Stern Talking-To

Sandra Fluke spoke at the Democratic National Convention tonight, and pretty much called Mitt Romney out for being a coward. In front of eeeevvvveryone. If she'd made her speech in a lunchroom with middle school Democrats on one side and middle school Republicans on another, there would have been a low, rumbling "Ooooo"…

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Rachel Maddow Opens Up About Her Depression And Feeling Like a Failure

For anyone who's ever suffered from depression or even some good old-fashioned self-doubt, it's nice to know that you're not alone. Even the uber-successful and amazingly talented Rachel Maddow has her moments of getting down on herself and feeling depressed. She told Rolling Stone that she often turns on herself:

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Congresswoman Who Was Raped Understandably Pissed at Passage of…

Congresswoman Gwen Moore, a Democrat from Wisconsin, told reporters that the watered down House Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act was insulting to her as a woman of color, and as a rape victim. The House's version of the bill stripped away provisions from the Senate version of the bill that would…

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Watch Rachel Maddow Own GOP Strategist Alex Castellanos After He…

Beware people who begin the arguments with the word "actually" because, more often than not, they're about to lay down a thick layer of nasally, affected condescension. At least, that's what happens in this clip from a Meet the Press confrontation between fact-marshalling Rachel Maddow and obfuscating GOP strategist Alex …

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Meet Mitt Romney's Sexist New Spokesman

Always on the hunt for ways to make himself even less appealing to the American public, several days ago Mitt Romney hired Richard Grenell, a former Bush administration official, as his national security and foreign policy spokesman. Why is that bad? Well, a quick look at Grenell's Twitter history revealed that he is…

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Watch Rachel Maddow Say 'Vaginal' Over and Over and Over Again

During the ten day period when Rachel Maddow was covering the Virginia bill that would have required women seeking abortions to have mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds, she had to say "vaginal" and variations thereof quite a bit. Fortunately, the Daily Caller has collected all 58 instances of her use of the word into one …

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