Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right populist who has advocated, among other things, jailing political opponents, killing and torturing suspected criminals, and limiting Brazil’s gun restrictions, was elected President of Brazil on Sunday night, besting leftist Worker’s Party candidate Fernando Haddad. According to the New…
Here’s a fun note: Ellie thought it was Wednesday—her Barf Bag day—and diligently put together a roundup of news items from Thursday without realizing that it was, in fact, Thursday. So we have double the Barf Bag for you, and Ellie is going to take a nap.
On May 7, France will vote in a runoff election between far-right Islamophobic Holocaust revisionist Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old business-friendly centrist who served as economy minister in President Hollande’s astoundingly unpopular administration.
Yesterday, besuited Nazi Richard Spencer got kicked out of CPAC for his “repugnant” views, which a CPAC spokesman claimed have “nothing to do with conservatism or what we do here.” Shortly prior to this, Spencer called a heckler “a moron who can’t dress.” Can Richard Spencer dress, though? Seems like maybe not?
Since the November election of Donald Trump, the question “How did we get here?” has bounced around the internet and through print media. Despite the emerging genre of “this writer predicted Trump,” there is no single answer, no one text or prescient writer, there is no single book that predicted Trump’s election or…
“Get used to it,” Donald Trump’s counselor Kellyanne Conway tweeted in the middle of the chaos created by a selective immigration ban signed by President Donald Trump late last week. “POTUS is a man of action,” she continued, “Promises made, promises kept...a shock to the system.” Conway’s words were unseemly and…
Trump fanboy Scott Baio, whose wife Renee once referred to the staff of Jezebel as “lesbian shitasses” and who retweeted a comment about my pubes four months ago, would like everybody to please be a little bit more mature about the results of the election!
Despite an ideology of shared bigotries among what he and his acolytes call “the alt-right,” a recent spate of profiles and reports about National Policy Institute president Richard Spencer are positively devoted to elaborate descriptions of his sophisticated tastes and expensive clothes. In the last few weeks, a…
There’s a good reason we haven’t heard much about the Trump transition team’s inner workings –every member of the team responsible for preparing the ochre-colored Richie Rich cosplayer that is also our President-elect have all signed a very intense NDA.
After trying—and failing—to disenfranchise black voters on election day with strict voter identification requirements, Republican North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory is now refusing to concede to Democratic challenger Roy Cooper, who is ahead in the count by a small but significant (and growing) margin of 6,600 votes.…
The Muslim registry that Donald Trump has been talking about for over a year has reentered the public discourse with the election of Donald Trump and his horrible, pudding-faced minions are citing the Japanese internment camps as precedent.
Donald Trump’s speech patterns have many remarkable qualities, and at this point, sadly, we all know them well.
On Monday, after publicizing a press conference promising the endorsement of 100 black pastors who then said they never actually endorsed him, The Donald said they were pressured into saying that. Or maybe they simply realized they were being played?
Augustus Sol Invictus, a 32-year-old lawyer, is running to replace Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate. In recent days, he’s had to convince his voter base that the fact he once sacrificed a goat and drank its blood shouldn’t sway them against him. He’s also had to deny allegations that he’s a neo-Nazi or that he wants to…
