Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.

The organizers behind the Women’s March have announced a protest against the National Rifle Association on July 14 in Fairfax, Virginia in the wake of a particularly stunning NRA video that kinda sorta seemed to promote shooting liberals.

Police in Lexington, Kentucky are investigating suspected gunshots fired into the windows of the Lexington Herald-Leader’s downtown building on Sunday morning. It’s not yet known who did this or why, although it’s tough to ignore that the incident took place in a national and local environment of alarming hostility…

Last month, Republican state Rep. Lawrence Lockman introduced a bill in Maine’s legislature called “An Act To Protect Political Speech and Prevent Climate Change Policy Profiling,” which would ostensibly prohibit the state from discriminating against individuals based on their beliefs about climate change. The bill, …

Since Donald Trump’s inauguration there has been much to protest, and Republicans are working as hard as they can to make that protesting illegal.

On Sunday, Republican senator John McCain appeared—remotely—on NBC’s Meet the Press, where he pussyfooted around critiques of President Trump while still implying that his administration is bucking against the order of the free world. He did, however, state outright that “President Trump is not trying to be a…

President-elect Donald Trump continues to watch Saturday Night Live with paranoid devotion and to, subsequently, fuss about Alec Baldwin’s portrayal of him. So, you will not be surprised to learn that Trump did not appreciate the show’s “Pee-Pee Party” Press Conference cold open, and that he made his disapproval known…

A New York State judge ejected an attorney for Gizmodo Media Group, which owns Jezebel, from his courtroom last week as she was seeking access to Bill O’Reilly’s $10 million lawsuit against his ex-wife, which is currently under seal at the Fox News anchor’s request. The ouster occurred just a week before the…

As we gear up for the incoming administration, it can be difficult not to sink into a kind of despair; watching Trump’s cabinet appointments, for instance, is like having a night terror featuring a surrealist clown car, wherein the clowns all want to kill you. But here’s Christiane Amanpour, reminding us all to steady…

The Associated Press reports that atheist and brave patriot Bennie Hart is suing Kentucky transportation secretary Greg Thomas after his request for a personalized license plate reading “IM GOD” was denied. I intend to stay up-to-date on the results of this lawsuit and any ensuing loosening of custom license plate…

On Thursday, a federal appeals court reversed an earlier ruling and found that North Carolina could legally offer a license plate with an anti-abortion message—without offering a pro-choice option.

On Monday afternoon, several political reporters posted videos of a violent exchange between a reporter holding a camera and a security guard, who some have identified as a Secret Service agent. The confrontation took place during a rally for Donald Trump at Radford University in Virginia.

James Woods has spent the last six months engaged in two very meaningful pursuits: tweeting, mainly about politics—Obama is popular among people on welfare, Bernie Sanders is a “commie scarecrow”—and suing the anonymous Twitter user who called him a “cocaine addict” and a “ridiculous scum clown-boy.” On Wednesday,…

In a slimy bout of legal gymnastics, Bill Cosby’s lawyers have argued that the defamation lawsuit filed by three women accusing Cosby of sex crimes is unconstitutional, and that the First Amendment protects his right to publicly talk shit about the women he allegedly raped or sexually assaulted over the course of his…