Reaching for New, Exciting Lie, Trump Accuses Past Presidents of Not Calling Slain Soldiers' Families
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For Conservatives, Weinstein Proves a Completely Nonsensical Point
The mounting and increasingly disturbing allegations against Hollywood mogul and Democratic donor Harvey Weinstein have opened the floodgates to a veritable tsunami of gleeful commentary from conservatives and MAGA-ites, to whom Weinstein provides delicious, long-lasting political ammo. It will never quite land as…
So Did Trump Just Tell Everyone They Could Use Private Planes
The day before Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned over his colossal overuse of private planes, Energy Secretary Rick Perry—who has never been the most graceful of public officials—reportedly took a chartered jet to visit a uranium facility in Ohio. This is just the latest in a cascade of stories…
Congressman Recovering From Gunshot Wound Scolds Democrats for Gun Control Efforts
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Says It's Not the Time to Talk About Gun Control, Suggests We 'Look to Chicago'
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The Supreme Court Is About to Have a 'Momentous' Year
Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently said the Supreme Court’s term that began on Monday would be “momentous,” and virtually every report agrees: this term will be “one for the history books,” and central to the “shape the future of democracy.”
9 Million Kids Could Soon Be Without Free Or Low-Cost Health Insurance, Thanks to Republican Congress
In the midst of their bid to rip health insurance from millions of Americans under the now-failed Graham-Cassidy bill, Republicans allowed the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to expire, leaving 9 million kids waiting for their states to run out of money that provides them with free or low-cost health…
Britt McHenry Is Awful At This
Britt McHenry and Tomi Lahren seem to be in a contest to become the latest incomprehensibly irate white woman at Fox News. It’s like Josh McCown and Johnny Manziel battling to lead the Browns. McHenry, the former ESPNer with reporting expertise, is obviously the veteran McCown, while Lahren is the freewheeling,…
Tom Price Is a Grifter???
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Screw the Humanitarian Crisis, It's Time for Tax Cuts, Baby!
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Trump Deletes Tweets Supporting Loser Luther Strange, So Everyone Can Go Ahead and Forget About That
Yesterday, Sen. Luther Strange (R-Alabama) lost in the GOP primary to Roy Moore, a birther conspiracist who believes that the Bible trumps the constitution and who was suspended from his position as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court multiple times for defying federal law. Although Roy Moore really seems more…
Trump Ignores Hurricane Maria Disaster in Favor of Scolding Black Athletes and Inciting Nuclear War
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The Trump Administration Is the 'Most Male-Dominated Government' in Over 2 Decades
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Paul Ryan Says There 'Isn't an Agreement' Between Democrats and Trump on DACA
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Hillary Clinton's What Happened Is Whatever You Want It to Be
Hillary Clinton’s memoir, What Happened, should never have been written. Or maybe it’s a “feminist manifesto.” Or perhaps Clinton’s book is an unwelcome post-mortem, inspiring little more than “dread” and an audible “collective groan” from fellow Democrats. Maybe. Or maybe that response is just base misogyny, an “…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Maybe Comey Should Be Prosecuted, IDK!
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A Guide to New York City's Municipal Primary Elections for the Barely Informed Voter
New York City’s municipal primary elections are tomorrow, and across the five boroughs, New Yorkers are saying, wait, there is a mayoral race happening right now, as in this year?
Trump Has 'A Great Heart' and 'A Great Love' for the Dreamers He Fucked Over Today
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White House Sidesteps Question on DACA Rumors
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Trump to a Group of Hurricane Victims: 'What a Crowd! What a Turnout!'
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