Oops! During Monday’s joint press conference with Russian President Vladamir Putin, President Trump said he saw no reason why Russia would want to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. But that’s actually totally not what he meant.
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During an impromptu press conference Donald Trump held on Wednesday during the NATO summit in Brussels, the self-described “very stable genius” gave a preview of his upcoming meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Is it just me, or have we had to think about Trump Younger and Trump Senior’s sex lives way, way too much this week?
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Upon the unceremonious announcement on that Putin won another performative election, Pussy Riot released a new video, “Elections.” They refer repeatedly to “six years,” the length of a hypothetical presidential term. Putin won today in the procedural landslide, and journalists tweeted images of casual public ballot…
And an arms race! What an exciting time.
Pussy Riot’s Masha Alyokhina has a warning for Americans under Trump: “I think it’s honestly just the beginning of a huge battle which the United States faces. I wish you bravery.”
Isn’t it weird when you read something absolutely insane and you’re like, wait, is this news? Didn’t I hear that already? Don’t you feel, sometimes, like we’re being force-read an extremely obvious and cliché novel at a rate of a few sentences a week?
Do you ever get home from work at the end of a long, stressful day and go into your bathroom for a lil’ self-care? You pluck your eyebrows one hair at a time. The sun dips lower and lower into the sky, and you realize your left is smaller than your right? So you even them out as the sun sets, and then you look up,…
Press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed on Tuesday that President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin a second time, informally, at the G-20 summit held in Hamburg, Germany earlier this month. The administration had previously failed to disclose the talk, which reportedly lasted about an hour, though a…
Not enough bags for all these barfs, as the saying goes.
In case you were wondering, Jill Stein remains extremely Not Sorry for having possibly contributed to the election of a malicious cantaloupe. Although the Green Party ostensibly stands for, y’know, the environment that is currently being systematically destroyed at a vastly accelerated pace, Stein told Politico that…
The current thorn in Putin’s side is Alexei Navalny, blogger and opposition leader. Navalny was detained by police on Monday outside his home that didn’t stop the massive protests he’d organized for the same day.
Paul Manafort, who worked on the Trump campaign from March until August 2016, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire with ties to Putin to advance Russian interests beginning during the Bush administration, the Associated Press reports. A U.S. official told the AP that Manafort is a primary subject of the U.S.…
How many times have you gasped since yesterday? I have gasped nine times!
A bill sponsored by conservative Russian senator Yelena Mizulina, most famous for her successful anti-LGBT legislation, has been passed. The new law lowers the penalties for domestic violence in a country with inordinately high levels of abuse within families.
A bill proposing the decriminalization of domestic violence was introduced to Russia’s State Duma in August by ultra-conservative Yelena Mizulina, best known for her successful anti-LGBTQ legislature against “gay propaganda.” The proposed legislation passed the first reading early around the new year, in a vote of…
At a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May—whose name was spelled wrong three times by the White House ahead of her sit-down meeting with Trump—our president emphasized the importance of the U.K.-U.S. relationship. “This is our first visit. So. Great honor,” he said, as he read an opening…
As Donald Trump met with Kanye West today in Trump Tower, Syrian regime forces bolstered by our new friends in the Kremlin are completing what a UN official called “the complete meltdown of humanity” in the nearly fallen rebel-held city of Aleppo.
