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For three days in a row, abortion rights protestors have marched in Los Angeles, protesting the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade. During the march on Saturday, LAPD officers decided to confront the nonviolent, peaceful protesters, and video appears…

There have been many evil reactions since the illegitimate Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. And there have been some good ones!Let's take a look at some of both from this week's Sunday shows. Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on NBC's…

There's no better avatar for the way Donald Trump's Big Lie has screwed our (already screwed up) electoral system than Tina Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado, elections clerk.“The Russians can’t hack into and start casting votes for someone,” she…

Elizabeth Warren has plans. That’s what we liked about her 2020 presidential run. Now, the Massachusetts Democratic senator has outlined plans of attack after the Supreme Court seized possession of American uteruses. Friday, after Dobbs dropped, Warren…

It's been a rough week over at Truth Social, Donald Trump's trash fire Twitter knockoff social media platform. The entire purpose of this exercise is to take the site's parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, public, by merging it with Digital World…

We are hurtling toward theocracy at a dizzying speed. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that religious schools could receive public funds — as in, the state must take money from everyone and give it to religious schools so they can teach kids Jesus hung out…

It seems most Americans aren’t keen on our Robed Masters stripping away our rights. According to a new Marist poll, 56 percent of voters oppose the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. A whopping 88 percent of Democrats and 53 percent of…

Since 1992, Democrats have won more votes in every presidential election except for 2004 (quite the asterisk there, John Kerry). The three most recent conservative Supreme Court justices were nominated by a president who lost the popular vote, and were…

Famous coup plotter Rudy Giuliani claims he was brutally assaulted Sunday in a Staten Island, New York, ShopRite store. Giuliani was campaigning for his useless son, Andrew, who thinks he can win the GOP nomination for governor. According to police, a…

Elected officials in what remains of American democracy are actively resisting our Robed Masters. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade Friday, the Democratic governors of California, Washington and Oregon launched a “West Coast Offense” to…

In a recently publicized clip from after she won her GOP gubernatorial primary in Arkansas, former Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gave a speech in which she proclaimed that, as governor, she will ensure that "when a kid is in the womb, they're as…

It's a special howl in the wind all-Roe and SCOTUS tabs. Aren't you just the thrilledest?How they're criminalizing pregnancy — yes, even in progressive states, yes even by progressive prosecutors. Here's just one paragraph from a cascade of WTF paragraphs:…

Summer’s here and while the time is usually right for dancing in the street, right now, it’s time for some seething white-hot rage directed at our Robed Masters on the Supreme Court.Today, we’re joined by special guest law-talker Jamie Lynn Crofts.…

In much of the run-up to what we knew would be a whole lot of abortion rights protests following the death of Roe, right-wing pundits were clutching every pearl they could find and talking about how very terrified they were over how the left was probably going…

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If there is anything I learned working in a vintage shop, it is that Marilyn Monroe people are kind of annoying. By this I don't mean fans of her movies, but rather those who see her more as a "Choose Your Own Adventure" or "Rorschach test" icon, frequently…

Haley Carter, a former professional soccer player and Marine who served several tours in Iraq who is also the chair of Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner's Commission Against Gun Violence, was supposed to be the grand marshal of the Friendswood, Texas 4th of July…

On Wednesday, the January 6 Select Committee revealed that Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson tried to pass fake electoral certificates from Wisconsin and Michigan to Vice President Mike Pence on the day of the Capitol Riot.…

This whole week has been a steaming pile of hot garbage. People in many states across the country lost reproductive rights, the Miranda Warning got neutered, New York lost the right to restrict who can walk around with a concealed weapon, and California…

Hello!It's the weekend. Millions of people just lost their reproductive rights. And while we can't say that the sun will come out tomorrow, here is the "So You're Menstruating!" video we had to watch in 5th grade when the boys went outside to play baseball ...…

Greetings, Wonketteers! I’m Hooper, your bartender. Summer’s still blazing. And dear Lord, do we need a drink. Let’s make a big pitcher of sangria. I’ve got a plan to crank out as much sangria as you need in no time flat and get back to the party.…

We are approximately 12 years into the House Select Committee January 6th hearings and people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Andy Biggs are still not sure what anyone there did wrong (although they would like some pardons, please!). In honor of this feigned…

For a good sense of just how monumental a loss of freedom the Supreme Court's decision today is, look no further than the eloquent, furious dissent written jointly by Justices Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor, which begins on page 148 of the…

You know, the one thing one can say about Joe Manchin over Kyrsten Sinema is that at least he's honest about certain things. Sinema plays dress-up, pretends to care about abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, gun control and all kinds of other things — but just not…

Greetings, all. My name is Jeffrey Bossert Clark, and I am a serious lawyer.Stop laughing! Would an unserious lawyer be here giving the commencement address to his alma mater, the Ave Maria Sewer Tank Repair and Law School?That’s better. I was almost…

“I’ve decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works,” coup-coup for Coco Puffs lawyer John Eastman emailed Rudy Giuliani after the Capitol Riot. And he wasn't the only one!At yesterday's House January 6 Select Committee…

Roe was overturned this morning.It feels so quiet. It's not that there's not any noise. I can hear birds and cars and other general noises, but somehow it's still just so fucking quiet. It's very hard to not feel hopeless and hard not to wish horrible things…

In his Supreme Court opinion yesterday overturning New York's law requiring people to show they have a real need to carry a firearm, Clarence Thomas argues that there's only one standard necessary to decide whether gun laws are constitutional: Any regulation…

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in court. You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before we ask you any questions. You have the right to have a lawyer with you during questioning. If you cannot afford a…

Good morning. Will the Supreme Court enshrine Sam Alito's one-handed misogyny scrawlings into law in the next hour and drop the ruling in Dobbs, the case that will overturn Roe v. Wade? Who knows! It's a decision day, though. (UPDATE: They did it. They fuckin'…