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Ron DeSantis said something kinda funny about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin recently:…

Donald Trump is running for president again. He's officially launched his 2024 campaign, and he's even started campaigning, which is an important next step in the process. But what if Trump wasn't running at all? This is the apparent magical thinking that's…

The great state of Florida is fixing to introduce a bill that would allow folks to carry concealed firearms pretty much anywhere without a permit or training, just like the Founders wanted but didn't actually say. The so-called "constitutional carry" bill…

The savage beating Tyre Nichols received, which eventually killed him, was so objectively awful, not even Republicans could defend the cops responsible. That’s arguably only because it was on video, but nonetheless, Republicans mostly agree that this vicious…

America's white rightwing bastards are having a real moment with the murder of Tyre Nichols. It's like they've finally found a police murder where they really truly feel rage toward the murderers, and they're mad because they feel like the rest of us aren't…

On Friday, following the release of the police body cam footage of David DePape bludgeoning Paul Pelosi with a hammer, DePape contacted — from jail — a local Fox TV outlet to tell his side of the story. Sort of. He explained that "people" were out here…

The Memphis Police Department reportedly disciplined a sixth officer involved in the brutal killing of Tyre Nichols. Preston Hemphill, who's white, was "relieved from duty" but not arrested like his five colleagues, who are Black. Although he allegedly tased…

Don't adjust your TV sets or kick the side of your Internets to make sure you've got the right date. The headline in the New York Times indeed says that the Manhattan district attorney is beginning to make its case to a grand jury TODAY that Donald Trump is…

It is almost February of 2023, and yet the 2022 gubernatorial election rages on in Arizona. This weekend, Republican Kari Lake hosted a rally for the faithful at which she took a call from Donald Trump on stage. That should help boost her profile, not to…

It's like he doesn't even know the true meaning of Infrastructure Week. Anyway, he is in Baltimore! Watch him talk!…

This weekend, the Minnesota Senate voted 34 to 33 to pass a truly great bill enshrining reproductive rights in the state's law — and not just the right to have an abortion, either — making it the first state in the post-Dobbs era to secure access to…

Insecure white conservatives like to whine that the first lady, Dr. Jill Biden, has a doctorate degree and is therefore allowed to be referred to as "doctor." We don't know why, but it upsets them. We guess they don't understand that when people make jokes…

Democratic New Mexico legislators are looking to pass a bill that would bar sentencing children to life without parole and which would allow offenders under the age of 18, in most cases, to be eligible for parole after 15 years. A similar bill was introduced…

Last week, an essay by former "Last Week Tonight "writer Jeff Maurer titled "OMG Stop Freaking Out!" Is A Bad Response To Right Wing Freakouts went semi-viral among the sort of people who think Bill Clinton's public attack on a random Black woman making an…

Like most legacy sequels produced decades after the original, the second McCarthyism is proving quite the disappointment. During his interview Sunday on CBS's "Face The Nation," House Speaker Kevin McCarthy fumbled and stumbled more than the San Francisco…

Donald Trump picked this weekend, while the country's eyes were focused entirely elsewhere, to finally waddle out the gates of Mar-a-Lago and do something resembling campaigning for president. Had you forgotten he had, with much fanfare, announced he was…

Tyre Nichols’s savage killing is the predictable outcome of modern law enforcement. So, naturally, most Americans struggle to find an alternate explanation that blames anything but the system itself. Friday, on his HBO vent fest, Bill Maher suggested we're…

We got a lot of video footage from police body cameras last Friday. In one of these videos, five officers brutally beat a man to death. For what reason? We still don't actually know. In another, a man took a hammer and, in full view of two police officers,…

We shared a good laugh a couple months ago over how loyal Sinema Party member Kyrsten Sinema, an actual sitting senator, was selling her used stilettos and pink bikinis on Facebook Marketplace. There's no evidence, though, that Sinema's an unfortunate victim…

It was not a shocking development that the five Memphis police officers who beat Tyre Nichols to death were also Black. Richard Pryor commented on this phenomenon back in 1971:…

I ain't clicking that shit but OF COURSE public "equally concerned about Biden and Trump's classified documents," OF COURSE IT IS. Or at least that's what Chuck Todd says so could be entirely full of shit, nobodycould ever possibly know because nobody clicking…

We wish we didn't have to discuss Tyre Nichols. We wish he was still alive, but he's not. It's been almost three years since George Floyd's murder, and the police killings continue while the police budgets grow.…

Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed a couple of terrible bills on Saturday. The first will create a massive school voucher system, and the second is so truly crappy that no one is even talking about that.Because the second bill Cox signed will outlaw life-saving…

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Way, way back in 2016, Christian Pastor Gerald A. Johnson thought he was having a heart attack. It's not clear if he actually did have one or not, but either way, he felt his spirit leave his body. He thought he was going to heaven because of all the good…

On Friday morning, the City of Memphis released the footage of four police officers beating 29-year-old Tyre Nichols to death after pulling him over for "reckless driving" (which has not yet actually been substantiated).I haven't seen the footage. I can't. I…

This week brought the spectacle of the Republican National Committee winter meetings, which is sort of like CPAC but with fewer anonymous M4M ads trolling for Republican cock on Craigslist. If CPAC is the Weimar Germany of Republican party functions, the…

On Friday, The San Francisco Superior Court released the body cam footage and 911 audio from the violent attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul in their home in October of last year. Shockingly (to some), the video does not show Paul Pelosi and attacker David…

Good morning!Your present this week is that you get to join the Church of Scientology! Or ... not. Either way, here is a Scientology orientation video for you and your body thetans.…

Greetings, Wonketeers! I’m Hooper, your bartender. I lucked into a really nice bottle this week. It’s not easy to get Sazerac Rye here in Ohio, so I leapt at the chance to scoop this one up. Now that I have it, I thought I’d share the classic New Orleans…