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During the 2016 Republican primary, Donald Trump humiliated Florida Senator Marco Rubio. He called him silly names and crushed him in his own state. Like Ted Cruz, Rubio went on and on about Trump would destroy the oh-so-noble conservative cause, but they both…

White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx appeared on CNN's "State Of The Union" this weekend, where she proved House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's lack of confidence in her is merited:…

You may have noticed that #UnverifyAndyNgo is trending today on Twitter. There are myriad reasons, of course, why people are not particularly fond of Andy Ngo. For one, he's been known for some time now to share deceptively edited videos in hopes of portraying…

Donald Trump's attempts to ratfuck the census and ensure the GOP gets to gerrymander Congress for another ten years continue apace. NPR's Hansi Lo Wang got the scoop from three sources inside the Census Bureau who say the White House's new plan is to cut off…

It's 92 days until the presidential election, which should last about a month. Donald Trump is behind in the polls, but as we're often told, he still has time to turn things around. He just needs to not be Donald Trump for the next three months. Can he do it?…

A federal judge unsealed court documents last week connected to the 2015 defamation case Virginia Roberts Giuffre filed against Ghislaine Maxwell, who was recently arrested for allegedly helping procure underage girls for convicted sex offender Jeffrey…

When Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas was asked if it could hold a Black Lives Matter rally on the grounds of the church, it was more than happy to host. The church already even had a large Black Lives Matter banner hanging outside! However, when the…

He's saying the quiet part out loud again. President Donald Trump has once again taken to Twitter to admit that his entire reelection strategy rests on making sure Americans can't vote.…

Nothing ever truly disappears on social media, so it wasn't shocking that a video resurfaced of a demonstration last year at a Navy SEAL museum fundraiser. What was shocking, coming so soon after John Lewis's funeral, was the content: Military dogs attacked a…

Daniel Rodimer, AKA "Big Dan Rodman," is a former professional wrestler and current congressional hopeful, running as a Republican against incumbent Democrat Susie Lee to represent Nevada's third district. Last week, the Associated Press reported the existence…

Bryant "Corky" Messner, a Republican primary candidate running to challenge Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, has Donald Trump's seal of approval, so it's not a surprise he's a Know-Nothing xenophobe. During a closed-door meeting, Messner,…

Last week, several schools across the country opened and welcomed children back to class. That may not last too long, as we already have a bunch of headlines about how many of those children now have COVID-19. On the first day of school at Greenfield Central…

Kris Kobach in Kansas is a problem for Republicans. Nobody likes the guy. He's already lost the governor's race in 2018 by five points to a Democrat in Kansas, and now he's running for Senate in a campaign he kicked off by misspelling his own name. The…

Your children's noses are lousy with coronavirus. (New York Times) Sick schoolkids could send Florida off a cliff. — Daily BeastThe best-case coronavirus scenario for the US is horrific. So that's neat. (Daily Beast again)We don't want to have no confidence…

By just about every measure, Susan Collins's campaign to win a fifth term in the US Senate is in trouble. Her polls are just terrible, including the most recent one, released Thursday by Colby College, which has Collins's Democratic opponent, Maine House…

Take a moment and think. In a hypothetical universe where all of us were very stupid and genuinely, truly believed in our heart of hearts that Hollywood celebrities and powerful people all over the world were eating babies, and also molesting trafficked mole…

You might recall that Vladimir Putin put a bounty on the heads of US troops in Afghanistan, and since that revelation emerged, Donald Trump has done absolutely nothing. He didn't bring it up during a recent conversation with Uncle Vlad because they were too…

There are very few things these days that bring us together as a nation. In fact, at this point, most of us don't even want to be brought together as a nation. But every once in a while something happens that everyone can agree is just absolutely fucking…

A 15-year-old Black teenager identified only as Grace was finally released from juvenile detention on Friday, after having been sent there in May for having violated her probation by not doing her homework. This happened despite the fact that Gov. Gretchen…

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two brothers who bombed the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 264, will serve out the rest of his life in prison instead of being put to death. At least for now. This decision was made on Friday, when…

According to their financial disclosures for this year, haunted dolls Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump collectively earned somewhere in between $36.2 million to $157 million from their respective investments, which is a whole lot of money. Reportedly, the Office…

Trump announced on Friday night that he would be banning the wildly popular social media app TikTok, most likely today, on the grounds that his administration suspects the Chinese government could use it to spy on us and copy all of our most precious dance…

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Remember that moment in Bill Barr's…

On "The Tucker Carlson Smile-Time Caucasian Anxiety Jamboree" last night, Tucker Carlson used the occasion of John Lewis's funeral to warn Americans that the radical Left — or the "professional Left," because what's the point of being a commie if it's not…

David Duke, for as long as many of us have been alive, has been the American name most synonymous with racism and hatred, regularly listed as one of the most appalling human beings to ever walk this earth. He was the Grand Dragon of the KKK, notable for his…

For 110 million Americans, the rent is due tomorrow. Also tomorrow, the eviction moratorium (which covered about a third of renters) will expire, meaning that landlords will soon be able to evict an extra 12 million people for not being able to pay rent.…

The Washington Post broke some news last night about the latest Department of Homeland Security fuckery in Portland, reporting that DHS's "intelligence" branch collected copies of tweets and newspaper articles by two US journalists. They then sent reports to…

On May 30, Las Vegas police arrested three self-identified "Boogaloo Boys" on their way to a Black Lives Matter protest, armed with Molotov cocktails and other weapons, in hopes of provoking the kind of civil unrest and violence that could lead to another…

Donald Trump's war on the US Postal Service is rolling right along, with a sudden series of cutbacks that are ostensibly aimed at "saving money" but that are resulting in mail piling up and not getting delivered. Nothing all that unusual, just proof of the…