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These days it's important to differentiate between things experts actually don't have any real disagreement on — for instance, whether people should get their fucking COVID shots — and things where there is legitimate room for discussion, where scientists…

Sidney Powell was told there would be no math. Or if there was math, it would be confined to wholly fantastical numbers made up by her own expert witnesses, not a detailed accounting of what it cost taxpayers to fend off her garbage Kraken lawsuits.But those…

This week, many of us were horrified by the treatment of Haitian asylum-seekers by the Department of Homeland Security, as well as by the Biden administration's decision to use a Trump-era rule to deport many of those asylum-seekers back to Haiti instead of…

Politico's Morning Zoo Playbook today offered a glimpse inside yesterday's marathon meetings between President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats, in which the president tried to herd the moderate and progressive cats from the House and Senate toward some…

Last time we talked about Hungary, it was because Tucker Carlson had gone over there on some kind of pilgrimage, we guess to lick the ground white fascist Hungarian leader Viktor Orban walked on, bounce on Orban's lap (figuratively and not in the gay way!),…

In case you hadn't noticed, reproductive rights are not long for this world. At least in this country. At least in states where those in charge just really, really, really want to force people to give birth against their will. In an attempt to fight this…

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US Border Patrol agents on horseback were photographed last weekend whipping and grabbing Haitian migrants and generally calling to mind slave patrols, leading to an outcry by the ACLU and calls for the agents to be fired, and while we're at it how about…

Last week, the very serious Alabama secretary of state, whose name is John Merrill, who is very serious, took a very serious meeting with Mike Lindell, the very serious president-and-also-a-client of MyPillow. You know, about the election fraud. It appeared to…

Dean Heller is back, baby! After getting crosswise with Trump, he got turfed out of his Nevada Senate seat in 2018, losing to Democrat Jacky Rosen by five points. Womp womp.Heller could have run against Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, who is up this…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took a ride recently with a New York cabbie and New York State Assemblymember Zohran K. Mamdani to bring attention to the cab drivers' fight for debt relief. It's all part of the fallout from the collapse of New York City's…

Police reform legislation has officially died in Congress. Wait, you never thought it was alive in the first place? Y'all so cynical. No, Donald Trump had assigned Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina the fun task of leading Democrats on a productive pursuit…

It had to come to an end sometime, Lindsey Graham's devoted and special friendship with Donald Trump. Seems the death knell was sounded by reports from the new Bob Woodward book about things Graham has said and done that weren't sufficiently sensitive to…

No we're not "polarized," we're a 60-40 country with a bunch of whiny loudmouths who are afforded an outsized level of respect. Includes a very welcome slap at Jonathan Martin of the NYT. — Michael Hiltzik at LA TimesKyrsten Sinema's numbers in Arizona are…

People who have been reading Wonkette for at least a week might remember last week when we examined whether Bob Woodward is sometimes full of shit, based on some reporting in his new book that seems like it might not be quiiiiiite right. Examining all the…

Republicans are threatening to let the US default on its debt, because they're assholes. That's apparently still a surprise to some Democrats who perhaps naively assumed the GOP wouldn't hold the nation's economy hostage for political purposes ... again.…

Alaska: COVID Patients Wait Hours In Cars For ER VisitsAlaska's largest hospital, Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, announced last week that it was switching to "crisis standards of care" — rationing scarce healthcare resources to help the most…

Listen, y'all, Michael Flynn heard a conspiracy theory rumor he wasn't too stupid to believe.APRIL FOOLS IN SEPTEMBER, he is literally talking about people hiding vaccines in his salad dressing. Put there by who, you ask? We think you mean put there by whom.…

It's supposed to be at 1:45 Eastern but they moved it once already so ... So.…

Last week, three Black women from Texas got into a fight with a hostess at the New York City restaurant Carmine's. According to security footage, the fight began when their male companions, who are also Black, were unable to provide proof of vaccination. The…

Republican operatives getting indicted for allegedly putting a Russian guy's money into Donald Trump's and the RNC's underpants? What is this, 2016? No, unfortunately it's 2021, and this shit will never end, but it's also 2016, because the Department of…

Remember how a year ago we were all aghast that Donald Trump was getting most of his guidance on coronavirus policy from Dr. Scott Atlas, a radiologist with no expertise in public health or infectious disease? Atlas was convinced that all we had to do was let…

"I think he is a fucking loser, and he is going to throw anything against the wall he can," Mary Trump told the Daily Beast. "It's desperation. The walls are closing in and he is throwing anything against the wall that will stick. As is always the case with…

The COVID-19 death toll in the US is now topping 1,900 people a day for the first time since March. The virus is spreading mostly unchecked among the 71 million Americans who remain stubbornly unvaccinated. Dr. William Moss of Johns Hopkins told the Associated…

Just gonna spoil the ending for you, Wonkers: This is a story where the good guys win. And not just a little victory, a complete reversal of a boneheaded attempt at censoring books in schools. You can get a little confetti ready for later if you want, and…

We've all had a good time laughing at the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists who claim that the COVID-19 vaccine will make you magnetic — not in the sparkling personality sense but literally like a refrigerator door that reveals how many states you've…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is denying allegations that he made a secret deal to lay off Donald Trump prior to the 2020 election. To be fair, Zuckerberg does have a face that compels you to trust him.Max Chafkin has a new book out called The Contrarian, about…

Here's some news we probably assumed was true all along, but having it confirmed really kind of brings what Donald Trump and his minions did in the days and weeks after he lost the election to another level, as Trump tried to seize and maintain power to which…

Jesse Benton, former Mitch McConnell campaign manager and Rand and Ron Paul fixer, got indicted for funneling tens of thousands of Russian rubles to the RNC in exchange for a meeting with Trump. (He apparently kept three-quarters of the illegal donation, as is…

You didn't think Mike Lindell was going to just stop, did you? Kids, that's not going to happen until or unless someone in the man's family decides to pack the MyPillow Guy's MyPillow in the MyCar and take him to the MyHospital, at which point his MyDoctor…