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The single parents who were elated that the expanded Child Tax Credit was letting them do things like "fix the 100,000-mile car they need to get to work" and the disillusionment now that Joe Manchin fucked it in the ear. This story is important. It's also…

Today is a really good day for Mitch McConnell to put a sock in it. Sure, every day is a good day to tell the Senate Minority Leader to get fucked, but on this day, when Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer officially announced his retirement, it seems…

January 2022 has been quite the month for the culture warriors who used to freak out about "cancel culture." In less than a year, they've gone from bemoaning the "cancellation" of six old Dr. Seuss books that the publishers decided to stop selling because they…

For those with a modicum of credibility, taking an anti-vaccination stance can be an incredibly lucrative money-making opportunity. Anti-vaxxers have made celebrities out of those who can make that stance seem like it is intelligent and reasonable — and the…

What is legacy famous person Meghan McCain up to these days? Oh, you know. Marriage. Motherhood. Writing. Possibly selling patterns for her weird hairstyles on Etsy. Also, carrying forward her birthright of being a world-class asshole. Megs recently went a few…

President Joe Biden and Justice Stephen Breyer are press conferencing to explain how the VICIOUS BULLYING of Stephen Breyer (good) has worked (good), and he is retiring from the Court after almost 30 years of collegial collegiateness. Might maybe have…

In another sign that the recovery from the pandemic recession is coming along quite nicely, thank you, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis reported today that the USA economy grew by 5.7 percent in 2021, and that's even with the bumps and rocky patches caused…

Some of you, perhaps, have been looking at your trending sidebars for the last couple days going "Who the hell is Jennie Nguyen and what is it I am supposed to know about her?"Well, as Wonkette's resident "Real Housewives" fan, I've got you covered. You are…

Former North Carolina governor and current US Senate candidate Pat McCrory has thoughts about discrimination — specifically who is the real victim of discrimination today. Unsurprisingly, McCrory insists that conservatives in general, and he in particular,…

Content warning: suicide, the Holocaust, small-minded censorshipThe school board in McMinn County, Tennessee, voted unanimously earlier this month to ban Art Spiegelman's Maus, a Holocaust memoir in graphic novel form, from its eighth-grade Language Arts…

You probably have heard that Eric Clapton is a shithead anti-vaxx COVID skeptic idiot. He's a 76-year-old white man, so demographically we're not surprised. And yeah, he may be a "rock star," allegedly, but nobody's holding him up as some kind of paragon of…

Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration officially limited the use of certain monoclonal antibodies in the treatment of COVID-19. This is because the science shows that they aren’t effective against the Omicron variant, which is the dominant strain of…

"[I]t was 1993, and Justice Byron White had just announced his retirement. Clinton wanted Hatch’s thoughts on who he should nominate to replace White. And Hatch — here’s the part that is unimaginable in today’s Republican Party — offered two entirely…

We don't have a lot of time or desire to go back through all the details of the federal underage sex trafficking investigation into GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz. Just remember that his former wingman buddy Joel Greenberg is cooperating a lot, reportedly. And his…

It's about bloody time! Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has informed President Joe Biden that he intends to retire when the current term ends in June, NBC was first to report this morning. The 83-year-old justice was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994, and…

The Biden-Harris administration took a moment last week to tout a great big investment in US manufacturing by the Intel corporation, which plans to spend some $20 billion to build the world's largest semiconductor factory in New Albany, Ohio, a suburb of the…

Let's continue traipsing around the Republican-controlled parts of the country to see how they're using gerrymandering to pick good and decent Americans up by the scruff of their necks and shove their faces in dirty toilets.…

Trump's coup curious lawyer John Eastman got spanked in court yesterday, and not in a sexy way. Unless you think that a federal judge laying waste to every argument put forward by the dipshits defying the House January 6 Select Committee is sexy, in which case…

Arizona Republicans have spent the past couple weeks since the legislative session began introducing a red wave of voter suppression measures. House Bill 2596, which dropped Friday, would eliminate all early voting, emergency voting centers, and no-excuse…

Rachel Maddow ran a humdinger of a story last night, while reporting on the anxiety over whether Vladimir Putin will send Russian troops to invade Ukraine again. Maddow noted that Norway has had an ongoing problem with someone cutting undersea cables and…

Politico/Morning Consult is out with one of those so-called "polls" they do, to find out what Americans so-called "think" about "things." As we all know, the Beltway media is all doom and gloom about the Democrats' prospects from here until the end of time,…

Roger Stone, who as a political strategist makes a very good convicted felon, had some more harsh words for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Stone believes DeSantis has not demonstrated sufficient fealty to the insurrectionist in chief, Donald Trump.Stone was…

We thought we’d agreed that insurrections were bad, but the New York Times has taken a different perspective: What if insurrectionists are just like you but more inclined to coup? That was the theme of its fawning profile Sunday: "For Many Who Marched, Jan.…

Good morning, humble patriotic people of the Lord! Put down your morning Bible devotionals and pay attention, because it's time to listen to Kid Rock's new song. Yes, we know we've never made you listen to a Kid Rock song before. The thing is, Kid Rock has…

Last year's federal emergency rent assistance program was seen as an absolutely vital tool to keep people from being evicted when the pandemic eviction moratorium ended. The state of New York's share of the funding was some $2.4 billion that was aimed at…

Republicans are attacking abortion rights across the country while resisting even the most basic attempts at slowing the spread of COVID-19. However, Fordham Law professor Jed Shugerman thinks we can reach common ground with the quirky death cult party.…

Why I reported Eddie Gallagher for war crimes. Well, not me, I wasn't there. This other guy.…

Daily Wire columnist Matt Walsh is an extremely poor man's Tucker Carlson, a walking white male deficiency complex without the perks of Tucker's fame, money or delicate skincare regimen. Yep, he's pretty hot.…

Yesterday a three-judge panel in Alabama tossed the state's congressional map for violating the Voting Rights Act. And before you ask, it was two Trump appointees and a Republican nominated by Bill Clinton back in the days when blue slips were a thing and you…

A heavily armed antivaxxer named Christopher Key is traveling the highways and byways of America with the goal of performing "citizens' arrests" of Democratic governors, and thank heavens, the Daily Beast has been following his mission since at least late…