This year’s CPAC-AFPAC double feature was a multi-day spectacle that a single 2,000 word article could never describe in adequate detail. Over the course of three days, I witnessed enough absolutely bonkers shit to have leveled critical psychic damage on the most equanimous of monks. No amount of mindfulness meditation, …
Read More »The Criminal Investigation Into Trump's Georgia Election Meddling Is Heating Up
Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis has been granted permission to seat a special grand jury this spring to aid her office’s investigation into former President Trump’s alleged meddling in the state’s 2020 election results, CNN reported on Monday. Willis made the request last week writing in a letter …
Read More »Trouble in MAGA Land: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Dan Crenshaw Are Feuding Over Trump, Covid, and Porn
The public feud between Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Dan Crenshaw is getting ugly. The Trump-loving Republican lawmakers were at each others throats on Monday, with Crenshaw suggesting Greene is either “a Democrat — or just an idiot,” and Greene firing back that Crenshaw is “harassing” her. The two members’ …
Read More »'You Are a Loose End … That Needs to Tidy Up.' Kanye West Associate Accused of Pressuring Election Worker to Confess to Voter Fraud
Ex-R. Kelly publicist and current Kanye West associate Trevian Kutti reportedly pressured a 62-year-old Georgia election worker to confess to voter fraud allegations weeks after the 2020 presidential election, according to Reuters. Kutti allegedly visited the home of Ruby Freeman on Jan. 4, 2021 and offered the woman help in …
Read More »Tucker Carlson Is a 'Manipulative Son of a Bitch' — and Other Thoughts from Adam Kinzinger
Adam Kinzinger is the kind of Republican that Democrats say we need in Congress to put American politics on a more even keel. Throughout Donald Trump’s rise to power, Kinzinger, a 43-year-old Republican representative from Illinois, grew more wary of the president’s willingness to stay inside the boundaries of his …
Read More »Almost a Year Since Trump Was Soundly Defeated, Republican Leader Still Won't Admit the Truth
Appearing onFox News Sunday,House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) refused to say whether he believed the election was “stolen” from former President Donald Trump, who resurrected those claims at an Iowa rally Saturday night. “I want to ask you a specific question,” host Chris Wallace said. “Do you think the …
Read More »Decertify the 'Illegitimate' Election, Says Man Under Investigation for Election Interference
Donald Trump just can’t quit trying to interfere in the 2020 election. As a criminal investigation moves forward in Georgia into his attempts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, the former president sent a letter Friday to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that calls the election “illegitimate” and asks …
Read More »Understanding the Covid-19 Lab-Leak Theory
After more than a year of scientific hypotheses, baseless conspiracy theories, and a lack of transparency from China, we still don’t know Covid-19’s origin story —the precise route SARS-CoV-2 took to end up as the cause of a global pandemic. And thanks to the country’s deep partisan divides, even the …
Read More »Voter Suppression Is Violence
As he prepared to make State Bill 202 law on Thursday, it seemed that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp was shielding himself. Six white men in suits flanked him, three each on his left and right, and a portrait of a plantation hung on the wall behind him. The only way …
Read More »QAnon and the Assault on Planned Parenthood
On January 7th, a day after a photograph of her breaching the Senate chamber during the Capitol riot went viral, Christine Priola quit her job as an occupational therapist with the Cleveland Municipal School District. In the photo, Priola, dressed in a red winter jacket and blue tights with the …
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