If you’re having a bad Monday, then just take comfort knowing that President Trump is having the Mondayest of Mondays. In addition to currently rocking the lowest approval ratings of his presidency — and of any modern presidency ever, for that matter — he just hit a major roadblock in his quest to make America…
If you spent the weekend camping out in the remote crisp desert or hiking in the highlands of a forested winter wonderland, you were lucky enough not to see that Dana Loesch was trending all over social media. The slick spokesmodel of the NRA has been making the rounds of news shows, vehemently earning all…
You wouldn’t expect Secretary of Defense James Mattis to be the type of guy to fight on behalf of trans folks. The big, strong, manly man — or, depending on how you look at him, “tired basset hound” — is in charge of arguably the world’s greatest military, and yet he’s willing to stand up…
Racism in the queer community isn’t just a U.S. problem, as evidenced by some recent DRAMA surrounding this year’s Pride in London Festival. Stonewall, Britain’s largest LGBT charity, withdrew support for Pride in London yesterday due to concerns over the festival’s “lack of diversity.” The charity announced it would instead contribute to UK Black Pride,…
Today, in What Else Is New, another “family values” Republican is being accused of being a corrupt douchebag. Admitted adulterer Eric Greitens, ak.a. the Governor of Missouri, was indicted Thursday on a felony charge of invasion of privacy for using an ex mistress’s nude pic against her as blackmail. That sound you just heard is…
It was 1977—a pre-Geraldo Rivera era of decent network TV talk shows—when Roy Cohn, a one-time attorney for Donald Trump and the owners of Studio 54, appeared on Midday Live on WNEW and debated writer and “public intellectual” Gore Vidal. Bill Boggs hosted and/or moderated the proceedings. Cohn booked the engagement to promote his book…
As the rest of the country has essentially sat on our asses complaining about the state of things and launching the occasional protest, the teenagers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida have emerged as the true leaders of the Resistance. Now, if they could only help the Democratic Party get its shit…
We all saw this coming, didn’t we? The Southern Poverty Law Center said yesterday that the number of hate groups in the U.S. has increased since the election of one Donald J. Trump, thanks to Trump’s immigration stance and his perceived sympathy for white supremacists. Apparently when you call white supremacists some “very fine people,”…
In a moment that will surely be looked upon with relish when Robert Mueller exposes Trump’s total complicity in the 2016 Russian hacking operation, Trump went on Twitter Tuesday morning and blamed Barack Obama for Russia’s interference in the election. Trump used Obama’s own words against him by tweeting out one of the former President’s…
As the country still reels from the tragedy of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, one thing has become clear: The kids at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are braver than anyone in Congress right now. While elected officials at every level of government have found it easier to offer…
