Brendan O'Connor

7/5/18

The Eugenicist Doctor and the Vast Fortune Behind Trump’s Immigration Regime

Last month, as parents arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border were separated from their children and transferred to…

6/13/18

The Trump Cabinet's Far-Right Bible Study Group Tried to Move Into the West Wing

Earlier this year, a weekly Bible study session led by a far-right evangelical pastor and sponsored by nearly a…

4/26/18

How I Got The DSA Caught Up In A Two Minutes Hate On Fox News

This past Sunday, after a meeting of citywide leadership to debate various resolutions and proposals ahead of the…

3/29/18

The Fascist Right Is Bloodied and Soiled

Recently, on a cold, gray Monday afternoon in East Lansing, Michigan, about 500 militant anti-fascists gathered in a…

3/13/18

Prominent White Nationalist Matthew Heimbach Charged With Felony Domestic Battery

Barely a week after brawling with antifascists outside a Richard Spencer speaking event at Michigan State…

2/16/18

Rebekah Mercer Is Full of Shit

This Wednesday, in a Valentine’s Day gift to campaign finance nerds the world over, Rebekah Mercer, the mysterious…

2/13/18

The New York Times Just Hired (and Immediately Unhired) a Nazi Sympathizer

On Tuesday, the New York Times editorial board announced the hiring of Quinn Norton, a technology reporter and…

12/8/17

How Did a White Supremacist Get a Job as an Equal Employment Officer?

Sutton Whitfield LLC, a Maryland-based technology recruitment firm, “provides equal employment opportunities (EEO)…

11/27/17

Here Are Some Facts and Questions About That Nazi the New York Times Failed to Note

The New York Times published a profile over the weekend of an Ohio man named Tony Hovater, a co-founder of the white…

10/3/17

This Is What It Looks Like When the President Asks People to Snitch on Their Neighbors

In April, the Trump Administration launched what it called the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE)…

8/10/17

What The Heck Is Going On At Tottenham Hotspur?

On Thursday, just three days before Tottenham Hotspur’s Premier League season opener and three weeks before the…

8/8/17

How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God

In 2005, at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C., the National Association of Evangelicals was on the verge of…

7/20/17

Navy Officials Knew Drowning Pool Was Used to Torture Detainees When They Invited the Band to Guantánamo

When the U.S. Navy invited the alt-metal band Drowning Pool to perform at a Guantánamo Bay Fourth of July…

7/19/17

Pruitt Pal Robert Murray's Coal Mines Sound Like Terrible Places to Work

Coal mining: Extremely dangerous! Especially when your boss lies to the government about safety records.

6/22/17

Andrew Cuomo Is Still a Fucking Snake

Here is how New York Governor Andrew Cuomo works: He is a coward, asserting responsibility only to defer it, every…

6/12/17

Koch Brothers' Former Right-Hand Man's New Gig: Helping Reactionaries Dismantle the Constitution

Congratulations are in order for Jim DeMint: Saying that his move signals a “new mission” for the Tea Party, the…

4/22/17

The Magic Of Mauricio Pochettino

Later today, with six games left in the Premier League season and a mere four points separating them at the top of…

4/21/17

El gabinete de Donald Trump cursa estudios bíblicos con un sacerdote de extrema derecha

La mañana del 5 de abril, El Secretario de Energía estadounidense, Rick Perry, se dirigió al Departamento de Salud y…

4/20/17

The Trump Cabinet Has Its Own Weekly Far-Right Bible Study Group

First thing in the morning on April 5, before a meeting chaired by Representative John Shimkus and another with the…

4/4/17

Right-Wing Billionaires Are Buying Themselves a New Constitution

Days before the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, as protests at Standing Rock intensified and…

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