Gonna drink a Diet Dr. Pepper, donate to an abortion fund, and call it a day.

On Tuesday, as Republican legislators in Alabama voted to pass what amounts to a total ban on abortion in the state, the actor Busy Phillips tweeted out a call for people who have had abortions to share their stories, using the hashtag #youknowme:

Abortions can be expensive, and especially in places where people must travel hundreds of miles in order to obtain one, the cost—of the abortion itself, of travel, of taking time off from work—can make getting an abortion incredibly difficult and burdensome.

Shoulda had a Diet Dr. Pepper today, but unfortunately I did not.

Get ready y’all, because the upcoming Democratic primary debates just got a whole lot more fun: Oprah’s favorite spiritual guide and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson will be up on stage.

At the end of April, the actor and activist Alyssa Milano went on MSNBC to talk about Joe Biden and the presidential election. Halfway through the interview, she shared her strategy for the Democratic Party. “This primary to me is not about policy. It’s about beating Trump, period,” she told the hosts. “That’s it, end…

Remember Students for Trump, the group of ambitious young students who, during the 2016 campaign, promoted their love of the now-president with photos of themselves wearing bikinis and MAGA hats along with coordinated events like the Chalkening, where young bigots covered their campuses with messages like “stop Islam”…

In April, the House Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on the latest iteration of the Equality Act, federal legislation that would enshrine sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes under federal civil rights law. Support for the Equality Act, first introduced in its current form in 2015 by…

May I present to you not one, but two big-time small-time dicks: Tennessee’s Republican House Speaker Glen Casada and his chief of staff Cade Cothren, two dicks united together until Monday, when Cothren resigned. You hate to see dicks split like that.

In April, Ohio’s Republican Governor Mike DeWine signed a so-called “heartbeat” bill into law, which bans abortions as soon as a heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks into pregnancy. On Tuesday, Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp did the same; all told, four states have passed draconian “heartbeat”…

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, the longtime Met Gala planner turned lead organizer for Donald Trump’s inaugural celebration and former senior adviser to Melania Trump, was unceremoniously fired by the First Lady last February—and she is very upset at her (possibly former) friends, the Trumps. More specifically, she is…

Over the weekend, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin shared, in his words, “a few jots about various things going on these days, in my life and in the world at large.” And it turns out—unsurprisingly to those who have watched the bumbling Jon Snow continue to fall up on the latest season of Game of…

Many of the 2020 Democratic primary candidates are obsessed with winning the Midwest—and in particular the storied white working-class voter, without whom, the conventional logic goes, they have no chance of taking back the White House. This logic is partly to explain for the front-runner status of Joe Biden, whose…

In the late 1980s, while he was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, Bernie Sanders hosted a cable access show called “Bernie Speaks with the Community.” And now, thanks to Politico and Channel 17, we can watch the entire archive! It’s weird as hell.

You can eat fried chicken for breakfast, y’all.

Food is good, and it is normally sad when it is wasted, but there is one important exception—when it’s thrown at white nationalists.

Stephen Moore, Donald Trump’s pick for the Federal Reserve Board, has some lovely opinions about women—like how they should be banned from refereeing or announcing men’s college basketball games and how they don’t deserve equal pay in sports. He also believes that feminism and Women’s Studies have turned white men…

Former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, whose campaign was derailed after it was publicly revealed he has a history of preying on teenage girls as a grown man, is continuing the hallowed tradition of bad man comebacks by considering another run for Senate. And his reasoning seems to be—if Brett Kavanaugh could…

On Wednesday, an international sports body issued yet another decision against the South African track star Caster Semenya, agreeing with the International Association of Athletics Federation that women athletes who have testosterone levels above a certain limit must take steps to reduce those hormone levels in order…

Earlier this month, an armed militia group patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border made headlines when they posted a series of videos that showed members, decked out in military fatigues and black face masks and carrying guns, detaining migrant families.