While the shitting your pants story is great, the people still want to know if you had your 19th birthday at Chuck E Cheese.
Maybe by claiming he vomited he was just trying to pay tribute to the recently deceased George H.W. Bush and his illustrious achievement in that area as President.
David Uberti is my boyfriend and let me take this moment to tell all you lovely readers that he has been out of town every. single. time. I’ve moved during our relationship (including into the apartment we now share).
counterpoint: do not do this, you weaken the entire industry by creating the precedent that the fruits of your labor should come for free. if someone is profiting off your work, you should not do it without compensation.
How EMILY’s List Lost Its Way
“I don’t regret it,” said then-Nevada Assemblywoman Lucy Flores with tears in her eyes on the state assembly floor in 2013. Flores was speaking about her choice to have an abortion at age 16. How she didn’t want to experience the hardship of her “six other sisters,” who all “became pregnant in their teens.”
Whatever Happened to Honest Graft?
Last week, The Intercept’s Lee Fang and Spencer Woodman published a story about how the family of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, whose husband is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, funneled millions of dollars to their family foundation from their own offshore tax shelters, which are incorporated…
The American Citizenship I Never Wanted
On August 4, 2017, I sat in the waiting room of the Atlanta immigration office waiting for an immigration officer to come by and check my citizenship paperwork for the fourth time. The yellow waiting room with more than 100 dark maroon chairs, neatly aligned into 10 per row, had been my home away from home for the…
The Very Bad Politics of 'Putting Healthcare Over Politics'
On Tuesday, former CMS administrator under Obama Andy Slavitt announced United States of Care, a “non-partisan non-profit” with undisclosed funding that plans on “building and mobilizing a movement to achieve long-lasting solutions that make health care better for everyone.”
A Partial List of Companies That Definitely Could Have Afforded to Pay Their Employees a Good Wage at Any Point Before the GOP Tax Bill
Since the passage of the GOP’s wildly unpopular and regressive tax bill, American companies have been coming out of the woodwork to announce they are using their tax windfalls to invest in their employees. Even nominally “liberal” companies like Apple and Starbucks have credited Congressional Republicans and the Trump…
It's Almost Like Corruption Is Normal and Fine In Washington
Bloomberg’s Zachary Mider and Ben Elgin have a fantastic report today on the DCI Group, a lobbying and consulting firm in Washington, DC, and how hedge funds employ it to achieve their horrid aims.
Three Oregon Republicans Tried to Blow Up Medicaid. It Didn't Work.
On Tuesday, Oregon residents voted to fund the state Medicaid program by levying fees, known as assessments, on hospitals and insurance providers in the state. The ballot referendum, named Measure 101, had the support of virtually every healthcare advocacy organization in the state, including the organizations that…
'There Are Higher Laws': Inside the Archives of an Illegal Abortion Network
The Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion started offering counseling and referrals for abortion in New York City three years before the procedure was legal in New York and six years before Roe v. Wade was decided, but its existence was never a secret. In fact, the group of 21 ministers and rabbis, which would…
Amazon Go Fuck Yourselves
Amazon Go, the company’s new Seattle-based automated convenience store that opened up to the public on Monday, allows customers to zoom on in, grab whatever their hearts desire, and get out, all without having to deal with a checkout line or a human manning the register.
Arianna Huffington Is the Biggest Scammer Alive
Arianna Huffington was supposed to be Uber’s high-powered savior. When former Uber employee Susan Fowler came forward with an explosive piece last February detailing the ingrained culture of sexism at the company, Uber recruited Huffington, its only female board member, to help tackle the problem.
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