Today is my last day at Gawker Media/Gizmodo Media/G/O/M/e/d/i/a. I am not typically one to be at a loss for words, but in attempting to compose this post, I found it difficult to adequately sum up what my time at this company has meant and will mean to me in a way that is not 1) supremely cheesy and 2) wholly…
Today is Friday and two fish at the bottom of the barrel have decided to starting smacking their fins at one another, for some reason I couldn’t care to find out. One fish is named Andrew Yang, the other Michael Bennet. Neither fish is going to be the president, don’t worry. But god, was it dumb.
Indigenous people have long been asking for United States politicians to simply listen; now, it looks like one is finally bending his ear.
Three dipshit mayo frat boys at the University of Mississippi were booted from their fraternity for posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign memorializing where 14-year-old Emmett Till’s body was dumped by his murderers. Somehow, the students have not been expelled from Ole Miss, yet.
Attorney General Bill Barr announced on Thursday that after a two-decade hiatus, the federal government will get back to the business of capital punishment.
In a last-minute save, the Associated Press reported a federal judge blocked a trio of GOP-championed anti-abortion restrictions that were set to take effect today in Arkansas. The judge issued the ruling late Tuesday night, giving pro-choice groups 14 days to mount a defense to the inevitable appeal.
CNN is reporting that embattled Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló will resign today. That comes after a week of mass protests stemming from a report by the Center for Investigative Justice that revealed Rosselló and other leaders used homophobic language and joked about Hurricane Maria victims.
Last night, Charlotte’s City Council passed a resolution denouncing President Donald Trump’s recent “racist and xenophobic social media tweets and comments.” RNC 2020 should be fun!
The limits of the law are tested not by the easy subjects, but by the difficult ones.
President Donald Trump is ever the humanitarian, at least if you’re going by the standards of, say, Henry Kissinger.
On Thursday, North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem sued the United States government for $38 million in funds to recoup the taxpayer money the state poured into policing Indigenous protesters over the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline. If only the state hadn’t wasted its money giving the construction…
The New Hampshire Union Leader reported on Wednesday on a local dimension of Racist Week, which, of course, happened on Facebook.
I was standing in a bar in downtown Greenville—Grumpy’s, I’m pretty sure it was—off East 5th Street. This was about two months ago, when I was in town for my brother’s graduation from East Carolina University. The two of us were meeting up with some of his friends for drinks while our parents relaxed back at his…
Vice News is reporting that Sen. Bernie Sanders said he and Cardi B recently spoke on the phone about history and politics, presumably sparking yesterday’s very good tweets.
On Friday, IndieWire dropped an enlightening behind-the-scenes report that detailed the disarray in the director’s chair and writers’ room of Big Little Lies as the show transitioned to a new director and then back to the original during the production of the (mercifully) nearly finished season two. Watching the…
On Sunday, Axios’ Mike Allen published a post highlighting an “exclusive poll” that claimed to show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s negative effect on the Democratic Party’s standing with crucial swing-state voters. The post also noted how Rep. Ilhan Omar carried a “9% (not a typo)” favorability rating, and that…
Nathan Bedford Forrest was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and every July 13, Tennessee’s governor honors the racist bastard. That won’t change this year thanks to Gov. Bill Lee.
There’s no time like the present to shit on Paul Ryan.
You got a problem? See Maureen Dowd.
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