As the mad king raged at Savannah Guthrie for having the gall to question him about his conspiracy mongering, mask trutherism, and failure to even pretend to manage the coronavirus pandemic that is ravaging the country, the wishcasting texts and tweets began anew. When this is over, can we get …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of our Useful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by investigative journalist David Sirota. For the “Republicans Suck” segment, Matt and Katie cover every angle of the story on everyone’s mind, Donald Trump vs. Covid-19. This includes a play-by-play of Trump’s, according to …
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As the country grieves the loss of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I’m reflecting on the time before she was the Notorious RBG, before the court, before the collars. When she was just Ruth. She took care of a toddler, and a husband battling cancer, while in law school, …
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Barack Obama helps young voters formulate an Election Day plan in a new video the former president uploaded in partnership with Vote Save America. “Over the last few months, I’ve learned a thing or two from the young people in our country,” Obama tweeted, adding he learned how to do …
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I’m not a religious person, or someone who sees messages written in clouds, but if I were, I might believe that Mother Nature is trying to tell President Donald Trump something right now. California is burning, a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph just blasted into the Louisiana …
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None of the three children who witnessed a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer attempt to murder their father, Jacob Blake, Sunday night were old enough to sit up front. Even at 8, 5, and 3 years old, though, the boys are old enough to remember what happened for the rest of …
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Arizona Republican Senator Martha McSally is asking supporters to “fast a meal” and pass along the savings to her campaign. According to an Arizona CBS local affiliate, McSally made the callous pitch at a recent event in northern Arizona. “We’re doing our part to catch up, you know, to get …
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Summer morning light, the federal courthouse is eerily calm. The perimeter of the Mark O. Hatfield building, a 16-story high-rise occupying a block of downtown Portland, Oregon, emerged in July as the front line for nightly assaults by federal agents against Black Lives Matter protesters, whom President Trump labeled “sick …
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In his going-on four years in office, President Trump has tapped a swamp’s worth of loathsomefigures to fill high-ranking federal positions. But unfortunately for his determination to ensure the government is stocked with as many racists, loyalists, incompetents (or all of the above) as possible, many of these nominees are …
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When asked about President Trump’s recent untrue statement that he has done more for the Black community than any other president in history, Ben Carson would not refute Trump’s claim and instead talked around it. On Sunday, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Ben Carson was shown a video …
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