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So This Is 'Covid Normal'
Last weekend I attended two days of the Brunswick Music Festival in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. In front of a…
Watching My Home Country Fall Apart From Lockdown on the Other Side of the World
A few years ago, I read Michel Faber's novel The Book of Strange New Things. It's a sci-fi story about a priest who…
Trump Administration Reportedly Thinking of Admitting Zero Refugees Next Year
Officials within the Trump administration have proposed cutting the number of refugees it admits into the U.S. next…
Bernie Sanders' Staff Union Demands Better Working Conditions
Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign staff is apparently engaged in their very own fight for $15, according to…
Finally, More Criminal Charges for Opioid Executives
A rare criminal charge has been brought against former executives at a company who helped pushed opioid pain…
Three American Children Were Detained for 12 Hours at Chicago O'Hare Airport Today
Three American children and their adult Mexican cousin were held by immigration authorities at Chicago O'Hare…
House Votes to Hold Barr and Ross in Criminal Contempt
After many, many threats, the House finally followed through and held Attorney General William Barr and Commerce…
Texas Border Agent Allegedly Sexually Harassed Mother of Child Held in Detention Center
A border agent who worked at a child detention facility in Clint, TX allegedly sent harassing messages to the mother…
Trump Is Playing With Fire, and Someone Is Going to Get Burned
At a rally in Greenville, NC tonight, President Trump spent minutes attacking freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
RIP Impeachment Attempt #3, We Hardly Knew Thee
There was a brief, shining moment amid the bedlam in Congress last night during which Rep. Al Green promised to file…
Nancy Pelosi Has to Decide Whether to Halt a New Push to Impeach Trump
Amid Tuesday's circus show in Congress, it was almost hard to notice that someone did the damn thing and filed…
RIP Justice John Paul Stevens
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has died at the age of 99, according to the New York Times. Stevens…
CNN What Are You Doing???
CNN, a nominally respectable cable news network, invited an honest-to-god neo-Nazi on air today to represent those…
B O O M
In a live video interview earlier today, Washington Post reporter Robert Costa attempted to own presidential…
Neo-Nazi Blogger Hit With $14 Million Fine for Vicious Harassment
Andrew Anglin, who publishes the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, has been ordered to pay $14 million to a woman…
The House Wants Betsy DeVos' Emails
The House Oversight and Reform Committee has requested that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos hand over personal…
Republicans Hate That They Have to Respond to Trump's Racism
It's been only a couple of days since President Trump tweeted a racist screed telling four congresswomen of color,…
The Squad Fires Back At Trump Over His Mega-Racist Tweets
The ongoing battle between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the progressive freshman legislators known as "the Squad"…
Beto Tries to Save His Campaign By Revealing... His Family Owned Slaves???
Beto O'Rourke has the saddest story of the 2020 campaign thus far. After nearly beating Ted Cruz for his Senate seat…
Puerto Ricans Are Furious at Their Dumb Government
Only days after several former top officials in Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló's administration were arrested on…