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Trump Called A Press Conference Because The Tweets Weren't Working

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L.A. Has the Worst Idea on Housing

At a time when affordable housing is a national urban crisis, we usually turn to precious, self-righteous burgs like San Francisco for the most atrocious examples of NIMBYism. But now, Los Angeles may have them all beat.

A President You Can Drink Bleach With

This seems a good moment to revisit “He seems like he’d be a good guy to have a beer with,” the shorthand explanation for the rank anti-intellectualism that put George W. Bush in the White House 17 years ago and later flowered, in our somehow even dumber present, into “Uh actually stupid idiots are good” and made…

Time For Unions To Figure Out The Internet

Since the Reagan era, wages have stagnated, unions have declined, and average workers have lost power. If we want any of that to change in the near future, we will have to look… everywhere.

Just Elect Keith Ellison Already

The race for Democratic National Committee chair has been going on for, it seems, a thousand years. It should mercifully conclude this month. If the Democrats are not idiots, they will give it to Keith Ellison, and move on to doing things of actual importance.

Missouri Republican Cuts Off NAACP Leader's Mic Just To Be A Dick

Before today, Missouri state Rep. Bill Lant, the leader of the state’s House Republicans, was most famous for mocking a former high school classmate’s sagging breasts. Now, he can also be famous for stopping a black man from talking.

Trump's National Security Czar Resigns Over "Compromising Position" With Russia

Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Flynn, resigned tonight after just 24 days on the job after revelations that he’d “misled” the administration about a phone call with the Russian ambassador, had likely committed a crime, and was potentially vulnerable to blackmail.

Leaders Change But The Problems Stay The Same

The “big problems” that America faces do not involve imaginary threats from immigrants, street crime, or voter fraud. Rather, they involve the fact that grotesque inequality is baked into our nation, and nobody in power cares enough to do much about it.

Donald Trump Stunned To Learn Presidency Is An Actual Job, His First

Maybe you’d better sit down for this one. According to a report by Politico, corned-beef dirigible Donald Trump, a skill-free inheritance baby with a virtually unbroken lifelong track record of incompetence and failure, has found that running the United States government is a tougher job than lending his name to…

Betsy DeVos Is Coming for Your Children

Even among all the billionaires, ideologues, and straight-up racist goons Donald Trump has nominated for his cabinet, Betsy DeVos, who was confirmed earlier this week as the Secretary of Education, stands out for how seemingly unqualified she is. As the doomed critics of her nomination were quick to say, she has never…

Donald Trump Says U.S. Media Ignored These 78 Terror Attacks

Yesterday in Tampa, Donald Trump complained that the “very, very dishonest press” purposely ignores acts of terror around the world. When pressed for examples, the White House last night released a list of 78 incidents it called terrorism that it says were overlooked by U.S. national media. That list—one full of…

Patriots Devin McCourty And Martellus Bennett Won't Visit Trump White House

New England Patriots players and Super Bowl champions Devin McCourty and Martellus Bennett have both independently said that they won’t attend the team’s ceremonial visit to the White House to celebrate their title with President Donald Trump.

In Trump's Fascist Aesthetic, Dissenters Are Losers and the Photograph Rules

“Get used to it,” Donald Trump’s counselor Kellyanne Conway tweeted in the middle of the chaos created by a selective immigration ban signed by President Donald Trump late last week. “POTUS is a man of action,” she continued, “Promises made, promises kept…a shock to the system.” Conway’s words were unseemly and…

Labor Department Employees Revolt

You can now add the Labor Department to the growing list of US government agencies where workers are speaking out against their new leadership.

War Man

Of all of the bad things that Donald Trump might do to the world, perhaps the worst would be to drag us into a war. God help us if one of his top advisors turned out to be some sort of warmonger.

Roger Goodell On Trump, The Wall, And Muslim Ban: Football

When asked by the media about Donald Trump’s Muslim ban this afternoon, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell responded like Tom Brady and essentially grunted, “Football.”

Neil Gorsuch Won't Fill The Vacancy On The Supreme Court

Last night, in a livestreamed quasi-game show at 8 p.m., President Donald Trump announced that he would be nominating Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Who is Neil Gorsuch? The immediate coverage explained that he is “not a rank partisan” but a “judge’s judge”; that he has a “sterling legal pedigree”; that he has a “…

Sacramento's MLS Bid Possibly Derailed By Last-Second Ownership Coup

Of the 12 cities that formally applied to be part of the next round of MLS expansion today, Sacramento has perhaps the strongest case. Or at least they did, until its team’s owner made a bid that possibly excluded the city’s highly successful team.

Don't Join The Military

We all know that pacifists, socialists, and flag-burners would advise you never to join the U.S. military, ever. Forget that for a moment. Even if you consider yourself a good patriot, do not join the U.S. military now.

I'm Fed Up With Tom Brady

It’s been more than 16 months since Tom Brady first placed a “Make America Great Again” hat in his locker and kept it there for weeks while telling reporters that it “would be great” if Donald Trump became president. Well, Donald Trump is president, and I’m going to put this as objectively as I can: It has not been…

ESPN Would Prefer Dan Le Batard Stick To Sports; He Declines

ESPN has always struggled with addressing politics. Traditionally, the president coming on SportsCenter for a lighthearted segment picking a March Madness bracket represents the far edge of its political engagement, and even FiveThirtyEight, the network’s boldest experiment in this area, is more about politics as…

Kyle Lowry Calls Trump's Muslim Ban "Bullshit" Many Times Over

Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry was asked today for his thoughts on Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, seeing as how the NBA has produced fantastic responses like Steve Kerr’s and Gregg Popovich’s to the president’s executive order. Lowry was more to the point.

"A Kick In The Ass" For Labor: A Union Leader Considers The Age Of Trump

Stuart Appelbaum, the head of the most powerful retail workers union in America, swears he is optimistic. Why?

Resist.

Yes, wear a shirt with a slogan on it. Yes, put a bumper sticker on your car. Yes, flood your social media feed with your outrage. Fine. All of those are fine, and necessary, and good.

Steve Kerr Says Trump's "Shocking And Horrible" Immigration Ban Will Only Support Terrorism

It’s been fascinating to see how the sports world’s sharpest political discourse has come from NBA coaches. Steve Kerr, Gregg Popovich, even Stan Van Gundy have provided passionate criticisms of President Trump and America’s power structures, and well-articulated summaries of Americans’ grievances, and this isn’t even…

Are You Prepared?

There’s a bigger lesson here than “Fuck Uber.”

Kellyanne Conway's Old Stand-Up Routine Shows How Long The Skins Have Been A Punchline

Today is the 25th anniversary of Washington’s last Super Bowl win. Some perspective on the longevity of the Skins’ suckitude was provided by the recently unearthed video of Trump confidant Kellyanne Conway’s brief standup comedy career. Her routine, part of a 1998 contest to find the “Funniest Celebrity In…

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Trump Called A Press Conference Because The Tweets Weren't Working

L.A. Has the Worst Idea on Housing

A President You Can Drink Bleach With

Time For Unions To Figure Out The Internet

Just Elect Keith Ellison Already

Missouri Republican Cuts Off NAACP Leader's Mic Just To Be A Dick

Trump's National Security Czar Resigns Over "Compromising Position" With Russia

Leaders Change But The Problems Stay The Same

Donald Trump Stunned To Learn Presidency Is An Actual Job, His First

Betsy DeVos Is Coming for Your Children

Donald Trump Says U.S. Media Ignored These 78 Terror Attacks

Patriots Devin McCourty And Martellus Bennett Won't Visit Trump White House

In Trump's Fascist Aesthetic, Dissenters Are Losers and the Photograph Rules

Labor Department Employees Revolt

War Man

Roger Goodell On Trump, The Wall, And Muslim Ban: Football

Neil Gorsuch Won't Fill The Vacancy On The Supreme Court

Sacramento's MLS Bid Possibly Derailed By Last-Second Ownership Coup

Don't Join The Military

I'm Fed Up With Tom Brady

ESPN Would Prefer Dan Le Batard Stick To Sports; He Declines

Kyle Lowry Calls Trump's Muslim Ban "Bullshit" Many Times Over

"A Kick In The Ass" For Labor: A Union Leader Considers The Age Of Trump

Resist.

Steve Kerr Says Trump's "Shocking And Horrible" Immigration Ban Will Only Support Terrorism

Are You Prepared?

Kellyanne Conway's Old Stand-Up Routine Shows How Long The Skins Have Been A Punchline

Have Unions Accepted Death?

Trump's Greatest Allies Are Craven Shithead Serious Journalists Like This Guy

Paid Political Hacks Are Scum