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Your Post Has Been Launched! Fabulous! Don’t forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. 2. Roxane Gay has pulled her forthcoming book, How to Be Heard, from Simon & Schuster in response to its reported $250,000 book deal with Milo Yiannopoulous. How to Be Heard was scheduled to be published in March…
President Trump plans to sign executive orders Wednesday enabling construction of his proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and targeting cities where local leaders refuse to hand over illegal immigrants for deportation, according to White House officials familiar with the decisions. The actions, part of a multi-day focus on immigration, are among an array of…
President Trump (that still feels way weirder than writing 2017 on a check) apparently shocked congressional leaders yesterday by claiming, in an extended riff, that he only lost the popular vote because of between three and five million votes which were cast illegally. The reaction to this has been strong and bipartisan, with both Republican…
Sixteen states are already working on legislation to suppress voters this year. President Trump falsely claimed during a meeting with congressional leaders Monday that he would have won the popular vote if it were not for three to five million illegal votes. At least three sources familiar with the meeting told the Washington Postabout Trump’s lie, which…
An armed guard stands at the entrance of the Survival Condo Project, a former missile silo north of Wichita, Kansas, that has been converted into luxury apartments for people worried about the crackup of civilization.CreditPhotograph by Dan Winters for The New Yorker Barrier Status: ‘none’ Steve Huffman, the thirty-three-year-old co-founder and C.E.O. of Reddit,…
What began as a Facebook plea from a grandmother in Hawaii eventually spawned an international movement. According to USA Today, an estimated 500,000 protesters descended upon D.C. to attend the march — this turnout was larger than the anticipated 231,000 that had RSVPed on the event’s Facebook page. The march may have had a bigger…
Four more journalists have been charged with felonies after being arrested while covering the unrest around Donald Trump’s inauguration, meaning that at least six media workers are facing up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted. [if IE 9]>< ![endif][if IE 9]>< ![endif] Matt Hopard. Photograph: Handout A documentary producer, a…
Meet Secretary of the Treasury and Swamp King, Steve Mnuchin. https://youtu.be/8okdzcz7PTM?list=PLur87nTwD0BtIreRwNBMG63ZCc4EXo9F9 via Swamp Dwellers | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube.
Furious fanboys are missing the point – but what else is new? IN BOB WE TRUST: New episodes, new look, new topics. Subscribe to this channel for more each week! MUSIC: “Heroic Reception”, “Night on the Docks – Trumpet”, “Reformat”,”Zap Beat”, “Eighties Action, Black Vortex, Full On, Lightless Dawn, Americana” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under…
Image by Jim Cooke Realistically, there is only one way out of our predicament. We know that we live in an age of staggering economic inequality. The top 10% of earners now take in nearly half of all our national income, a portion that has been rising steadily since the Reagan era. Meanwhile, the average…