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Win McNamee/Getty Images On International Women’s Day, President “Grab ’Em by the Pussy” took to Twitter to express his support for women. “I have tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy,” he tweeted Wednesday morning. “On International Women’s Day, join…
gallery js If you scanned the public service announcements in your subway car this morningand happened to be adequately caffeinatedyou might have noticed something slightly off. There’s Melissa C., of small-time “See Something, Say Something” fame, with her gold hoops and salmon-pink hoodie. She’s smiling next to the familiar MTA logo, but her message isn’t…
In the midst of the election season, a lone figure appeared to New Yorkers as a quotidian source of joy: Gregg T., a wonderfully unassuming New Yorker whom the MTA was complimenting for not only seeing something, but saying something. Memes were made. Tweets were composed. Vox even did an explainer. Some fun was had….
Michael T. Flynn at President Trump’s inauguration in January. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — The candidate he was advising last fall was running on a platform of America First. The client he was working for last fall was paying him more than $500,000 to put Turkey first. Michael T. Flynn, who went…
Touting the first jobs report of Donald Trump’s tenure, White House press secretary Sean Spicer claimed without evidence Friday that the jobs figures “may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.” Spicer, addressing reporters at the afternoon briefing, did not back up the assertion that previous federal jobs reports were “phony,”…
Rep. Justin Amash is one of the few House members who personally justifies and explains his every vote on his Facebook page for constituents. Rep. Justin Amash has long boasted about not missing a single vote since he arrived in Congress in 2011 — 4,289 in a row, give or take a vote, if you’re…
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle. That! Photo! Here’s all the shit we couldn’t cover today: Some things Sean Spicer did at today’s White House press briefing: He fed the theory that there is a so-called deep state “burrowed into government”; he said,…
Illustration by Sam Woolley Is there a drug I can take, Limitless-style, that will make me better at video games? Ideally, it would be something legal. And something that wouldn’t put me in any medical danger. There are a lot of drugs on the market that claim to boost gaming prowess. This week, I tried…
The good news: our relatively strong economy helped to raise wages for everyone in 2016. The bad news: this is a mere blip in the context of overall inequality. And it’s likely to get worse. The Economic Policy Institute today released its annual report on the state of wages in America. Last year had some…
Illustration: Jim Cooke There are bad tweets every day of the year, but this is the day that we celebrate the bad tweets that were tweeted today: International Women’s Day. Thank you to everyone for their tweets. core-decorated Reporter, Special Projects Desk PGP Fingerprint: E6A2 8CF9 9829 649D A52E 3D40 F960 DDD5 7026|PGP Key …