Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Justice Did a Lot of Horrible Things Today

Image via Getty It seems like just yesterday that Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was reminiscing about mutton-busting and wondering whether he’d rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck. But sure as spring must turn to summer, all far-right Supreme Court justices must eventually reveal the true contours of their judicial ideologies. And…

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Melania Trump Ditches Opposition to Cyberbullying to Cheer on Donald’s Latest Sexist Attack

Getty Remember when First Lady Melania Trump was going to make her pet cause a campaign against cyberbullying? She doesn’t either. After her husband, President Donald Trump, tweeted Thursday morning to claim “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, rolled into his Mar-a-Lago club with her face “bleeding badly from a…

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The Latest Version of Trump’s Muslim Ban Is Taking Effect Tonight and It’s Worse Than Ever

AP Welcome to WHAT NOW, a morning round-up of the news/fresh horrors that await you today. After the Supreme Court allowed the majority of President Trump’s Muslim travel ban to take effect earlier this week, the administration issued new criteria that require visa applicants from the six majority-Muslim countries and all refugees to have a…

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GOP Medicaid Spin – FactCheck.org

AddThis Sharing Buttons above Republicans are spinning their health care bills’ impact on Medicaid: Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey made the questionable claim that under the Senate bill “no one loses coverage” gained under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. The bill would reduce federal funding to expansion states, leading some states to restrict eligibility, according to…

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I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People | HuffPost

Like many Americans, I’m having politics fatigue. Or, to be more specific, arguing-about-politics fatigue. I haven’t run out of salient points or evidence for my political perspective, but there is a particular stumbling block I keep running into when trying to reach across the proverbial aisle and have those “difficult conversations” so smugly suggested by…

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Facebook may finally have to compromise its user experience in order to keep growing – Recode

Facebook embraced sound-on autoplay videos, just months before Google and Apple said they were banning these formats on their platforms as unacceptable UX intrusions. By Tony Haile on June 27, 2017 6:30 am   Facebook has a problem. What has driven its growth for the last five years won’t drive its growth for the next…

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