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Drake Photo: Michael Loccisano (Getty Images for TNT) Drizzy Drake brought all the smoke to Pusha T and Kanye West, getting out a clapback to Pusha’s recently released diss track in record time but he also issued a six-figure invoice to the duo for “promotional assistance” and “career reviving.” Pusha, whose West-produced Daytona dropped on…
Photo: Getty The White House on Monday took its dehumanizing campaign to brand MS-13 gang members as “animals” to a new level. A 480-word “article” published on the White House press site Monday morning referred to MS-13 members as “animals” eight different times. The statement went on to list the most heinous crimes allegedly committed…
Photo: AP Speaking at New York’s Democratic Party convention on Thursday, Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez reportedly celebrated Gov. Andrew Cuomo securing the party’s nomination by taking thinly veiled shots at Cuomo’s progressive challenger Cynthia Nixon. As New York Daily News reporter Ken Lovett flagged, Perez called Cuomo and Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, who…
Photo: Getty Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum, a “liberal” blogger who thinks you’d be “crazy” if you don’t have a “reflexive disgust of the homeless,” did a take today on liberals supposedly “defending” MS-13, the gang which Donald Trump is now calling full of “animals” every chance he gets. It was terrible. The impetus for Drum’s…
On Friday morning, a student at an Indiana middle school opened fire inside a classroom, sending two people—one teenager and one adult—to a local hospital with gunshot wounds. According to local police, the shooter is in custody. The attack, which occurred in the Indianapolis exurb of Noblesville, comes just a week after the mass shooting…
Photo: AP Here’s a lovely anecdote from the Washington Post about racist White House aide Stephen Miller and racist man-child Jared Kushner laughing at racist jokes told by the racist president of the United States in the racist Oval Office before his first racist address to Congress. Wheeee! From the Post: The night before Trump delivered…
Photo: Getty Jared Kushner and Jeff Sessions, the worst remake of Pinky and the Brain ever, are reportedly having a bit of a quarrel over prison reform right now. And according to the New York Times, it helped to force the resignation of the head of the federal prison system. Kushner and Sessions are of…
Photo: Getty California congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who said last week that people should be “open to all points of view” when it comes to the cause of global warming, thinks it’s fine if people looking to sell their homes don’t want to do so to LGBTQ people. The Orange County Register reports that last week, Rohrabacher told…
Photo: Getty There are two “resistances” in Trump’s America. One—the very loosely-connected, small-r resistance led by people who probably wouldn’t call it that, but who represent some of the most threatened groups in America—is a vital part of everyday life under Trump. The other—the #Resistance—is a meme. The real “resistance” has been doing important work…
Photo: AP Another day, another nauseating peek into the hellish, unfeeling bureaucracy our country has created for undocumented parents and their children. The latest glimpse comes from a story in the Arizona Daily Star, which reported on Thursday about Operation Streamline, a fast-track program to prosecute undocumented people for crossing the border. The report includes this…