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close story-meta BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Doug Jones, a Democratic former prosecutor who mounted a seemingly quixotic Senate campaign in the face of Republican dominance here, defeated his scandal-scarred opponent, Roy S. Moore, after a brutal campaign marked by accusations of sexual abuse and child molestation against the Republican. The upset delivered an unimagined victory for…
Roy Moore, a bigot and alleged serial predator, rode a horse to the polls on Tuesday to cast his ballot in the Alabama Senate special election. Soon after, Horse Twitter came for him. Honorable mention: Ride on, Horse Twitter. Recommended Stories Roy Moore vs. Doug Jones Has Nothing to Do With Little Girls; It’s…
Nathan Mathis holding a picture of his late daughter, Patti Sue. WARNING: If you have not seen this video yet, it might make you cry. And if you cry, that will be a sure signal that you are a better human being than every grunting beef shart who casts a vote for Roy Moore today…
Recently, it was announced that MSNBC would not be renewing commentator Sam Seder’s contract. As it turned out, the sudden departure was the result of an orchestrated effort by right wing agitator and #Gamergate veteran Mike Cernovich. Cernovich had uncovered an eight-year-old tweet from Seder sarcastically attacking Hollywood liberals for defending famous director and accused child…
December 12, 2017 12/12/2017 5:53 am By Olivia Nuzzi Share Have you ever traveled down a dirt path in rural southeast Alabama in December and arrived at a barn in the woods to find Steve Bannon, Representative Louie Gohmert, Sheriff David Clarke, Roy and Kayla Moore, a woman performing an interpretive dance in front…
Illustration by Jim Cooke/GMG Illustration by Jim Cooke/GMG Sutton Whitfield LLC, a Maryland-based technology recruitment firm, “provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment,” according to a statement published on its website, “without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.” The statement, by Manjit Singh, the…
(Oliver Contreras for The Washington Post) I remember Jeff Sessions as the polite senator from Alabama who thanked me when I held the door open for him. I was a Senate page from Tennessee, one of the 30 high school juniors who sit on the rostrum (the big round thing at the center of the…
Only a minority of people feel their lives are better today than they might have been fifty years ago. In response, the intellectuals I follow tweeted something like: “these foolish people! Don’t they know how good they have it! They should be happy!! What’s wrong with them?!” Their words dripped with the strange hallmark of what passes for…
December 5, 2017 Hi, It’s Us, All the Fourteen-Year-Old Girls in America Hey, guys. We’re the fourteen-year-old girls of America. There are a lot of us, but we talk to each other. We’re on a group thread. We hear that the president — who, for the record, you elected; we are not old enough…
Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate under fire for alleged sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his 30s, apparently believes America was a better place at a time when slavery was still legal. At a campaign event earlier this year, an audience member asked Moore for his opinion on when the last time…