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White House press secretary Sean Spicer (Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images) I have some more clarifications to make in addition to the hundreds of clarifications I have issued already. First off, when I said “You had … someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,” I should have heard…
What else could be solved by twisting open an ice-cold pepsi? Source: The Pepsi Agitation – by Mark Kaufman
President Trump has removed chief White House strategist Stephen Bannon from his role on the National Security Council (NSC), a senior White House official said Wednesday. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster made the decision, which Trump approved, the official said. Bannon, who led Trump’s campaign in its final months, was elevated in January to a…
On vacation. Photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images Embattled Fox News host Bill O’Reilly announced tonight that he is taking a vacation. O’Reilly’s decision to go off the air in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal and advertiser boycott arguably has the appearance of a suspension, but O’Reilly worked to dispel that notion. He announced…
Sean Spicer is reliably, sometimes even endearingly, terrible at his job as Press Secretary. But his comments during Tuesday’s press briefing on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Adolf Hitler are astonishing. Not just because they’re blatantly, breathtakingly wrong, but because a man whose job is remembering and relaying facts can’t accurately recount one of the…
A majority of the most-engaged partisan Facebook pages are left-leaning or affiliated with Trump resistance movements, according to NewsWhip, the social analytics measurement company. Axios’ Sara Fischer reports that even more telling is that most of the left-leaning pages are out-performing some of the most trafficked news competitors in overall engagement. Why it matters: Facebook is a…
There’s a saying that is sometimes attributed to Karl Marx or Slavoj Zizek—apocryphally, in both cases—that tidily sums up the existential angst some Americans feel at the start of a traditional work week: You don’t hate Mondays. You hate capitalism. The simple thesis here is that there’s nothing intrinsic to “Monday,” which is just a…
News April 9, 2017 Richard Spencer Attacked: Alt Right Leader Just Punched In The Face Again, Then Glitter Bombed Richard Spencer just got beaten up again, and this time the notorious leader of the Alt Right movement reportedly got glitter bombed to go along with a few punches to the face. Spencer has emerged as…
Image via Getty. If you enter Ivanka Trump’s childhood bedroom, located on the 68th floor of Trump Tower, you will find, among other things: A clock featuring Madonna’s face. A series of 90210 trading cards. An “homage” to Poison and Mötley Crüe, in the form of several posters. Over here, some artwork that she made…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will end a Justice Department partnership with independent scientists to raise forensic science standards and has suspended an expanded review of FBI testimony across several techniques that have come under question, saying a new strategy will be set by an in-house team of law enforcement advisers. In a statement Monday, Sessions…