I’m so old I remember the last time celebrity rockers and rappers banded together to deprive a shitty, racist regime of A-list entertainment: Can’t remember who 80% of those people are, but good for them. Now a new generation is stepping up: Trump can’t attract top entertainers to his swearing-in shitshow. Via TPM: My friend …
If Only Democrats Would Stop It with the Identity Politics
Hate merchants: Earlier this month, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Senator Mike Lee of Utah, through his spokesperson, told Buzzfeed they plan to reintroduce an embattled bill that barely gained a House hearing in 2015. But this time around, they said, the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) was likely to succeed due to a …
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What about the children
From McClatchy we sit a clear trade-off between making sure kids are healthy and able to contribute to a bright future or high income tax cuts: 4.4 million children could lose health coverage in 2019 if the Affordable Care Act is partially repealed through the budget reconciliation process, according new report by the Urban Institute, …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Year-End Tikkun Olam
(h/t commentor Lyrebird) Per Adweek: … The spot aims to say goodbye to 2016 and the air of negativity surrounding this crappy year with a positive note. “Art of Harmony” features a cast of real people with inspiring stories, such as child activist Zianna Oliphant, Florida “basketball cop” Bobby White, transgender youth activist Jazz Jennings, …
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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Tweet-Check
For those who’d been wondering: The Trump fact-checking extension is now available for Firefox. https://t.co/qY6Qxt0hM3 — Philip Bump (@pbump) December 19, 2016 A little something to share with your Fox-addled relatives this holiday season, thank you so much Washington Post: … We made a tool that slips a bit more context into Trump’s tweets. It’s …
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Fugue Wan
There is nothing quite as hysterical as the need for conservatives to try to mold (hammer, chisel and bludgeon) pop culture to adhere to their 17th century beliefs: I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Up next, how “Why Him?” explains the founder’s position on Presidential successsion.
Textbook Case
Puling, bloated, splotchy, tiny-fingered, Cheeto-dusted baby-man is still lashing out about the campaign, 30 days before he’s to be sworn in as POTUS: Sweet weeping Jeebus, has there ever been a bigger fucking crybaby in the history of this benighted planet? And he won, for fuck’s sake! Can you imagine the ear-splitting snit if he’d …