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Image: Jim Cooke/GMG Slate editorial employees voted to unionize on Tuesday after a 10-month battle that saw staffers at the magazine run up against stiff resistance from management. Voters from the proposed 54-person bargaining unit voted to organize by a margin of 45-7. Their union, Writers Guild of America-East, also represents Gizmodo Media Group, which…
Calfornia Rep. Devin Nunes is in the soup a bit at the moment because he’s been conducting the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation of the Trump-Russia-wiretapping scandal in such a way that seems designed to serve the interests of the White House rather than, like, the public. (Most prominently, Nunes announced that he’d seen classified information…
Rachel Maddow had the goods, but she oversold them.MSNBC At 7:36 pm Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow tweeted “BREAKING: We’ve got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC. (Seriously),” sending the internet into a frenzy of theorizing. Did Maddow have Donald Trump’s tax returns or just one of the Trumps’ tax returns? Could this be…
Predicting Donald Trump’s tweets in response to Neil Gorsuch’s insubordination. /header Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch meets with Sen. Bob Corker on Thursday, Feb. 2.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, currently a federal appeals court judge, told Sen. Richard Blumenthal in a courtesy meeting on Wednesday afternoon that he found…
Clinton Lost the Economic Argument It was the way she could have eased Trump voters’ racism, and she blew it. /header President-elect Donald Trump addresses supporters at an election night event on Tuesday in New York City.Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images It is an ironic twist of history that Hillary Clinton,…
People march in protest against president-elect Donald Trump in Seattle, Washington on November 14, 2016.Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images The sense of disillusionment white American liberals woke up with on Nov. 9 was powerful enough to taint the entire year with a sense of doom. So many illusions were shattered by the election of Donald Trump:…
Today’s Mudline December 18, 2016 Joe Biden on 2016 presidential campaign: “So much for the shining city on the hill.”….Harry Reid on the U.S.: “Entering a new Gilded Age.”….Bernie Sanders on Donald Trump: “A pathological liar.”….Tina Fey on Trump: “Can’t muster the dignity of a seventh-grader.”….S.V. Date on Trump: “‘The Apprentice, Secretary of State Edition’…
An explosion rocks Syrian city of Kobani during a reported suicide car bomb attack by ISIS on October 20, 2014.Photo by Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images On Tuesday, XoJane, whose central mission is to convince writers to share personal stories that would be better left untold, outdid itself: It published an essay called “It Happened to Me:…