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Four more journalists have been charged with felonies after being arrested while covering the unrest around Donald Trump’s inauguration, meaning that at least six media workers are facing up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted. [if IE 9]>< ![endif][if IE 9]>< ![endif] Matt Hopard. Photograph: Handout A documentary producer, a…
Meet Secretary of the Treasury and Swamp King, Steve Mnuchin. https://youtu.be/8okdzcz7PTM?list=PLur87nTwD0BtIreRwNBMG63ZCc4EXo9F9 via Swamp Dwellers | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube.
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Image by Jim Cooke Realistically, there is only one way out of our predicament. We know that we live in an age of staggering economic inequality. The top 10% of earners now take in nearly half of all our national income, a portion that has been rising steadily since the Reagan era. Meanwhile, the average…
Photo credit: Pablo Martinez/AP Get a load of these sorry quisling motherfuckers. The reviews are in for insane lying press secretary Sean Spicer’s second performance as the bullhorn of America’s new illegitimate white-nationalist government, and here are Washington Post staffers Chris Cillizza and Karen Tumulty—reporters, at least nominally, for one of the most powerful press…
On inauguration day in DC, the souvenir business was slow. I asked a vendor wearing a huge Bob Marley hoodie while hawking Trump hats and scarves and keychains whether he might not have had better luck selling Obama gear, and he shrugged. “It’s too late.” But he also said: “Tomorrow.” Tomorrow! You lie and I…
Tamper-proof tape used by the CIA to secure envelopes sent to FOIA requestors (Photo: Matt Novak) Today, tech nerds are obsessed with high-tech encryption. But if you ever send snail mail, you might want to take a tip from America’s intelligence community. The CIA sends out letters that are secured with a specific type of…
Peter Thiel giving a speech in July at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) The New Yorker has published a fascinating article about Silicon Valley tech titans who are buying up property in New Zealand as they prepare for the apocalypse. The super rich are worried about the poor…
Carl Sagan in a photo from 1981 (AP Photo/Castaneda, File) Did Carl Sagan really warn about a time in the future when manufacturing jobs would slip away, when the average person would have virtually no control over their political lives, and when we would all cling to superstitions? Yes, Sagan did predict just that. The…
If the very worst happens, it won’t be because we didn’t know that it might happen. We have all been amply warned. We’ve been warned of the many disturbing parallels between Donald Trump and Hitler. We’ve been warned that the rise of Trump resembles the rise of other authoritarian populist demagogues. We’ve been warned—by Donald…