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Sarah Palin this week spoke before a crowd of Republicans for more than 20 minutes. Despite using thousands of words that would technically be characterized as “English,” Palin garnered real applause exactly once—when she spoke about Benghazi. It was that terrible. “Getting off the airplane today, as I’m walking through the airport and seeing all…
The best way to understand Milo Yiannopoulos, internet troll extraordinaire, is to ask him about feminism. “Sex-negative social justice warriors always banging on about ‘affirmative consent’ are secretly the first to strap on a gimp mask and demand to get fucked eleven ways,” Yiannopoulos wrote to me in an email. “Which, don’t get me wrong,…
I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my least favorite racist on the Citadel. Continuing his tendency to Tweet absolutely anything, no matter how ridiculous, Donald Trump recently shared the following video with his 7.3 million followers: Yes, that is Mass Effect music and voice acting throughout the ad, which appropriately ends with a title card…
For those of us who care about democracy and the importance of a healthy political discourse, a story published by Bloomberg this week, “How to Hack an Election,” was incredibly distressing. In it, Colombian hacker Andrés Sepúlveda comes clean about eight years he spent allegedly using dark, and often illegal, computer skills to help conservative…
This is not a joke. Senator Al Franken should be the Democratic Party’s choice for vice president. If I had said that 10 years ago, or even six months ago, the notion would have been preposterous: a former Saturday Night Live writer, perhaps best known as the mock self-help guru Stuart Smalley, Franken became synonymous…
Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders visits the New York Daily News office Friday, April 1, 2016. Bernie Sanders, while not MetroCard savvy, still knows the cheapest way to board the subway. “Jump over the turnstile,” the Vermont senator joked Friday during a Q&A with the Daily News editorial board. BERNIE…
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton went off on an environmental activist on Thursday, after being asked about the large sums of fossil fuel-linked cash she has received. At a Clinton rally on the State University of New York at Purchase campus, Eva Resnick-Day, an activist with the environmental justice group Greenpeace, asked Clinton, “Will you…
On Wednesday, 16 conservative female members of the media joined together to put out a well-intentioned if demented letter urging Donald Trump, their party’s leading presidential candidate, to admit that a woman’s experience might be worth considering. The letter, which you can read here in full, was written in response to Trump campaign manager Corey…
*** CONTENT STARTS HERE *** How to Hack an Election Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. He tells his story for the first time. By Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley, and Andrew Willis | March 31, 2016 Photographs by Juan Arredondo From BODY COPY CENTERED It was just before midnight when…
Susan Sarandon on MSNBC.MSNBC Let’s be grateful to Susan Sarandon for exposing just how vapid and callous the left-wing #NeverHillary argument is. Speaking to Chris Hayes on MSNBC on Monday night, Sarandon, a Bernie Sanders surrogate, said she was unsure if she could bring herself to vote for Hillary Clinton in a general election….