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CNN Despite a last ditch effort by protesters to appeal to any vestige of shame or dignity from within the GOP, House Republicans on Tuesday voted in favor of a tax overhaul that will give a giant boost to the ultra-rich while dramatically screwing over most ordinary citizens. The final vote was 227-203, with 12…
Image by Jim Cooke/ GMG Blue blazers. Blue checked shirts. Collar open. No tie. Brown shoes. Black shoes. Or Nike shoes. New, new, all new. Soft leather satchels with bold brass zippers. Good cufflinks. Good watches. Better than you know. Hundred dollar haircuts. Straight razored shaves. Shaped cuticles. Manicured nails. Clean, soft, tailored. New. Talking…
It is time for polite, respectable, rational people to start saying what has become painfully obvious: It is time to stop respecting the rich, and start stealing from them. In earnest. Inequality is eating America alive. It has been growing for decades. To say that “the American dream is dead” is no longer a poetic…
close story-meta Photo Supporters cheered for Donald J. Trump as he spoke at his final campaign event in Grand Rapids, Mich., on the eve of the 2016 presidential election. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times For more coverage of race, sign up here to have our Race/Related newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox. The high…
Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames trafficked in hideous stereotypes and body-shaming. December 15, 2017 at 4:42 PM Taibbi released a new book about Eric Garner this year. (Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage) There’s more than one way to harass women. A raft of men in recent weeks have paid for accusations of sexual harassment with their…
Roy Moore walking into his rally in Midland City, Alabama on December 11th. Photograph by Justin Bishop. It’s hard to do justice to the weirdness of Roy Moore. It’s so pronounced that he couldn’t even pretend to be normal, not even for 30 minutes, not even long enough to stop scaring people who might be…
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” – Galileo “Hold my soylent” – Sam Altman You know the old saying: Writing about Y Combinator is like wrestling with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig threatens to fabricate a smear campaign against you…
The Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal Obama-era regulations protecting net neutrality — rules that prohibit internet service providers from slowing websites or charging premiums for “fast lanes” for specific services or higher-quality streaming. On Thursday, the commission, whose deliberations were briefly delayed by a security concern, passed the widely expected decision on a 3–2…
In a completely unnecessary video released on Wednesday night, alleged pedophile Roy Moore announced that he will not concede to Democrat Doug Jones, who won Alabama’s special election for US Senate on Tuesday evening. “In this race, we have not received the final count to include military and provisional ballots,” Moore said. “This has been…
Image via Getty On Tuesday evening, 63 percent of white women voted for Roy Moore, a man accused of assaulting multiple teenage girls, and cruising for more—so aggressively that he was thought to have been banned from the Gadsen Mall. I’ll say it again: 63 percent of white women voted for the guy who was…