Politics

What you missed on Sunday Kos … Dear white Trump voters with an opiate addict in the family: your president embraces this dude, by Denise Oliver Velez How conservative propaganda works in America: the signal and the noise, by David Akadjian American Sociopath, by Propane Jane De Blasio and Trump see urban crime differently. Guess whose …

North Carolina’s invalidated 19th and 21st state Senate districts in Fayetteville In a major victory for voting rights on Monday, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower court ruling issued last year that had struck down 28 of North Carolina’s 170 state legislative districts on the grounds that Republicans had unconstitutionally …

Monday Jun 05, 2017 · 7:13 AM PDT 2017/06/05 · 07:13 National embarrassment National embarrassment He’s unhinged: x Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his “no reason to be alarmed” statement. MSM is working hard to sell it! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) …

Happy Monday, and welcome to Week 20 of The Presidential Apprentice. We’re still waiting on that whole “presidential” part, though. Another garbage fire of a weekend has passed, with a terrorist attack in London, and Trump tweeting triumphant excoriation of London’s mayor as he waited for the cars to be …

Let’s take this asshole down. On June 13, Newt Gingrich will release his new shit book about Donald Trump: UNDERSTANDING TRUMP explains the president’s actions so far and lays out a vision for what Americans can do to help make President Trump’s agenda a success. My new book, out June …

At the liberal Economic Policy Institute, analysts Elise Gould and Teresa Kroeger report that significant gender gap above: Right out of college, young men are paid more than their women peers—which is surprising given that these recent graduates have the same amount of education and a limited amount of time to gain …

Discbots at FRC 2017 World Championships (photo via Facebook.com) by Gabe Gutierrez via nbcnews.com He created one of the most popular toys on the planet — but the inventor of the “Super Soaker” isn’t done making a splash. Lonnie Johnson is now focusing on new battery technology, but his most …

Piece of shit. The blazing tire fire now parked in the Oval Office is never going to get better. He is never going to rise to the demands of the job; he is never going to be more than the lazy, ignorant, forever-lying ball of self-absorbed fury. He is transparently …

At The Atlantic, Adam Serwer dissects the southern deification of confederate general Robert E. Lee. In the Richmond Times Dispatch, R. David Cox wrote that “For white supremacist protesters to invoke his name violates Lee’s most fundamental convictions.” In the conservative publication Townhall,  Jack Kerwick concluded that Lee was “among the …

Total solar eclipses are so rare because the moon’s apparent diameter is, on average, just a tiny bit smaller than the sun’s width in the sky. But the Earth doesn’t go in a perfect circle around the sun, and the moon doesn’t travel in a perfect circle around the Earth. Between …