1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (672+ words) Outside of the official memorial, tourists and those touched by the attacks stood quietly. Some stared up at the space where the Twin Towers once stood. In their place is a glass tower that shimmers in the sun. We had…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (577+ words) The Missouri state Supreme Court is dominated 5-2 by Republican appointees over Democratic ones, so that’s an even nicer Nice Time, when you account for Republicans not being disgusting partisan hacks! We naively noted last year that Missouri’s deliberate dilution of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (945+ words) The world has lost another trailblazer and cultural figure this week, I guess because the universe decided we were all getting a little too collectively chipper. Gloria Steinem has passed away at 92. Steinem was, of course, well known for being…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (955+ words) He’s frantically screaming that if James Talarico wins in Texas, “I will be the last Republican president and our country will live in hell!” So that is dramatic. Meanwhile, he has also been frantically screaming that the Republican midterm convention…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (736+ words) Another day, another Supreme Court ruling that the ugly-ass ballroom that the Trump administration is building can proceed, against the wishes of just about every American out there and definitely the rest of the world. Second of all, it’s getting…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (712+ words) Secretary Shitfaced Pete Hegseth is busy calling Canadian women who serve as cadet youth group leaders fat on Twitter, but Dan Driscoll, secretary of the Army, submitted his resignation last night, one more event demonstrating the Fox News weekend host’s…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (282+ words) He was, and is, a fucking moron, but Yiannopoulos was, at the time, an incredibly popular moron who was very successfully framing blatant bigotry as the cool, rebellious position of the day, as opposed to something establishment conservatives should shy…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (553+ words) How corrupt must a healthcare-related scheme be that even Rick fucking Scott, the Republican senator who once ran a company responsible for the largest healthcare fraud involving Medicaid and Medicare in history, thinks you done screwed the proverbial pooch? Pretty…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (821+ words) Let’s see some Iran headlines, how much are we winning our pointless chosen war today? And then there’s this four-byline story from the New York Times, which seems kind of great big: “Leaves the Army Rudderless.” In other words, Secretary…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (352+ words) According to the Treasury Department, this week the US federal debt reached $40 trillion with a T, which is what happens when there’s less revenue coming in than spending going out. The annual interest on the total debt comes to a…...