I can't decide if Mike Pence looks more like an overseer inspecting the plantation or Heinrich Himmler visiting Buchenwald, but I am sure of this: Today's images from the overcrowded detention facilities in Texas, with a miasma of human...
NBC aired a version of the blatantly racist ad proselytized by Donald Trump Jr., on Sunday Night Football, where it drew a number of catcalls. On Monday morning the network made the decision to withdraw it. New York Times: “After...
Michael Avenatti has been teasing us with information about his role in representing whistleblowers within ICE.  He says these people have reached out to him to provide him with information as to what is really going on.  Looks like...
According to The Hollywood Reporter and the Washington Post, Seth MacFarlane is donating $2 million to NPR and $500,000 to L.A.'s NPR membership station, KPCC. Seth MacFarlane slammed Fox this weekend after Fox News host Tucker Carlson told viewers not to...
Tonight’s the night that we find out whether Donald Trump intends to introduce yet another deranged subplot into the ongoing soap opera/gong show that is his administration, and declare a national emergency in order to solve the “national security and humanitarian...
In his latest podcast, Malcolm Gladwell uses his platform to make an important point about the latest immigration crackdown that has the Trump administration separating immigration children from their parents as a means of deterring illegal immigration. This week, both Sessions...
Man, I never thought I would be nostalgic for the days when John Boehner was banging the gavel as Speaker of the House when not busy emptying out the liquor cabinets on Capital Hill, but that day has dawned....
Remember the scene in Men In Black, where Will Smith had cornered an alien on a ledge at the top of the building, and when the alien said, "He'll kill me," Will Smith replied, "Yeah? Well, I guess you're...
I have a suggestion. And that suggestion is that the two words "Mission Accomplished" should be permanently stricken from the political discourse dictionary, on pain of being thrown out of office for life. First, Alfred E Newman plays Barbie...
(Above: Not really, we wouldn't treat dogs like this...) Can we has impeachment yet? At what point does inaction morph into complicity? Texas Monthly “After New Mexico State University professor Neal Rosendorf read a government report exposing dangerous overcrowding of detained migrants at...

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— Margaret Mead