Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 7:22:04 pm
Trump surrogates are already citing Japanese internment camps from WW II as "precedent" for Muslim registry pic.twitter.com/DVnjtom0mc — Brendan Karet (@bad_takes) November 17, 2016 ReplyReply w/ QuoteRetweetVideo "No no no, I'm not proposing internment camps for Muslims at all, Megyn! I'm just sayin'!"

Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 1:55:34 pm
I answer yes to the invitation of Stephen Bannon, CEO of @realDonaldTrump presidential campaign, to work together. https://t.co/tPSoY5A2vS — Marion Le Pen (@Marion_M_Le_Pen) November 12, 2016 ReplyReply w/ QuoteMarion Le Pen, leader of France's far-right movement, says she's accepted the invitation of Steve Bannon to work with the Trump ...

Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 6:41:13 pm
Adam Serwer makes some excellent, frightening points about our upcoming post-truth presidency: The U.S. Media Is Completely Unprepared to Cover a Trump Presidency. During the 2016 presidential campaign, reporters marveled at the ability of Donald Trump and his surrogates to create an alternate reality in which statements made by the ...

Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:35:18 pm
Yesterday it was reported in many places that Donald Trump's page advocating a "total and complete" ban on Muslims entering the US had been removed from his website, and many people took that as a sign that he might be starting to move away from the disgusting bigotry that has ...

Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 4:59:25 pm
YouTube Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi hold a Get Out The Vote rally at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (11-7-16) on November 7, 2016) GOTV Rally on Independence Mall with Hillary Clinton, ...

Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 6:44:14 pm
SoundCloud So today, Donald Trump's surrogate son Eric actually said, in public, that David Duke 'deserves a bullet.' (CNN)Eric Trump said on Thursday that former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke deserves "a bullet." "Ross, it's disgusting and by the way, if I said exactly what you said, I'd get killed for ...

Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:38:25 pm
[Live event concluded.] The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Michael Hooker Fields South Rd Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 On Wednesday, November 2, just days prior to Election Day, President Barack Obama will return to North Carolina to campaign for Hillary Clinton. At a public "Get Out The Early Vote" ...

Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 4:40:39 pm
Matthew A. Miller served as director of the Department of Justice's office of public affairs under Eric Holder, and today he harshly criticized FBI director James Comey for releasing his statement about Hillary Clinton's email case. Miller says Comey has "flagrantly violated" Justice Department rules before, when he held a press ...

Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:54:34 am
Former GOP Rep. Jim Leach (Photo by Tim Schoon) A group of former GOP congress critters, appalled at seeing their party fly off the rails and nominate Donald Trump for president, has issued a letter condemning the tiny-fisted fascist as “manifestly unqualified” for the office. Donald Trump, “a man who makes ...

Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:30:15 am
Image via Gage Skidmore / Flickr (CC-BY-SA) As if we needed any more evidence that Donald Trump is running a massive con game on the American public, today he's continuing to hype those bogus online polls that anyone can vote in -- and Fox News is, of course, helping him run ...

Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:02:31 pm
YouTube Keith Olbermann is mad about this, and he should be. Everyone should be. Honestly, it's a disgrace that the media and much of the public don't seem to care about one of the worst things Trump has been doing.

Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:54:04 am
Donald Trump Jr. seems to have taken over the "white supremacist outreach" position in the Trump campaign, and today he follows up his ugly "Skittles" tweet with one of the most common white supremacist tropes of all time: that immigrants are responsible for a "rape epidemic," targeted against Western women. ...

Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:42:18 am
Trump campaign CEO/Breitbart "News" owner Stephen Bannon At Breitbart "News," the website run by Donald Trump's campaign CEO Stephen Bannon, commenters instantly launched an orgy of hate speech and genocidal rhetoric targeting all Muslims following the arrest of Ahmad Khan Rahami. Here's a small selection of the huge number of hateful comments ...

Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:47:03 am
Today we get a series of outright lies from the Republican candidate for president of the United States, in a self-aggrandizing statement about his history of promoting the grotesque right wing racist Birther conspiracy theory: "Hillary Clinton’s campaign first raised this issue to smear then-candidate Barack Obama in her very ...

Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 11:22:33 am
The big political news of the weekend that has conservatives and a lot of the media all worked up, as if there was something controversial about saying it: Hillary Clinton: Half of Donald Trump supporters are in 'basket of deplorables'. Here are the quotes they're freaking out about. "If I were ...

Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:34:14 pm
YouTube Remember when Donald Trump tried to position himself as a great friend of the LGBT community? Well, here he is speaking to one of the most radical anti-gay hate groups in the US, Tony Perkins' Family Research Council. It's really not news any more when Trump reveals what a dishonest hypocrite ...

Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:40:22 am
YouTube The Texas Congressman who thinks "terror babies" are a threat to America's existence, who got upset about the possibility of "gay space colonies," and once claimed Obama sent soldiers to Africa so they could catch Ebola, bring it back to America, and infect us all, is in Washington DC speaking ...

Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:08:19 am
JStone / Shutterstock.com The editors of The Dallas Morning News are so repelled by Donald Trump that for the first time in 75 years, they're endorsing a Democrat for president: We recommend Hillary Clinton for president. There is only one serious candidate on the presidential ballot in November. We recommend Hillary ...

Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:11:55 pm
Here's today's measure of the derangement that has the conservative movement in a death grip, as National Review "intellectual" Andrew McCarthy tries to argue that Hillary Clinton should be impeached before she's even elected. The Constitution does not limit impeachment to incumbent officials. Article I endows the House of Representatives ...

Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:16:32 am
By now it's no secret that Donald Trump's "outreach" to African Americans and Hispanics isn't working; his poll numbers with these groups remain abysmally low. In the latest survey by Public Policy Polling, Trump's approval rating among African Americans currently stands at approximately zero. Yes, I said "zero." And after his extremist ...

Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:53:21 am
By now I assume you've heard that the Republican Party's alt-right presidential candidate is on his way to Mexico for a meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto. You may recall that back in March, Nieto likened Trump to Hitler and Mussolini. And Donald Trump has been emitting a steady stream of ...

Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:54:36 am
Well, it's the end of an era, but the mourning isn't going to be universal. Gawker.com to End Operations Next Week. I have decidedly mixed feelings about this; I believe Gawker has done some good work and exposed some things that needed exposing, and I really dislike the idea that a ...

Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:48:22 pm
YouTube The white-haired man seen gasping behind Donald Trump yesterday when he made his ugly "Second Amendment" comment was interviewed on CNN today. It's a fascinating look into the mindset of a Trump supporter, because even though he clearly understood what Trump was suggesting, he insists to CNN's Brooke Baldwin that ...

Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:38:35 am
When Donald Trump's numerous connections to white supremacists, his promotion of their tweets, and his endorsements from racists like the head of the American Nazi Party and former KKK leader David Duke are pointed out, Trump's apologists are very quick to scream "guilt by association!" Trump doesn't have any responsibility ...

Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 8:47:02 pm
So tonight, we discover that an anonymous Donald Trump supporter is tweeting obviously forged medical records to push the "Hillary Clinton is sick" right wing meme -- a delusion that's really getting to be a thing in right wing circles this week. These tweets are already being widely shared by ...