Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 12:39:02 pm
OK, America. I did my part. Don't let me down. Go vote. For Hillary Clinton.

Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 1:19:35 pm
Here's some big news that isn't really shocking, because I expected nothing else. FBI director James Comey announced today that they have completed their review of the emails found on Anthony Weiner's computer, and found nothing in them that incriminates Hillary Clinton. New Comey letter: FBI has not changed its conclusion ...

Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 11:04:35 am
Right wing blogs are all screaming this morning about the "assassination attempt" at yesterday's Trump rally in Reno. Jim Hoft, the Stupidest Man on the Internet, is leading the charge as usual with post after post at his illiterate blog calling the man involved, Austyn Crites, an "attacker," a "perpetrator" ...

Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:49:37 pm
Meathead: Mike Cernovich Just when you thought the right wing had hit absolute rock bottom, they break through the other side of the Earth into an entirely new dimension of derp, accusing Hillary Clinton and John Podesta of Satanism. Yes, I said SATANISM. Booga booga! What century is this, again? This reeking garbage ...

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 ...

Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:20:54 pm
DERP Jim Hoft is heading for some kind of derp implosion, folks. He's been posting fake stories nearly every day as the election gets closer, and today he fell for a scam from one of those fake news sites ("Your News Wire," an obviously shady name if there ever was one) ...

Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:55:15 pm
The thing about white supremacist troll Chuck C. Johnson is that even other right wing loons can't stand him, because he's such -- not to put too fine a point on it -- a complete douchebag. And now, the Daily Beast's Olivia Nuzzi reports that the Rage Furby and Trump ...

Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 9:18:20 pm
YouTube After this day of political bad craziness, here's some really good music from a very unique band, Blind Pilot, on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts show. Blind Pilot and the Tiny Desk series both launched in the same year, 2008, so it's hard to comprehend how the two hadn't converged until ...

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 ...

Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 4:40:41 pm
We all saw them take over the Malheur Wildlife Sanctuary with guns, then we all saw them threaten federal officers and trash the property for weeks afterward. But today in a shocking development in the conspiracy trial against Ammon Bundy and his criminal militia pals, all of the defendants were found ...

Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:33:01 pm
So yesterday, this happened. Fox News ranter Sean Hannity has been getting more open lately about his attraction to the alt-right, and on his radio show he crossed a big red line by offering to pay for President Obama to go to Kenya. Telling the first black president of the US ...

Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:31:06 pm
If you've watched a Trump rally in the past few weeks you may have noticed a group of people who seem to get prominently placed behind Trump in the stands quite often, holding signs that say "BLACKS FOR TRUMP," with a link to the website "gods2​.com." If you go to the ...

Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:23:05 pm
The latest story about Donald Trump's grotesque history of sexual assault and excess, by Michael Gross, may be the worst yet: Inside Donald Trump’s One-Stop Parties: Attendees Recall Cocaine and Very Young Models. The girls were as young as 15, he says, and “over their heads, they had no idea, ...

Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 11:30:19 am
In order to win the presidential election, a candidate needs 270 electoral votes. Today the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project has released their latest results, and they're now giving Hillary Clinton a 95% chance of winning, with the most likely outcome 326 electoral votes for Clinton and 212 for ...

Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:00:19 pm
Donald Trump has reportedly invited President Obama's estranged half-brother to the debate tomorrow. As an attack on the sitting president, the campaign has invited the half-brother of President Barack Obama, Malik, to attend the debate as Trump's guest, ABC News has confirmed. The news was first reported by the New ...

Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:13:51 am
Let's begin this week with yet another hilarious tale of self-beclownment by the fabled Stupidest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, shall we? This morning Hoft set his caps lock key on stun and bashed out a screed about a POSTAL WORKER boasting about destroying absentee ballots that voted for Trump: POSTAL ...

Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 6:33:21 pm
There are no words. A Republican Party office in North Carolina was firebombed last night: A GOP office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, was firebombed overnight, with a swastika and the words "Nazi Republicans get out of town or else" spray painted on an adjacent building, according to local officials. And the ...

Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:39:43 am
Donald Trump's lawyer sent the following letter to the New York Times yesterday, threatening to sue them for libel over their article reporting on Trump's alleged sexual abuse of two women. Today the New York Times replied to this threat with a beautifully scathing letter that boils down to, "Go ahead ...

Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 7:40:33 pm
Yes, this really happened today. Both Eric Trump and Donald Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, tweeted a link to one of those fake news sites, to accuse Hillary Clinton of paying protesters to show up at Donald Trump's rallies. They've both deleted their tweets now, but here are the screenshots. "abcnews​.com& #8203;.co" is ...

Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 4:26:30 pm
Iframe The floodgates are now opening. As Donald Trump publicly declares that his admission of sexual assault was just "locker room talk" that he never acted upon, women he did molest are seeing him lie to the entire nation and it's making them angry. Donald J. Trump was emphatic in the ...

Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:55:39 pm
Credit: Katy Tur And now, our jaw-droppingly bizarre and massively inappropriate Donald Trump moment of the day. There are no words.

Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 1:18:08 pm
Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott thought he could take advantage of Hurricane Matthew to disenfranchise Democratic voters in time for the presidential election, but yesterday a federal judge said "nope." Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) last Thursday refused to extend the state's voting registration deadline in the wake of Hurricane ...

Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:13:56 am
Donald Trump is ranting away on Twitter like a complete lunatic again today, boasting that he's going to "teach" disloyal Republicans, and bragging that "the shackles have been taken off" and he can now go hog-wild. So we have that to look forward to. Despite winning the second debate in a ...

Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:41:15 am
The Washington Post reports today that the Trump campaign, in collusion with Breitbart News chief Stephen Bannon and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, tried to seat several women who've accused Hillary Clinton's husband of sexual abuse in the Trump family's box at last night's debate. This latest ugly -- and totally unethical ...

Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 8:19:48 pm
I'm already seeing some media declaring Trump the "winner" of this debate, because after all the most important thing is to keep the horse race going until the end. But that's laughable. Hillary Clinton mopped the floor with the talking yam tonight, once again, and was unflappable and on point from ...