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How the US Voted Against Gay Rights, and How Gay Fascists Made It Possible
After a week of Trump being wrong about NFL players exercising their First Amendment rights, wrong about the US government's response to...
Tim Cusack
Oct 8, 20176 min read
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From the Archives: Gladiator Attacked By Emperor For Public Protest
Idus Septembres, 834 years from the founding of the City of Rome - Disturbing reports concerning the refusal of a few rogue gladiatorial...
Tim Cusack
Sep 30, 20174 min read
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Won't Someone Fuck Me So I Don't Have To Vote For Donald Trump Again?
Is it just me, or have women been on their periods since January 20th? Seriously. Nobody wants to fuck me. And that’s a problem. Sure,...
Jarred Loper
Sep 19, 20172 min read
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Media Coverage Of Trump's Presidency Is Negative Because Trump Is a Terrible President
A week ago, a Harvard study revealed that as much as 80% of all coverage of Donald Trump's presidency has been negative. Some...
Charlie Biscotto
May 25, 20173 min read
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TrumpCare & Jesus & Pence, Oh My
Donald Trump signed the “Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty” executive order on May 4, prompting an immediate lawsuit by the ACLU.
Tim Cusack
May 5, 20177 min read
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Commander-in-Chief: Episode 1
Even by the hard-to-please standards of the Society of the Spectacle channel, last Thursday night’s episode of America’s new number-one...
Tim Cusack
Apr 12, 20174 min read
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On Russia and Supreme Court, Republican Partisanship Is a Threat To the American Republic
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in...
Charlie Biscotto
Mar 22, 20176 min read
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Republicans Can't Gut ObamaCare Without Gutting Selves First
Donald Trump let slip something that, by his low standards, almost passes for truth when he said Monday that "nobody knew healthcare...
Charlie Biscotto
Mar 1, 20173 min read
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God Save the Republic - A Mike Pence Fan Fiction - Chapter 4
Try as he might, he just couldn't get the dream out of his head. "It will make you sleep. Then it will make you die." And it had done...
Charlie Biscotto
Feb 28, 20174 min read
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God Save the Republic - A Mike Pence Fan Fiction - Chapter 3
He watched the coffee drip, drip into the carafe. He took the phone into his hands as Karen came around the corner. "Who are you calling,...
Charlie Biscotto
Feb 24, 20173 min read
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God Save the Republic - A Mike Pence Fan Fiction - Chapter 2
He moved to the study, fumbling around in his desk for a pen and paper. But once he took the pen to hand, he did not know quite how to...
Charlie Biscotto
Feb 19, 20173 min read
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God Save the Republic - A Mike Pence Fan Fiction - Chapter 1
46? Surely, it was only a matter of time now. He stared out the window of 1 Observatory Circle, a cup of warm chamomile tea in his hands....
Charlie Biscotto
Feb 16, 20173 min read
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Trump's War On Proper Lighting Now Compromising National Security
It all started innocently enough. A dimly lit staff meeting here, a stumble over a chair trying to escape a room with functioning yet...
Charlie Biscotto
Feb 13, 20172 min read
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Trump Is the New Swamp
When Donald Trump campaigned on helping the many get out from under the thumb of the few, none of his supporters believed the goal was to...
Charlie Biscotto
Feb 9, 20172 min read
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Trump As God-Daddy: Why Evangelicals Backed a Boastful, Vengeful Philanderer
One of the most puzzling paradoxes of the many associated with the rapid ascendancy of Trumpism to the highest levels of power in the...
Tim Cusack
Feb 8, 20174 min read
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Republicans Hit Trump On Putin/US Equivalency
Yesterday, while examining the relationship between Sinclair Lewis's 1935 novel It Can't Happen Here and our modern political climate, we...
Charlie Biscotto
Feb 6, 20173 min read
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How "It Can't Happen Here" Happens Here: Part 1
It's important to keep perspective. So far, despite Donald Trump's best efforts, the rule of law seems to be holding. A small coterie in...
Charlie Biscotto
Feb 5, 20175 min read
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Attention "Reasonable" Republicans: We Have Good Reason Not To Trust You
Meghan McCain decided to wade into the wide, wide world of false equivalencies this week, tweeting, "None of you are listening, and none...
Charlie Biscotto
Feb 3, 20174 min read
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Milo Yiannopoulos Is a Cancer To Political Discourse And I Don't Need To Apologize For Shit
Every time there's a riot, a smattering of thinkpieces (sometimes on the left, sometimes on the right) clutch their pearls and say that...
Charlie Biscotto
Feb 2, 20173 min read
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Donald Trump's Executive Orders Are Not a Governing Strategy
He ordered government agencies to minimize enforcement of Obamacare without any effort to replace it or articulate a reason it needn't be...
Charlie Biscotto
Feb 1, 20173 min read
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