At least 10 people were killed Friday morning after a shooter opened fired in Santa Fe High School outside of Houston, Texas. A suspect has been taken into custody, but explosive devices have been detected in the vicinity, and residents have been advised to exercise caution. The response so far …
Read More »Pipeline Protesters Take to The Trees
As the sun sets on a remote peak along the West Virginia-Virginia border, a tense standoff unfolds between an armed squadron of U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officers and a band of campers. Generators are flicked on and prison-style floodlights blast the campers, as well as the protester they are …
Read More »Everything That's Happened Since Trump Killed the Iran Deal
President Trump concluded his announcement that the United States will withdraw from the Iran deal with a message of peace: “Great things can happen for the peace and stability that we all want in the Middle East,” he said. “There has been enough suffering, death, and destruction. Let it end …
Read More »Jamil Smith: Jeff Sessions Is Suing California, and I Feel Fine
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions was named after two Confederates, so it was peculiar to hear him talk as if secession was a bad thing. On Tuesday morning, the Attorney General continued his war with California‘s leadership, this time admonishing it for refusing to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents collect undocumented …
Read More »Taibbi: #Russiagate Skeptics Take a Beating
In the wake of special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s troll farm indictment, a bizarre series of events took place involving the New York Times and Facebook. The indictment had barely hit the presses before Facebook Ads exec Rob Goldman decided to tweet a few things. Goldman seemed peeved that his company, …
Read More »Taibbi: If We Want Kids to Stop Killing, the Adults Have to Stop, Too
Over two decades ago, I traveled to a city in the Russian provinces called Rostov-On-Don to interview a psychiatrist named Alexander Bukhanovsky. Bukhanovsky, now deceased, was famous. If you’ve seen the movie Citizen X, about the capture of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Bukhanovsky was the guy played by Max Von …
Read More »The Dark Twisted Failure of Devin Nunes
Someday, when Hollywood starts making movies and episodic dramas about this bizarre epoch in American history – that time when Russia installed a fat, orange-tinted fourth-grader in the White House, and “conservatives” cheered and plotted to keep him there – there will be a whole dog-kennel’s worth of knaves to …
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