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‘Idiocracy’ Team Ready Anti-Donald Trump Campaign Ads
Mike Judge and Etan Cohen, the director and writer behind the 2006 cult comedy Idiocracy, have reteamed to pen a series of anti-Donald Trump campaign ads starring the film’s wrestler-turned-president, played by Terry Crews. The ads were fueled by a tweet Cohen sent as Trump began dominating the GOP ticket. “I never expected #idiocracy to become…
Meet the Trump University Teacher at Center of Class-Action Suit
This week U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel unsealed 400 pages worth of documents related to two class-action lawsuits filed against Donald Trump’s real-estate seminar, Trump University, by students who say they were defrauded by the program. Among the documents released were a sales playbook that described the “roller coaster of emotions”…
Prophets of Rage Plot RNC Convention Takeover in Cleveland
Prophets of Rage, the supergroup featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Cypress Hill’s B-Real, have revealed that they’ll be in Cleveland to “Make America Rage Again” during the Republican National Convention in July. “We’ll be rocking furiously in and around the RNC,” guitarist Tom…
10 Times Clinton Roasted Trump in Her Latest Speech
In a speech today that marked her pivot to the general-election race against Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton bashed the presumptive Republican nominee, referencing his thin-skinned responses to criticism and the racism, sexism and xenophobia that have become hallmarks of his campaign. Delivered before a lively San Diego crowd days before California’s key…
Americans Are Wrong: Trump Would Be the Worst Barbecue Guest Ever
Five months before Election Day, presidential polls are little more than an excuse for political journalists to write lazy horserace stories. The snapshot of who’s ahead and who’s behind is largely meaningless, and the good stuff usually gets buried. Take this latest Quinnipiac poll. It puts Hillary Clinton ahead of Donald…
Bassnectar, Z-Trip Appear on ‘Rave For Bernie’ Compilation
Many artists have rallied around presidential candidate Bernie Sanders from across genres, including Killer Mike, Tom Morello, Best Coast, Bonnie Raitt, Cat Power, Lucinda Williams and more. Adding to Sanders’ growing list of artist supporters are those from the electronic dance music community. Bassnectar, Z-Trip, Cobra Starship and others have contributed…
6 Reasons to Be Wary of Amnesty’s Prostitution Policy
On May 26th, Amnesty International’s board voted to adopt a policy of decriminalizing adult prostitution. In its report, Amnesty frames prostitution as sex work, pimps as legitimate sex business operators and johns as customers. This approach to prostitution is irresponsible and has been opposed by more than 600 leading organizations and…
Thurston Moore Meets Bernie Sanders on Limited-Edition Vinyl
Former Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders unite on “Feel It In Your Guts,” a 12-string acoustic piece featuring excerpts from the Senator’s speeches. One thousand hand-numbered, white, flexi-disc vinyl copies are available for free with individual donations to the Sanders campaign. The track is also available as…
What It’s Like to Audition for ‘Shark Tank’ for Weed
Cameras rolling, Richard Haines pitches his business: MDHerb, a website for medical marijuana patients to share their experiences with various products. He’s looking for $150,000 in exchange for about 12 percent of the company. He says MDHerb is “a collaborative community” that lets patients “keep journal entries of what they’re…
Green Party’s Jill Stein on Why Bernie Sanders Should Go Third-Party
America’s two major political parties are poised this year to pit a couple of historically disliked presidential candidates against each other. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s unfavorable ratings are bad news for both the Democrats and the Republicans — but those ratings could be another candidate’s chance to dismantle the country’s two-party system. That’s exactly what presumptive Green Party nominee…
Bernie Sanders Fights On: The Rolling Stone Interview
Not even “the math” can spoil a Bernie Sanders rally. The democratic-socialist senator from Vermont has outperformed any rational expectation, building an insurgent campaign that has captured 20 states, propelled by more than $210 million in grassroots contributions, averaging under $30 a pop. But with each passing state election –…
How New Doc ‘Merci Congo’ Sheds Light on Deadly Conflict
“This machine is called a computer.” Neema Namadamu is standing in a small room in the remote Itombwe Plateau in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, teaching a group of women how to use a laptop. It’s the first time most of them have ever seen the technology. The scene serves…
Some 2,500 Americans Have Died in Afghanistan and Iraq Under Obama
In Barack Obama’s keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention — the speech that catapulted him onto the national stage — the bright-eyed, loose-limbed senator from Illinois spoke of America’s responsibility to its soldiers. “We have a solemn obligation,” Obama said, “not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they’re going,…
Billy Joel: Donald Trump’s Campaign ‘Very Entertaining’
At Billy Joel’s concerts over the past year, the singer has often dedicated the performance of his 1974 single “The Entertainer” to Donald Trump, with one such shout-out occurring Friday night at Joel’s monthly gig at New York’s Madison Square Garden. While there is debate whether the dedication is genuine or…
See Bernie Sanders Talk Trump Debate, Superdelegates on ‘Real Time’
Ahead of the crucial June 7th California primary that could tip the balance of the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders appeared on Friday’s Real Time With Bill Maher to discuss superdelegates, his platform and why it’s hard to formulate a strategy to defeat Donald Trump come Election Day. “He is so unpredictable…
See Bernie Sanders Comment on Trump Debate on ‘Kimmel’
Following Donald Trump’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Bernie Sanders stopped by the late-night show. Sanders had requested Trump’s participation in a debate by having Kimmel ask on his behalf. “You made it possible for us to have a very interesting debate about two guys who look at the world very, very differently,”…
Green Party’s Jill Stein on the Feminist Case Against Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton’s plan to win the White House relies heavily on winning the support of women voters. And she shouldn’t have much problem doing that: Not only does she have the endorsements of many marquee women’s organizations — EMILY’s List, NOW and Planned Parenthood, for example — she’ll likely face…
Meet the Bernie-Endorsed Law Professor Trying to Unseat the DNC Chair
Running against the head of the Democratic National Convention is a pretty lonely exercise: You don’t get into the race expecting a lot of high-profile Democrats will flock to you with endorsements. But then again, most DNC heads aren’t as controversial as Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who’s so disliked that there’s been…
Elton John, Vladimir Putin Meeting Over LGBT Rights Postponed
Elton John and Vladimir Putin’s planned meeting on LGBT rights in Russia has been postponed, The Guardian reports. The Kremlin has said that the pair could meet at a later date. The pair’s meeting has been put on hold for now given their busy schedules, making it impossible for the singer and…
Trump on Bathroom Laws: ‘Let the States Decide’
Donald Trump responded to the “bathroom bill” legislation on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday. “Let the states decide,” the presumptive Republican nominee said, without offering any specific explanation into what he personally thought states should decide. The “bathroom bill” is one topic Trump opposes the majority Republican party stance. He has spoken against North Carolina’s House Bill 2,…
Hillary Clinton’s New Anti-Trump Ad Misses the Mark
A new attack ad put out by the Hillary Clinton campaign this week achieves the near-impossible, making Donald Trump look wronged and (almost) like a victim. More believably, it makes the Democrats look sleazy and disingenuous in comparison. The ad begins with a picture of a grinning Trump and the words, “In 2006,…
Stephen King, Cheryl Strayed Sign Open Letter Condemning Donald Trump
Stephen King, Wild author Cheryl Strayed, Junot Diaz, Michael Chabon and Jennifer Egan are among the 400 writers who have lent their name to an online letter condemning Donald Trump. In “An Open Letter to the American People” on Lit Hub, the authors write that they “oppose, unequivocally, the candidacy…
Hillary Clinton on Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’: ‘It’s Great’
Hillary Clinton visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show for an interview that airs Wednesday, with the Democratic candidate discussing a variety of topics from potential vice president picks to her admiration for Beyoncé’s Lemonade. “I have seen parts of it, and I do like it. It’s great,” Clinton said, taking a question from…
How Zombie Ted Cruz Already Beat Trump in Washington
Ted Cruz isn’t running for president anymore, but his zombie campaign lumbers on. At the Washington state Republican convention this past weekend, the state party managed to install Cruz loyalists in 40 of the 41 available delegate slots to this summer’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland. What’s more, the Washington Republican primary was…
System of a Down’s Serj Tankian on Bernie Sanders: ‘I’m Rooting for Him’
System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian has been outspoken in his support of Bernie Sanders since last summer and, as primary season nears an end, he’s standing strong behind the Democratic presidential candidate. “There’s only one guy whose voting record I respect here,” the singer tells Rolling Stone. “He’s…
Neil Young: I’m OK With Donald Trump Using ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign got off to a rocky start last June when – after playing Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” after the rally announcing his presidential bid – the rocker immediately asked the mogul to stop using the Freedom track on the campaign trail. The issue sparked…
Why Hillary Clinton’s Church Is Facing a Major LGBT Schism
On May 10th, more than 100 clergypersons in the United Methodist Church came out of the closet. They did so at great personal risk, knowing that the official doctrine of the UMC says they were in active disobedience of the word of God. Such action is punishable by firing, which…
Trump Shows How Much He Really Cares About Veterans
Donald Trump is rich as hell. I know this because he says so, often. His wealth has shaped his campaign’s entire narrative. He can create jobs because he’s a businessman who does important business things. He does all the best deals. He never settles. Trump is so rich he won’t…
Officer in Freddie Gray Case Found Not Guilty of All Charges
Baltimore police officer Edward Nero was acquitted Monday of all charges related to the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. His was the first of six trials, one for each of the officers implicated in Gray’s death, to result in a verdict. Gray died on April 19, 2015, from injuries he sustained…
Ricky Gervais: Donald Trump ‘Would Be the Funniest President’
When Donald Trump announced that he would be running for president, Ricky Gervais found it instantly amusing. “I thought, ‘This is a man who desperately wants to be famous and loved and he’s willing to spend half his fortune on running for president to become even more famous,'” the English comic tells…
Watch John Oliver Explain Baffling Primary-Caucus System
American voters are rightfully pissed off by a perplexing electoral system – or as John Oliver calls it, “an erratic clusterfuck every four years” – where a presidential candidate can win a primary or caucus yet receive fewer delegates than their opponent. We’ve seen that happen in both parties this year: Bernie…
Meet the Woman Opening an Abortion Clinic in Most Anti-Choice State
Opening an abortion clinic in the United States is never easy, and it’s especially difficult in a state hostile to abortion rights. That’s one of the reasons no one has attempted to open a clinic in Oklahoma since 1974 — at least, not until now. With the state down to…
Candidates Who Backed the Oregon Militia Overwhelmingly Voted Out
Voters in rural Harney County, Oregon, overwhelmingly rejected the ideology of right-wing militia members who made the local wildlife refuge famous with their ill-fated occupation earlier this year. Candidates sympathetic to Ammon Bundy and his fellow “patriots” were overwhelmingly voted down in Tuesday’s election, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. The Malheur National…
NRA Endorses Donald Trump
The National Rifle Association endorsed Donald Trump for president at the organization’s convention in Louisville, Kentucky, Friday. “Now is the time to unite,” Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, said. “If your preferred candidate dropped out of the race, it’s time to get over it.” It was…
Libertarian Nominee on the Koch Brothers and Being a Trump Alternative
The day Ted Cruz dropped out of the Republican primary, Google searches for “Gary Johnson” went through the roof. Johnson, the pro-pot former Republican governor of New Mexico, took home one percent of the nationwide vote as the Libertarian candidate for president in 2012. This year he thinks his chances are…
Trump Isn’t the Campaign Media’s First Mistake
At FiveThirtyEight this week, statistics guru Nate Silver wrote a major apologia about his 2016 predictions called “How I acted like a pundit and screwed up on Donald Trump.” Its ostensible purpose was to explain a string of apparent misdiagnoses from a statistician famed for getting things right. Inadvertently, though, it…
See ‘Trump Supporters’ Mouth Fake Hillary Clinton Quotes
Hillary Clinton’s Super Pac attack ad against Donald Trump is titled “Does Donald Trump Really Speak for You?” and features female Clinton supporters mouthing along to actual statements the GOP candidate has made. Seth Meyers envisioned what Trump’s response would be. in a phony anti-Clinton commercial, male “Trump supporters” mouth along to a couple of real Clinton quotes that…
The Music Industry’s Battle Against Plastic Junk
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard the stats: Plastic is flooding our world. Our oceans bear the burden of five continent-sized mass accumulations of plastic, and unless our ravenous consumption of it changes, scientists predict there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans by 2050. How much garbage…
Pro-Bernie Trolls on Why They Harassed Nevada’s Democratic Chair
Democrats have been in a froth this week, in the aftermath of Saturday’s contentious, and at times violent, Nevada state convention. As Rolling Stone reported Tuesday, Bernie Sanders supporters, incensed by the party’s handling of the proceedings — and the fact that Sanders failed to hold on to two pledged delegates he unexpectedly…
Brian McKnight, Desmond Child Call for Music Licensing Reform
Award-winning songwriters and musicians are calling for music licensing reform in light of the digital streaming landscape in Washington, D.C. “Copyright is starting to mean nothing,” songwriter MoZella, who co-wrote Miley Cyrus’ Number One hit “Wrecking Ball,” tells Rolling Stone. “We’ve had over 250 million streams of ‘Wrecking Ball’ on Pandora, and I made…
Donald Trump Reveals List of Potential Supreme Court Nominees
Donald Trump revealed a list of 11 potential Supreme Court Justice nominees to replace late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia if elected president, the Associated Press reports. The presumptive GOP nominee’s list includes Iowa’s Steven Colloton, Colorado’s Allison Eid, Missouri’s Raymond Gruender, Pennsylvania’s Thomas Hardiman, Michigan’s Raymond Kethledge, Michigan’s Joan Larsen, Utah’s Thomas Lee, Alabama’s…
R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party
Indianapolis, Indiana, May 3rd, 2016, a little before 8:30 p.m. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz strode onstage beneath a gorgeous stained-glass relief in the city’s Union Station. The hall was doubling as a swanky bar for an upscale local hotel, and much of the assembled press was both lubricated and impatient….
What It’s Like Casting a Ballot in a State That Takes Voting Seriously
In America in 2016, voting rights are under attack. The Supreme Court gutted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act in 2013. And under the guise of rooting out voter fraud, right-wing politicians in 17 states have passed onerous new restrictions for this year. Focused on voter ID requirements, curtailed…
J.K. Rowling: ‘I Find Almost Everything That Donald Trump Says Objectionable’
J.K. Rowling delivered a powerful speech at the 2016 PEN Literary Awards Gala Monday where the Harry Potter author condemned Donald Trump yet defended the mogul’s right to speak freely. “I find almost everything that Mr. Trump says objectionable,” Rowling said. “I consider him offensive and bigoted. But he has my full support…
WTF Happened at the Nevada Democratic State Convention?
The Nevada State Democratic Convention was supposed to end at 7 p.m. Saturday. When backers for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were still raging at each other at 10 p.m., the Paris Las Vegas hotel told organizers the event needed to end. According to various reports, Sanders supporters yelled, threw chairs and booed Clinton surrogate Barbara Boxer, incensed…
Melania Trump on Michael Jackson, Why Trump Isn’t Hitler
Melania Trump, wife of the presumptive Republican nominee, has been mostly absent on the campaign trail so far – causing many to regard her as aloof. Eager to learn more about the former model and glamorous Slovenian immigrant as the next First Lady of the United States, media outlets have clamored for…
Why Dysfunction Reigns in the Supreme Court Right Now
Are you in search of a new cause to get behind? Looking for some downtrodden folks whose lot in life you can lament? Well do I have the people for you: the surviving eight justices of the Supreme Court. Their job is to decide legal cases. They’re also supposed to try to announce…
Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers on Reforming Religion, Why Trump Must Be Stopped
The United Methodist Church’s top policy-making body continues to discuss a number of issues concerning the church during its general conference in Portland, Oregon. Among them is the idea of permitting same-sex couples to marry and the ordination of gay clergy. Last week, more than 100 ordained ministers of the church came out as gay, openly defying…
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