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…
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