The stridently center-left Jewish-Puerto Rican atheist liberal your conservative grandparents warned you about, Justin is also a full-time stay at home parent to an autistic son and a neurotypical daughter, a doting husband, a donor daddy to a lesbian couple, a PTA president, a sci-fi geek and still finds time to write about politics and social issues for a living.
I know this is going to sound like a radical idea but it's time that white people who call the police on black people for the crime of existing while black start facing serious legal penalties. This kind of shit can't be allowed to go on without consequence:Throughout 2017 and ...read more
In three weeks, a blue wave is going to wash Republicans out of power all across the country. Trump will, at some point, tell his base of enraged and terrified voters that their worst fears have come to pass; that Those People have stolen an election. You should not doubt this ...read more
In their zeal to turn America into New Gilead, the anti-abortion, anti-woman right is now putting the lives of women in danger to satisfy their own egos:An Ionia woman is demanding that Meijer discipline a Petoskey pharmacist and implement a company-wide policy for how ...read more
Monday was the first day of early voting in Georgia and it's...not going well for Republicans.Voters across Georgia rushed to the polls on the first day of in-person early voting Monday, with 69,049 people casting their ballots.That’s a sharp increase from the last midterm ...read more
There is a strain of "thought" (and I use the term in the loosest possible sense) on the far left that says if we make things bad enough, the people will rise up in glorious revolution. We see this is in the ongoing idiocy that is Susan Sarandon who is more than happy to watch ...read more
Take a moment to cry a teeny tiny tear for Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson. He can no longer eat out at restaurants because people scream at him:Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he's "not a restaurant guy anymore" because of the way he's treated when he dines out in ...read more
We already knew Trump's Commerce Secretary, George Wilbur, was lying to Congress when he said there was a legitimate reason to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. But now we have concrete proof he's a liar and that Republicans are, in fact, using the Census as a power ...read more
Until now, there has never been a concerted call for the wholesale destruction of a political party in modern times. That was until Mitch McConnell broke the Senate, the Tea Party broke the House, and Donald Trump finished the job.... To continue reading this article, please go ...read more
Mitch McConnell has some words of advice for House Democrats poised to take control of the lower chamber: Please don't be mean to Trump.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is warning Democrats to think carefully about “presidential harassment” if they win the majority of the ...read more
In less than four weeks, America will go to the polls and vote. By every imaginable indicator, unless something massive happens in between now and then, Republicans are going to be annihilated by an electorate so pissed off that all the gerrymandering and voter suppression the ...read more
There's a narrative conservatives (and sometimes the media) love to push when trying to explain away how people who say they don't support Trump still somehow can't stop themselves from blindly voting for Republicans:Yes, it's the "Why do you keep making me hit you?" defense and, ...read more
Picture this: It's 2020. Donald Trump and the entire leadership of the GOP have been caught on video eating a live baby while worshipping a golden statue of Vladimir Putin. Except for the 60 million Trump voters who applaud them for their healthy nutritional habits and choice of ...read more
There's an annoying habit among people to bitch and moan about "Congress" as if everything that's going wrong in our government is somehow the fault of all 100 Senators and all 435 congresspeople. People love to joke about how great it would be to just get rid of all of them. ...read more
There's an entire industry based of pumping out columns blaming "both sides" for the state of America's descent in fascism. David Brooks, Chris Cillizza, David Brooks, Joe Scarborough, David Fucking Brooks, and, at least until Trump, Thomas Friedman. All of them make a very fine ...read more
1. Start young - Family traditions can happen by accident, of course. You all had so much fun at this one restaurant that you start making it an annual event. Or you find a new beach or park that you all fall in love with and it just becomes a "thing." But to build a family ...read more
Trump continues to draw out the darkest impulses of white Republican voters, egging them on to ever greater heights of depravity and cruelty. For conservatives who refuse to follow him down this path, they're left wondering what the fuck is happening to their fellow ...read more
Lost in last week's roar of Kavanaugh news was a warning sign of the blue wave coming to annihilate Republicans a little over a month from now:The Texas voter rolls have grown to 15.6 million people, a new record, and a jump of 1.6 million since the last time Texas held a midterm ...read more
Jonn Elledge of the New Statesman penned a humorous column about how 4-year-olds are not actually the little angels people seem to think they are but rather more like the Tories (the UK's answer to the GOP).After explaining "Theory of Mind", the ability to understand the world ...read more
If Lindsey Graham is any indication, Senate Republicans are absolutely furious after Dr. Christine Ford gave her testimony on Thursday. Hoping to have a female lawyer discredit her like she was on trial, Dr. Ford instead gave a brutally honest and credible account of what ...read more
Last night, just as the country was preparing to watch Brett Kavanaugh stumble his way through his interview with Democrats and Dr. Christine Ford be grilled by a lawyer like she's a criminal, two men have "heroically" stepped forward to claim that they were the two men who tried ...read more
As the right furiously tries to justify putting a sexual predator on the Supreme Court, they've been flailing in all directions looking for something that will work. From claiming it didn't happen to the laughable claim it was someone else to flat out saying every boy in high ...read more
Do you believe that women should have access to contraceptives to prevent unwanted pregnancies?Do you believe teens should be taught comprehensive sexual education in school to prevent unwanted pregnancies?....To continue reading this article, please go here. As a Banter Member ...read more
With the nuclear blast of more allegations of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh chronicled by Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow, Republicans are, in a word, fucked. And they have no one but themselves to blame:The claim dates to the 1983-84 academic school year, when Kavanaugh was a ...read more
Salon's Lili LoofBourow has a particularly brutal takedown of the ongoing hysteria overtaking men during the Kavanaugh rape scandal. In it, she marvels to see men move beyond just pretending rape culture isn't real to flat out saying we should accept it as perfectly normal:We ...read more