A routine trip to a strip mall in Canada almost turned deadly for a Latino family when Mark Phillips, baseball bat in hand, approached Sergio Estepa, Mari Zambrano, their 13-year-old son and a friend, informing them that they were under arrest for being "ISIS terrorists". After ...read more
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of Twitter given it seems to encourage vapid shouting matches between outsized egos trying to insult each other with as few words as possible. But I do use the medium and appreciate those who have managed to refine Twitter takedowns to an art form. ...read more
The Banter Long Read: It's been almost a year since I stopped speaking to my Trump-voting in-laws and absence has not made the heart grow fonder. I loathe them more now than I did the day they proudly announced they had voted for a monster.... To continue reading this MEMBERS ...read more
There's an entire cottage industry of conservative pundits who are shocked, shocked, I tell you!, that America's right wing is full of racists, hypocrites and all around horrible people. One of these newly woke pundits is Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post whose entire job ...read more
I'm over Trump voters. Completely and totally over them. At one point, I wanted them to hit rock bottom and realize just how awful they were so they could try to find their way back to a life of even minimum morality and humanity. Now? Fuck it. I give up.... To continue reading ...read more
Last week, a Kentucky judge announced that he would not preside over another adoption case involving a same sex couple: Nance cited a judicial ethics rule that says a judge must disqualify himself when he has a personal bias or prejudice.In an order issued Thursday, he said “as ...read more
Last week, I wrote that Trump supporters don't deserve a voice in America politics and now we have an emerging narrative on the right that confirms it: Liberals are being too mean to Trump supporters. I kid you not. The New York Times covered this renewed sense of being ...read more
David Brooks has spent years giving the Republican Party ideological cover as it devolved into the radicalized mess it's become. But now, he's so horrified by what he helped create that he's abandoned any attempt to whitewash what is happening and he's calling it like it is: ...read more
John Gilmore is, to put it mildly, a bit of a prick. Back in 2011, the right-wing activist and writer harassed two Muslim women on the street and when the police showed up to deal with him, he threw a temper tantrum and got arrested. The charges were later dropped but Gilmore ...read more
Donald Trump is the cancer that keeps on spreading. He has normalized hate and bigotry to the point that we now have white supremacists sending out robocalls to accuse Trump's opponent of being a "closet homosexual": A white-nationalist supporter of Donald Trump has launched a ...read more
Paul Krugman gives voice to a nagging fear a lot of people have had: Even after he loses and loses badly, Donald Trump will continue to be the guiding light of the Republican Party. After explaining that Republicans knew damn well who they were endorsing and that it's ridiculous ...read more
By Lawrence Davidson: The Ku Klux Klan (the name derives from the Greek word Kuklos meaning circle with a modification of the word clan added), an American terrorist organization, was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. It was organized by Southerners who refused to ...read more
