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In Support of Alien,104-Year-Old, Transgender Mice

In Support of Alien,104-Year-Old, Transgender Mice
06.03.2025 20

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Abby Zimet

These Little Men: An Everlasting Shame For America

These Little Men: An Everlasting Shame For America
04.03.2025 10

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Three Years Of Heroism

Three Years Of Heroism
25.02.2025 4

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No Nazis: Be Like Chris Kluwe, And All Who Came Before

No Nazis: Be Like Chris Kluwe, And All Who Came Before
21.02.2025 3

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For Cruel, Stupid, ​Dastardly Deeds Done and Proposed

For Cruel, Stupid, ​Dastardly Deeds Done and Proposed
19.02.2025 10

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Tomorrow Belongs To Me: On Boogers and Bullshit

14.02.2025 3

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Send In the Attack Corgis: The Good, The Bad and The Winsome

11.02.2025 8

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All Of It: Mad King Stuff

06.02.2025 4

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Slander and Racists and Unholy Rescindments Oh My

01.02.2025 10

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Sadistic Pigs 'R Us

28.01.2025 4

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The Horror, The Horror: Welcome To the Hate Fest

24.01.2025 10

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The Hurting Part: A 'Wait' That Almost Always Means 'Never'

21.01.2025 10

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Ooof: Clown Alert With Popcorn

17.01.2025 4

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in good conscience

10.01.2025 4

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Drip, Drip, Drip: Manifest Lunatic ​ Gaslighting Destiny Looms

09.01.2025 10

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Blood Spattered Madness

Grotesquely, profanely, the U.S. government just approved another $8 billion in arms to Israel for its genocide in Gaza, where babies are freezing...

07.01.2025 20

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The Gävle Goat Lives

At the fraught start of an apocalyptic new year, we find a slight, weird sliver of hope in the improbable survival of Sweden's Gävle Goat, a...

02.01.2025 3

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He Practised the Good

We pay homage to Jimmy Carter, a profoundly decent man, devoted peacemaker, and unwavering human rights advocate who "redefined what a...

30.12.2024 3

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President Musk Will See You Now (If You're Bearing Money or Power)

In this so-called holiday season, welcome to America's "Mump regime," governance of, by and for the oligarchs in which an erratic unelected white...

24.12.2024 20

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Soul Of My Soul: How Many Dead Palestinians Are Enough

Harrowing headlines still spew from Gaza: They have run out of body bags, 96% of children feel their death is imminent, it is the worst slaughter...

19.12.2024 10

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Deny, Defend, Depose: They Eat Off Your Family Member's Grave

Exposing "the rotten core of American health care," the shooting of United Health's CEO/ mafia kingpin sparked a flash flood of long-simmering fury...

13.12.2024 40

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You Don't Frighten Us, You Pig-Dogs and Sons Of A Silly Person

To all of you mourning and quailing and brooding about how to withstand the coming authoritarian storm, we present Mark Zaid, a heroic national...

07.12.2024 7

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Now Do Peltier, Death Row, Migrants, Gaza Protesters Et Al

We still hear the murmur of pearl-clutching after Biden's pardon of his son Hunter for gun and tax charges, a move that garnered more headlines...

05.12.2024 10

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Ugly American: Onward Christian Boot Camps, War Crimes, Rape

As a baleful Cabinet of Horrors coalesces, up next to run our vast military is "perfect Trump World monster" Pete Hegseth, a creepy, philandering,...

27.11.2024 30

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Creepy Butthead Pulls Out

So much for First Lady Elmo Musk's proud boast of "our Hammer of Justice." In mere days, a "fraction of a Scaramucci," icky, scandal-plagued,...

22.11.2024 5

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Cosmic Jokesters Buy Cesspool of Hatemongering Psycopath Who Is Not Taking It Well

Oh sweet justice. We salute the supremely ironic sale of Alex Jones' vicious Infowars - now bankrupt thanks to the $1.4 billion he owes Sandy Hook...

19.11.2024 5

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Oh For Fuck's Sake

Hoo boy. The new orange king is busy choosing his viper's den of crooks, rapists, misfits and "comically inappropriate" zealots, aka bootlickers to...

15.11.2024 9

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This Is America: Turning Slander, Plunder, Sadism Into Honor

Goddamn. That was a gutting one. Amidst our grief and shock at the ascendancy of a racist, vengeful, malevolent sociopath in cognitive decline who...

12.11.2024 20

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The Hundredth Gale: Farewell To the Twisted Oompa-Loompa

Finally, the sick felon, racist, sexual predator and garbage man lurches and teeters to the finish line. "Swollen, orange and sweaty," ever more...

05.11.2024 5

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A Circle Of Certain Death: Don't Be Afraid, Stand Next To Me

Unimaginably, Israel's campaign of genocide and elimination escalates, with up to 800 Palestinians killed in 17 days "in full view of the world."...

31.10.2024 20

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Fascism! (Again)

Replicating another racist, toxic, unnerving hate fest 75 years ago, Trump held a vitriolic rally Sunday in New York vowing to end "the migrant...

28.10.2024 7

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Their Lasting Legacy: Talk About A Shithole Country

Because things can always get weirder, the newest statue on the National Mall features a faux-bronze turd sitting on Nancy Pelosi's desk to "honor"...

25.10.2024 8

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Fighting Hate: Exonerated Five Sue Little Man With Big Mouth

With more righteous reason than most, the five men of color of the Exonerated Five have filed a defamation suit against Trump for still lying about...

23.10.2024 8

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This Is Zionism

Honestly, harrowingly, what to say. After a year of bombing, maiming, starving, killing Palestinians, mostly children, Israel just burned alive...

19.10.2024 4

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Good-bye. Forever: On Bad Music and Beautiful Swastikas

Sorry again to return to this execrable human being, but it keeps getting worse and weirder. This weekend, the "fascist-to-the-core" GOP candidate...

16.10.2024 5

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Send Them Back: These People Are Hateful Human Locusts

Sorry, but much like your kids' projectile vomiting - remember it? - the them-and-us vitriol spewing from a crumbling, raving Grand Wizard and his...

11.10.2024 10

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A Monument To Cruelty

Unfathomably, it's been a year since a horrific Hamas assault set off a more horrific Israeli genocide in which an insatiable, unraveling Zionist...

07.10.2024 4

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An Excellent Impersonation

If you missed it - staying in the cave is so enticing - there was a vice-presidential "debate" Tuesday night. What you missed: Walz did fine, Vance...

03.10.2024 10

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Wearin' Yesterday's Misfortunes Like A Smile

Renaissance man Kris Kristofferson - singer, actor, activist, veteran, Rhodes Scholar and "one of the greatest songwriters of all time” - has died...

30.09.2024 10

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Be Better, Please: Melania Hawks "Book" and "Who Gives A Fuck" Christmas Ornaments

After a long hiatus from public life, "priceless, timeless asset" and venal, vapid, gold-digging, rent-a-wife clothes horse Melania Trump has...

27.09.2024 10

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If Refaat Were Alive: In Gaza, Amal, 7, Is Already Four Wars Old

On Monday, revered Palestinian poet, teacher and mentor Refaat Alareer - so stubborn that a friend believed "people like him never die" - would...

24.09.2024 70

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Sheer Lunacy, With Coins

We keep thinking it's all gone as low and weird as it possibly can, and then...This weekend, the purported GOP presidential candidate, aware of the...

22.09.2024 20

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Surreal: U.S. Attorney In Charge of Trump Almost Shooting Is Haitian-American and We Are Here For It

Because things right about now can always get weirder, it turns out the Florida U.S. Attorney handling the case of the latest sick white guy...

17.09.2024 40

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Speaking of Moral Bankruptcy

The same night a competent woman eviscerated a fear-mongering, angry old man yelling at clouds - most notably when he hollered "THEY'RE EATING THE...

13.09.2024 10

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OMG Now They're Coming For Our Cats and Chairs and Ducks

Sheesh. The Crazy Train just keeps clattering on. After a week of the mad Blowhard-In-Chief blithering he'll put everyone he doesn't like in jail...

10.09.2024 7

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This Is America: Here's the Smell of Blood Still

Again. Four people were murdered in a Georgia school shooting in a blood-soaked country that fixates on the unborn, spends $840 billion on defense,...

07.09.2024 10

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The Great Struggle For the Better Day Versus A Significance Wholly Repulsive

This Labor Day, the usual suspects eloquently appeared - or predictably disappeared. Harris urged, "Thank unions!" Biden said, "Union workers built...

03.09.2024 4

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A Despicable Individual: On Using Graves As Billboards

Even by "seditionist crapsack standards," Trump's grotesque fuckery at Arlington Cemetery, where he and his henchmen used dead soldiers as a...

30.08.2024 3

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ALERT: Kamala Harris Is Kamal Aroush! Tim Walz Has A Fake Dog! Buy Scraps of Trump Debate Suit! Make It Stop!

In this hallucinatory election year, how weird can things get? Weird. Among the lunatic slings and arrows being tossed at Dems in hopes something...

28.08.2024 10

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Isn't It Moronic: America Is Ready For A Better Story

Their unconscionable silence on Gaza still festers. But the lofty, boisterous, eloquent DNC was still both gratifying and revealing of the chasm...

23.08.2024 7

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