Offering asides, recommended links, blogworthy quotations, and more, In Brief is the Northwest Progressive Institute's microblog of world, national, and local politics.
Via MSNBC: “Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders plans to take a break from the campaign trail in New Hampshire to appear on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, a campaign aide told NBC News. Details of the appearance are still being worked out, but the show has not confirmed the senator’s cameo.”
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LaunchIt’s Darth Trump! Listen to The Donald’s voice dubbed over Vader’s in a series of scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy (A New Hope,
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Can we go on without Jon Stewart? Of course we can. He’s shown us how. The Washington Post‘s Hank Stuever examines Daily Show host Jon
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Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito suddenly realize they’ll be villains in Oscar-winning movie one day The Onion has taken aim at the Supreme Court’s most conservative
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The late-night talk TV world Letterman leaves behind is packed with capable hosts on many networks, but what they preside over, strictly speaking, is neither
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Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart took Fox Noise host Stuart Varney to the woodshed for having the nerve to complain about President
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The 2016 Republican Clown Car now has six occupants! The above image was created by satirist Donkey Hotey. This illustration of the 2016 Republican Clown
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Must-watch video: President Obama brings down the house at 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The President’s best zingers were aimed at the Koch Brothers and
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Saturday Night Live repertory player Cecily Strong was the featured comedian at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, speaking after President Obama. She spared no
LaunchThe long-awaited release of the next installment of Star Wars is drawing increasingly nearer. To help pass the time, a number of Star Wars fans
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DONALD TRUMP: T-Mobile service is terrible! Why can’t you do something to improve it for your customers. I don’t want it in my buildings. JOHN
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April Fools’ Day: Ten stories that look like pranks but aren’t The BBC offers a rundown of ten news stories that may sound like April
LaunchThe cold open for the March 28th episode of Saturday Night Live features the return of “The Rock” Obama, portrayed by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
LaunchOver the past thirty-six hours, progressives all over the United States have been cooperating on possibilities for Ted Cruz’s campaign slogan. AlterNet has a pretty
LaunchRepublicans build full-scale replica of struggling Ohio town to train presidential hopefuls The Onion churns out another hit with a fake article claiming that the
LaunchMust-watch TV: President Obama takes over The Colbert Report, delivers “The Decree” in character as Colbert (To Health in a Handbasket)
LaunchKFC, Midas team up for much-anticipated crossover meal The Onion once again satirizes fast food… and product crossovers to boot.
LaunchDesperate Republicans spotted in South Dakota trying to build Keystone XL themselves Republicans are so keen on doing TransCanda’s bidding that they have showed up
LaunchThe Oatmeal schools Ted Cruz on Net Neutrality Pacific Northwest native Matthew Inman has published a rather excellent new cartoon schooling Texas Senator Ted Cruz
LaunchCNN holds morning meeting to decide what viewers should panic about for rest of day The Onion has once again taken aim at Time Warner’s
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