When the mob of white men marched in Charlottesville carrying flaming torches Friday night shouting “Heil Trump” as the curtain-raiser for a day of violent
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The best way to fight neo-Nazis is to… laugh?
The Seattle Times’ Danny Westneat writes: “Hate is marching in the streets. Some of the same groups that marched in Charlottesville are growing in the Northwest. A local author has argued the best thing to do to confront it all is to … show up and mock them.” The local author Westneat talked to is none other than David Neiwert, the respected creator of Orcinus and an expert on right wing extremism and eliminationists.
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When it comes to John McCain, some journalists will never, ever learn
McCain talks a good game to reporters, at times providing them with juicy quotes criticizing his party’s excesses. But his voting record in recent years
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Big win for media diversity: The Chicago Sun-Times is wrenched away from a rival publisher
The Chicago Sun-Times will not fall into the hands of Tronc, the company that owns its crosstown rival thanks an eleventh hour intervention by a group of white knight investors that includes the Chicago Federation of Labor.
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George W. Bush speechwriter: The conservative mind has become diseased
“The movement has been seized by a kind of discrediting madness, in which conspiracy delusions figure prominently,” writes Michael Gerson.
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Trump ensemble sings “Hallelujah”, Bobby Moynihan brings back Drunk Uncle for SNL season finale
Watch sketches from the final episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-second season.
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SNL parodies Holt/Trump interview, Melissa McCarthy brings back Spicer impersonation
Watch sketches from the penultimate episode of Saturday Night Live’s forty-second season.
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Sinclair requires TV stations, including KOMO, to air segments that tilt to the right
A must-read from The New York Times. “Eight current and former KOMO employees describe a newsroom where some have chafed at Sinclair’s programming directives, especially must-runs pieces, which they view as too politically tilted and occasionally of poor quality.”
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Must-watch TV: Jimmy Kimmel strikes back against right-wing critics (including Newt Gingrich)
“Jimmy returns from his time off after his newborn son Billy had heart surgery and he talks about the outpouring of love and support he has received, the not-so-nice things some people have said, and he speaks with Louisiana’s Republican Senator Bill Cassidy about the health care debate.”
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This week’s best SNL sketches: The House (Seattle), Where in the World is Kellyanne Conway, and Morning Joe cold open
Don’t miss this week’s best SNL sketches, including a brilliant parody of pointless reality shows, Where in the World is Kellyanne Conway (a Carmen Sandiego spoof), and the Morning Joe cold open.
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Why is O’Reilly being pushed out now? Because advertisers are gearing up to drop all of Fox Noise, not just Bill’s show
They are gearing up to drop Fox. So that’s what the executives at Fox News are dealing with. They are dealing with a long-term and
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How could United Airlines do that?
New York Times readers share their disgust with United Airlines for kicking a passenger off a plane in the most violent way imaginable.
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Melissa McCarthy returns as Sean Spicer in Easter-themed SNL sketch
This week’s standout SNL sketch: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer (Melissa McCarthy) apologizes for his comments about Hitler.
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Alec Baldwin pulls double duty, satirizing Bill O’Reilly and Donald Trump in the same must-see sketch
Bill O’Reilly (Alec Baldwin) and Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) discuss the sexual harassment scandal surrounding O’Reilly.
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Ex-General Stanley McChrystal: Save PBS. It Makes Us Safer.
I like to say that leadership is a choice. As our leaders in Washington confront tough decisions about our budget priorities, I urge them to
LaunchCan charities survive Trump? For some, it’s life and death
“When administrations change, there is a normal ebb and flow of political appointees and an inevitable shift in focus for power brokers. Everyone adjusts to a new normal, identifies where opportunities are and finds point-people in the White House and on Capitol Hill who can advance their agendas,” writes The New York Times’ Liz Moyer. “But everything changed in January, with the new administration determined to slash budgets and minimizing priorities for anything not related to the military and Homeland Security.”
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WATCH: Trailer for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Al Gore is back! Watch the new trailer for An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. In theaters July 28,
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In the age of fake news, your April Fools’ marketing stunt is especially unfunny
After witnessing an election influenced by hoaxes and now contending with a president who constantly tweets demonstrably false information, people don’t want to guess what’s
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Jimmy Kimmel rips Trump’s budget proposal, mocks his plans to gut funding for PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWebDbGtQI4 From ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live: “Trump released a proposed budget that would cut funding for PBS, Meals on Wheels, and The National Endowment for
LaunchThree days ago, HuffPost asked: What would happen if a presenter announced the wrong winner at the Oscars? Now we know…
Talk about foreshadowing. On Friday, the Huffington Post ran an article asking, What would happen if a presenter announced the wrong winner at the Oscars?
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John Oliver on Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin
From Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: “[Russia’s] Vladimir Putin is known as a ruthless leader and master manipulator. John Oliver enlists a group of singing dancers to explain that to Donald Trump.”
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