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Not Like This: Melania Trump Tries to Middle Ground #MeToo (and Frankly, It’s Gross)
You know, there are times I actually feel sorry for Melania Trump. (Sorry, brain freeze.) But seriously, what must it feel like to go from a station in life where Vogue was producing cover stories on your wedding and opulent, gold-plated lifestyle to high-fashion shade like this: On her recent first major solo trip abroad…
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‘Your Sacrifice Was Not in Vain’: Tarana Burke, Tracee Ellis Ross and More Pen ‘Love Letter’ to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford
On Wednesday, Oct. 10, some of the most visible female activists of our generation joined forces to give their thanks, support and love to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford after her Sept. 27 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, compelling testimony that was nonetheless unable to thwart the confirmation of now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. #MeToo…
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In the Aftermath of the Kavanaugh Hearings, Amandla Stenberg Writes a Searing Op-Ed on Sexual Assault
To say that Amandla Stenberg is one of the voices of her generation would be an understatement. At only 19, the star of the acclaimed film adaptation of The Hate U Give has repeatedly demonstrated a depth and social awareness belying her age. And in a painfully candid and nuanced op-ed published Saturday by Teen…
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Trumpslains the President's Mocking of Christine Blasey Ford
Both Donald Trump and his proxy, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, continue their public defense of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. In the latest White House press briefing, Sanders also goes so far as to say defend the president’s mocking of Christine Blasey Ford during a rally in Southaven, Miss., Tuesday. Sanders opened…
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Donald Trump Jr. Is Scared for His Sons After Watching How Brett Kavanaugh Was Treated
Donald Trump Jr., the breakout idiot of the Trump brood, is winning the four-person race between himself, Betsy DeVos, the skeletal remains of Kellyanne Conway, and the presidential KFC bucket for dumbest person with White House access. During an interview with Daily Mail TV, Not-Ivanka Trump said that after watching the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, he’s…
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Rate These Kavanaugh Faces: From Boofed to Let Me Speak to Your Manager
It must be nice to be a white man. Thursday was arguably one of the whitest white-man moments in the history of white man-ism. It was white mantastic. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a white man, literally walked into the jar of mayonnaise called the Senate Judiciary Committee and told the interviewers to go fuck…
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Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford Testify on Sexual-Assault Allegations [Live Updates]
The shit show that shouldn’t be is finally upon us and the idea that sexual-assault testimony is being treated like a lead-up to the Super Bowl is sickening and befitting of the times. But here we are. For those living in UnderARock, Wis., Brett Kavanaugh is President BumbleFuck von RussiaOp’s pick for the Supreme Court…
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Senate Judiciary Continues Acting Like They Actually Give a Damn About Investigating Kavanaugh
“No man has been taken down at the height of his powers,” my coworker and fellow staff writer Anne Branigin said to me in Slack earlier. We were discussing Brett Kavanaugh, and all the acrobatics the Senate Judiciary is doing to pretend like they want the confirmation of the Supreme Court nominee to be a…
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Brett Kavanaugh Thinks Being a Virgin Means You Can’t Sexually Assault Anyone
If you were up for an appointment to the United States Supreme Court and a woman you knew as a teen in high school came forward to accuse you of sexual assault, would you dodge the very idea of an FBI investigation? And if after the first investigation you thought you didn’t need, would you…