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A Star Washington Post Reporter Called Out a Racial Blindspot in an Article. Leadership Threatened to Fire Him

Following last week’s debacle at the Washington Post over a staffer’s Kobe Bryant tweets, a new article published Monday morning from the Daily Beast establishes that the Post has had ongoing issues over its stringent social media policy. Last year, that policy was used to threaten Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery’s job. According to the…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

February 3, 2020
Trump Notwithstanding, Maine Gov. Paul LePage Might Be One of the Biggest Assholes in Politics

Paul LePage is the Tea Party Republican governor of Maine, and he might be one of the biggest assholes in politics. For those who forgot or may not remember, it was LePage who claimed that Maine’s heroin epidemic was spurred by guys named “D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” who come to sell drugs and “impregnate a young…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

January 4, 2018
Anti-Muslim Gun Nut Says She’s Running for Arkansas Governor. Great

Another proud bigot is going to run for national office. Whooppeee. This time it’s 54-year-old Jan Morgan, an Arkansas gun range owner, who announced that she would be running for governor of the state in a video posted to YouTube. Morgan came to dubious fame in 2014 when she said that her Gun Cave Indoor…

By

Angela Helm

Published

January 2, 2018