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I Don’t Have Enough Ambien for This: Roseanne Claims Valerie Jarrett Tweet Was About Anti-Semitism

Roseanne, beloved, the lesson here was to delete your account. Unfortunately for us, learning lessons isn’t exactly Roseanne Barr’s forte. The washed-up comedian, who recently lost her ABC sitcom over a racist tweet about former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, hopped onto Twitter Wednesday night in an attempt to reclaim the narrative—and prove that she…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

June 14, 2018
Hair-Dryer-Roasted Chicken Wins the 2018 Award for the Whitest Thing on the Internet

In a ceremony televised on Fox News and the Food Network, the New Yorker’s “roving food correspondent” Helen Rosner was awarded the 2018 “I Was Told by AppleCare” prize for Unapologetic Whiteness. In a story titled, “Yes, I Use a Hair Dryer to Make Roast Chicken” (which insinuates that at least one person asked her,…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

March 28, 2018
Why Are You Like This? Far Right Cooks Up Conspiracy Theories, Bullies Survivors of Parkland, Fla., Shooting Seeking Gun Reform

The far right doesn’t want you to “politicize” recurring national tragedies like the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting. They just prefer that you make up a bunch of wild-ass garbage about those tragedies. Survivors of last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Fla., one of the deadliest in modern American history, have said that…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

February 21, 2018