"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
In the past few days I watched as a woman deleted all her tweets after her tweet about being queer generated hugely hostile reaction from Twitter goon squads. Another woman, a major Never Trumper, briefly stopped posting because her kids…
The Manafort trial starts next week. Manafort is accused of conspiracy, fraud, false statements, and more, and faces decades in prison. The evidence presented in the indictment is detailed and damning (PDF.) The trial will be headline news for weeks,…
A proposed bill in California would make it illegal for restaurants to give straws to customers, unless requested, with penalties including fines and jail. While this is a well-meaning attempt to cut plastic pollution – similar plastic bag bans at…
A severe drought combined with lackadaisical planning and little in the way of contingency plans recently created a serious water emergency in Cape Town, South Africa. This city of 3 million had to take drastic measures quickly to avert what…
Russian operative Maria Butina is being held without bail after being arrested for not registering as an agent of the Russian government. A whole bunch of Republicans are probably extremely nervous now, as she was busy busy busy infiltrating the…
In Flashmob, John Smith, ex-miltary badass who can read minds, tracks down the shadowy operator of a nasty website called Downvote that crowd-sources violence and murder against people who have displeased its users, who vote on the violence. Sounds like…
Chiat makes a well-documented case that Trump / Russia ties, which started in 1987, go way deep than many previously thought, that we are still standing outside the cave of corruption and treason looking in, and are not yet inside…