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Anna Merlan
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Anna Merlan was a Senior Reporter at G/O Media until September 2019. She's the author of Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power.

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So the cheerleaders, who are also professional athletes, are supposed to make ends meet via ... what, exactly? Fucking the team and hopefully getting a few bills shoved their way in return? How nice and open-minded of these conservative fucksticks to show their support for prostitution. Read more

wait so this editorial board works near some of the richest people in the country in the OC so does this mean that they also can be paid $0.50/hour Read more

This is why whenever I need to get some food, I just go to the supermarket and hang out by the checkout. I get to be in close proximity to people who have food, which is the same as having it, yourself. Read more

Hell, it’s not even trickle down economics anymore. Apparently, you’re supposed to just be happy to be in the physical vicinity of that kind of money. Read more

I don’t understand what the point of this is. All it does is make the state department look bad. Like people won’t start going through the emails over the weekend or Monday morning?
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I gotta work tonight too :( Making up for it tomorrow with some fancy brunch. I will mail you some smoked trout eggs Benedict if you find anything. Read more

One of my best friends in high school got pregnant at 15. She was terrified of her abusive dad finding out. We went to the school nurse who arranged for an abortion at a clinic walking distance from our houses. We pooled our babysitting money for a cab back to my house afterwards. No parents ever found out, but I Read more

“Watch the full rally below...” Read more

“We love the evangelicals and we’re polling so well. This Bible was given to me by my mother, going to Sunday school. … So, we love the Bible. It’s the best. We love ‘The Art of the Deal,’ but the Bible is far, far superior, yes.” Read more

I’d like to throw an honorable mention at Frederick, MD City Councilman Kirby Delauter, who threatened to sue the local newspaper for using his name in the newspaper “without his authorization” when reporting on a city council meeting. Naturally, the paper wrote an editorial chock full of his name. Read more

My buddy was literally 50 feet away from this shooting when it happened. It’s a fucking mall. It echoes like a canyon. So when someone fires a gun in one (second shooting in a Madison mall this year), how do you pinpoint the noise? Should everyone CCL holder pull their weapon and aim? Where should they aim? Oh, I see, Read more

If only they had some sort of test, easily available, widely used, and cheap, to give women when they are either going through already mandatory medical examinations and intake intake into a correctional facility or else when a woman claimed to be pregnant already in custody in a facility that undoubtably has at least Read more

Graham told CNN he’ll be announcing the end of his campaign in an email to his supporters Read more

I imagine Lindsey’s “rotating First Lady” would be the ballerina figurine that slowly spins to gently tinkling music when he opens his music box in wistful moments. Read more

It’s nice to know this kind of hypocrisy isn’t limited to Republican politicians and pastors. Read more