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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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not to be dramatic but that is the best sentence ever to be written in the history of the english language Read more

The West Fund, a 501c3, is obviously not behind this fundraiser and they’re not endorsing or, er, not endorsing a candidate. They just sent me this email: Read more

Hey, whoa, thanks to everyone for the support. it’s 11PM in Texas and we raised a big three thundo for West Fund in like 23 hours. I just talked to the printing company I’m using and the scale of the order (5x what I originally planned!) is large enough that we can offer shirts cut to “women’s fit” (for anyone who Read more

Somehow I read “endearing tangerine” and I was like, WHAT THE FUCK, ANNA. NO. Read more

“My friend has a kid and he really loves it, therefore abortion is wrong” is not a coherent argument. Even if you didn’t want the kid and would have preferred to abort, once you actually have the thing, it takes a pretty sick and damaged person to find a way to not love your own flesh and blood. You can love your kids Read more

Only Donald Trump would “evolve” on abortion based on the experience of a dude. Read more

Ah - for some fuel = acai + guarana. Can totally see chocolate substitution.
Is juice boxed wine w/straws drunk on artisanal cedar bar counters - *trending* somewhere? :)

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You guys....why aren’t we talking about the fact that he was quite literally tindering mid-interview? Read more

If you have any experience with this phenomenon—if someone used OKCupid to persuade you to vote Trump, even—please let us know in the comments. Read more

I definitely had a dude on Tinder ask me if I was caucusing for Bernie- it nearly put me off caucusing for him even though I’d already planned to.
Just part of the charm of living in Iowa. Read more

This was a huge thing on one of Bernies facebook meme groups. People posted pictures of their attempts, some of them were pretty great actually. It seems to have died down lately (as in within the past three days) as the group has gotten bigger. Kidz and their memes amirite? Read more

“Hey there sexy, I’d li-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”

tfw madeline albright calls you a sex traitor Read more

Somehow, “she loved pandas” really landed a gut punch. Poor baby. Read more

Innocent until proven guilty, I know, but – hypothetically speaking – how does someone go from being an engineering student with a stepping stone into NASA to becoming an accessory to the murder of a child? Read more