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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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But the Taliban didn’t exist until after they came to the US. When the emigrated in the early ‘80s, before their son was born, the Afghanistan they left was an ally of the US, waging war against the godless Soviets.
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Owen Jones walked off of his TV segment yesterday when the the idiot across from him refused to acknowledge that this was an attack specifically against LGBT people. It was courageous:

There always going to be some twisted reason for someone to commit acts like this. We should focus on the means (i.e. the powerful and efficient weapons that are readily available to anyone who wants them) instead of the motivations. Read more

I feel like “Ted Budd” is the name that a focus group would come up with for a generic white guy politician. Read more

So...he has no political experience, no interest in politics, and a busy life, but he didn’t like whatever’s going on in Washington so he decided to run for office? Read more

I think he’s going to be fairly disappointed when he gets to Washington and finds out that making legislation into law isn’t just like dropping a suggestion form into a box at Red Lobster and waiting to see when they bring back their all you can eat shrimp deal. Read more

...and someday you can look back and know that you did your part to stop an orange cloud of fascism from taking over your country, even if it wasn’t you who stood the most to lose. Read more

oh dear god everyone run and hide from this comment section like your lives depend on it Read more

If you need something for May 28th, that was the day a woman jumped off a DC overpass to escape her boyfriend, who then shot at and tried to run over the woman and the men who were trying to help her. Read more

Don’t forget the 24 year-old teacher tied to a cinder block at the bottom of a pond: Read more

But a lot of celebrities wore orange yesterday because we need to be made aware of gun violence! That didn’t help? Read more

On top of that, there was the guy in South Korea who stabbed a woman because he said women ignored him. He waited 40 minutes for a woman to show up in the restroom and then stabbed her to death. Incidentally, he didn’t bother wearing a dress to hide in there. It’s almost like you wouldn’t need to. Read more