While He Was Tweeting: The Collusion Edition, Week 25
In a week where Donnie Jr. told more lies than his dad and Trump Sr humiliated the US by drooling over the French First Lady, democracy died a little more. Here's what you missed.
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While He Was Tweeting: The News You Missed, Week Ending July 8
While POTUS was busy going after John Podesta on Twitter and cuddling with Putin at the G20 summit, other news happened. Here's what you missed.
The Silencing of the Hillary Clinton Supporter
The media’s obsession with the white populist narrative serves two purposes: telling women who supported Hillary they don’t matter and exonerating itself from being culpable in her loss.
Only White Men Get to Do Apology Tours
Jimmy Fallon and Billy Bush were Trump's willing enablers—until Fallon's ratings plummeted and Bush lost his job. Will their disingenuous apologies be rewarded with forgiveness?
Trump’s “Sexual Assault Awareness Month” Proclamation Is Tremendous!!
But the edits to the original draft were bigly yuge. SAD!
Can You Fight Fascism With Fashion?
From the conformity of the matronly dresses women wore in fascist WWII-era Europe to the pink pussy hats of the present-day resistance, what we wear projects more than we may think.
Will Boycotts Really Turn Trump’s So-Called Midas Touch to Lead?
There's power in citizen sanctions, but they need a strategy to be effective.
Could Neil Gorsuch Make the Supreme Court Move Left?
Trump's ultra-conservative Supreme Court nominee is one of the abortion-rights movement's worst enemies. But his appointment may not be as horrific as we think.
Our Anti-Abortion Nightmares Are Coming At Us, Fast and Furious
On his first full day in the Oval Office, Trump signed a global gag rule. Yesterday the House passed HR 7, making permanent the Hyde Amendment. Is this the end of abortion rights in the U.S.?