Donald Trump has been happily taking credit for the rising stock market over the past few months, but it will be interesting to see how he spins the latest turn of events on Wall Street. Mere hours after Jerome H. Powell was sworn in as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve on Monday, the stock […] More
Another day, another instance of trollish British journalist Piers Morgan inadvertently humiliating himself on Twitter. Recently, BBCTwo’s The Mash Report took Morgan to task for going soft on Trump during a recent interview. The show even created an original illustration of Morgan eagerly eating Trump’s ass (in case the original point wasn’t quite clear enough). Most of […] More
Most Twitter users know that you should never come for Wendy’s on social media — they’re like the Chrissy Teigen of fast food brands, and they won’t hesitate to put you on blast. Last year, one foolhardy McDonald’s stan learned this lesson the hard way. And let’s not forget about the time that one […] More
In the world of GOP political commentators, the idea of what it means to exhibit “professionalism” has become decidedly blurred. While name-calling was once considered to be regressive, it has become somewhat de rigueur for the modern Republican party. Along with the rest of the nation, Fox contributor Tomi Lahren watched the State of the […] More
You know Kim Kardashian, right? Ever heard of her? Does the name ring a bell? Well, your girl Kim has been pretty active on social media as of late, and you’ll be shocked to know that she has A.) posted nudes yet again, and B.) been accused of cultural appropriation in the process. What’s that? […] More
You may know Fox News talking head Tomi Lahren as the “free speech advocate” who hates “snowflakes” but fills her diaper whenever a black football player peacefully exercises his right to free speech Food for thought. pic.twitter.com/2ita0blH0O — Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) November 23, 2017 While both you and Kaepernick were jobless…he donated a million dollars […] More
Alt-right mouthpiece and Trump supporter Jack Posobiec has a pretty lengthy list of “accomplishments”: he once made a push to discredit Trump protestors by planting a “Rape Melania” sign in the crowd, he actively promoted the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, he said that Trump should disavow the “Black Lives Matter movement”, he has praised neo-nazi Richard […] More
Riding the subway during rush hour is like knowingly stepping into a sardine can full of people who aren’t wearing deodorant and have zero qualms about breathing their morning breath on you, all the while jostling you with their oversized backpacks. It’s one of the many glamorous aspects of living in a metropolitan area. That […] More
Most stock photos are awkward, stilted and wholly unremarkable. They’re simply visual representations of bland people doing bland things together, like embracing over their shared love of Activia, or walking along an empty beach, or laughing soullessly as they drift along in a rowboat. We shouldn’t examine them under a microscope, because, in truth, there […] More
Sexism is deeply ingrained in American culture, and it doesn’t take much digging to verify its presence in popular media, entertainment, and, perhaps the most pervasive, its presence in advertising. A few casual viewings of Mad Men episodes is enough to clue you in on the extremely gendered world behind some of the most popular […] More
Unless you’ve been hiding from the internet, you’re probably pretty well acquainted with the standard Media Outrage Cycle: outrageous thing happens, people get mad, thinkpieces get written, backlash starts, more thinkpieces get written, then occasionally there’s backlash to the backlash before another outrageous thing distracts us, rinse, repeat. In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein […] More
Katie Way, a 22-year-old reporter at Babe.net, garnered widespread media attention earlier this week for her piece about an anonymous woman’s traumatizing sexual encounter with comedian Aziz Ansari. In the article, the woman (dubbed “Grace” to protect her identity) describes her date with Ansari in painstaking detail to Way, recounting how he pressured her into […] More
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