President Donald Trump ran on a campaign of America First, but so far, he has governed on Trump First—particularly when it comes to foreign policy. On no issue is that more apparent than his decision to formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and set in motion plans to eventually move the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv.
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The fire hall in Nickerson, Nebraska, population 350, was packed. The metal chairs set up for the planning- board meeting were all taken. There was no room left in the aisles. Folks had squeezed into the back of the room, and the crowd stretched out the front doors and into the parking lot, where the latecomers were left pacing in the gathering dark, demanding to be let inside. Most Monday nights, the village board is lucky if one or two people show up to voice an opinion on municipal matters. Читать дальше...
It’s been less than three years since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the land, in a stirring, spotlight-grabbing decision handed down by Justice Anthony Kennedy. And yet, during Tuesday’s oral arguments for Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the case in which Colorado baker Jack Phillips refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, Kennedy’s line of questioning seemed to imply that it was the baker, not the couple, who had been discriminated against. Читать дальше...
The tweet was clearly meant to scare me. Jack Posobiec, an alt-right bottom-feeder best known for promoting the Pizzagate and Seth Rich conspiracy theories, issued this ominous warning on November 25:
The Republican tax reform plan that was passed in the dead of night last weekend is not really a tax reform plan. Yes, it brings the corporate tax rate down to 20 percent, but it doesn’t do the one thing genuine tax reform is meant to do: simplify the tax code. Instead, if signed into law, the bill will make America’s already impossible-to-navigate tax code even more byzantine, likely requiring an expansion of the IRS to collect the necessary revenue. Its real innovation is political: The bill functions as a kind of enemies list... Читать дальше...
I’ve never seen somebody smoke inside an ice rink before. But then I’ve also never seen a definitive account of what happened between Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, Jeff Gillooly, and Shawn Eckhardt on January 6, 1994. Both unusual sights came courtesy of I, Tonya, the new biopic of Harding. The smoking was done by Allison Janney as Lavona, Harding’s mom, who beat and humiliated her supposedly in order to extract her best performances. (“She skated better when she was enraged,” we learn.) These details come from testimony by Gillooly... Читать дальше...
The tweet was clearly meant to scare me. Jack Posobiec, an alt-right bottom-feeder best known for promoting the Pizzagate and Seth Rich conspiracy theories, issued this ominous warning on November 25:
