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I started this week knowing I wanted to write about the women’s march, a great protest that, from its flagship in D.C., reached across the world to a crowd of 3.5 million people and counting. I had thought of writing about Christy on Facebook and then refuting every Trumpism dismissing the...
No doubt every other outlet has given you about all you can stomach about Trump for the next four years, from golden showers with the world’s greatest call girls to a Secretary of Education who literally didn’t do her homework before her biggest test. Mulling over cutting social welfare programs while tweeting...
It’s time to get down to business. After over 50 rounds of Congressional blueballs, those rightwing bastards will finally get the chance to explode all over the country. That’s right, people. The final thrusts to repeal Obamacare have begun. And after Wednesday night’s marathon voting session we know what the GOP’s...
Cheap solar? Now that’s the dream. First, a quick round of right-wing Jeopardy. “China and India.” “What is ‘The reasons most often cited for why limiting our fossil fuel consumption is futile,’ Alex ?” It’s like the dreaded “But Hillary is nothing but a liar” battle cry that won an...
This has been one foul year of our lord 2016. A lot of good people died. Even more horrible people accomplished horrible things. Poor folks were poisoned by the water they drank, black people were mowed down like fucking animals, transgender people were given rights by the president which were...
While digging through the dumpster outside of Trump Towers (aka White House North) our hardworking team at Killing the Breeze found this letter crumpled up in a copy of How Washington Actually Works for Dummies that had been sandwiched between what appeared to be two broken halves of a Trump Tower Grill taco...
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away… a cartoon mouse spawned an entertainment empire that took over the world by exciting and thrilling white boys with dreams of being rich heroes while tantalizing white girls with dreams of being beautiful and thin and saved by said handsome...
Arco, Idaho, is the one of the most important American cities you’ve never heard of. The first town on earth ever powered by atomic energy, a neon dream cinema verite propaganda piece aimed at the Soviet Union’s assertion that the only use for atomic energy was pocking the earth. A few...
With the passing of Thanksgiving, we’re officially in the holiday season. The annual American tradition of breaking out the wreaths and menoras, of cutting down Christmas trees and listening to old white crooners on the radio with some Johnny Mathis thrown in for good measure is upon us. For the...
Matt Mead finally signed off on new science standards for K-12 schools in the state he governs. I’ll save you the google; that state would be Wyoming. This may be one of the most environmentally important developments in education in the last year and you have no damn idea that...