Kamala Harris may well be the next president of the United States, simply because she is not ten million years old. You can trust her to safely operate a motor vehicle — and her campaign to run a livestream. But her team recently crossed @dril, the legendary online comedian, by …
Read More »'The Vibes Are Ahead of the Polls': Dems Are Partying Amid Close 2024 Race
CHICAGO — You could hear the bass from the warehouse at the end of a deserted street from blocks away. Inside, influencers hoisting “Hotties for Harris”-branded coconuts and “Walz on the Beach” cocktails were twerking to a remix of Tinashe’s Nasty Girl on the dance floor, while their friends posed …
Read More »Dems Gave the 'Uncommitted Movement' Space to Talk About Gaza — Just Not on TV
CHICAGO —On the first day of the Democratic National Convention, several thousand protesters gathered in Union Park, their numbers growing through the day until they began their march to a park near the United Center —the aggressively-fortified basketball arena where President Joe Biden was set to speak on Monday night …
Read More »Primarily Peaceful Protests Mark Opening of Democratic National Convention
CHICAGO — The first major protest during the Democratic National Convention on Monday was primarily a peaceful one as more than 200 coalitions, according to organizers, gathered at Union Park, blocks away from the United Center where major events for the DNC are taking place this week. The goal, according …
Read More »Trump Is Worried About the TV Ratings for Harris' DNC Speech
Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign is only a month old, and her large rallies have already provoked the flailing anger of her opponent: the crowd-size-obsessed Donald Trump. But as the 2024 Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago this week, Trump has moved on to obsessing over the size of something …
Read More »'We Refuse to Be Second-Class Citizens': Why America Needs to Ratify the ERA Now
In America, it can take a person a while to learn that she is a second-class citizen. As members of Gen Z, we learned what the word “pussy” meant when we heard it from the mouth of the man our country was about to elect president. We realized the extent …
Read More »Trump's RNC Is Backing Georgia Republicans' Voter Purge in Court
The Republican National Committee has moved to intervene in a new federal lawsuit that alleges county election boards throughout Georgia have illegally removed roughly 1,000 voters from voter registration rolls at the behest of election denial activists, Rolling Stone and American Doom have learned. Many of the voters removed from …
Read More »Democrats in Chicago Are Ready for 'the Fight of Our F*cking Lives'
CHICAGO — On Monday, Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party kicked off Day 1 of her nominating convention in Illinois, with just over two months left to go before the country is supposed to find out whether she or former President Donald Trump will be the next leader of the …
Read More »How 'Scandal' and 'Watchmen' Prepared Us for Kamala Harris' Candidacy
Remember what political and cultural discourse was like before everything revolved around figuring out how a cruel dilettante from Queens managed to become president of the United States? I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately with the rise of the presidential campaign of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Finally, …
Read More »Mark Robinson, Who Often Calls Abortion Murder: 'We Had an Abortion'
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) called mass killings in America karma for the “murder of infants” — and “chickens coming home to roost.” He compared supporters of reproductive rights to people who fought to preserve slavery. Robinson noted that he’s been advised, as a candidate for office, “not …
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