Conservatives

Subpoenas in Georgia's Trump corruption probe won't come until May at best

If we’ve learned anything in the last few years, it’s that when powerful people commit crimes, the odds that our nation’s various legal jurisdictions can be roused to do so much as …

Wed Feb 9, 2022

Clarence Thomas doesn't need his wife's help to be a far-right law-shredding extremist

I am extremely wary of any sort of take that presumes two married people share the same brain and that a career path taken by one must necessarily bar their spouse from following a career of their …

Mon Feb 7, 2022

House Republicans found a voting right they want to protect: Voting while unvaccinated!

It is impossible to come up with any satiric take on Republican lawmaker priorities that would not soon be overtaken by priorities even more ridiculous than what you came up with. Now that the party …

Sat Feb 5, 2022

As political endorsements fly, another reminder that conservatism is just one big grift

It is endorsement season, the most lucrative of all political seasons if you are the sort of political hack who for whatever reasons has stumbled into a position of party influence but are repulsed by …

Fri Feb 4, 2022

Key impeachment witness Alexander Vindman sues Trump allies for intimidation, retaliation

It’s been long overdue: Former Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman has filed a lawsuit against a host of top Donald Trump allies, accusing them of attempting to intimidate him, then retaliating against …

Wed Feb 2, 2022

Chip Roy demands we deport the Canadian leader, who is in Canada, based on a conspiracy post

The collapse of the modern Republican Party can be broken into three Fox News eras. In the first, Fox News executives sought to boost the party by framing news stories with a partisan bent that …

Wed Feb 2, 2022

Trump PAC transferred $1 million to a Mark Meadows nonprofit as House coup probe got underway

NBC News is reporting that, only weeks after the formation of the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol, Donald Trump’s “Save America” …

Tue Feb 1, 2022

Fascism: Trump vows pardons for Jan. 6 seditionists, calls for nationwide protests if indicted

Republican Party leader and traitor to the nation Donald Trump continues to test new rally waters in anticipation of a repeat presidential bid. On Saturday the delusional narcissist made no particular …

Mon Jan 31, 2022

Police training is a wasteland of unregulated 'courses' taught by for-profit extremists

A new Washington Post investigation dives back into the world of for-profit “police training,” and yeesh, it’s not exactly hard to see why some of our nation’s police forces …

Mon Jan 31, 2022

Madison Cawthorn's support for an insurrection could get him kicked off the 2022 ballot

Two weeks ago, we learned that a group of fed-up North Carolina voters had filed a challenge to Madison Cawthorn’s 2022 congressional candidacy with the state’s Board of Elections, citing …

Wed Jan 26, 2022

Ron DeSantis once again bet on a miracle COVID-19 cure that doesn't work—and vows to use it, anyway

Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis has been trying to make a name for himself as a Republican willing to be a Worse Donald Trump, and he hasn’t been missing a single beat lately in trying to …

Tue Jan 25, 2022

It's not just local parents driving book bans. Guess who is really behind the hysteria?

Officials across the country are finally taking action against the consistent violence election workers are subject to. Since the 2020 election, hundreds of Donald Trump supporters have sent out …

Tue Jan 25, 2022

Ted Cruz is trying to discredit the prosecution of violent seditionists. Any guesses why?

Sen. Ted Cruz has been beating pro-seditionist conspiracy theory drums since before the Jan. 6 insurrection ever took place. It’s still a bit novel to see Cruz use his pro-sedition conspiracy …

Wed Jan 19, 2022

Justice Sotomayor is hearing arguments remotely because Neil Gorsuch refuses to wear a mask

NPR’s Nina Totenberg has a long look at whether the Supreme Court justices get along as swimmingly as each of them claims in their off-the-court public appearances (spoiler: no) that has a few …

Tue Jan 18, 2022

Trump surfaces with a new racist hoax—and a new attack on our elections

It has been refreshing, this past year, to not have to listen to the crap-filled ramblings of Republicanism’s treasonous Dear Leader, but Donald Trump has begun to resume his rallies and …

Tue Jan 18, 2022

Fascists aren't funny, and Fox News' Greg Gutfeld is no exception

Right-wing “humor” has always been a bit of an oxymoron. Some have attributed the phenomenal success of talk radio hosts such as the late Rush Limbaugh to the fact that they were “funny,” but …

Sun Jan 16, 2022

'Candlelight vigils' for those who attacked Congress show Republicanism extremism is still growing

While national Republicans and Fox News attempt to brush off the anniversary of an attempted coup that lead to deaths inside the U.S. Capitol, local Republican groups are refusing to go along with …

Thu Jan 6, 2022

News editors now recognize the danger in Republican anti-democracy moves—but still refuse to act

As we close in on the anniversary of a coup that has not yet failed, even top voices in the nation’s political press are beginning to express exasperation with the political press. For an entire …

Tue Jan 4, 2022

Fox News is killing its own viewers—and the Murdoch family is fine with that

As Fox News continues to degrade from propaganda to fascist propaganda to fascist burn-everything-down nihilism, the unfortunate souls at Media Matters for America are tasked with watching much of …

Thu Dec 30, 2021

Ted Cruz confused Western Australia with Western Washington and Twitter lost it

It’s a pretty simple concept: “What goes on the internet stays on the internet.” Yet Republicans just can’t seem to get that through their heads. In another failed Republican attempt to blast …

Thu Dec 30, 2021