Finally! A Baby Boomer who deeply understands why millennials are so broke. Robert Reich plainly laid out why millennials have much less money than previous generations. Reich points out that millennials aren’t pesky teenagers anymore and, in fact, they haven’t been for some time. Millennials are now well into their careers and starting homes, but […] More
It’s been a wild week for the Royal household, what with Megxit and all. When Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced that they would “make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within this institution” people sort of…lost it. View this post on Instagram “After many months of reflection […] More
Have you ever tried to add some sugar to your coffee without using a spoon because why get another utensil dirty, you’ll just have to wash it, and OH NO an avalanche of sugar has just fallen into your mug? A TikTok of a girl accidentally dumping the entirety of a sugar container into a […] More
Donald Trump has been banging the drums of war, with the support of his administration, but not with the support of Congress. He made a decision to target and assassinate Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, setting off a series of hostilities between the U.S. and Iran that may lead to another war. This is helpful for […] More
If you’re not deeply immersed in conservative culture, this may be the first time you’ve heard of a group called the Family Research Center, or FRC. The religious right organization is infamous for organizing against LGBTQ rights and other violations against basic human decency. Their president, Tony Perkins, has a show called Washington Watch with […] More
On Wednesday, the American Cancer Society published a report in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians that actually included some good news: people are dying less from cancer. The paper’s abstract reads that the U.S. is currently experiencing, “the largest ever single‐year drop in overall cancer mortality of 2.2%” which took place from 2016 to […] More
It’s no secret that President Trump really enjoys saying things that don’t make much sense to any rational human being. Sometimes that means he’s going off about the army taking over airports in the 1700s, other times he might be claiming daughter Ivanka created 14 million jobs. But now, Trump is somehow taking credit for […] More
Despite tensions running high across all parties and political beliefs over the current strife between the United States and Iran, one Republican is lashing out at Democrat leaders for not being gung-ho about President Trump’s desire to escalate the attacks. Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) went on Fox Business Wednesday night to share a soundbite in […] More
Climate change deniers would have you believe that climate change is completely made up. Unfortunately for them an overwhelming amount of actual scientists have explained why it is indeed very real. And they’ve done so using scientific evidence and actual data about rising temperatures and changing weather patterns rather than the illogical arguments, pseudo-science, and […] More
Trump’s actions in Iran, beginning with the assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani, have caused a rare fracture in the Republican party, with Senators Mike Lee and Rand Paul announcing that they intend to support the “War Powers Resolution” proposed by Tim Kaine. The resolution, like similar ones proposed and adopted in the past, would […] More
Mark Hamill continues to be one of the world’s best celebrities on Twitter after he found and responded to a rather old tweet from a mother asking him, on behalf of her daughter, if he thought Star Wars was for girls as well as for boys. The five-year-old girl had picked out some super cool […] More
In topical trolling news, it’s being reported that Americans are receiving text messages informing them that they are being drafted and will swiftly by deployed to Iran. The hoax is apparently a response to widespread fears of a “World War 3” between the United States and Iran after the U.S.’s recent killing, by missile strike, […] More
