Michael Scott assumed many forms over the course of his run on The Office —Michael Scarn, Michael the Magic, Date Mike, Prison Mike, Mykonos and Orville Tottenbacher — to name a few. The character’s chameleonic existence makes him a perfect cypher for pretty much every Democratic presidential candidate. Alex Griswold, …
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Bubba the Love Sponge is a Florida-based shock jock radio DJ best known for filming Hulk Hogan having sex with his wife. Naturally, he’s found his way back into the news now that Donald Trump is in office. As it turns out, Bubba had a longstanding relationship with unofficial presidential …
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WASHINGTON – The family of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer whose unsolved murder in 2016 spawned a wave of conspiracy theories, has notched another legal victory against the proponents of baseless theories about Rich. On Monday, pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi retracted a nearly year-old column published on …
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A pastry chef employed at President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida is a believer in the QAnon conspiracy theory that alleges Trump is secretly purging the government of “deep state” liberals and Hollywood elites who run child sex trafficking rings and the CIA, among other paranoid delusions. Reporter Zach …
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The president may not believe in climate change, but that isn’t stopping Democrats from pressing forward with efforts to pass meaningful legislation to fight the existential threat of our time. On Thursday Axios reported Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) are preparing to unveil a bill for …
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Concerned as its agencies are with finding facts, President Trump has made sure to keep his distance from the United States intelligence community since taking office. Despite their wealth of expertise, he’s been reluctant to consider their security assessments as any more credible than what he happens to hear on …
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Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), played by the brilliant Kate McKinnon, stopped by SNL’s Weekend Update as the show returned from a mid-season break. “I haven’t been this excited since I found out my package from L.L. Bean had shipped,” McKinnon’s Warren told host Colin Jost. McKinnon’s pitch perfect Warren went on …
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A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration cannot ask U.S. residents if they are citizens on the 2020 census, setting the stage for a showdown at the Supreme Court. The suit, brought by a coalition of states, cities and immigrant rights groups, contends that the administration added the …
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In the hours leading up to Trump’s scheduled visit to McAllen, Texas on Thursday, Joacim Hernandez, the 32-year-old president of the Hidalgo County Young Republicans, says that the official Facebook page for the group was flooded with messages. “It was Wednesday and we were like, ‘Oh, man, we don’t really …
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While fielding questions from reporters in the Rose Garden last week, President Trump floated the idea of circumventing Congress and using the military to build his long-promise border wall. “We can call a national emergency because of the security,” he said. “I haven’t done it. I may do it. But …
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