Donald Trump’s fixation on anything that boosts his ego and the reputation he’d like to believe he has is well-known, particularly when it comes to the issue of crowd sizes. From literally the first day of his presidency, Trump’s attitude toward the bland reporting of crowd numbers has been of the “Who are you going […]

Following the latest allegations of sexual harassment against Minnesota Sen. Al Franken, over 20 Democratic Senators — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mazie Hirono, Kamala Harris, Patty Murray, Maggie Hassan, and Claire McCaskill — have called on him to step aside. But notably, their chorus was joined by one man who had decidedly no business pointing […]

The Republican Party has never shied away from loudly airing its repugnant views on low-income and middle-class Americans. But in the fight over the GOP’s tax scam bill, the party has truly managed to outdo itself. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch insisted that the government couldn’t possibly spare any money to help children with cancer because Republicans […]

The New York Times came under fire this weekend for publishing a profile of Tony Hovater, a white nationalist to whom the paper un-ironically referred as “the Nazi sympathizer next door.” The backlash to the puff piece was so sharp that the Times followed up with a response piece attempting to explain why it published an article […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell managed to unearth their consciences long enough to offer repudiations of Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore. But neither of the two ostensible party leaders have seen fit to deliver similar denouncement regarding Donald Trump, whose long history of sexual harassment and predation is not […]

Expressing alarm and outrage at the sight of a political journalist being thrown to the ground and dogpiled by six police officers while trying to cover a campaign, journalists and press advocates are denouncing the arrest of Shareblue Media reporter Mike Stark. On Tuesday, Shareblue Media posted a video of the violent police action where […]

On Saturday, Shareblue Media reporter Mike Stark was violently tackled by six police officers, forced to the ground, and arrested while filming Virginia GOP gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie’s vehicle at the annual Annandale parade. Stark was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, although video footage makes clear he did neither of those things. The officers claim […]

The Republican Party has somehow found a new low in its efforts to cover up the investigations into Donald Trump and collusion with Russia. Congressional Republicans, with the approval of House Speaker Paul Ryan, have launched not one but two investigations into old, debunked conservative conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton. Yes, Hillary Clinton. Trump has […]

As the horrific extent of Harvey Weinstein’s abuse of women — and the culture of powerful Hollywood men who knew of his depravity and laughed it off — continues to trickle out, the corporate media and Republicans are bizarrely keen on shifting the blame toward any woman who happened to run in Weinstein’s social or […]