By Joanna McClanahan of Ramblin’ Mama Yesterday a group of subway passengers in Manhattan were surprised to see that every window and advertisement had been covered in swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti. As documented in Gregory Locke’s viral facebook post, this group of subway passengers wasn’t willing to stand by […]
By Joanna McClanahan of Ramblin’ Mama On Thursday, real-life troll Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC something that immediately got the internet’s attention: “I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were […]
The Super Bowl is coming up this weekend and you know what that means: kick-ass commercials. I’m not much of a football fan, but I am a fan of alcohol and snacks, so I’ll watch anyway. It’s a nice bonus that the companies who can afford the exorbitant Super Bowl […]
By Joanna McClanahan of Ramblin’ Mama Surrounded by seemingly the only African Americans he knows, Trump kicked off Black History Month with a bizarre speech in which he rambled about everything from Omarosa’s success to a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. (which had been covered very unfairly by the […]
A beautiful photograph of two fathers and their children is going viral on social media, and for good reason. Chicago Tribune Photographer Nuccio DiNuzzo snapped a picture of Fatih Yildirim and Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell (Muslim and Jewish, respectively) protesting last week’s Muslim ban at O’Hare International Airport. The Rabbi said he […]
Trump has fired Sally Yates, the acting Attorney General, after her refusal to support the recent refugee ban. Stating that she “betrayed” the current administration, Trump has ordered Dana Boente, United States attorney to the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as acting Attorney General until Jeff Sessions, Senator from Alabama, […]
By Joanna McClanahan of Ramblin’ Mama This weekend alone, the American Civil Liberties Union received more than $24 million in online donations from 356,306 people, an ACLU spokesman told the Washington Post. That pales in comparison to the donations the ACLU received in the weeks following Trump’s election this past […]
By Shannon Brescher Shea of We’ll Eat You Up, We Love You So Of all of the think pieces I’ve read on dealing with Donald Trump’s presidency, there is one small, furry voice that we haven’t heard from: Elmo. What on earth would innocent Elmo have anything to do with […]