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A journalist finally uncovers the root of Trump supporters' anger

Benjamin Hart journeys to the forgotten post-industrial town of Bleaksville, Kentucky and digs deep to find the answer to the question no other journalist (apart from the roughly 7,200 who wrote...

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Hugely successful Facebook fake news author considers himself a "satirist"

Paul Horner says he made more than $10,000 month writing fake news on Facebook that was widely shared by Trump supporters and picked up by the real press -- for example, hoax stories about protesters...

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A database of professors who've traumatized the right's pampered little...

Since last spring, the "Professor Watchlist" has allowed right-wing students at American universities to anonymously blacklist the professors "who discriminate against conservative students, promote...

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Fiverr's new recruiting ad promises to literally work you to death

It's not a parody, apparently: "You eat a coffee for lunch. You follow through on your follow through. Sleep deprivation is your drug of choice. You might be a doer. In doers we trust." As Nick...

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Decoding trumpism: "Who are you going to believe: me, or your lying ears?"

More satire that is indistinguishable from reality: Paul Bibeau, writing as Trump, says, "Making a phony Donald Trump say or do things that might embarrass our movement and stop us from making America...

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Trump's nuclear holocaust is "way bigger than the old Holocaust"

In McSweeney's, Dan Cluchey plumbs the depths of Poe's law with an indistinguishable-from-satire article analyzing the "winners and losers of the recent nuclear holocaust." On the plus side, the...

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Trumplings triggered by NPR's July 4 tweets of the Declaration of Independence

NPR celebrated July 4 by tweeting the Declaration of Independence, one line at a time: when they got to "A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be...

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Uber admits it breached 57,000,000 accounts, then bribed the hackers to cover...

Uber's Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan and his top aide have both been forced out of the company in an act of penance for the revelation that the company suffered a breach in October 2016 in which...

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Twitter complies with Germany's new hate-speech laws by cutting off the...

When a German neo-Nazi politician tweeted that German police were trying to "to appease the barbaric, Muslim, rapist hordes of men," her account was briefly suspended -- but when the satirical...

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Gentleman who thinks Confederates were the good guys in the Civil War gets...

In this clip from Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, Florida gun store owner and George Zimmerman pal Andy Hallinan explains that the Civil War was not about slavery. He is then asked what it...

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Trailer for "A24" thriller Rough Pants

I have no idea what sort of asshole this horror flick is making fun of, but I haven't got time to figure it out. I have to restarch my Iron Heart x The Flat Head collab 32 oz selvedge overalls,...

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MAGA parody account is so good that many people think its the real deal

MAGA cultists' idolatry of their god emperor is so over the top that it's hard to tell when someone is parodying them. Take Gary Peterson, for example. His Twitter bio looks a lot like a typical Trump...

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"The best in redpilled music" involves "truly cursed" amount of autotune and...

We recently brought you news of the new MAGA anthem that producer Jimmy Levy has dubbed "the MAGA We Are The World." The song, "Freedom," is an autotune nightmare that features musical geniuses such as...

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