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Bess Levin

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Mountain View, CA, United States

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Past articles by Bess:

Lauren Boebert Pulled a “Do You Know Who I Am” After Being Escorted Out of the Beetlejuice Musical for “Causing a Disturbance”

This sounds…pretty entirely in character. → Read More

Donald Trump Gets a Sympathetic Shout-Out From His Favorite War Criminal: Vladimir Putin

According to the Russian president, Trump being held accountable for his many alleged crimes shows “the rottenness of the American political system.” → Read More

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz Have an Embarrassing Fight Over Whose Idea It Was to Impeach Joe Biden

It’s very important to get credit for an impeachment inquiry that at least one Republican has publicly admitted there is no evidence for. → Read More

Trump’s Criminal Defense Strategy: Delay, Disrupt, Throw S--t Against the Wall and Hope Something Sticks

On Monday alone he tried to get almost all of the Georgia charges against him thrown out. → Read More

Donald Trump Is Extremely Touchy About Voters Saying He Is Not “Mentally Up for the Job” of Being President

He insists he would beat Rupert Murdoch, Joe Biden, and the heads of the Wall Street Journal at a mental “acuity test.” → Read More

Donald Trump Wants to Give His Favorite Corporations Another Giant Tax Cut in a Second Term: Report

You know who needs another lifeline in these trying times? The überwealthy. → Read More

That Sound You Hear Is Donald Trump Popping a Blood Vessel Over Mike Pence’s Jan. 6 Grand Jury Testimony

Hide the ketchup bottles: the special counsel criminally investigating Trump apparently took a particularly keen interest in Pence’s testimony. → Read More

Report: Fox News Fired Tucker Carlson After Discovering He Wasn’t Just Playing a Racist on TV (Among Other Things)

A private text message that higher-ups were only made aware of last month “set off a panic” at the company. → Read More

Tucker Carlson Once Again Forces People to Contemplate Him Having Sex

Newly leaked footage shows the fired Fox News host saying he’d like to get into the finer details of copulating during an interview. → Read More

Texas’s Solution to School Shootings: Training 8-Year-Olds in “Battlefield Trauma Care”

This is what it’s come to. → Read More

Trump’s Rape Trial Does Not Appear to Be Going as Well as His Lawyer Had Hoped

The ex-president’s request for a mistrial—on the claim the judge “openly expresses favoritism” toward E. Jean Carroll—was swiftly denied. And things weren’t going much better before that either. → Read More

Donald Trump Once Again Claims He’s Been Treated Worse Than a President Who Was Very Famously Assassinated

Maybe he’ll compare his plight to JFK’s next. → Read More

Ron DeSantis Backers Urge Him to Jump Into 2024 Race ASAP, as Pudding Boy’s Poll Numbers Bite the Dust

“He’s starting to look like a Scott Walker in 2015, Newt Gingrich in 2012 and Fred Thompson in 2008.” → Read More

Eric Trump Deletes Tweets About His Dad’s Rape Trial After Judge Warns There Could Be Legal Consequences

The judge had warned Donald Trump about his own social media attacks on accuser E. Jean Carroll earlier in the day. → Read More

Disney Sues Ron DeSantis for Being a Colossal Asshole

The company has alleged a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” as retribution for speaking out against the Florida governor’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. → Read More

Report: Donald Trump Will Celebrate Melania’s Birthday Today “If His Schedule Allows”

Right now he’s busy disparaging his rape accuser online—and being reprimanded by the judge in the case. → Read More

Joe Biden Kicks Off Second Bid for Office as Donald Trump Goes on Trial for Rape

Let’s compare and contrast the likely 2024 opponents. → Read More

Donald Trump Laments Not Having Tucker Carlson On the Air to Kiss His Ass

And whitewash his insurrections too! → Read More

Report: Trump’s Book of Letters From When People Didn’t Despise Him Includes One From King Charles

Not surprisingly, the monarch did not give permission to include it. → Read More

Report: Team Trump’s Attempt to Overturn the Election in Georgia Even More Comically Corrupt Than Previously Thought

There is truly no bottom for these people. → Read More