Katie Halper
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Poll Workers Contracted COVID-19 at Primaries Deemed Safe by DNC, Biden Campaign
At least two poll workers at locations described as safe by Tom Perez and the Biden campaign have contracted COVID-19. → Read More
MSNBC’s Anti-Sanders Bias Makes It Forget How to Do Math
MSNBC has repeatedly made mistakes about Sanders' polling and other numbers—always to his detriment, and never with any official correction. → Read More
Why Won't New York Times Disclose Corporate Ties of Sanders Critics?
New York Times reporter Sydney Ember has a problem with Bernie Sanders. → Read More
Sidney Ember’s Secret Sources
Ember’s articles on Sanders often quote as neutral authorities individuals who are on the other side of a wide ideological divide. → Read More
Tips for a Post-Mueller Media from Nine Russiagate Skeptics
Russiagate skeptics share what they saw as the worst moments or biggest failings during the 22-month spree, and their tips for moving forward. → Read More
Journalists Matt Taibbi and Aaron Maté explain how the Russiagate narrative helped Trump
The claim that President Trump engaged in collusion with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election was so pervasive and unquestioned that only a handful of journalists demonstrated the healthy skepticism required by their profession. Last week, special counsel Robert Mueller delivered his report → Read More
Debate Over Labeling Omar Obscures Vital Debate on Israel/Palestine
The reaction to Ilhan Omar's comments proved her point: Questioning US allegiance to Israel will be labeled antisemitism. → Read More
How Come So Many Bernie Bros Are Women and People of Color?
Despite data to the contrary, the media continues to distort Sanders' politics and the diversity of his supporters.. A recent CNN poll shows that among potential Democratic candidates in Iowa caucuses Senator Bernie Sanders has the highest approval rating from people of color. → Read More
These five horrifying Christopher Columbus quotes will show you how to celebrate the holiday the right way
Happy Columbus Day! I hope you’re celebrating the holiday appropriately, by breaking into someone’s home and claiming that you discovered and now own it! Or you could just, you know, mourn the genocide of indigenous people by shopping. Because we all grieve in different ways. You’ve probably heard lots of great things about Christopher Columbus and tons of inspiring quotes from him about hard… → Read More
The DNC Chair Race was Decided by an Islamophobic Smear Campaign, and Rigged by Obama
The winning side cares more about their egos, saviors, and pet issues than they do about defeating Trumpism. → Read More
Richard Spencer IS Corky St. Clair: A Video Mash-Up
The similarities here are staggering. → Read More
Selective Feminism and the Myth of the Bernie Bro: The Backlash to Sanders and the Women's Convention
The latest, most glaring example of the double standard applied to abuse and harassment on the left. → Read More
Five scary Christopher Columbus quotes that let you celebrate the holiday the right way
Happy Columbus Day! I hope you’re celebrating the holiday appropriately, by breaking into someone’s home and claiming that you discovered and now own it! Or you could just, you know, mourn the genocide of indigenous people by shopping. Because we all grieve in different ways. You’ve probably heard lots of great things about Christopher Columbus and tons of inspiring quotes from him about hard… → Read More
The Kamala Harris Controversy Reveals the Erasure of Leftist Women by Pseudo-Woke Liberals
Using the language of social justice, these liberals punch left at the at the very programs and policies that empower the people they claim to champion. → Read More
An Editor at Ms. Magazine Rejoices That Someday Bernie Sanders Will Die
Let’s do a thought experiment, shall we? Imagine that an editor of a left-wing magazine—let’s say The Nation or Jacobin—who’d been supportive of Bernie Sanders during the primary, tweeted the following: “Rejoice, for one day Hillary Clinton will retire or die.” Or how about this? “Gonna build a monument to all the Sanders voters who were right and erect it on top of Hillary Clinton’s grave” What… → Read More
A Millennial Feminist Explains the New Feminism to a Boomer Feminist Philosopher
Yikes. → Read More
An Actual Doctor Debunks 7 Myths About Single Payer Healthcare
This would be easier than you'd think. → Read More
11 things corporate media won’t tell you about Timothy Caughman — the unarmed Black man stabbed to death by a white supremacist
Timothy Caughman was killed for being Black. He was 66. A canner, who supported himself through redeeming bottles and cans, Caughman was doing his job– sorting through the recycling– when a 28 year old army veteran James Harris Jackson pulled out a 26-inch mini-sword and repeatedly stabbed Caughman in the chest and back Monday night in Manhattan’s Hell’s kitchen neighborhood. Caughman died at a… → Read More
Katie Halper
Born and raised on the mean streets of New York City’s Upper West Side, Katie Halper is a comic, writer, blogger, satirist and filmmaker based in New York. Katie graduated from The Dalton School (where she teaches history) and Wesleyan University (where she learned that labels are for jars.) She is a director of Living Liberally and co-founder/performer in Laughing Liberally. → Read More
The 11 most anti-capitalist quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. To be fair, I guess I should wish “Sorry it’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day” to the people who don’t believe it should be a holiday and the politicians who voted against making it one. I’m talking to you, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY),… → Read More