Jack Crosbie
New Statesman
New York, United States
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Is Joe Manchin the most dangerous man in America?
Democrats are sacrificing the climate for the sake of one person’s vote. → Read More
Insider Really Isn't Sending Its Best
A lesson in how not to communicate with your staff. → Read More
PHOTOS: Protests erupted in New York City as police clashed with demonstrators over the killing of George Floyd
Photos from Friday's protest in Brooklyn show police clashing with protesters. Similar events erupted across America over the killing of George Floyd. → Read More
It's time to admit 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' is a dumb, boring game for children
'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' has become a runaway hit, but between the clunky user interface and boring characters, it's no fun. → Read More
The Progressive Press is Facing Mass Extinction
Deadspin, Splinter, and ThinkProgress are gone. The mainstream media is hopelessly neutral. Who’s left to check capitalism? → Read More
How High Are the Stakes Tonight for Each Democratic Candidate?
The third Democratic primary debate, live tonight on ABC News and Univision, will be the first time all of the major candidates have been together on one stage, and also Beto O’Rourke made it in. Many, many pundits are asking: How high are the stakes tonight? Oh ho ho boy let me tell you. They are HIGH. Astronomically high. → Read More
Trump's New 2020 Logo Sure Looks Like It Was Ripped Off From the White Nationalist Web
The Trump campaign has a long history of taking shit off the internet and just rolling with it, especially if it’s racist or otherwise abhorrent. Remember the “sheriff’s star?” It should not surprise you, then, to learn that Trump/Pence 2020 campaign’s newest adopted logo is extremely popular with white nationalists! What a coincidence! → Read More
I'm A Single Issue Voter: No More Khakis
Fashion is subjective. We all have our own particular tastes and preferences. People should, as a rule, be free to wear whatever they want to and express themselves through clothing however they choose. However. BUT. There are exceptions to every rule. My exception: no khakis, especially on presidential candidates. → Read More
The Only Acceptable Pets Are Cats and Dogs
The human race fulfills an evolutionary niche unlike any other creature in the observed universe. We sit at the top of every conceivable food chain and all other organisms are beneath us. Over the years human beings have domesticated hundreds of other species, often selectively breeding them to better suit our needs and provide us with food, materials and companionship. → Read More
BuzzFeed Bosses Flat-Out Stood Up Their Union Today
Where in the world is BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti? → Read More
FDA Suspends All Routine Food Inspections During the Shutdown, Which Seems Fine
The government shutdown has already wreaked havoc on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, threatened to disrupt essential federal programs, and filled the national parks with garbage. And now our food might be bad too, who knows? → Read More
5 House Democrats Join Paul Ryan to Vote for More Yemeni Blood on Their Hands
For the rest of 2018 and into 2019, America will continue to support Saudi Arabia’s devastating war on Yemen, thanks to a heartless move by Speaker Paul Ryan and a gutless decision by five Democrats to side with Republicans in a key vote. → Read More
Charles Koch Institute fellowship funds journalists
Charles and David Koch do not like the media. For years, the brothers running one of the largest corporate conglomerates in the world fought back against negative stories with press releases, private investigators, and dedicated “fact checking” sites, pushing their version of the truth against the headlines made by dogged investigative reporters like Jane Mayer […] → Read More
Mississippi Senate Runoff Ends In the Most Predictable, Disappointing Way
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Republican who took over Thad Cochran’s seat earlier this year, defeated Democratic challenger Mike Espy in a runoff election on Tuesday night. → Read More
Here's A Roundup Of News People Tried to Bury Over Thanksgiving
If you’ve done something wrong or bad or otherwise shady, the week of Thanksgiving is a great time to announce it. Every year in America, people try to do this—make sure negative or bad stories about a company or person or just the world in general break on Thanksgiving or the day after Thanksgiving. The logic, I guess, is that there’s just enough journalists working to report the stories, but… → Read More
Judge Rules That Paul Manafort Can't Wear a Suit in Future Trial Hearings
Paul Manafort, who was found guilty of eight felonies back in August, filed a motion to the Virginia court he will appear in later this week to be able to wear a suit to the hearing, as opposed to the prison jumpsuit he has been spending time in in the interim. This is not something that most convicted criminals are allowed to do, and Virginia Judge T.S. Ellis was having none of it. → Read More
Tucker Carlson Is Tired of People Yelling "Fuck You" At Him in Restaurants
Direct action is one of the most effective forms of protest, and in the case of Tucker Carlson, it certainly appears to be working. → Read More
The DHS Lets Five-year-old Children Sign Away Their Rights at the Border
Today, the New Yorker published an absolute gut-punch of a story describing how Helen, a 5-year-old child from Honduras, was taken from her family and convinced to sign away her rights to an important judicial hearing, then swept into a complicated bureaucratic system that nearly lost her entirely. → Read More
Brett Kavanaugh Is Already Arguing for Harsh Immigration Laws on the Supreme Court
Brett Kavanaugh obviously hasn’t heard of playing it cool during your first week at a new job—during oral arguments on Wednesday, the newest member of the Supreme Court established himself as the strictest person in the room, defending a 1996 federal law that requires the government to detain any immigrants who had committed crimes, no matter how minor or how long ago their infraction was. → Read More
The Wall Street Journal Is Mad That Gritty Is Antifa Now
The Wall Street Journal, that bastion of capitalist America, set its sights on the latest symbol in the culture wars on Sunday: Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers’ new mascot. → Read More