Alex Nichols
The Outline
Massachusetts, United States
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Christmas shall not be saved
Because it never needed to be! → Read More
Don’t talk to me before I put on my custom graphic T-shirt
How expressive T-shirts evolved from activism to incoherence. → Read More
The are 15 months until the election. The race is already dumb as hell.
If you thought the hacks had learned a lesson about campaign coverage from 2016 you will be disappointed. → Read More
Slender Man for Boomers
The offshoots of the QAnon conspiracy theory have gone to even darker places. → Read More
Please... god... anyone but Joe Biden
Biden would be an awful choice for the 2020 Democratic nominee even if he respected women’s personal space. → Read More
Crowdfunding for idiots
The GOP has always fleeced morons and senior citizens. Now they're just more literal about it. → Read More
‘Q’ the end credits for the internet’s lamest conspiracy theory
Unfortunately, the end times are likely not nigh, despite what far-right cranks say online. → Read More
Diamond and Silk run the most obvious con on the right
The Fox News duo stars in ‘Dummycrats,’ a new and terrible documentary. → Read More
Gentle reminder: you are a goddamn adult
‘Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You,’ by Jonny Sun and Lin-Manuel Miranda, panders to its audience in the worst of ways. → Read More
TikTok will never replace Vine, no matter how hard it tries
TikTok... make it stop. → Read More
23andme really wants me to know I'm a Neanderthal
I am more Neanderthal than 96 percent of 23andme customers. What does this mean? → Read More
A brief history of batshit conservative boycotts
Mutilating socks, burning disco records, shooting a newspaper with a gun: all surprisingly ineffective forms of objection. → Read More
The Gray Lady loves these racist, white teens
Diaper-wearing conservative youth group Turning Point USA keeps tricking credulous reporters into taking them seriously. → Read More
Alan Dershowitz should not have had friends to lose
The lawyer and Harvard professor has made a business of defending the deplorable. → Read More
Fuck civility
Go ahead, heckle a Trump official. → Read More
Dennis Miller’s new podcast is an incoherent marvel
The content of ‘The Dennis Miller Option’ exists in a strange purgatory between right-wing provocation and confused-grandpa doddering. → Read More
It’s fine to be mean to racists and ghouls
The smug morality of journalists rarely serves anyone but themselves. → Read More
Stop trusting incels to be honest about their problems
Self-described “incels” are unreliable narrators of their own predicament. → Read More
No Labels is the most useless force in American politics
The aggressively centrist nonprofit is an exercise in bipartisan futility. → Read More
Jerome Corsi’s deranged new book
Infowars editor Jerome Corsi’s new book is a case study in the persistence of misinformation. → Read More