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Thank You ‘Fewer Toys’ Trump, You’re a Bigger Grinch than Me

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No Bar Is Too Low For Trump’s Billionaires to Bend Under

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The Defense Our Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Deserves

24.04.2025 20

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Why It Matters That Harvard Said No

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Why Wait Till 2028? We Need an Election Do-Over—Right Now

09.04.2025 30

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It’s Liberation Day! Let’s Party Down

03.04.2025 30

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Why I Don’t Have Enough F-Words for Deez Nutz Hegseth’s F-Up

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Forget JFK. This is Why Trump Needs to Open the UFO Secrets

20.03.2025 4

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What to Make of Trump’s Fever Dream Joint Session Speech?

06.03.2025 10

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Trump Wants to Tear Up the Constitution. We Should Let Him

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Everything Is Madness. Or Have We All Gone Mad?

20.02.2025 20

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Why Trump Is Already Headed For His Napoleon Moment

06.02.2025 50

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This One Trump Move Proves He’s Just a Petulant Man-Child

30.01.2025 40

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What I Learned From Enduring Pete Hegseth’s Senate Circus

15.01.2025 50

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It’s Time to Pull the Plug on Facebook

09.01.2025 90

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Welcome to 2025. Anyone Else Got the Same Sense of Dread?

03.01.2025 20

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Donald Trump’s Nonsensical War on America’s Borders

25.12.2024 20

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The ‘Never Trump’ Movement Is Dead. Long Live ‘Never Trump’

21.12.2024 9

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The Question All Trump Voters Will Have to Answer

This one goes out to all my Trump homies. To the MAGA voter, the Trump supporter, the fascist-curious, the Red Stater, the Fox News viewer, the...

21.11.2024 100

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I’m Still Devastated Trump Won—and What It Means for America

Trump and his pet Elon (or is it Elon and his pet Trump?) have made their way to Washington DC this morning for a series of scowly meetings with...

14.11.2024 4

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Opinion: Beyond Kamala or Trump, This Is the One Thing We Should All Vote For

We’re almost there, folks. The presidential election is nearly upon us, and not a second too soon. We are a people on edge because, while the...

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Opinion: Let’s Celebrate Everything Donald Trump Has Given America

I come today to praise Donald Trump, not bury him. With less than a month to go before Election Day, and with an oversized mug of tea at my side, I...

09.10.2024 2

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Opinion: JD Vance’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Makeover Turns Him Into Trump’s Slave

Who the hell debated Tim Walz last night? I understand he was introduced as “Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance,” and I saw, on the stage, the...

02.10.2024 20

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Opinion: Let Trump’s Latest Vile Racist Lie Destroy His Presidential Dreams

We’re now several weeks into the sprawling, fake story about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH. I don’t want to get into the specificity of the...

25.09.2024 2

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Opinion: Michael Ian Black: Make America Sane Again—Cut Election Races to Two Months

Well, we’ve reached another electoral milestone. After two years of campaigning, fewer than 50 days now remain until Americans go to the voting...

18.09.2024 10

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Opinion: My Debate Night Mission: to Find the Good in Donald Trump

“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats.” With that absurd and racist lie, Donald Trump lost Tuesday night’s presidential debate. To be...

12.09.2024 40

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Opinion: Kamala Harris Is Right. Unions Are Vital—Mine Saved My Family

My wife, Martha, received a breast cancer diagnosis in 2020. I haven’t publicly discussed her cancer before, and I’m not going to do so now,...

04.09.2024 10

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Opinion: Just How Bonkers Will the Harris-Trump Debate Actually Be?

Now that the political parties have held their conventions, the next big date on the election calendar is Sept. 10, the only scheduled debate...

28.08.2024 30

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Michael Ian Black: Donald Trump, a Comedian? Don’t Make Me Laugh

Last January, I got into a fight with Andrew Dice Clay at a stand-up comedy club in Naples, Florida. The details of the altercation are unimportant...

14.08.2024 20

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Opinion: America, Get Ready for a Tim Walz Dose of ‘Minnesota Nice’

Have you ever gone ice fishing in Minnesota? I have, and it sucks. Head out to one of the state’s 10,000 or so lakes during the dead of winter and...

06.08.2024 1

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