Pandering to the low-information voters who comprise his evangelical base, Donald Trump, in 2018, established something called the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative, which was charged, among other things, with defending the religious liberty of America’s Christian majority. Not satisfied to let the stupidity end there, though, Donald Trump, this past Halloween, appointed his […]
Tag Archives: abortion
Donald Trump’s personal pastor, Paula White, unites a divided nation with her call for “all satanic pregnancies to miscarry”
Alabama shows us the Republican endgame for women’s health policy
Republicans, in an attempt to see Roe v. Wade rolled back, have been aggressively working within state legislatures to pass restrictive anti-abortion laws that they know will be challenged in the courts, with the hope being that one of these cases might make its way all the way up to the Supreme Court, where the […]
They execute babies, don’t they?
Yesterday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, after referring to leaders of the FBI and DOJ as “scum” and “dirty cops”, Donald Trump went on to reiterate the dangerous falsehood that, after women give birth in the United States, they have the option of killing the child. “(Babies are) wrapped in a blanket,” Donald Trump told the […]
The Untold History of Zines… Sean Tejaratchi on Crap Hound
When I first started my “History of Zines” oral history project back in 2013, one of the first people I reached out to was Sean Tejaratchi, the man behind the incredibly ambitious clip art zine Crap Hound. [As someone with OCD, the obsessiveness of Crap Hound really resonated with me, and I wanted to find […]
Trump breaks campaign promise, proposes federal budget that would cut Medicare by $845 billion and Medicaid by $241 billion
During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that, if elected president, he would cut neither Medicare nor Medicaid. [See video below.] Today, however, his administration proposed a federal budget that would cut Medicare by $845 billion, and Medicaid by $241 billion, while giving the Pentagon more than requested, and allocating $8.6 billion for the […]