Articles

  • Mar 25, 2024 | nationalmemo.com | Jessica Sutherland

    “Donald Trump mocks Joe Biden’s stutter,” the headlines blare, and I am confronted (again) with (more) proof that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee hates people like me. I don’t remember when they told me I stuttered, but I do remember the banana chips I got as “rewards” in the speech room in my Ohio grade school. I learned tricks that worked well and tricks that didn’t, tricks that I still use to this day, and tricks I’ve long forgotten.

  • Nov 18, 2023 | flipboard.com | Jessica Sutherland

    Race & Ethnicity4 hours agoA Black Deliveryman Was Wrongfully Accused By a Woman of Stealing Her Jewelry, But People Online Are Criticizing His Responseatlantablackstar.com - Taylor Ardrey • 4hA resurfaced video shows a woman accusing a man of stealing items she ordered, but some people online are slamming his response. The video posted by …U.S. Politics13 hours agoA Jan.

  • Nov 17, 2023 | dailykos.com | Jessica Sutherland

    Elon Musk’s bigotry is on full display this week, and as Daily Kos’ Hunter wrote Friday, the billionaire, who bought Twitter last year and renamed it X, is facing some serious consequences. Musk’s vile views aren’t just quarantined to his personal posts, of course. They’re integrated into how he runs his social media platform.

  • Nov 15, 2023 | dailykos.com | Jessica Sutherland

    Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023 Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 12:30:31a GMTEver since Tuesday’s Kidney Punch Heard ‘Round The NPR, Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett has been gunning hard to gather sound bites about former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who he voted to oust last month. ‘Twas these circumstances that led the Sedition Caucus member to Newsmax on Wednesday, where he joined host Rob Finnerty in a murky discussion that strongly implied that Rep.

  • Jul 18, 2023 | dailykos.com | Jessica Sutherland

    Hey. It’s me, Jess. It’s been a minute since I posted a meta story but this is important, so stick with me. About a year ago, maybe more, some bad guys got hold of a list of Daily Kos staffers’ cell numbers. Don’t ask me how, because nobody has figured it out yet. Every so often they spoof numbers from The Powers That Be—the top, top, top folks on the org chart—and attempt to engage.