Robyn Pennacchia

6 days ago | wonkette.com | Robyn Pennacchia

As if Donald Trump’s comments suggesting that “beautiful baby girls” could just have three dolls “instead of 30” were not awkward enough, Vice President JD Vance has expounded upon that idea by suggesting that parents should think about how much better they’d like it if they knew that when they sent their children off to fight in foreign wars, that they were fighting with “good, American-made weapons.” “We do need to become more self-reliant, and that’s not going to happen overnight, and it’s...

6 days ago | wonkette.com | Robyn Pennacchia

On Wednesday, Trump withdrew his surgeon general nomination for Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, allegedly on the advice of one Laura Loomer, who was displeased with the former Fox News contributor’s history of supporting the COVID vaccine and vaccines in general. Her replacement?

1 week ago | wonkette.com | Robyn Pennacchia

Earlier this week, the new and whatever-the-opposite-of-improved-is Washington Post ran a column from congressional reporter Paul Kane about how, three years post-Dobbs, abortion has supposedly “faded” as a major issue for Democrats — though the crux of his argument was largely that they are also talking about other issues, like the horrors that Donald Trump and Elon Musk have wrought upon our country, in addition to abortion. It was … a take, I guess.

1 week ago | wonkette.com | Robyn Pennacchia

For the past week or so, anti-abortion lunatics have been positively drooling over a new “study” they claim proves that the abortion medication Mifeprex is terribly unsafe and leads to “serious adverse events” in over 10 percent of cases. It’s like a dream come true for them, really. It’s also been a dream come true for Senator Josh Hawley, who introduced legislation on Tuesday titled the Restoring Safeguards for Dangerous Abortion Drugs Act.

1 week ago | wonkette.com | Robyn Pennacchia

One of the things really working against the theory that Elon Musk is a brilliant businessman and genius remains the fact that he, as the owner of an electric car company, thought it would be a great idea to do everything humanly possible to get the kind of people who generally buy electric cars to hate and despise him, while cozying up to people who think EVs are insufficiently macho.