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I’m a Bernie Bro. Here’s Why I’m Voting for Biden.
If your doctor told you that you had an awful disease, and you had two choices to treat it, which would you pick? 1) Take medication right now to lessen the pain and stop the […]
Articles by Laura Halferty
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Dear Fellow Gen Xers: What In The Actual F*ck?
Someone has to say it: Gen Xers are douchebags. We are stupid and contagious. Well, not all of us, obviously. When I see a truck with an AR-15 sticker, a Gadsden flag sticker, a Three […]
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Let’s Get Mike Gravel to the DNC Debates
Like most of you, I didn’t know much about former Alaska senator Mike Gravel until his Tweets started popping up in my feed. The Tweets, many of which call out centrist Dems, were smart, sharp, […]
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The Shameful Legacy of Trump’s Irish American GOP
Brady, Byrne, Cassidy, Cornyn, Collins, Duffy, Dunn, Ferguson, Fitzpatrick, Gallagher, Joyce, Kelly, Kennedy, Long, McCarthy, McCaul, McClintock, McHenry, McConnell, Mooney, Moran, Mullin, Ryan, Rooney, Sullivan, and Toomey. Sounds like a map of Irish surnames, right? […]
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Never-Bernie Boomers are the New Deplorables
Last week, I unfriended a Democrat on FB because he went on an irrational rant about Bernie, calling him “an egomaniacal old buzzard,” accusing him of being a weak thinker and a fake progressive, […]
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Dear Trump Republicans, You Are Disposable
It’s two days before the midterms, and I’m looking out my office window at the wind blowing the trees in the cold November rain. I should be making one final pitch about voting Democrat down the […]
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Christine Blasey Ford is Someone’s Daughter. What if She Were Yours?
I have been a keeper of secrets. For more than two decades, girls (“young women,” I know, but at eighteen they seem so young) in my college composition and creative writing classes have been brave […]
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“I’m Just Not that Political”: How Liberals are Helping Republicans Destroy America
We all know them. They’re our Facebook friends, co-workers, and family members. They’re the liberals in our lives who ignore politics. They rarely comment on our political posts, and when they do comment, they write things […]
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The Sacred Cult of the Grifter Mother: How the Trump Women Hide Behind their Wombs
The GOP worships mothers. Or at least that’s what they want you to think. Except when they’re mothers who want control over their bodies. Or when they need prenatal care. Or healthcare. Or maternity leave. Or affordable childcare. […]
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How Liberals Are Underestimating Trump Voters
What image comes to mind when you think of Trump supporters? If the stuff I see on social media every day is any indication, it looks something like this: older, white, poor, overweight, undereducated, slobbish, Bible-thumping, brainwashed, […]
