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Social Media 101: How To Spot Russian Trolls and Bots on Twitter

February 19, 2018 Laura Halferty 0

I’ve worked with words professionally for half my life, which has trained me to look for meaning in patterns and contradictions. This makes me pretty good at identifying Twitter bots, even though I’m not a […]

Commentary

Reality Really Does Bite: Gen Xers in the Age of Trump

December 28, 2017 Laura Halferty 1

The most ardent and vocal Trump supporters I know aren’t Millennials or even Boomers. They’re my own peers, Gen Xers. Millennials think Trump is pathetically out of touch – an obese, senile great grandpa sitting on […]

Commentary

Let’s Make Argument Great Again: Deconstructing Ann Coulter’s Insane Rhetoric

October 10, 2017 Laura Halferty 0

Much of the political writing I’ve done has been critical of Hillary Clinton and the DNC, which has made a lot of you Democrats angry. This time, I thought I’d write about someone we can […]

Commentary

Being Critical of Hillary Doesn’t Make Me a Misogynist

September 20, 2017 Laura Halferty 0

I’m an Independent and New York State resident who voted for Bernie in the primary (after changing my party affiliation to Democrat temporarily) and then Hillary in the general election. I voted for Bernie for […]

Commentary

Nine Lessons From The Epic GOP Health Care Debacle

August 1, 2017 Laura Halferty 0

Americans will never forget that Trump and the GOP held us hostage for months while they casually and callously tossed around proposals— over lunch, via Twitter, behind closed doors – that would determine whether millions […]

Commentary

How Rural Blue State Voters Fell For The Great Trump Lie

July 17, 2017 Laura Halferty 1

It’s a scorching day in July, and you’re driving down a road bordered by dry, fissured fields. All you’ve seen for miles are barns, corn, cattle, and horses. When you roll down the windows, you smell cut […]

Commentary

Seven Ways You're Wrong About Bernie Sanders Supporters

June 27, 2017 Laura Halferty 2

I’ve been called a Bernie Bro more times than I can count, which is kind of funny because I’m a middle-aged woman. It happens on Twitter, where I have a profile that doesn’t specify my […]

Commentary

The Shameful Truth Behind How Women Helped Trump Win the Presidency

June 16, 2017 Laura Halferty 2

We all have an image in our minds of what we think the “typical” Trump supporter looks like: an angry, middle-aged, working-class white guy, weathered and rough-looking, maybe missing some teeth and sporting jeans, a t-shirt, […]

Commentary

Hollow Men and American Idiots: How to Avoid Electing Another Trump

June 6, 2017 Laura Halferty 0

Why is it that we require employees at even the lowest levels of civil service to take an exam to qualify for their jobs, but the President of the United States, the leader of the […]

Commentary

Hypocrisy and Wish Fulfillment: Republicans’ Irrational Support of Melania Trump

May 30, 2017 Laura Halferty 0

Melania Trump is everything the average Republican should despise in a First Lady, yet they rabidly support her anyway. Criticize Melania for something Republicans have long criticized Democratic First Ladies for, and Trump fans fire […]

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I’m a Bernie Bro. Here’s Why I’m Voting for Biden.

October 22, 2020 0

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 […]

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Dear Fellow Gen Xers: What In The Actual F*ck?

September 18, 2020 0

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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Qassem Suleimani: The Good News and the Bad News

January 4, 2020 0

On Friday, the United States attacked a convoy of Iranian and Iraqi military leaders with an MQ9 Reaper Drone that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Suleimani, Deputy […]

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