Month: September 2018

Alexandra Schwartz on Brett Kavanaugh’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the adolescent model of conservative masculinity.

For April 22, 2018

He’s the lovable mushroom-headed character from the Super Mario games.

But thanks to excerpts from porn star Stormy Daniels’ tell-all book, Toad has become associated with US President Donald Trump.

In it, she compares Trump’s penis to the “mushroom character in Mario Kart”.

The announcement Friday of plans to send a nationwide alert from President Donald Trump to all mobile devices generated backlash on social media.

Barack Obama is done holding back.

The former president unloaded on President Trump — by name — and Republicans in Congress during a blistering speech at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on Friday, urging students in the audience to vote in an election he called a turning point.

“It did not start with Donald Trump,” Obama said. “He is a symptom, not the cause.” But he went on to criticize Trump and Republicans in Congress at length, calling out coziness with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Trump’s tweets about the Justice Department investigating Republicans, the president’s reluctance to criticize Nazi sympathizers after the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and more.

“Republicans who know better in Congress — and they’re there, they’re quoted saying, Yeah, we know this is kind of crazy — are still bending over backward to shield this behavior from scrutiny or accountability,” he said.