Freeform Show: Transgender Woman Gets Quinceañera 'She' Never Had

The July 2 episode of Freeform’s Good Trouble, titled “Doble Quince,” was written around the quinceañera Jazmin Martinez (Hallie Sahar)  never had. Not to put too fine of a point on it but the reason the transgender woman didn’t have a quinceañera is because at the age of 15 years old, when the coming-of-age celebrations traditionally happen in the Latino community, “she” was a he.
Karen Townsend
July 2nd, 2019 11:15 PM

Matthews, Panel Bash Trump’s 4th Plans as ‘Un-American’ Like the USSR

Wish that President Trump would not have inserted himself into Washington, D.C.’s Fourth of July celebrations, allowing A Capitol Fourth to remain on its own? Fine. But to declare the President’s plans “un-American” and a sign he wants to make America like North Korea or the former Soviet Union? That’s nonsense, folks. And as evidenced by those hot takes on Tuesday’s Hardball with MSNBC host…
Curtis Houck
July 2nd, 2019 10:13 PM

Baldwin Leaves Diversity-Lacking NFL, Moans Over Whitest WH

Yeah, newly retired former NFL player Doug Baldwin, you're a real authority on diversity. You didn't see it in the Seattle Seahawks' clubhouse and you sure don't see it in President Donald Trump's White House. As for you, Henry McKenna of For The Win blog (a subsidiary of USA Today), you're in a real position to preach about diversity, too, with your organization's near-complete progressive…
Jay Maxson
July 2nd, 2019 10:00 PM

Nets Insist Trump ‘Hijacking’ 4th of July to Make It ‘More About Him'

President Trump has organized a special Fourth of July event to take place on the National Mall which he dubbed “a salute to America,” and the liberal broadcast networks were not pleased with it. Combined, ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News insisted Trump is set to divide the country, make it all about himself, and veterans are angry about it.
Nicholas Fondacaro
July 2nd, 2019 9:15 PM

Ryan: Trump's Fourth of July Parade Is About 'Looking Like a Dictator'

There have been plenty of criticisms of President Trump's desire for a Fourth of July event to take place in Washington D.C. Criticisms include it being a misguided use of funds, the tanks being too heavy for D.C.'s streets and bridges, and assertions it would resemble a Soviet military parades down Red Square. On Monday, Trump raised eyebrows with his comments about "brand new Sherman tanks,"…
Alex Christy
July 2nd, 2019 7:59 PM

CNN Surprisingly Speaks Up for Ngo While Nets Cower

On Tuesday morning, CNN’s New Day went where few networks would and interviewed conservative journalist Andy Ngo, an editor for Quillette, after his barbaric assault at the hands of the “anti-fascist” fascists known as Antifa. Ngo, recently released from the hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage, was slurring his words and was clearly shaken up. New Day dedicated 5 minutes and thirty five…
Joseph Chalfant
July 2nd, 2019 6:44 PM

Vogue Rudely Skipped Over One of the Women Running for President

So much for "inclusion." Vogue has posted a new interview with five female presidential candidates by New York Times reporter/feminist Amy Chozick. Marianne Williamson is missing -- Chozick didn't interview her, and she wasn't at the Annie Liebovitz photo shoot. Even the headline wasn't inclusive: "Madam President? Five Candidates on What It Will Take to Shatter the Most Stubborn Glass Ceiling."
Tim Graham
July 2nd, 2019 6:27 PM

Evening News Shows Ignore Record 10-Year Economic Expansion

The U.S. officially entered its longest economic expansion ever July 1, boasting 121 straight months without a recession beginning in June 2009. This broke the previous record stretching from March 1991 to March 2001. MarketWatch reporter Jeffry Bartash noted that the S&P 500 Index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the Nasdaq Composite Index have all gained by more than 200 percent “…
Joseph Valle
July 2nd, 2019 5:24 PM

The Atlantic: Marriage Makes You Lonely, Abolish It!

Marriage doesn’t sit kindly with the left. It perpetuates misogyny and reinforces the patriarchy. But according to The Atlantic, it also inevitably makes us unhappier. In an article published on July 2nd, Mandy Lee Catron argued that marriage is obsolete because it makes people lonelier and holds “queer people” back.
Jorge Plaza
July 2nd, 2019 5:14 PM

Media Worry ‘Anti-Climactic’ Mueller Hearing Could ‘Backfire’ on Dems

During her 10:00 a.m. ET hour on Tuesday, MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson expressed concern that former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s upcoming congressional testimony might be “anti-climactic” and possibly “backfire” on Democrats investigating President Trump. In the segment that followed, guests attempted to reassure Jackson that the hearing would pay off.

Kyle Drennen
July 2nd, 2019 4:11 PM

NY Times Smears GOP By Linking Party to Europe's Far-Right

The New York Times Sunday Review prominently featured an anti-Republican smear job couched in benign academic terms: “Where’s America’s Political Center of Gravity? -- How the Democrats and Republicans compare to parties in other countries.” One of the graphics shows a major swerve to the left by the Democrats since 2008 and a winding, back-and-forth curve for the Republicans during the same…
Clay Waters
July 2nd, 2019 4:09 PM

$3 Million in the Hole: ThinkProgress Shutting Down and Selling

It appears that liberal billionaire largess just isn’t going to be enough to prop up The Center for American Progress’s propaganda arm, ThinkProgress. The Daily Beast broke the news story, reporting “Staff were informed on Monday afternoon that the site would be sold off and a CAP official told The Daily Beast that the organization would begin looking for prospective buyers for the website, which…
Joseph Vazquez
July 2nd, 2019 3:30 PM

MSNBC Panel Mocks Trump-Kim Meeting as 'Diplomatic Booty Call'

Echoing many of their colleagues on MSNBC, the panel on Deadline: White House Monday had hysterical analysis of President Trump’s impromptu meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. At one point, one of the guests went so far as to compare the President’s meeting with Kim to a “diplomatic booty call.”
Ryan Foley
July 2nd, 2019 3:10 PM

Twitter Took 11 Hours to Remove Actor’s Call to Kill Jewish People

The platform that rapidly bans people for tweeting “learn to code” took its sweet time removing legitimate death threats. Egyptian actor Hesham Mansour, with an 800,000 following on Twitter, tweeted some hateful and dangerous rhetoric in late June 2019. From conspiracy theories that “the Jews” use sorcerous powers to “[steal] all the positive energy” and manipulate the space-time continuum, to…
Alexander Hall
July 2nd, 2019 1:45 PM