Portraits of America’s Genderqueer Community
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Her whole life, Chloe Aftel has been told she doesn’t behave like a lady. Plainspoken and assertive, she realized in adolescence that adults expected her to be demure. As Aftel grew into herself in a binary-focused, heteronormative world, she found herself asking: “Who made up…
Sir Babygirl’s New Album Is a Mouthful of Bubblegum and an Exercise in Conviction
Lea Ciarcia Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: Crush on Me by Sir Babygirl (Father/Daughter Records, 2019) Why we’re into it: This album is an absolutely delightful romp through our most self-indulgent fantasies. “You don’t know me anymore,” sings Sir Babygirl—born Kelsey Hogue—in their opening track before breaking into a shout. “I changed…
One Obstacle to Trump’s Border Wall Might Be His First Supreme Court Appointee
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, President Donald Trump made good on his threat to declare a state of emergency so he could use a “military version of eminent domain” to start seizing private land along the southern border to build a wall. But Trump’s…
Donald Trump Knows Everyone Hates Him
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s reliable stream of often incoherent, racist, and press-bashing tweets took an unexpected turn Friday afternoon when the president posted something to his social media feed that was actually…funny. The rare moment arrived via a mash-up video featuring a cast of top…
Quote of the Day: Emergency? What Emergency?
Martin H. Simon/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From President Trump on the $6 billion he’s going to take from the military to build his wall: I said, “What were you going to use it for?” And I won’t go into details, but it didn’t sound too important…
Twitter Really Is the Best Way to Understand Donald Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump is talking. That is, he’s stringing words together into vaguely sentence-like constructions. Let’s listen in via my carefully curated Twitter feed. I guarantee that this captures the spirit of Trump’s remarks better than any normal media story you’ll read: POTUS starts by describing…