The Rude Pundit

As I said nearly a year ago, it's clarifying when you decide that those who are doing harm are simply evil. You stop looking for explan...

It's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, or "That day when conservatives say that one line from King and pretend that's all he ever sa...

1. The murder of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross should be one of those pivot points in our history, much...

If you need a boost to start this new year right, even as we fall further into the Trump-fucked abyss, I encourage you to watch the entire i...

Last round here. Thanks for all the haiku from far and wide, from across seas and across borders. If yours didn't get picked, it was bec...

And still the haiku poured in, covering every topic under the Trump-eclipsed sun. Let's start today with a personal one from a long-tim...

Already, the email has been reamed out by the tide of haiku pouring in. Apparently, a year of oppression and rage and occasional joy has unl...

What a motherfucker of a year this was. I mean, seriously, it's like this year took all the mothers, lined them up, and fucked them one ...

Like movies about suicidal snowmen and tortured ghosts and pole-frozen tongues, some things are a tradition around the rude house. Beloved r...

Last night, all the broadcast TV networks, as well as the cable news ones, paused their programming to give a rapist free rein to say whatev...

Let's not be naive about this shit. To an extent, pretty much every president has been a murderer, often through war crimes committed by...

" For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through" By Tanaya Winder We were never ones to a...

Funny thing: I hated Dick Cheney, like hated him with a visceral, almost incomprehensible level of hate. And I'll accuse him of all kind...

1. Here's the thing that bugs the living shit out of me about 8 Democratic senators negotiating a budget deal with Republicans to end t...

Have you really taken a few minutes to look at the campaign of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City? Because l...

In the next week or so, multiple food banks in New Jersey will be having a huge grocery distribution event for furloughed and unpaid federal...