I waited until the last minute to purchase my Halloween costume and wouldn’t you know it? By the time I got to my local Spirit Halloween (which, until the month before had been the Department of Education), they were all sold out of “Heartless Plutocrat” tuxedo onesies.
“What gives?” I asked the employee, who used to run USAID.
“The Mar-A-Lago crowd bought ‘em all up for Trump’s Great Gatsby party,” he said.
Obviously, I thought, the fellow was having a laugh at my expense. Surely even this president knows better than to throw a Roaring Twenties-themed gala the day before the federal government shuts 42 million Americans out of their SNAP benefits? Or right before insurance companies jack up their prices because the health insurance marketplace subsidies expired with the budget. Any sa

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