Welcome Back to Barf Bag
While the 2016-2020 Trump-dominated news cycle is long over, there are still plenty of far-right Republican MAGA idiots in this country. So to address that unfortunate reality, we're re-launching Barf Bag as a weekly roundup.
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In 2017, to handle the daily deluge of stomach-turning news that was the Donald Trump presidency, Jezebel launched a political version of Dirt Bag, our signature gossip column. “Staff writer Ellie Shechet christened it Barf Bag, a perfect name for the queasiness produced by the endless roller coaster of the Trump administration, a perfect name for an administration whose ideology was sickening,” then-features editor Stassa Edwards wrote in 2021 after President Joe Biden was inaugurated and the headlines were no longer dominated by the commander-in-chief’s 3 a.m. incoherent, potentially war-starting Twitter rants. Blessedly, the need for a daily Barf Bag was no more.