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John Aravosis
Follow me on Twitter: @aravosis | @americablog | @americabloggay | Facebook | Instagram | Google+ | LinkedIn. John Aravosis is the Executive Editor of AMERICAblog, which he founded in 2004. He has a joint law degree (JD) and masters in Foreign Service from Georgetown; and has worked in the US Senate, World Bank, Children's Defense Fund, the United Nations Development Programme, and as a stringer for the Economist. He is a frequent TV pundit, having appeared on the O'Reilly Factor, Hardball, World News Tonight, Nightline, AM Joy & Reliable Sources, among others. John lives in New York City, and is the cofounder of TimeToResign.com. Bio, article archive.

This gorilla playing in his bath will restore your faith in, well, gorillas at least

I give you a gorilla in a bath. You can thank me now. I cannot stress enough how important it is you watch this gorilla bathe-dancing to maniac. By @bobhagh pic.twitter.com/e15f9NPO7j ...

6/23/17 11:56am by John Aravosis 4

Sen Capito cancer constituents

Woman confronts GOP Sen. Capito over daughter’s cancer (video)

A woman from West Virginia visited her Republican US Senator, Shelley Moore Capito, to talk about the Republican party’s efforts to repeal Obamacare, which would take insurance ...

6/23/17 11:18am by John Aravosis 4

Dear Media: If White House screws with you, screw back

Donald Trump lives and dies by the mainstream media. Fox News may be Trump’s mistress, but CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times are his one true love. Trump is desperate ...

6/23/17 10:21am by John Aravosis 4

Mitch McConnell

66% premium increase for age 50+ under Senate GOP health care bill

The Senate Republican health care bill, announced today, contains the language letting insurers raise premiums by 66% on people age 50 to 64. (At age 65 you can go on Medicare.) I ...

6/22/17 3:58pm by John Aravosis 10

Trump calls Russia’s interference in our election “a hoax”

Donald Trump today, yet again this morning, questioned whether Russia interfered in the 2016 US election. While it’s been an established fact for a while now, Trump has vacillated ...

6/22/17 10:20am by John Aravosis 9

Omarosa is now demanding people call her “Honorable”

Former Trump reality star, and current Trump White House adviser, Omarosa Manigault, has taken to Twitter to demand that people refer to her with a title. Specifically, Omarosa wants ...

6/21/17 11:46am by John Aravosis 30

Next week, the Republicans will gut your work health insurance

There’s a lot of confusion about the new Republican health care plan, simply because they’re refusing to release it. In the US House, they kept it secret until literally ...

6/20/17 12:05pm by John Aravosis 2

Trump to break lower-drug-price promise

The man who never met a promise he wasn’t willing to break is about to do it again. Donald Trump, who campaigned on a promise to lower drug prices by allowing cheaper foreign ...

6/19/17 4:22pm by John Aravosis 3

Georgia GOP says mass shooting of congressmen is actually a good thing

Always like a Republican to see the mass-shooting glass half-full. A local GOP party chairman in Georgia, Brad Carver, says the recent attempt by a crazed gunman to kill several Republican ...

6/19/17 1:29pm by John Aravosis 2

What if all of Shakespeare’s plays were written about Trump? What would they be called?

I had an interesting idea this weekend for a tweet: What if all of Shakespeare’s plays were actually written about Donald Trump? What would their titles be? For example: “King ...

6/19/17 11:28am by John Aravosis 2

Denny’s Father’s Day tweet is pretty hilarious

Denny’s Father’s Day tweet is hilarious. Or rather, the responses to it. For some reason, Denny’s tweeted yesterday that people were wishing the diner-ish restaurant ...

6/19/17 11:01am by John Aravosis 0

Trump is considering firing special counsel Mueller

One of Donald Trump’s closest friends, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, told the NewsHour tonight that Trump is considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller. As you know, Mueller ...

6/12/17 9:18pm by John Aravosis 21

Trump tweets about the Pulse Nightclub mass-shooting anniversary

Donald Trump commemorated the one-year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub massacre on Twitter today. 49 people were killed and 58-wounded in a mass shooting on June 12, 2016 at the LGBT ...

6/12/17 3:18pm by John Aravosis 4

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