Melissa Cronin · 01/30/16 03:00PM

“Once dates and cities are locked down, we are looking forward to four additional debates,” a source from the Bernie Sanders campaign told BuzzFeed News, adding to confirmation from the Hillary Clinton camp that there will, indeed, be more Democratic debates in the presidential campaign that knows no end.

Facebook Bans Gun Sales, Sort Of

Melissa Cronin · 01/30/16 09:48AM

Facebook, once a safe haven for gun profiteers and those who wanted to, for some undisclosed reason, anonymously obtain a semi-automatic weapon that can take a life with the push of a button, is clamping down. The social media site announced this week that it will no longer allow private gun sales on its site or on that of Instagram, which it owns.

Who’s Going to Keep Paying For This Crap?

Alex Pareene · 01/29/16 06:34PM

Jim VandeHei, co-founder of The Politico, will leave the Washington-based news operation after the 2016 election. He will take with him Mike Allen, The Politico’s reporter-mascot, who says today that the two plan to start “a new venture that will change the world one more time.”

J.K. Trotter · 01/29/16 06:08PM

Daily Intelligencer has a great compendium of Weekly Standard editor and conservative pundit Bill Kristol’s preternaturally wrong predictions about Donald Trump’s rise (which is merely one of the things Kristol has been very wrong about).

Steven Avery's Defense Attorney and Prosecutor Address Important Information Making A Murderer Left Out

Rich Juzwiak · 01/29/16 05:42PM

Since Making a Murderer debuted late last year on Netflix, the internet has been overrun with amateur sleuths looking for evidence presented in Avery’s trial that the show suspiciously overlooked. Investigation Discovery’s Steven Avery: Innocent or Guilty, which premieres tomorrow at 9 pm, features a clip of Murderer co-director Laura Ricciardi explaining, “It would have been impossible for us to include all of the evidence that the state submitted. We chose all of what the state itself was claiming to be its most compelling evidence. We feel that we did a very thorough, a very accurate, and fair job.”

In Confidential Letter, Ousted Mizzou President Blames Black Lives Matter, Football Team For Resignation

Jordan Sargent · 01/29/16 03:20PM

Ten days ago, Tim Wolfe—the ex-University of Missouri System president who famously stepped down from his position last November after a black student’s hunger strike made the state’s flagship campus in Columbia the focus of a national discussion regarding the treatment of minority college students—sent an email to confidants that he labeled “CONFIDENTIAL.”

All the Dumb Questions You Asked Google About the GOP Debate, Answered

Ashley Feinberg · 01/29/16 02:38PM

Last night, we got a taste of our very first taste of a debate night duel. On one side, we had our typical, Fox News-facilitated pageantry of foot-stomping candidates vying for our love. On the other side, we got Trump. As for you—well, you had questions.

Williamsburg Is Melting Down Over Proposed L Train Closure

J.K. Trotter · 01/29/16 11:30AM

A few weeks ago, officials at New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority announced preliminary plans to repair and fortify the Canarsie subway tunnel beneath the East River, a job that would require temporarily shutting down L train service between Williamsburg and Manhattan (either completely for an entire year, or just on weekends for three years). The announcement was initially greeted as a joke aimed at the neighborhood’s creative residents—the L train? Shut down? Hahaha!—but now those residents have begun to register actual alarm. Gothamist has the details from a recent town hall meeting (bolding ours):