@TheFatJewish Is a Thief

Sam Biddle · 08/17/15 11:05AM

Josh Ostrovsky, a.k.a. “The Fat Jew,” has turned a single Instagram account into an online comedy career. But that entire career is based on ripping off other people’s jokes.

Jonah Peretti Is Not Your Friend

Hamilton Nolan · 08/17/15 08:59AM

Over the past few months, a wave of unionization has swept across new media. On Friday, the media union movement got its first official enemy. Now writers get to find out who is a friend, and who is just a friendly-looking man with his hand in your pocket.

Donald Trump Lies to Little Boy: "I Am Batman."

Ashley Feinberg · 08/16/15 07:25PM

Noted Donald Trump enthusiast Donald Trump lied to a group of children yesterday during an incredible series of events that played out like the bleakest of CNN wet dreams. In a video posted to Facebook, a boy points a camera at the petulant clown running for president and asks, point-blank, if he is Batman. Trump’s response: “I am Batman.”

Brendan O'Connor · 08/16/15 03:00PM

“In a five-year period ending in 2010, according to a lawsuit, prosecutors in Houston and Henry Counties in Alabama used peremptory strikes to remove 82 percent of eligible black potential jurors from trials in which the death penalty was imposed.”

Brendan O'Connor · 08/16/15 01:00PM

Tourists and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton are upset with the growing number of topless, painted women hustling people for money in Times Square, the New York Daily News reports. Other area fixtures agree. “There’s so many boobs,” the Naked Cowboy said. “You don’t look at them anymore.”

Brendan O'Connor · 08/16/15 09:00AM

On Thursday, non-profit environmental-health watchdog group As You Sow filed a notice of intent to bring legal action against Soylent, alleging that the meal replacement start-up failed to warn consumers about high concentrations of cadmium and lead in its space food. Also it makes you fart a lot.

Brendan O'Connor · 08/15/15 03:30PM

“In contrast to companies where declarations about their philosophy amount to vague platitudes, Amazon has rules that are part of its daily language and rituals, used in hiring, cited at meetings and quoted in food-truck lines at lunchtime. Some Amazonians say they teach them to their children.”