Hudson Hongo · 08/05/15 08:00PM

On Wednesday, a federal appeals court ruled that Texas’ voter ID law is “discriminatory” and violates portions of the Voting Rights Act, the AP reports. “We are pleased that the court of appeals agreed unanimously with the district court,” said Attorney General Loretta Lynch in a statement.

Hamilton Nolan · 08/05/15 03:50PM

Sketchy Bar Claims Tape Shows "90% Chance" Employee Didn't Rape Customer

Jay Hathaway · 08/05/15 03:38PM

A 25-year-old woman says she was drugged and raped at Lower East Side bar Happy Ending last Tuesday night by an employee who has since been fired. After spending 10 hours dealing with NYPD officers who, she says, kept suggesting she had “led him to believe it was okay,” she suffered additional indignity at the hands of Happy Ending itself: a spokesperson for the bar claimed CCTV showed “a 90 percent chance it was consensual behavior.”

The Debasing Race: Meet the Fox News GOP Debate Contestants

Ashley Feinberg · 08/05/15 03:00PM

It’s time. Tomorrow night, at 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, ten drunk clowns are going to fight with each other on national television for the chance to make wildly important decisions that affect each and every one of our livelihoods. It is going to be a god damn masterpiece.

Bill Bratton Thinks More New Yorkers Should Be in Jail

Andy Cush · 08/05/15 02:48PM

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton wants to put you in jail and make sure you stay there. Well, only if you’re a bad guy. Good guys—you’re OK. No worries. Bad guys—get your naughty butts to the slammer.

Diplo Has "No Idea" How He Ended Up With My Friend's Baby Picture

Taylor Berman · 08/05/15 02:37PM

The mystery of the summer deepens: Over a series of texts exchanged with my friend Kate, Diplo admitted that he has “no idea” how he ended up in possession of her baby photo, which—as Gawker exclusively reported yesterday—the DJ has posted at least four times to his Instagram, apparently under the impression that the baby was him.

Hamilton Nolan · 08/05/15 01:55PM

This week, Dunkin’ Donuts opened its very first store in Iceland. “‘I love the variety they offer,’ said Steinar Gunnarsson, a student, who visited the restaurant soon after it opened. ‘They offer more than just a couple of brands of donuts usually found in Icelandic bakeries.’” Pathetic.

Buzzfeed and Bobby Jindal Try to Out-Whore One Another

Hamilton Nolan · 08/05/15 12:30PM

The media is often granted access to important people. What responsibility—if any—do news outlets have to not be dirty, desperate, pitiful whores in exchange for this access?

Here Are the Internal Documents that Prove Uber Is a Money Loser

Sam Biddle · 08/05/15 12:07PM

Uber, Silicon Valley’s prized amoral unicorn, is presumed to be a financial titan and a sure-thing IPO in the near future. Which may be true. But one thing that’s frequently missing from the conversation about its inevitable dominance over virtually every facet of our lives is the answer to a fundamental question: Does it make money? According to internal financial documents obtained by Gawker, the answer is a resounding no. Uber has lost tens of millions of dollars since 2012, and the documents suggest that CEO Travis Kalanick’s boasts about the company’s exponential revenue growth may be overblown.