Former Reddit CEO: You're All Screwed

Ashley Feinberg · 07/14/15 10:16PM

Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong is having a goddamn ball this week, bouncing around announcement threads and spilling site secrets to his heart’s content. His latest big reveal: Reddit’s board has been itching to purge the site of users’ precious hate-based subreddits since the beginning. And recently, the only thing stopping them had been... Ellen Pao. Whoops.

Hudson Hongo · 07/14/15 08:15PM

On Tuesday, street artist Shepard Fairey turned himself in to Detroit police, who issued a warrant for his arrest on vandalism charges last month. Fairey reportedly pled not guilty and has been released on a $75,000, 10 percent bond. He is expected back in court on July 21.

No, Planned Parenthood Is Not Selling Aborted Fetal Body Parts

Ashley Feinberg · 07/14/15 05:15PM

Earlier today, an eight-minute “undercover” video surfaced purporting to show Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services talking about selling the body parts of aborted human fetuses for the non-profit’s financial gain. Which would be shocking, certainly—if any of it were true.

190 Bowery Isn't for Sale Again After All

Andy Cush · 07/14/15 03:58PM

Are you a multi-millionaire real estate developer looking for a large mixed-use property that is chic yet gritty, gritty yet stylish, stylish yet authentic, authentic yet upscale, upscale yet downtown, downtown yet as expensive as anything uptown, as expensive as anything uptown yet appealingly sketchy-looking? I’ve got just the building for you.

Rich Juzwiak · 07/14/15 03:38PM

As expected, Michael Johnson (aka “Tiger Mandingo”) has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. In May he was found guilty on one count of recklessly infecting a partner with HIV, one count of attempting to recklessly infect a partner with HIV, and three counts of recklessly exposing partners to HIV.

Donald Trump Campaign Image Celebrates America With Photo of Nazi Troops

Jordan Sargent · 07/14/15 03:15PM

Running for president doesn’t have to be this hard: Today Donald Trump posted a campaign poster of sorts to Twitter. It features a stylized graphic of the American flag overlaid across Trump’s face, the hashtag #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, a plea to “put the U.S. back into business!” aaaaaaand a stock image of what appears to be war reenactors wearing replica Nazi uniforms.

Star of Viral Catcall Video Sues Director, Says He Kept All The Profits

Jay Hathaway · 07/14/15 02:45PM

You may remember the insanely popular video, “10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman,” which featured a woman being catcalled and harassed on the street more than 100 times over a 10-hour period, which circulated last November. It inspired mocking parodies, copycat experiments, hoaxes, and even a T.G.I. Friday’s commercial. Now, months after the video’s peak, TMZ reports its star is suing the director.

Neutral Observer David Brooks Has Noticed Hillary Is a Soviet Dictator

Tom Scocca · 07/14/15 01:54PM

David Brooks—a Yale instructor and New York Times columnist who can be found at the Aspen Ideas Festival—prefers to package himself as a reasonable thinker, but he has always been, to one degree or another, depending on the season, a dumb partisan hack. So now that he has finished enough philosophizing about the good life to fill a new book (and allusively air out his squalid midlife crisis), and now that there’s an election looming, it’s time to get back to partisan hackwork.

Three Injured After Four-Story Building Collapses in Brooklyn

Taylor Berman · 07/14/15 01:47PM

A four-story building just collapsed at Fulton Street and Tompkins Ave in Brooklyn, according to multiple reports on Twitter. It’s unclear if anyone was trapped inside, though there are reports of at least one victim.