Man Arrested After Threatening To Attack Brooklyn Gay Bar "Orlando-Style"
Marina Galperina · 06/15/16 01:00PMHere Is the Good News
Nick Denton · 06/15/16 12:37PMPerhaps the most embarrassing aspect of filing for bankruptcy is the well-meaning condolence note from a friend. “I’m so sorry,” more than one has written. That sympathy is often followed by fear for what Facebook director Peter Thiel’s revenge campaign—a billionaire secretly funding lawsuits against publishers, editors, and writers for stories that disrespected him and his friends—means for the functioning of a critical press.
Uline, Where the Boss Wishes Employees Watched More Fox News
Hamilton Nolan · 06/15/16 12:15PMThe Oregonian Recognizes Good Work By Giving Staffers Diarrhea
Jordan Sargent · 06/15/16 11:31AMWe in the journalism field suffer the daily indignities of a dying industry, so sometimes our bosses try and cheer us up, usually with room temperature pizza sitting in clotted pools of grease. Bad pizza is better than some alternatives, though, such as the cake recently served to some staffers of The Oregonian which caused their bodies to spew shit like a punctured oil pipe.
Hamilton Nolan · 06/15/16 09:10AM
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Hung Out Last Night
Brendan O'Connor · 06/15/16 07:28AMAs votes in the Washington, D.C., primary were tallied on Tuesday night—adding up to one last win for Hillary Clinton—the two Democratic candidates met at a hotel on Capitol Hill to make peace after a moderately acrimonious primary season. According to the New York Times, the chemistry between Clinton and Bernie Sanders was “strained.”
145 Days and a Wake Up
Brendan O'Connor · 06/15/16 06:31AMAlligator Drags Off 2-Year-Old at Disney Resort in Orlando
Hudson Hongo · 06/14/16 11:13PMHillary Clinton Wins Final Democratic Primary in Washington D.C.
Hudson Hongo · 06/14/16 08:45PMMiserable Republican Senators Would Rather Not Talk About Trump, Thanks
Hudson Hongo · 06/14/16 07:17PMAnderson Cooper Reads Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi For Filth
Jordan Sargent · 06/14/16 04:20PMThis afternoon on CNN, Anderson Cooper interviewed Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. You know how these things generally go. The host asks the guest a few questions, the guest regurgitates some talking points, the host tries to pin the guest on a point, the guest evades, everyone laughs, and we go to a commercial. But today would be different!
Smash Mouth's Desperate, Endless Twitter Battle
Ashley Feinberg · 06/14/16 03:50PMNow Peter Thiel’s Lawyer Wants to Silence Reporting on Trump’s Hair [Updated]
J.K. Trotter · 06/14/16 03:10PMOne day after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal attack on Gawker Media to the New York Times, Gawker reporter Ashley Feinberg published a lengthy investigation that sought to solve the enduring mystery of Donald Trump’s infamous mane, which she described as a “cotton candy hairspray labyrinth.”
Crazed Greenwich Village Gunman Also Off-Duty NYPD Officer
Alex Pareene · 06/14/16 02:09PMScience Watch: The Ancient Lands of Pluto
Hamilton Nolan · 06/14/16 01:48PMSaudi Royal Drama: Hackers Spreading Gossip About Deputy Crown Prince and Hillary Clinton
Brendan O'Connor · 06/14/16 12:45PMLawyers Say Chris Christie Destroyed Cell Phone, Text Messages and Emails to Cover Up Involvement in Bridgegate
Gabrielle Bluestone · 06/14/16 12:30PMLawyers representing the defendants accused of shutting down a bridge as part of an elaborate revenge scheme say Chris Christie—Donald Trump’s unpaid intern and the technical governor of New Jersey—destroyed evidence, including a cell phone, text messages and emails, that connected him to the crime.
Russian Government Hackers "Cozy Bear" and "Fancy Bear" Broke Into DNC Database to Access Opposition Research on Donald Trump
Marina Galperina · 06/14/16 12:09PMHackers working for the Russian government gained access to the Democratic National Committee’s database of opposition research on Donald Trump, The Washington Post reports. Some of the hackers might have been in the network for a year, with access to all chat logs and email traffic and whatever files of dirt the DNC has collected on Trump—dirt that some analysts say would have become public at some point anyway.