Root For the Warriors, the Lesser of Two Evils

Jordan Sargent · 06/02/16 05:52PM

The NBA’s defending champion Golden State Warriors survived two opponents this past Monday night. The first was the Oklahoma City Thunder, who nearly dethroned the Warriors before the champs won three straight games to stagger back into the NBA Finals. The second opponent was less formidable but just as obvious: backlash against the team that has been the darlings of basketball for two seasons.

Yep, Everything Checks Out

Ashley Feinberg · 06/02/16 05:47PM

According to these vague, unlabeled charts retweeted by Donald Trump just minutes ago, we are at a record 4.4 in money printing.

Here’s What Gawker Media Does

Gawker Media Editors · 06/02/16 03:40PM

It was surprising to hear the news last week that right-wing billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been secretly trying to destroy Gawker Media through proxy lawsuits. It was dispiriting, and less surprising, to hear the conversation that followed the revelation. The discussion begins, in most cases, with the premise that Gawker is bad. Even those who are rightly alarmed at Thiel’s unprecedented attack on an institution that he regards as “terrible for the Valley” usually feel the need to preface that conclusion with some form of “I hate to defend Gawker, but...”

Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy Plan: Donald Trump Is a Crazy Person

Andy Cush · 06/02/16 03:15PM

In a speech that was ostensibly about foreign policy given this afternoon in San Diego, Hillary Clinton’s main point of focus was not on America’s allies and enemies abroad, but her own enemy at home, Donald Trump. “Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different, they are dangerously incoherent,” she told the crowd. “They’re not even really ideas—just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies.”

Trump Delegate: Americans "Need to Have the Weaponry Necessary to Be Able to Overthrow the Federal Government"

Brendan O'Connor · 06/02/16 02:55PM

Mother Jones has identified several Republican delegates representing Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in July who have also affiliated themselves with the radical anti-government Patriot movement. One delegate from Tennessee, David Riden, told Mother Jones that members of the current administration may need to be...well: “The polite word is, eliminated. The harsh word is killed.” In 2016, the lunatic fringe moves ever closer to the mainstream.

News Organizations Can Now Objectively Say Donald Trump Is Lying

Tom Scocca · 06/02/16 02:20PM

One of the difficulties the mainstream press has faced in covering the Donald Trump campaign is that Trump is a ceaseless and aggressive liar. The traditional etiquette standards known as “objective journalism” discourage media outlets from pointing out that a politician’s message is contrary to known facts—to do so seems like taking sides, or, God forbid, expressing an opinion.

Andy Cush · 06/02/16 02:04PM

Early in this lovely New York Times magazine story about people who live in supertall skyscrapers, a resident of one of the city’s highest dwellings considers an apartment that, in the scheme of things, is only slightly higher than his own. His conclusion: “At a certain point, you’re too high.”

Stacey Dash's Powerful Message to Trans People: Urinate and Defecate in Bushes

Rich Juzwiak · 06/02/16 11:35AM

As a troll, actress/Fox News professional conservative Stacey Dash (Clueless) probably knows a thing or two about peeing outside: under bridges, into fountains, in bushes. So since we’re dealing with an expert, it’s important to listen when she advises a group to void their waste in public. In this case, said group is transgender people, to whom she advised during an interview with Entertainment Tonight: “Go in the bushes. I don’t know what to tell you, but I’m not gonna put my child’s life at risk because you want to change a law so that you can be comfortable with your beliefs, which means I have to change my beliefs and my rights. No.”

Police Say UCLA Shooter Mainak Sarkar Also Killed Woman in Minnesota

Jordan Sargent · 06/02/16 11:14AM

This morning, Los Angeles police confirmed reports that the UCLA student who shot and killed professor Dr. William Klug was a doctoral student named Mainak Sarkar. The LAPD also said that police have discovered that Sarkar shot and killed a woman in Minnesota.

First Task For RNC's New Head of Hispanic Relations: Delete All the Stuff She Wrote About Trump on Twitter

Gabrielle Bluestone · 06/02/16 10:58AM

Yesterday the New York Times reported that Ruth Guerra, the head of Hispanic relations for the Republican National Committee, would be leaving her position for reasons rumored to rhyme with Donald Trump. Taking her place is Helen Aguirre Ferre, a former journalist whose first act of business is scrubbing all the things she’s said about Trump on Twitter—none of which appear to be positive.