Sarah Hedgecock · 05/01/14 04:31PM

Tourists snap a selfie as demonstrators burn a trash container during a May Day rally in Barcelona on Thursday. Image via Manu Fernandez/AP.

Hamilton Nolan · 05/01/14 03:57PM

The Washington City Paper reports that ex-DC mayor Marion Barry wants to make his own biopic about himself before HBO does, because he is "unhappy with how [HBO's screenwriter] planned to portray his arrest at the Vista Hotel for smoking crack."

We Have Seen the Oklahoma Capitol Satanic Monument, and It Is Awesome

Adam Weinstein · 05/01/14 03:50PM

For months it seemed like a quick joke, but now it's concrete. Well, putty, anyway. Hard-chargin' Satanists have a mockup of a monument to the dark lord (and two rapt kids) that they plan to display in front of the Oklahoma statehouse. And other than being evil, it's pretty boss.

Sarah Hedgecock · 05/01/14 01:21PM

Cars are submerged in the Schuylkill River's flood waters along Main St. on Thursday in Philadelphia. During a nine-hour period that ended early Thursday, Chester County got 6.6 inches of rain, Delaware and Montgomery counties got 5.5 inches or more and Philadelphia almost 5 inches. Image via Matt Rourke)/AP.

Adam Weinstein · 05/01/14 01:15PM

Yesterday, Senate Republicans blocked a vote to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Today, Seattle officials announced they would raise the city's minimum wage to $15 in increments over the next few years. Happy May Day.

Adam Weinstein · 05/01/14 12:57PM

The Department of Education now has open Title IX sexual-violence and harassment investigations at 55 institutions of higher learning in the United States, according to an updated list released today. Is your college on it?

White Oklahoma Lawmaker Explores His Thoughts on the "N-Word"

Adam Weinstein · 05/01/14 12:22PM

That short glug of water in the bolo unhappily shaking President Obama's hand is Oklahoma Rep. Paul Wesselhöft, who's lately made his bones calling for Attorney General Eric Holder's impeachment and warning all listeners about the terrors of the National Black Panther Party.