Your Pay Is About to Go Up

Hamilton Nolan · 04/25/16 02:30PM

If you make less than $50,000 per year, you will soon be entitled to overtime pay. “Me?” you wonder, glancing around with uncertainty. Yes: You.

Putin Annexes Sky, Exiles Dissident Clouds

Marina Galperina · 04/25/16 02:20PM

There will be no clouds over Moscow on May Day—because military planes will spray them with liquid nitrogen, granulated carbon dioxide and special cement, miles before they ever get to the city. The chemically perforated sky pests will then either immediately disperse or void themselves first, deluging premature rainwater on whatever villages or suburbs they’re over at the time.

Oklahoma Sheriff's Deputies Took $53,000 from a Christian Rock Band and an Orphanage in Thailand

Andy Cush · 04/25/16 02:05PM

The Washington Post has a report out today that on February 27, a sheriff’s deputy in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, seized $53,000 in cash from Eh Wah, the tour manager for a Burmese Christian rock band. Eh Wah had been driving with a broken tail light, and the deputy who pulled him over suspected that he was carrying drug money, despite having found no drugs or paraphernalia in his car. Eh Wah’s attorneys claim that the cash was from concert-ticket sales and donations, some of it set aside for an orphanage in Thailand, and some for a school in Burma. Now they are fighting in court to get the money back.

Actually

Rich Juzwiak · 04/25/16 01:30PM

Actually, Lemonade is Beyoncé’s weakest album since I Am...Sasha Fierce.

Hamilton Nolan · 04/25/16 01:14PM

You can now open an online savings account with Goldman Sachs for only $1. Goldman Sachs is for fucking poor people now. Disgusting.

Do You Have This Video of Ted Cruz in a Pink Boa and Underwear? We'll Pay You For It

Ashley Feinberg · 04/25/16 12:00PM

A little over a week ago, Ted Cruz’s daughters managed to tolerate their father’s presence for an entire hour while being interviewed on CNN. But being rendered temporarily blind and deaf by Ted’s soup admission, we seem to have missed the night’s (other) big reveal: Multiple copies exist of a video of Ted Cruz dressed as, I guess, a princess, maybe? And friends, readers, countrymen, we want that video.

J.K. Trotter · 04/25/16 09:02AM

The Los Angeles Times has the story of Brother Nelson, the Jehovah’s Witness known to the rest of the world as Prince. “I look forward to the time we can welcome him back on the Earth,” one of the artist’s fellow congregants in Minnetonka, Minnesota told the paper.

Lin-Manuel Miranda Pleads for Economic Relief of Puerto Rico on John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight

J.K. Trotter · 04/25/16 08:25AM

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton, appeared on yesterday’s edition of Last Week Tonight to address Puerto Rico’s crippling debt crisis. Following host John Oliver’s lengthy introduction about the situation’s manifold origins, Miranda, who was born to Puerto Rican parents in New York City, deployed his prodigious rapping skills to directly implore U.S. officials to grant the American territory immediate economic relief by allowing its government to restructure its debt.

Department Stores Must Die Faster

Hamilton Nolan · 04/25/16 08:12AM

What of the humble “department store,” a physical space in which humans used to peruse goods that they now purchase on Amazon? According to one new analysis, the only way for department stores to live is to die faster.