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Image: Getty On Monday, Vulture posted a roundup of jokes from one of Aziz Ansari’s recent string of shows in Wisconsin (the one reviewed took place Saturday at Milwaukee’s Turner Hall). Before January, this post probably never would have been considered newsworthy enough to print (al lot of comedians do shows, some actually have jokes),…
Illustration: Jim Cooke (GMG) I won’t ever forget the photo of the minutes-old murder a prisoner at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina sent me. It wasn’t a high-quality picture. But I could clearly see the blood, which covered the white clothes of a bearded inmate looking in the direction of the camera. I could…
Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty) President Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed reports that White House Counsel Don McGahn plans to leave the administration this coming fall. Trump’s personnel update came just hours after Axios first reported that McGahn was eyeing the White House exits following the midterm elections and Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation….
Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty) Rudy Giuliani is a busy guy these days. Between crazed television appearances, metaphysical musings, and affixing his chapped old man lips firmly to President Donald Trump’s marshmallow butt, it’s amazing that he’s somehow found time to insert himself smack in the middle of a Romanian political crisis. As first reported by…
Screenshot: CNN Extremely hit-or-miss CNN anchor Don Lemon offered an absolutely reasonable, moderate defense of the loose collective of anti-fascism activists known as Antifa on Tuesday night, so, predictably, people are well on their way to making this a Big Bad Thing. “It says it right in the name: Antifa. Anti-fascism, which is what they were…
ImageFacebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, told Congress this year that he wanted the company to “be a platform for all ideas.”CreditCreditTom Brenner/The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — The post went up quietly on Facebook’s internal message board last week. Titled “We Have a Problem With Political Diversity,” it quickly took off inside the social…
Photo: Getty Prison conditions in the United States—where inmates routinely face sexual violence, torturous isolation, and warehousing that leaves them vulnerable to things like extreme heat—have galvanized prisoners into using whatever means at their disposal to prevent the state from gaining access to their labor. That is why prisoners across America are now on strike…
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether a fugitive Malaysian financier laundered tens of millions of dollars through two associates and used the funds to pay a U.S. legal team that includes former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and a lawyer who represents President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. Jho Low, the…
Which Web sites get the most traffic? According to the ranking service Alexa, the top three sites in the United States, as of this writing, are Google, YouTube, and Facebook. (Porn, somewhat hearteningly, doesn’t crack the top ten.) The rankings don’t reflect everything—the dark Web, the nouveau-riche recluses harvesting bitcoin—but, for the most part, people…
Darwyn Cooke’s widow isn’t letting anyone put words in his mouth. Source: Twitter Surprisingly, some members of ComicsGate have the belief that what they’re doing is benefiting the comics industry as a whole. Among their ranks they include comics professionals Ethan Van Sciver, Jon Malin, and or so they thought, Darwyn Cooke. Unsurprisingly, Marsha Cooke, Darwyn’s widow, shot that…