An Actual Conspiracy Kept Jeffrey Epstein’s Accomplices out of Prison
Labor Secretary Alex Acosta stepped down July 12 amid criticism of his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik But not limited to: It was just a four-word phrase, a bit of plain contractual verbiage, but even now, more than a decade later, Spencer Kuvin has a hard time expressing just how bizarre…
The Biden Campaign Is Demanding That TV Execs Stop Booking Guiliani
September 25, 2019, Manhattan Beach, California, USA: Presidential candidate Joe Biden leaves a private fundraiser at a home in Manhattan Beach on Wednesday, Sep. 25, 2019. (Credit Image: © Wire)Scott Varley/Orange County Register via ZUMA Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is reportedly asking television news executives to not book Rudy Guiliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer,…
I’m Obsessed With This 1994 Today Show Clip About “Internet”
Today Show It’s a lazy Saturday so let’s talk about this bonkers Today Show clip from 1994: I haven’t seen this clip in years… Today Show, 1994: “What is internet, anyway?” pic.twitter.com/G2YustAEbD — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 28, 2019 Where to start? Bryan Gumbel asking: “What is internet, anyway?” Katie Couric—if we can trust…
A New Memoir Details How the Criminal Justice System Puts Sexual Assault Survivors Through Hell
Mariah Tiffany After Chanel Miller was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner on the Stanford University campus in January 2015, she tried to keep the attack secret from most of her family and friends. As details of the crime were reported—two grad students on bikes had spotted Turner on top of the unconscious Miller behind a…
Why Your Mom Uses Emojis All Wrong 🙃
Mark Helenowski/Mother Jones In the early 2010s, strange uses of language started cropping up all over the micro-blogging platform Tumblr. A Tumblr user might do ALL THE THINGS, or get major feels, or lose the ability to even. Somehow, everyone understood each other. One blog, All Things Linguistic, took the language of Tumblr users seriously.…
Michael Jang Offers a Fresh Look at a Retro California
It took 40 years for Michael Jang’s photography career to take off, and to tell you the truth, he’s thrilled. “This delayed gratification thing? It couldn’t be any better,” Jang says in the kitchen of his house, which is filled with framed prints for his first retrospective show. The prints of various sizes are neatly wrapped in…