Giuliani Attempts to Clean Up Explosive Statements on Trump’s Stormy Daniels Payment
Anthony Behar/ZUMA Rudy Giuliani released a statement on Friday attempting to clarify explosive remarks he made just two days before, in which he said President Donald Trump had reimbursed $130,000 to his personal lawyer Michael Cohen to keep adult film actress Stormy Daniels from publicly speaking about an alleged affair with the president. The new statement from…
A Night With Stormy Daniels and a Strip Club Full of Resistance Women
A sign outside of Blush in Pittsburgh advertises the night’s featured performer.Clint Hendler/Mother Jones The most talked-about woman in American politics took the stage at about a quarter past 10 p.m. on Thursday for a 15-minute, four-song dance set. Strutting across a mirror-backed platform graced by a pair of shining, two-story-tall stripper poles, Stormy Daniels was…
My Lost Relativity Masterpiece, Explained
This common illustration of how gravity works in general relativity is possibly the worst scientific analogy ever invented. It should be banned forever. Yesterday I mentioned in passing that the product of my dex-fueled nights a couple of years ago was a tutorial on special and general relativity. Why? Beats me. Ask the dex. Several…
Illegal Border Crossings Are Back Up to Normal
It’s kind of slow today so far, so here’s the latest data from the Border Patrol: It’s looking more and more like Trump’s bluster caused a temporary dip in illegal border crossings, but we’re now back up to the same rates as before. A big mouth only gets you so far, apparently.
Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in April
The American economy gained 164,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at a so-so 74,000 jobs. The headline unemployment rate dropped to 3.9 percent, but this was entirely due to people dropping out of the labor force. The…
“I Was Directed to Market OxyContin”: A Purdue Pharma Rep Tells How He Was Paid to Push Opioids
Pureradiancephoto/Getty When Sean Thatcher was a sales rep at Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin, doctors he visited often complained that their patients were developing tolerance to the opioid painkiller. Thatcher, who worked for the company between 2009 and 2015 in Montana, was instructed to tell the prescribers to increase the dose, and to clarify that…