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A bloated, nude effigy of Donald Trump appeared (where else?) at Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro Thursday morning, and the work is part of a coordinated, nationwide effort by an anarchist group, with naked Trumps popping up in public spaces in New York, LA, Seattle, and Cleveland this morning as well. Playing off “The…
Last night at the DNC there was a balloon drop. It is at this point in time we all learned that Bill Clinton fuckin’ LOVES balloons. Twitter: @AllisonRockey 1. Here Bill sees the balloons for the first time: Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images 2. They are real, not just something he heard about in a…
Recently, the Harvard University Republican Club (of kids) got widespread news coverage for refusing to endorse Donald Trump. Now the Yale Republicans are in a public battle over Trump as well. Hey—fuck off!!! Should we care what a bunch of 20-year-old college Republicans, who are some of the world’s most insufferable pricks, think or do?…
Historically, American fathers dreamed that their sons would grow up to be greater men than they were. That was before the dreaded “millennial” generation. http://deadspin.com/grip-it-good-6… Today, cold hard science proves that the “millennial” male is a weak and tepid creature with the handshake of a wilted lettuce leaf. A disgraceful new study finds that today’s…
Imagine my plight: I, a full-grown American male, would like nothing better than to do my own laundry. But where is the detergent for me? Everywhere, the scents are flowery meadow this, springtime seabreeze that. Finally, a new contender emerges—FREY enters the fray—and I am liberated at last. While reading Drug Store News, my trustiest…
Wendi Deng was married to Rupert Murdoch for 14 years before they divorced in 2013 amidst rumors that Deng had been cheating on the founder of News Corp. with Tony Blair, the ex-prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Both parties deny this.) With one, maybe two of the world’s most prominent morally questionable, gross men…
PSY 607: Everything is Fucked Prof. Sanjay Srivastava Class meetings: Mondays 9:00 – 10:50 in 257 Straub Office hours: Held on Twitter at your convenience (@hardsci) In a much-discussed article at Slate, social psychologist Michael Inzlicht told a reporter, “Meta-analyses are fucked” (Engber, 2016). What does it mean, in science, for something to be fucked?…
Weird Facebook exists as a celebration of the bizarre world of dank memes. What’s hidden behind the scenes, however, is weirder than any image macro brought to life. A few days after Daily Dot readers came to know the saga of the Where my shrimps Facebook page turning from crustacean meme kingdom to clickbait wasteland, the narrative…
Earlier today, Hillary Clinton tweeted to her over eight million followers that Barack Obama is not, in fact, the founder of ISIS. At the time of publication, that tweet has been retweeted roughly 6,000 times and “faved” 10,000 times, which is fine. It’s a fine tweet. But Hillary—we can do better. Let us do better….
Photo credit: Shutterstock/Victory Jeffreys II; Art by Bobby Finger We here at Gawker Media are in the business of telling the truth, but we’re also in the business of collaboration. You’ve probably noticed posts from across the Gawker network appearing here on Deadspin, and you’ve probably seen our posts appear on our sister sites. Splicing…