There will be coffee drinks “inspired by the culture and traditions of Chicago.”

A) Seeing as you have access to the company Slack, Anthony, why don’t you post screenshots of these “incendiary comments” here, or send them to tips at splinter dot com? We would all love to see them! I know I would!

Hundred bucks says Nielsen gets a high-profile job before the end of the year. Again: no one is ever going to feel any negative repercussions from their time in the Trump White House. None of them. Ever. 

There’s nothing “fresh” about his brain.

the ship be sinkin’

How To Ease Everyone’s Minds About Getting Paid As Soon As Possible: A Guide By Anthony Severino

+1 for use of the word “wunderchud”

Oh I’m not hopeful at all! I just wanted to write something better than “I want to SecureDrop my foot up your ass”

I hope this means you guys plan on championing the type of journalism that would actually require the use of encrypted communication instead of the useless listicle-peddling nonsense you and your idiot colleagues in management were reportedly pushing. 

Hmm, a search for “trenta” on this page gives me 0 results.

Stay off the damn mala herba

Without parallel the most deranged pitch I’ve heard in a long time—and I work at Splinter.

Can we just get the Paul brothers to bare-knuckle fight each other?

Told you.

I like the Kerrygold garlic & herb butter for the snacking, and the Kerrygold unsalted butter for the cooking. What I am saying here is that Kerrygold is good butter.

In a Q&A moderated by Discussing Film, John Wick creator Derek Kolstad joked that the character will head into outer space for his fourth feature outing.

With regard to #2, the column is clearly an attempt to reverse engineer some nobility in his cause to get a professor fired because he got in his feelings about seeing a Tweet that gave him a sad. “Look at me, I’m standing against the forces of evil, even though everyone hates me!”

It’s morally and intellectually bankrupt. The goddamn Blackwater guy wrote a better op-ed piece than this crap. 

I don’t know about anyone else but I’m furious right now. The NYT should send this deleterious turd to the trash can as soon as possible.