As editor in chief of Splinter, I must state that Splinter does not endorse Hamilton Nolan’s views about the eclipse. I do, however, support him emotionally.

You will need a screwdriver, a pair of tweezers, a magnifying glass (optional), some salt (~1tbsp), and a bag of chicken feed, preferably corn-based.

I appreciated her steadfast refusal to learn or care about any sport the entire time she wrote for Deadspin. Will miss her unique voice.

What are you guys in the comments fussing about?

Labor forgets its class consciousness sometimes, but capital never does.

Ashley, this is seriously amazing work.

I will do my best to leave politics out of my next blog post about how politicians fund government science and technology programs.

The best part of capitalism is when shitheads accidentally waste their money in the funniest of ways.

ben shapiro is a 5'4" manlet and he’s extremely embarrassed about that

Could be worse. They could be libertarians or god forbid, Republicans.

Can you imagine the uproar if white people were enslaved for hundreds of years, and after having been freed were still denied basic rights for another century, and then were denied the tools that would allow them to better their overall circumstance like decent education and access to housing and banking, and then…

I think where white people get mixed up is what they’re supposed to FEEL about their privilege. They (we) too often assume it’s guilt or remorse that’s required. When, in reality, it’s kindness and civility and fairness. And most importantly sometimes, it requires outrage for a plight that’s not your own.

NO.

Wow, that sucks for that moth

I love the growth of this comment.

“Law enforcement has requested,” huh? Fuck this. Everyone from law enforcement, the federal and state government, large corporations, and some small community businesses have acted nefariously in North Dakota. This is INEXCUSABLE. This is criminal, unethical, and inhumane. This is genocide. All of this is happening in…

nah

Any tweet from an FBI account describing Fred Trump as a “real estate developer and philanthropist” is not some random, neutral tweet. He was a piece of shit and now he’s dead, leaving behind several surviving turds and grandturds.

Some perspective on how historic this is:

So the guy perpetrates the violence and then blames the woman for not preventing it? (Checks all of human history.) YUP! CHECKS OUT!