This Really Went Places

[Splinter]( October 9, 2019 [This Really Went Places]( [Sometimes.....the internet just really, like, goes places. So it was today after a series of events led me to type these words: “The Good Place star Jameela Jamil was embroiled in a Twitter controversy over her tweet about George W. Bush.” Yes it sounds like Mad Libs, but this is a news site, it’s all real!]( [[gig economy](](@feature1LinkUrl) [Uber and Lyft Drivers Talk About Getting Ripped Off]( [After a monumental political battle, California passed AB5, a law that will make it much harder for gig economy companies to classify their workers as “independent contractors.” Now, the same political battle is coming to New York. That means it’s a perfect time to hear from Uber and Lyft drivers,...]( [[White House](](@feature2LinkUrl) [The President Is Mad Online]( [I regret to inform you that it’s Wednesday morning and the president is tweeting madly.]( [[Trumpland](](@feature3LinkUrl) [New Book Reportedly Details Dozens of New Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Trump]( [Before today, President Donald Trump had been publicly accused of sexual harassment and/or assault by two dozen women. Most recently, the writer E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of violently sexually assaulting her in the dressing room of a department store more than two decades ago. Now, a new book details...]( [[White House](](@feature4LinkUrl) [Hey I'll Be Over Here If You Need Me]( [As the Ukraine scandal continues to escalate and President Donald Trump inches closer and closer to just declaring himself God King for Life, one particularly prominent White House figure has been basically nowhere to be seen: Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.]( [[Media](](@feature5LinkUrl) [Celebs Rush to Defend Ellen's Friendship With George W. Bush, Awwww]( [Ellen Degeneres doesn’t even want to acknowledge the real reason why people aren’t chill about her friendship with George W. Bush, but sure famous folks, go off:]( [[The Discourse](](@feature6LinkUrl) [Bin Laden In the Shell]( [Breaking shell news: Osama bin Laden found, in the image of a shell picked up on an English beach.]( [[Media](](@feature7LinkUrl) [NBC News Comes Out of Ronan Farrow's New Book Looking Horrible]( [The Hollywood Reporter has a long feature out about Ronan Farrow’s new book Catch and Kill and boy is it deeply unflattering for NBC News.]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [[Deadspin](](@rec1LinkUrl) [Honestly, You're Being So Dramatic About Ellen DeGeneres Yukking It Up With A War Criminal At A Cowboys Game]( [Salah Hassan was a journalist working in Iraq for Al Jazeera in 2003 when the U.S. military arrested him, took him to the Abu Ghraib prison, and tortured him. This happened because did his job well—he was quick to the scene after a roadside bomb attack in Diyala. As Hassan...]( [[Deadspin](](@rec2LinkUrl) [Coleen Rooney Catching A Fellow WAG Snitching To The Tabloids Is The Best Sports Scandal Of The Year]( [As a typical American sports fan, you very well might not know who Coleen Rooney is. If you don’t, then you definitely have never heard of Rebekah Vardy. But I can assure you that this story of Rooney, a famous WAG, going fishing for a clout shark she suspected of...]( [[Jalopnik](](@rec3LinkUrl) [What's The Worst Interior In Any Car You Can Buy New Right Now?]( [Back in the day at General Motors, they used to boast they offered a car “for every purse and purpose.” Evidently the purpose of the Buick Cascada was “rental car customers who want a Chrysler Sebring now that Chrysler no longer makes the Sebring.” But that wasn’t even the worst...]( [[Gizmodo](](@rec4LinkUrl) [The Latest Disney+ Blow to Netflix Is a $5 Subscription Deal]( [You may have caught word a couple of months back of a limited-time, 3-year, discounted Disney+ subscription that shook out to about $4 per month, or roughly the cost of a cup of coffee. If that wasn’t enough to turn the heads of some wayward Netflix subscribers, maybe a second...]( [[The Root](](@rec5LinkUrl) [An Open Letter to the White Couple Who Wrote a Penn State Football Player About His 'Awful' and 'Disgusting' Hair]( [Penn State University has responded to a letter that was reportedly penned by a stale two-pack of allegedly college-educated Saltines condemning the player’s “awful” and “disgusting” natural hair.]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Splinter]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Profile Center]( © 2019 Gizmodo Media Group 1540 Broadway, 27th Floor New York, NY 10036