Conservative Journalist Tries to Shame AOC for Participating in Society

[Splinter]( October 10, 2019 [Conservative Journalist Tries to Shame AOC for Participating in Society]( [The Washington Times’ legal affairs reporter Alex Swoyer reported in an “EXCLUSIVE” piece Wednesday that New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently visited a salon in downtown Washington, D.C.]( [[State News](](@feature1LinkUrl) [Chicago Releases Investigation Showing 16 Police Officers Helped Cover Up the Killing of Laquan McDonald]( [On Wednesday, the city of Chicago released a watchdog report showing an alleged cover-up following the 2014 police killing of black teenager Laquan McDonald.]( [[Journalismism](](@feature2LinkUrl) [Only Rihanna Is Allowed to Talk About Politics From Now On]( [Rihanna has never shied away from getting political, and her latest interview for the cover story in Vogue was a prime example of her willingness to speak truth to power (even though her interviewer was disturbingly underprepared).]( [[The Discourse](](@feature3LinkUrl) [A Guide to Today's Juiciest Feud Featuring Two British Footballers' Wives and a Fake News Sting]( [Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy may not be household names for much of the United States, unless you have a particular form of brain poisoning that comes from caring deeply about English Premier League soccer. But today, for one bright shining moment, you should know them both, because they’re at...]( [[State News](](@feature4LinkUrl) [No Criminal Charges for Off-Duty Police Officer Who Shot and Killed Mentally Ill Man at Costco]( [Salvador Sanchez, an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, will not face criminal charges for fatally shooting a nonverbal, mentally ill man who assaulted him in a California Costco.]( [[State News](](@feature5LinkUrl) [Amber Guyger Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Murdering Unarmed Black Neighbor in His Own Home]( [A jury sentenced former Dallas, Texas police officer Amber Guyger to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for the murder of an unarmed black man, Botham Jean. She will be eligible for parole after 5 years.]( [[Trumpland](](@feature6LinkUrl) [What's Up With Rudy Giuliani's Brain]( [Donald Trump lawyer and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is perpetually on one, but his best material usually comes out while he’s screaming on the phone at a reporter in a taxi or holding up his trusty iPad o’crimes on a cable television network. On Tuesday, he decided to...]( [[Splinter Movie Club](](@feature7LinkUrl) [Who Will Be the 'Blood Sacrifice' on the Succession Season Finale? Our Guesses]( [Next week is the season two finale of HBO’s legendary series about knitwear, power blazers, and intensely symmetrical hairstyles, Succession—and after a chaotic-evil Congressional testimony, someone is going down. A “blood sacrifice,” as Roy patriarch Logan warns. WHO WILL IT BE??? Our best guesses below. Spoilers!]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [[Deadspin](](@rec1LinkUrl) [Clayton Kershaw Will Never Get Over It]( [Clayton Kershaw was on in the eighth for two batters, and two batters only, no matter how he looked, no matter the result. Kenta Maeda was warm and ready, and after Kershaw faced Anthony Rendon and Juan Soto, Maeda would come in for a string of righties. So, just two...]( [[Kotaku](](@rec2LinkUrl) [PewDiePie Is Having Second Thoughts About The Whole YouTube Thing]( [A profile of YouTuber Pewdiepie in the New York Times titled “What Does Pewdiepie Really Believe?” does not quite answer that question. In fact, Pewdiepie himself does not seem to know.]( [[Gizmodo](](@rec3LinkUrl) [MIT Confirms a Bridge Leonardo da Vinci Designed 500 Years Ago Was an Ancient Engineering Marvel]( [Some 500 years after his death, researchers are still discovering just how talented and brilliant Leonardo da Vinci was. Architects and civil engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used a 3D printer to create a replica of a bridge da Vinci designed, but never built. To their surprise, not...]( [[Deadspin](](@rec4LinkUrl) [The Onside Kick Is Dead. Here’s How To Fix It.]( [Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Buy his book here.]( [[Deadspin](](@rec5LinkUrl) [Rockets Flack Tells Reporter To Stick To Sports After She Asks Players About Political Expression]( [Russell Westbrook and James Harden each dropped 22 points in the Rockets’ preseason victory over the Raptors in Saitama, Japan. In the postgame presser, CNN’s Christina Macfarlane asked a question of the two players:]( 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