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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More

Popular Kindle books, a cheap Fire tablet, and Pebble Time smart watches kick off Saturday’s best deals.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
Amazon Kindle Gold Box

Today only, Amazon’s offering several popular Kindle books for just $2-$5 each, including The Martian, Grey, and Gone Girl. Be sure to head over to Amazon though to see the full list.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
Pebble Time, $104 | Pebble Time Round, $144

The Pebble Time and Pebble Time Round are some of the best smart watches you can buy right now, and Amazon’s offering them for just $104-$144, today only as part of a Gold Box Deal. Those are the best prices we’ve seen on non-refurbs.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
JBL Charge 2, $80

We love USB battery packs, and we love Bluetooth speakers, so you can only imagine how we feel about the JBL Charge 2, which combines both into a single product. Today only, you can pick one up for $80 in red, matching the best price we’ve ever seen.


Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
Amazon Fire HD 6, $70

Amazon’s Fire HD 6 is a penny-pinching tablet buyer’s dream, and Amazon’s offering it for just $70 today, or $30 less than usual. While Amazon does offer a cheaper 7" Fire tablet for $50, the Fire HD has a sharper screen, a faster processor, and slightly better battery life.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
Presto FlipSide Belgian Waffle Maker, $24

The Presto FlipSide was one of your five favorite waffle irons, and you can pick one up from Amazon today for an all-time low $24.

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I probably make fresh waffles in my waffle iron every other weekend or so, but in between, I’ve used it to make hash browns, pressed sandwiches, and even churros. Lifehacker has a ton of other suggestions too, including mozzarella sticks, 90-second cookies, pre-packaged cinnamon rolls, and even crispy bacon. So you see, calling this thing a waffle iron is practically a misnomer.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
MonsterRAX Garage Ceiling Storage, $150

MonsterRAX turns your garage ceiling into versatile storage, and the 4' x 8' kit is marked down to $150 as part of a Gold Box deal today, an all-time low by $40.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
10-Pack Pint Glasses, $13

You could open your own pub with this 10-pack of pint glasses for just $13.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
Miracle-Gro AeroGarden Sprout, $70 | Miracle-Gro AeroGarden Harvest, $100

You don’t need a yard, or even any gardening skills to grow your own food at home; you just need Miracle-Gro’s Aerogarden line. These fully-integrated, soil-free indoor gardens can grow herbs, vegetables, and salad greens up to five times faster than regular soil, and you can choose from two great deals today.

The smaller Sprout Plus LED model is marked down to $70, and can grow up to three pods at once, while the larger Harvest can accommodate six pods for just $30 more. Both come with a starter pack of pods to get started, but Amazon has a ton of extra options on sale to fit your tastes.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
Escort Passport S55, $110

Assuming it’s legal in your state, a good radar/laser detector can pay for itself over time, and this highly-rated Escort Passport S55 is on sale for just $109 on BuyDig’s eBay storefront, or $60 less than Amazon.


Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
TaoTronics Music LED Strip Light, $25

You can’t control it from your smartphone like a Philips Hue Lightstrip, but this TaoTronics LED strip light can glow eight different colors, and even includes several modes that will make the lights flash and change to match whatever song is playing in the room. Plus, unlike a Hue system, almost anyone can afford this thing at $25. Each strip is 16.4' long, but they can be cut to length.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
100 Velcro Cable Ties, $6

Velcro cable ties can transform the rat king of cables behind your desk or home theater into something more manageable, and you can get 100 of them today on Amazon for just $6. Now, Amazon frequently lists these at $5, but as add-on items that only ship as part of a $25 order. Today, you’ll pay $1 more, but you can get free Prime shipping.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
Kinzd Slim Bifold Leather Front Pocket Wallet, $8 with code 9LZGRJPX

Earlier this week, we shared a deal on a front pocket RFID-blocking wallet for $8, but if that one wasn’t your style, here’s another option for the same price.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
Vansky LED Bias Light, $15 with code YHRKTVL1

For a few years now, Antec’s USB-powered HDTV bias light has been one of our most reliably popular deals whenever it went on sale. The problem: It only gets a significant discount once every few months. Luckily, a copycat has emerged to fill in the gap.

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Just like the Antec model, this Vansky LED light strips plug directly into your TV’s USB port for power, and sticks to the back of the set via built-in adhesive. Once you turn your TV on, the light strip will cast a soft glow on the wall behind it, which can reduce eyestrain when watching in the dark, and improve your TV’s perceived black levels. We’ve posted a few deals on this model, but $15 is the best price we’ve seen.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
PlayStation Plus, $40

In case you missed out last week, you can once again snag an extra year of PlayStation Plus for $40. I know it seems like we’re seeing this deal every week right now, but these gift card deals tend to be feast or famine; it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if the deal disappeared for three months.


Saturday's Best Deals: Kindle Bestsellers, Pebble Time, Waffle Iron, and More
Timex Weekender Watches, extra 20% off with code WEEKENDER

They won’t track your steps or show you notifications, but Timex’s simple Weekender Watches are still some of the most popular watches ever listed. They’re extremely versatile and come in a variety of colors, and today several models are marked down to the $30 range, plus an additional 20% off with code WEEKENDER. Just note that the code will only work on watches shipped and sold by Amazon.com directly; no third party sellers.

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D.C.'s Black Gay and Trans Kids Fought Back, Formed a "Gang" Called Check It, Now Star in a Documentary

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D.C.'s Black Gay and Trans Kids Fought Back, Formed a "Gang" Called Check It, Now Star in a Documentary
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“I love a red carpet,” 26-year-old Star giggled excitedly in Chelsea’s Bowtie Cinema last Saturday night. She was wearing a shiny, yellow A-line dress with flowers printed on it, and high-heeled gladiator sandals. In her D.C. accent, she drew out the next sentence so as to luxuriate in it. “I love to be seeeeeeeeeeen.”

And so she was, big time. A few minutes later, Star’s image would be projected onto a screen during the world premiere of the Tribeca Film Festival’s Check It, an eponymously named documentary that follows principal members of Check It (also known as The Check It), a crew of young LGBT black men and women who live in Washington D.C. What Check It is, exactly, depends on who’s describing it. Its members, six of whom were on display that night, call it a family.

“It’s support,” Check It member Dae Dae, 23, told me before the premiere. Looking G.Q.-chic in a blue suit, his braids elaborately arranged into a halo, he politely removed the sunglasses he’d been rocking that night a few sentences into our discussion. “When you feel as though you have nobody to turn to, you can turn to your friends and they will be there for you. They helped me out in a lot of ways: food, to be brave and stand up for myself, family loyalty.”

Outsiders, including reporters and the crew’s mentor, activist Ron “Mo” Moten, call it a “gang.” Check It, which was co-founded by Star, who is trans, in 2009 as a partial result of gay-bashings she experienced before she transitioned, evolved as an off-shoot of the mostly female “gang” Unexpected. Within a few years, membership ballooned to over 200 members and Check It gained a reputation for, to put it in the words of one local news anchor in 2012 “terrorizing” downtown D.C., by brawling, stealing, and snatching purses.

Check It’s scandalizing criminal activity may have extended beyond its initial goals, but it’s important to view the crew within gay historical context—especially because, as Moten would go on to explain repeatedly to various crowds over the course of last weekend, the larger D.C. gay community has ignored the group (Moten says a Check It-organized fashion show that was held in D.C. earlier this month attracted more straight spectators than gay ones). The larger gay community’s apathy is ironic, if not downright shameful, given that the organizing of Check It, like many gay uprisings, was an organic resistance to bigotry.

“You gotta take the initiative to stand up and say, ‘Enough is enough,’” said Dae Dae. “If you can’t, they’re gonna run over you. I hope I can touch a lot of youth to see that you don’t have to be afraid to be yourself. Being yourself can take you further in life.”

The essence of gay liberation derived from a bunch of oppressed people boldly embracing their identities, and standing up to those who thwart, condemn, and oppose. This drove the Mattachine Society, it fueled the fire at Stonewall, it motivated Gay Men’s Health Crisis and ACT Up, and it’s responsible, at least in part, for Check It.

Directors Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer shot their film in D.C. mostly between 2012 and 2014. The documentary contains some chaotic footage of the havoc Check It have been known to wreak, as well as several scenes depicting the hair-trigger tempers of its members. Check It nonetheless has an uplifting bent, as it focuses on activist Moten’s attempt to inspire the Check It to seek prosocial outlets for its members’ energy. We see them at a fashion camp, and one member, Skittles, flirts with the idea of taking up boxing. Skittles, Moten reasons in the documentary, should be using his pugilistic acumen to improve his situation, not worsen it.

“We have too many people who are traumatized walking around urban America and we just expect them to be normal,” Moten told the sold-out crowd after Saturday’s screening. The documentary, Flor explained, came about at Moten’s suggestion when she initially approached him with the idea to document D.C.’s go-go music scene.

“It’s not normal to have five of your friends killed in one month and not get any services,” Moten continued. “Eventually it’s going to come out. A lot of times it comes out in a negative way.”

The night was awash in positivity, though. After the film ended, the cheering audience stood up and turned to the back row of the theater, where the Check It members had sat and vocally enjoyed the movie. They laughed at parts that the mostly white audience didn’t—like scenes of Check It members clowning between tricks on K Street, a stretch in D.C. known for prostitution that is, at some points, only blocks away from the White House.

In that Chelsea venue, the Check It members were wrapped in several layers of white gaze—from Flor and Oppenheimer’s camera lens to the white people who handled and greeted the cast on the red carpet (including Check It executive producer Steve Buscemi, who went down the line on the carpet and shook each member’s hand) to the crowd in the theater which contained the likes of Louis C.K., and Debbie Harry, right down to me. But what that meant, frankly, is that for 90 minutes, a few hundred white people shut the fuck up and listened while a marginalized group that goes almost entirely without representation in filmmaking—let alone in the broader scheme of pop culture—was given the space to explain their lives. “I want people to know where my anger and pain come from,” Dae Dae told me against a backdrop of exposed brick later during the premiere’s after party at Chelsea’s One Star Bar. “A lot of people just see me as this loud, obnoxious-attitude person. There are a lot of things people didn’t know about until I started telling them.”

By all accounts, coaxing out this telling took patience. Flor said she and Oppenheimer, with whom she’d previously collaborated on the HBO doc The Nine Lives of Marion Berry, spent “months and months” with the Check It so as to gain their trust. “I’m surprised they kept up with us, we were so ghetto, fighting all the time. It was a lot,” said Star. “We’d curse them out and they were still behind us. They didn’t care.”

“The resistance made it more fun,” says Flor. “It’s a challenge.”

Skittles, who is chiseled and gaunt with a shock of yellow-blonde hair that recalls vintage Dennis Rodman in the doc, but now rocks a shorter, dark cropped ‘do, said he was won over “from just being around [Flor and Oppenheimer], and them constantly coming around. We like stuff like that. It shows that you’re consistent and you don’t give up easily. That gave us that bond that allowed us to talk to them.”

Flor and Oppenheimer project their respect of that bond onscreen. “[The members of Check It] are adamant about wanting to take baby steps as their lives become public and one of those steps is choosing to go simply by their first names, by the names their friends know them on the street,” says Oppenheimer. Flor says they let Check It share their lives as they saw fit.

An arresting example of this occurs in the film when Dae Dae reunites with his long-estranged, newly sober mother. He explains that drugs sucked up most of her attention during his childhood, when he really needed it. They discuss the past, anecdotally at first, and when the emotions start to well and threaten to crescendo, Dae Dae shuts down the scene, insisting that his mother take off her mic so that she isn’t seen “like this” (i.e. vulnerable). Oppenheimer told me it was important to subtly break the fourth wall and assert his subject’s agency. When I brought up how touched I was by Dae Dae’s protective gesture toward his mother, he told me, “That’s always. I just adore her.”

In the film, Flor and Oppenheimer give similar space to Tray, 25, during a scene in which we watch the system fail him in real time. In it, he attempts to report that he’s been raped. Over the line, the operator tells him that if he doesn’t know his attacker’s first and last name, she can’t file his report. “D.C. couldn’t do nothing, because it happened in Maryland,” explained Tray during a roundtable interview the day after the premiere at the office of the publicity firm handling Check It for Tribeca. Justice, in this instance, eluded Tray. “I just let it go. I forgave that person and moved on from it. But it’s back now, because it’s on film. I don’t really like talking about that.”


Check It is full of broad strokes illustrating the abhorrent realities of disparity, but nuances sneak up on you as these kids share their world views in casual conversation. One of the movie’s low-key moving moments comes when Tray talks about finding “acceptance” by turning tricks on K Street. Tray reasons that it was there that he—presenting as female—for the first time encountered men who actively sought to communicate with him, and who furthermore, offered him money.

“Friends always say I spend too much time talking to dates and stuff,” said Tray, during the roundtable. “They call it ‘lovey dovey,’ and all this, but you having a conversation. I like to get to know who you are. I really do. There are people I have dealt with off K Street [that] I still have relationships with to this day. And that was so long ago, like, four, five years go.”

“Shit, I just get in and get my money, bitch,” called Dae Dae from across the table.

“OK, Miss Thing?” added Star with a cackle, high-fiving Dae Dae.

“I would tell my friends when I went. If something happened to me, I would want them to know the last place I went to,” Tray added, gently refocusing the conversation on the grim reality of the dangers of sex work.

The typical Check It discourse I observed falls in line with this ebb and flow of seriousness and humor. It’s like a perpetual system of tension and release. The group comfortably shifts in and out of real talk and jokes, of grave life-or-death matters and a certain devil-may-care attitude about our absurd world. Its members are casually militant when they discuss wanting to change minds that associate gayness with weakness. They are casually proud about their sexuality, exhibiting none of the allergy to labels that the queer youth of today often does. They call themselves gay or, in Star’s case, transgender (Star appears in the movie her pre-transition identity, as Tay), and the guys are clearly at ease with displaying masculine and feminine aspects of themselves.

They are casual about the horrors they’ve experienced—on route to Chipotle, Erica, 24, told me about how she used to steal from supermarkets to feed her siblings when food ran out at the end of the month. At 16, she was spent nine months in D.C.’s C.T.F., with charges stemming from armed robbery and car-jacking. Because she was the only female juvenile in C.T.F., she wasn’t allowed to be among the general population so Erica spent her time in protective custody. That meant she was locked up for 23 hours a day during the week, and allowed out of her cell for just one. She spent entire weekends in her cell. She told me this so matter-of-factly, we might as well have been getting manicures and gossiping about boys. (Like many of Check It’s cisgender women, Erica identifies as bi.)

“We put people in comas, in hospitals and everything,” said Star at at the roundtable, casually. “Let me tell you, I had a baseball bat, I had a machete, all types of knives.” There’s an off-handed reference in the movie to the Check It making its victims drink bleach.

Star, and every other member, were careful to frame Check It’s fighting as self-defense deriving from being bullied. They didn’t start stuff, they finished it. When I asked what I would have to do to join Check It, Tray answered my question with a question: “Do you know how to fight?”

“If you wasn’t already in our group and you wanted to join, you had to fight somebody that was already with us,” explained Netta, 23, who is Star’s sister. She is pregnant and due in July.

“But they would protect other gay people if they saw somebody getting disrespected,” Moten elaborated.

“We done put ourselves in some people business that we could have walked away from and said, ‘That had nothing to do with us,’” said Dae Dae. “Just because they were gay, we gave it to them, because we knew we could fight. We knew we had our defense for ourselves.”

They concede that they’ve gone too far at times, and all claim that their behavior has cooled down in the time since the documentary was filmed. There are a variety of reasons for this. Tray seems to believe that Check It has proven its point.

“I don’t see none of the violence now, ‘cause that don’t pay bills,” he said. “And everybody know who we are so there’s no point of proving yourself to people.”

Check It’s members have “grown up” and all have jobs, according to Star. A few of them are actively helping run a clothing line called Check It Enterprises (Erica, for example, is their treasurer). At the premiere party, she, Star, and Moten manned a table of T-shirts that had “CHECK IT” printed across their chests. They moved 38 that night.

Additionally, three members including Dae Dae, are enrolled in D.C.’s Career Connections program, a work-readiness initiative in which they’re training to be mentors while getting paid for it.

“I want to start a nonprofit organization for youth that’s dealing with HIV, just to let them know that there’s more to life than giving up,” said Dae Dae during Saturday’s after party, bringing up a topic that goes unspoken in the documentary. D.C. has some of the highest HIV rates in the country among black men who have sex with men—an estimated 14 to 19 percent of black MSM are HIV positive. In February, the CDC reiterated an estimate that’s been floating around for years now—if rates continue as they are, one out of two black MSM in the U.S. will contract HIV in his lifetime.

I asked Dae Dae why no one talked about HIV in Check It, and he told me, “A lot of people didn’t want to speak of the truth. It hurts.”


After our roundtable interview, Check It collectively grumbled when they learned they wouldn’t get to watch another screening of the documentary. While Flor and Oppenheimer were whisked away to introduce another public screening, the members of Check It, meanwhile, were told they’d be riding down to Tribeca, at the festival’s hub building, where they’d get their pictures taken by Getty. They were assured that they’d make it to the theater in time for the post-screening Q&A, which seemed to placate at least Dae Dae. I asked if he wasn’t tired yet of answering questions about himself, having spent hours doing so on that press day alone. “No,” he told me. “I love it.”

He and his cohort then spent much of the time to and from their photo shoot on various social media platforms like Snapchat and Instagram. They are, after all, millennials. Their 20-minute photo shoot was goofy and hammy, with many of them overemphasizing the poses in a theatrically modelesque way that would make Tyra Banks proud.

I asked the crew what they were planning to do when they returned to D.C. Star told me she was excited to see her boyfriend. Dae Dae echoed a sentiment that he shares in the movie, during a scene in which he interns at a Fashion Week showcase for designer Casar Galdino. In the movie, he talks about his brief trip to New York frustrating him, since it put his problems on pause without solving them.

He told me, “You gotta go back to your day-to-day life, and back to your survival skills when you in D.C., because that’s all you know how to do.” But, as if reflexively defensive so as not to come off as self-pitying, he added, “Life is always a struggle, but no one’s life is easy. You gonna have problems in some type of way. It’s just how you deal with your problems that makes your life easy. It’s how you go about things.”

“The story changes their lives, because it gives them something to live for,” said Moten, explaining what was in it for Check It to participate in the filming of their documentary. “They didn’t think anybody cared about them. So with the stuff they was doing, what did they have to lose?”

Donald Trump's Newest, Saddest Punching Bag Is John Kasich

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Donald Trump's Newest, Saddest Punching Bag Is John Kasich
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As if John Kasich’s presidential race couldn’t get sadder, now he’s got the Republican frontrunner bullying him into getting out.

At a campaign rally in Connecticut on Saturday, Donald Trump told a crowd that he couldn’t even pronounce his supposed rival’s name. From The Hill:

“I don’t know how to pronounce his name — Kasich. It’s -i-c-h,” Trump said. “Every time I see it I say Kas-itch. But it’s pronounced Kas-ick.

“Can we ask him to change the spelling of his name? Are we allowed to do that? It’s so ridiculous,” Trump added, before moving on.

Poor, sad, sack-of-potatoes Kasich. Or is it Kasick?

“We all have our flaws, but Dennis Hastert has very few,” wrote Rep.

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“We all have our flaws, but Dennis Hastert has very few,” wrote Rep. Tom DeLay in a letter expressing support for the former House speaker, according to Politico. Are we talking about the same guy?

Michelle McNamara, Writer And Wife of Patton Oswalt, Has Died at 46

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Michelle McNamara, Writer And Wife of Patton Oswalt, Has Died at 46

Michelle McNamara passed away unexpectedly in her sleep on Thursday, in her home in Los Angeles.

McNamara was a true crime writer, and a graduate of Notre Dame, who received her master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. True Crime Diary was a popular blog that McNamara started to support her own personal interest in studying breaking and cold cases. NBC News quotes her as saying:

It’s the ones that really don’t get that much attention that interest me because I think what’s interesting about them is there’s more stuff to be unearthed that hasn’t been in the public yet and you can do it.

McNamara married Patton Oswalt in 2005, and they have a seven-year-old daughter named Alice. Oswalt spent most of Thursday tweeting about Prince’s passing, then silence through Friday until he shared The Hollywood Reporter’s obituary for his wife. Many celebrities are expressing their love for Oswalt, and memories of the lovely person McNamara was:

Image via Getty.


Contact the author at aimee.lutkin@jezebel.com.

Hillary Clinton Is Looking For Her Other Half

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Hillary Clinton Is Looking For Her Other Half
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Hillary Clinton can’t go it alone, and Bill certainly isn’t cutting it. And so, the time has come to choose the person who will forge into the dark night alongside her.

According to a report in The New York Times, Clinton’s campaign has already begun scouting around for a candidate for her vice president spot. Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, and Labor Secretary Tom Perez are reportedly all among the 15 to 20 names mentioned. From the Times:

“Hillary understands how the vice presidency can work well, and not work well, far better than anyone running or anyone on her staff,” said Richard W. Riley, a friend of the Clintons who was the education secretary under Mr. Clinton and advises the campaign on education issues. “And she and Bill Clinton know he’d have to be very careful about how he relates to the vice president. Hillary is the decision maker now.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been floated as a potential option for Clinton, and campaign sources said that her name hasn’t been ruled out. But whoever Clinton chooses, it’s sure to be a far better pick than her current right-hand man.

Man Holding Infant Catches Home Run Ball

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This proud papa is a Pirates fan, but he wasn’t too proud to celebrate the feat of hauling in Welington Castillo’s fourth-inning homer in Arizona tonight. Multitasking? Call me when he does it while holding a baby in one hand and a beer in the other.

[FSA]

Eight Members of the Same Family Were Murdered in Four Different Locations of a Small Town

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Eight Members of the Same Family Were Murdered in Four Different Locations of a Small Town

Eight members of the Rhoden family, who lived in a rural area in southern Ohio, were shot sometime during the night on Thursday, leaving three survivors.

Authorities say the murders took place at four different locations, and the victims were all shot “execution style,” most in their sleep. CNN reports that Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader believes the community at large is safe, but all surviving members of the Rhoden family are being given protection:

“We have a specific family that’s been targeted but I don’t think there’s been a threat to any other members of the community... I’ve given the family precautionary measures to make. They know we’re available.”

The victims were seven adults and one 16-year-old male. One mother was shot next to her 4-day-old baby, who survived, as well as a 6-month-old and 3-year-old child.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich responded to the case on Twitter:

The village where the murders took place has a population of around 2,000, and is set in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. Authorities aren’t sure if there was more than one assailant, but they say civilians should consider any potential suspects armed and dangerous, warning people to lock their doors. A statement from the family reads:

The Rhoden family would like to thank everyone for all of the outpouring of prayers and support for their family... They asked that you continue to keep them in your prayers. They want to thank all of law enforcement from Pike County and surrounding counties for their immediate response - especially sheriff Charlie Reader, the Pike County sheriff - for all of his hard work.

Screenshot via CNN.


Contact the author at aimee.lutkin@jezebel.com.


Donald Trump Boldly Proclaims, 'Being Presidential Is Very Easy'

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Donald Trump Boldly Proclaims, 'Being Presidential Is Very Easy'
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Donald Trump, a man who once called a political rival a word referring to a woman’s genitals, says that being presidential is easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy.

Amid renewed calls for the Republican frontrunner to act more dignified, Trump addressed the issue this weekend, according to NBC. He said to a crowd of 3,000 in Waterbury, Connecticut on Saturday:

“My wife tells me to be more presidential, my daughter tells me to be more presidential and Paul Manafort and Corey (Lewandowski) and a lot of them say, ‘Be more presidential,’ and now people are starting to say, ‘You know, look what got you here.’”

He also said that he won’t be toning down his rhetoric, saying, “I sort of don’t like toning it down.” Here’s a full video of the event, if you can handle it:

This, from a man who signs women’s breasts, tries to put money in the Communion plate at Church, and encourages his followers to use violence to deal with protestors. It’ll be easy!

“The bottom line is that we will be eliminating a layer of valuable editing across most of the copy

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“The bottom line is that we will be eliminating a layer of valuable editing across most of the copy desk — what is known in desk parlance as the rim,” reads a letter sent to staffers at the Bay Area News Group, obtained by Romenesko. Copy editing is dead, long live the copy editors.

Teenage Girls Drowned In Stolen Car As Police Debated Rescue: Reports

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Teenage Girls Drowned In Stolen Car As Police Debated Rescue: Reports

As deputies debated the safety of carrying out the rescue of a stolen car from a Florida pond on March 31, three teenage girls drowned inside, according to news reports. Deputies deemed the rescue unsafe after wading into the water, but dashcam footage led the girls’ families to question how much the deputies did to save them.

Around 4 a.m. that morning, Fox News reports that a deputy saw a stolen 1998 Honda Accord driving near St. Petersburg without headlights on. While trying to evade the deputy, the driver reportedly missed a sharp turn and the car went into a pond, per Miami Herald.

The newest footage from the incident includes audio recording of the deputies’ conversation, with one voice saying pointing out the fact that he heard yelling. Later on, another voice says, “Now, they’re done. They’re done.” According to the Herald, a wrecker arrived two hours later. Here’s a video that has part of that conversation and a look at the murky pond:

According to reports, the deputies originally thought the girls escaped and ran away as the car sank in 15 feet of water.

After realizing the girls were inside, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said deputies went in the water and attempted to save the girls. Their feet sank upon entering the pond, and they deemed the rescue to be too risky. With windows rolled up and doors closed, Fox reports that the sheriff, Bob Gualtieri, said the car was a “death chamber.”

The Tampa Tribune reports that the three girls, identified as Dominique Battle, 16, Ashaunti Butler and Laniya Miller, both 15, had seven arrests on record for crimes that included vehicle thefts.

Lawyers representing the families of the girls claim that the accounts by the sheriff’s office are full of holes and a “smear campaign” against the girls due to discussions of their past records following their deaths. In response to claims of inconsistencies in the story, the office released more footage on their Facebook:

A message from the department accompanied footage, indicating that the department shared the video “with the hope that the false narrative being spread about this incident stops.” Here’s more from the post:

Unfortunately, some people are irresponsibly and falsely posting on Facebook that deputies did not attempt to rescue the 3 girls who tragically drowned while fleeing from the police in a stolen car a few weeks ago.

The sheriff stated at the time that deputies removed their gun belts and clothes and tried to enter the water to rescue the girls, but the conditions in the water prevented them from doing so. This is exactly what happened, and we stand by that.

All video regarding the incident has been released, including the below clip that shows deputies who had taken off their duty gear in an effort to rescue the girls. The other video being shown omits this part that shows deputies who had entered the water in their effort to rescue the girls.

According to the Herald, Gualtieri added that the video doesn’t show 15 deputies who later arrived on scene. He also said the families should not promote a “false narrative” about the situation, per the Herald.

But the girls’ families aren’t sure they have the full story, and Fox quoted one of their lawyers as saying they will be “asking for those answers to come.”

Sunday's Best Deals: Sous-Vide, $20 off Kindles, Discounted LifeStraws, and More

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Sunday's Best Deals: Sous-Vide, $20 off Kindles, Discounted LifeStraws, and More

Discounted Kindles, the most popular sous-vide circulator, and a clever string trimmer kick off Sunday’s best deals.

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Sunday's Best Deals: Sous-Vide, $20 off Kindles, Discounted LifeStraws, and More
$20 off Kindles

This deal pops up every couple of months or so, but if you have a Kindle e-reader on your wish list, today’s your chance to save $20.

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Anota Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Precision Cooker, $169 | Bluetooth Only, $159

For a limited time, Amazon’s offering great deals on Anova’s excellent sous vide circulators. $159 gets you the older Bluetooth model (normally $179), or you can opt for the new Bluetooth + Wi-Fi model for $169, an all-time low. Both will cook the most tender and flavorful meats you’ve ever tried, the only real difference is how far away you can control them with your smartphone.

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Update: For some reason, the Bluetooth + Wi-Fi model includes the option to purchase through Amazon’s Subscribe & Save program, which will save you an extra $9. Just remember to cancel the subscription after you receive the circulator.

Lifehacker has a great explainer on sous-vide cooking for you to check out, but the basic idea is that you seal your food in plastic bags, and then cook it in precisely heated water over a fairly long period of time. Here are some advantages to this process from Lifehacker’s guide:

  • Cooking sous-vide results in evenly-cooked meat and fish.
  • Cooking sous-vide gives you specific control over the final temperature of the meat, avoiding overdone, dried-out food.
  • You can hold foods cooked sous-vide at their specified temperature for long periods of time without damaging the texture or quality of the dish, making it an ideal cooking method for holiday dinners or meals with multiple components and side-dishes.
  • Bacterial or other contamination is largely not an issue with sous-vide cooking. While you may be cooking up to minimum safe temperatures, the length of time you’re holding the food at its safe temperature will pasteurize your meat and ensure the safety of your food, meaning “safe” meat doesn’t have to equal “dry” or “not pink” meat any longer. Still, keep your meat thermometer handy, and test before serving. Remember, sous-vide lets you hold food at temp for long periods without diminishing the quality of the food, so if it’s undercooked, you can seal the bag and put it back in.
  • Sous-vide cooking is by nature a repeatable process. Set the temperature, set the timer, and walk away. You will wind up with perfectly cooked food every time you do it.

I got the Bluetooth model as a gift a few months ago, and I can’t say enough good things about it. In fact, I might just use it to make scrambled eggs this morning.

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Black + Decker 12" Trimmer/Edger/Mower, $96

This Black + Decker cordless trimmer ingeniously includes a detachable wheeled base to transform it into a makeshift lawnmower. If you just have a small yard to tend to, this could be a perfect solution, and today’s price is the lowest Amazon’s ever offered.

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NYDJ Jeans Sale

Today only, Amazon’s running a sale on NYDJ womens’ jeans, with prices starting under $40. Just note that it’s a Gold Box deal, meaning these prices are only available today, or until sold out.


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LifeStraw Gold Box

Hopefully you’re never in a situation where you need a LifeStraw personal water filter, but just in case, their entire product line is on sale today in Amazon’s Gold Box, including the iconic straw, and the useful personal water bottle.

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Homdox Insulated 40 Ounce Stainless Steel Water Bottle, $15 with code 5W266R5E

Once you’ve owned a vacuum-insulated stainless steel water bottle, every other liquid vessel technology will be forever ruined for you. This 40 ounce model has great reviews, and is an absolute steal at $15, in a variety of colors.

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Sony A7, Body Only, $998

Sony’s A7 changed the full-frame photography conversation in the same way that its RX100 line changed the game in the point-and-shoot space. The A7’s size advantage alone makes it difficult to recommend anything else for pro photographers, and today it’s available for a new low price of $998for the body only. Check out Gizmodo’s review for the full rundown.

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NordicTrack C 990 Treadmill, $749

If you’ve got the space for it, this feature-packed NordicTrack treadmill is marked down to $749 on Amazon today as part of a Gold Box deal. That’s the first time it’s ever been below $1,000, and a great deal for any treadmill that inclines up to 15%, 32 built-in workouts, touchscreen control, and an integrated sound system.

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Presto FlipSide Belgian Waffle Maker, $24

The Presto FlipSide was one of your five favorite waffle irons, and you can pick one up from Amazon today for an all-time low $24.

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I probably make fresh waffles in my waffle iron every other weekend or so, but in between, I’ve used it to make hash browns, pressed sandwiches, and even churros. Lifehacker has a ton of other suggestions too, including mozzarella sticks, 90-second cookies, pre-packaged cinnamon rolls, and even crispy bacon. So you see, calling this thing a waffle iron is practically a misnomer.

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10-Pack Pint Glasses, $13

You could open your own pub with this 10-pack of pint glasses for just $13.

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100 Velcro Cable Ties, $6

Velcro cable ties can transform the rat king of cables behind your desk or home theater into something more manageable, and you can get 100 of them today on Amazon for just $6. Now, Amazon frequently lists these at $5, but as add-on items that only ship as part of a $25 order. Today, you’ll pay $1 more, but you can get free Prime shipping.

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Kinzd Slim Bifold Leather Front Pocket Wallet, $8 with code 9LZGRJPX

Earlier this week, we shared a deal on a front pocket RFID-blocking wallet for $8, but if that one wasn’t your style, here’s another option for the same price.

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Vansky LED Bias Light, $15 with code YHRKTVL1

For a few years now, Antec’s USB-powered HDTV bias light has been one of our most reliably popular deals whenever it went on sale. The problem: It only gets a significant discount once every few months. Luckily, a copycat has emerged to fill in the gap.

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Just like the Antec model, this Vansky LED light strips plug directly into your TV’s USB port for power, and sticks to the back of the set via built-in adhesive. Once you turn your TV on, the light strip will cast a soft glow on the wall behind it, which can reduce eyestrain when watching in the dark, and improve your TV’s perceived black levels. We’ve posted a few deals on this model, but $15 is the best price we’ve seen.

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Charles Koch: It's 'Possible' Hillary Clinton Would Make a Better President Than Republican Candidates

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Charles Koch, a man whose pockets are spilling with oil and whose brain is brimming with political schemes, may be getting soft in his old age.

The petrochemical billionaire and political puppet-master told ABC’s This Week that he felt that Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton would be a better president that the Republican choices. When asked whether he’s outright support Clinton, Koch responded:

“We would have to believe her actions would be quite different than her rhetoric. Let me put it that way.”

Koch also espoused some particularly Democratic views, attacking low taxes for the rich, opposing the Afghanistan war, and saying that he thought Bill Clinton was a better president than George W. Bush. Koch also denied that he’d spent any money on the current presidential race, though, so we can take all this with an enormous grain of salt.

If Donald Trump Can't Even Change a Baby's Diaper, How Can He Possibly Be America's New Dad?

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If Donald Trump Can't Even Change a Baby's Diaper, How Can He Possibly Be America's New Dad?
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For a man who is such an important father figure for bigots all across this great country, Donald Trump is not acting very fatherly.

An old interview dug up by Buzzfeed News on Sunday reveals some pretty radical parenting theories of the Republican presidential frontrunner—namely, that girls clean the poop and boys don’t.

“Do you actually change diapers?” host Anthony Cumia asked Donald Trump on the Opie and Anthony show in November of 2005.

The 59-year-old businessman, whose wife Melania was pregnant with his fifth child and her first, responded bluntly: “No, I don’t do that.”

“There’s a lot of women out there that demand that the husband act like the wife and you know there’s a lot of husbands that listen to that,” Trump added. “So you know, they go for it.”

Trump has also said that his wife Melania “would take great care of the child, without me having to do very much.”

Trump has five children, five dirty bums which he never once has wiped. This is an important lesson to consider when thinking about who will essentially be America’s new dad.

Maine Governor Says Indian People Are the 'Worst Ones' To Understand

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Maine Governor Says Indian People Are the 'Worst Ones' To Understand

Paul LePage, America’s second-favorite racist, has a lot of things to say about foreign workers, and few of them are good.

According to the Associated Press, the Maine Governor said Saturday that Indian workers are the “hardest” and “the worst ones” to understand. Perhaps realizing that his nightmare words were reverberating off the walls of the room, LePage quickly qualified, saying that Indians are “lovely people but you’ve got to have an interpreter.”

It’s not the first time LePage has said something downright horrid about race—not by a long shot. Earlier this year, he blamed Maine’s heroin problem on men with names like “D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty,” adding that they impregnate white women when they sell drugs in Maine.

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He’s also expressed support for America’s most favorite racist, because, as they say, birds of a feather must stick together.


Is Fashion Designer Rachel Roy 'Becky With the Good Hair' from Beyoncé's Lemonade?

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Is Fashion Designer Rachel Roy 'Becky With the Good Hair' from Beyoncé's Lemonade?

After the release of Beyoncé’s sixth studio album Lemonade, we can say we have all now learned this: hell hath no fury like Beyoncé, but hell also hath no fury like Becky with the good hair—especially if you’re fashion designer Rachel Roy, and especially if you made a quasi-confession on social media about once having an affair with rapper Jay Z.

In an Instagram Roy posted to her account the night of Bey’s Lemonade premiere, Roy seemingly made an allusion to being one of Jay Z’s inamoratas by invoking her “good hair.” The description appears to be a reference to the Lemonade track “Sorry,” a song about a husband’s affair and an ensuing confrontation and rebuttal, which has a line about “Becky with the good hair.”

The album itself is thought to be a chronicle of Beyoncé and Jay Z’s marriage and subsequent marital strife, which more or less red-flagged Roy’s post and gave the Internet denizens an immediate cause for suspicion.

“Good hair don’t care, but we will take good lighting, for selfies, or self truths, always. live in the light #nodramaqueens,” read the caption of the ‘gram. The post has since been deleted.

Is Fashion Designer Rachel Roy 'Becky With the Good Hair' from Beyoncé's Lemonade?

To give Roy’s confession a bit more context, here are the lyrics Queen Bey opens with in a spoken word monologue in another song, titled “Apathy”:

“So what are you gonna say at my funeral now that you’ve killed me? Here lies the body of the love of my life whose heart I broke without a gun to my head. Here lies the mother of my children both living and dead. Rest in peace my true love, who I took for granted. Most bomb pussy, who because of me sleep evaded. Her shroud is loneliness, her god was listening. Her heaven will be a love without betrayal. Ashes to ashes, dust to side chicks.”

No one wins in this situation, really.

According to other news sources, Roy was apparently the driving force behind the now infamous confrontation between Jay Z and Solange Knowles, which took place in an elevator after the 2014 Met Ball.

“Solange was defending Beyoncé in the elevator because Solange finds Jay’s friendship with Rachel to be WAY too close for comfort and it makes Solange very uncomfortable,” an unnamed source said in an exclusive with Hollywood Life. “Beyoncé also confronted Rachel and said, ‘Don’t talk to my sister like that,’ after [Rachel] confronted Solange.”


Contact the author at jamie.reich@jezebel.com.

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“There’s a goal of a couple of hundred people,” said a source familiar with pending layoffs coming t

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“There’s a goal of a couple of hundred people,” said a source familiar with pending layoffs coming to The New York Times told The New York Post. “They don’t want to pay out big packages, and they’re having negotiations with the unions.” Goodbye journalism, we knew thee well.

An Incomplete List of Topics J.K. Rowling and President Obama May Have Discussed

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An Incomplete List of Topics J.K. Rowling and President Obama May Have Discussed
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J.K. Rowling and President Barack Obama sat down for dinner, and, unlike her usual go-to, Rowling has stayed mercifully mum about the dinner.

The “Harry Potter” author ate with the president at the U.S. ambassador’s London residence Saturday, according to the Associated Press. It’s not yet clear what topics were discussed. However, it’s not hard to guess. Here’s an incomplete list of topics that likely came up:

-Was Voldemort inspired by Adolf Hitler, or Donald Trump?

-What house would Obama be assigned to?

-What is Grawp’s real name and does he have a birth certificate?

-Can house elves unionize?

-How do the politics at the Ministry of Magic break down?

-Is Harry still a virgin?

We will update this post when more information is available.

Marijuana "Grow Operations" Found at Sites Where Ohio Family Was Murdered

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Marijuana "Grow Operations" Found at Sites Where Ohio Family Was Murdered
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Authorities say marijuana “grow operations” were found at three of the four crime scenes where eight members of a rural Ohio family were murdered in “preplanned executions” this week, the Chillicothe Gazette reports.

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At a press conference on Sunday, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine released few new details about the investigation, explaining that the murder of Pike County’s Rhoden family was a “very, very different kind of case.” From Fox News:

The deceased were found on four rural Ohio properties, shot to death. Most were apparently sleeping when they were killed. Three young children—including a 4-day-old infant—were also found unharmed at the crime scenes.

“This was a preplanned execution of eight individuals,” Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said. “It was a sophisticated operation. And those who carried it out were trying to do everything they could do to hinder the investigation and their prosecution.

Officials would not speculate on a possible motive for the slayings, but said that they have warned surviving members of the Rhoden family they may also be in danger.

“I’ve spoken with family, it’s evident they were the target,” said Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader. “I told them to be armed.”

Heh

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