ModCloth, the fashion retailer with $63.7 million in funding from some of Silicon Valley's biggest investors, has announced another round of layoffs. According to TechCrunch, "around 40 or 50" jobs were axed yesterday.

We're hearing that most of the San Francisco team has been affected, with a headcount of around 40 or 50 or so being let go, and possibly some cuts in other offices. According to multiple sources, layoffs were made across the engineering and product teams, and the social team is being scaled back this December. Some copywriters in San Francisco were cut along with the blogging team. The producer team is not being dismantled, but it is being relocated to Pittsburgh after the holiday season. Also, ModCloth's creative director is being let go.

This round follows the startup's July layoffs, when nearly 15 percent of the company was let go. TechCrunch reports that ModCloth is planning to downsize its workforce again in December after the company reaps "a 'multi-million dollar' profit" from the holidays.

This brings ModCloth's headcount, which was around 500 employees at the beginning of the summer, down below 390 employees. However, ModCloth's social media team still seems to have a job:

So, modcloth announces massive layoffs today. Then tweets "what are you wearing to work tomorrow?" Rude? Simple mistake?

— Candi Kenney (@candikenney) October 17, 2014

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If you've spent most of Game of Thrones waiting for the moment when Sansa Stark finally gets to deliver a devastating kick to a Lannister or Frey's family jewels, please enjoy this. It might be as close as we ever get.

The Sansa Nut-Kick truly speaks for itself, but here's a smidgen of context: Sophie Turner and Steve-O were both at a screening of their upcoming movie Barely Lethal, and this is just what Ser Steve of House Jackass does at parties. Sun rises, sun sets. Paper covers rock. Foot crushes Steve-O's ballbag. These are some immutable realities of this, our life on Earth.

It's no Tyrion-slapping-Joffrey, but it's still pretty, pretty satisfying.

[h/t Daily Dot]

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Draft 1, 4:00 PM

About the Couple: Mark and Kendra were just two single twentysomethings following their dreams in New York City. Then on January 8th, 2011 a chance encounter at a local watering hole brought them together and they've been a couple ever since. Mark is an industrial engineer and Kendra is a nursing student. They live together with their dog, Patsy, in Park Slope. But of course you already know all this since you're invited to their wedding ;)

Draft 2, 4:36 PM

About the Couple: How does one sum up Mark and Kendra? Mark is an industrial engineer but he's so much more: a best friend, an omelet maker, a dog walker even in the rain, a lover of pink shirts. Kendra is a woman, a nurse, a sucker for Anne Hathaway movies, a lover of dark chocolate and good wine. They're so lucky to have found one another. They live in Park Slope with their wonderfully silly dog Patsy.

Draft 3, 7:50 PM

About the Couple: Mark's a boy and Kendra's a girl. They got drunk, put their privates together, got along well enough, moved in together, and are now getting married because they're both almost 30. To be honest, getting a dog together was a WAY bigger commitment than this whole wedding thing. Like it kinda freaked Kendra out for a bit and they almost broke up, and then Mark freaked out that Kendra was so freaked out and they had a huge fight. But they worked it out and now that feels so long ago. They live in Park Slope.

Draft 4, 10:18 PM

About the Couple: Mark and Kendra are two human beings who found themselves adrift in the bustling metropolis of Manhattan seeking Another Soul to call home. It was an average night when they caught eyes across the dark, candlelit tables of some new speakeasy (HAHA who can keep track?), and after a few rosemary-infused vodka cocktails and hours of sprawling conversation that touched upon everything from philosophy to spirituality to Motherhood and beyond, it was apparent that they had found their Other. They can't help but feel that a Greater Being played a role in their chance encounter. They live and love together with their dog Patsy in Park Slope.

Draft 5, 12:31 AM

About the Couple: Mark and Kendra are two people who are getting married and they're NOT going to apologize for it! They can feel their friends inwardly rolling their eyes every time they talk about their wedding and guess what? It's going to be traditional, she's going to wear white, they're going to write their own vows and cry and cut a cake and you'll all fucking like it! So why don't you just shut up and click the convenient link below and buy us some shit we want at Crate & Barrel and in exchange you can enjoy a FREE THREE COURSE MEAL AND FIVE HOUR OPEN BAR, YOU DICKS!!!!! They live in Park Slope with their dog Patsy who is way better behaved that most of your goddamn kids.

Draft 6, 12:40 AM

About the Couple: Mark and Kendra are two bad little feminists who are perpetuating the patriarchal and outdated tradition that is the modern American wedding. They're spending theirs and their parents' life savings on a big party instead of stashing that money away for something more practical, like a house or grad school or a baby or a car or just a really great vacation and they hope you'll attend even though it would save them a lot of money if you didn't. It's like $175 a head, seriously. They live in Park Slope in a one bedroom for $3,100 a month with their dog, Patsy, who they found out has diabetes and they have to spend $700 a month on dog medicine for that now. They hope you will attend their wedding and spend roughly $100-$200 on a gift, $300 on the hotel, and up to $500 on the flight since we're getting married Memorial Day weekend which is a really popular travel time. OH GOD

Draft 7, 1:38 AM

About the Couple: Mark and Kendra are FAAAAART FART FARTTT FAAAAAAAARRRTTT we shoulda elooooooppppeeddddd I love WINE

Draft 8, 11:08 AM

About the Couple: Mark and Kendra live in New York City. They met at a bar in January of 2011 and have been dating ever since. Mark is an industrial engineer and Kendra is a nursing student. They live together with their dog, Patsy, in Park Slope. They love each other and have put a lot of time and thought into this decision. They can't wait to celebrate with you on their big day!

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Laura is a writer/actress/improviser living in New York City. She performs weekly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and has appeared on MTV's Hey Girl, Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer, and has written for Girl Code, Cosmopolitan, The Date Report, and Nerve. She does all her tweeting via @Laura_Willcox on Twitter.com.

Today Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel joins the grand tradition of tech CEOs who trashed talked ads in ways they later came to regret. In a blog post announcing new ads for American users, the company said it wants to harken back to the days before ads "got creepy and targeted."

You know, like the golden age of brands trying to sell you stuff, when advertisements were authentic works of art. Snapchat is just not the type of company to violate your personal communication because that's "totally rude."

The best advertisements tell you more about stuff that actually interests you. Some companies spend a lot of time and collect a lot of data about you to figure that out. The product we're releasing today is a lot simpler. An advertisement will appear in your Recent Updates from time to time, and you can choose if you want to watch it. No biggie. It goes away after you view it or within 24 hours, just like Stories.

We won't put advertisements in your personal communication – things like Snaps or Chats. That would be totally rude. We want to see if we can deliver an experience that's fun and informative, the way ads used to be, before they got creepy and targeted. It's nice when all of the brilliant creative minds out there get our attention with terrific content.

"No biggie" was pretty much Snapchat's response to its second major hack, blaming users and washing their hands of it.

But I do have it to give it up to Snapchat's explanation of why these new ads will appear in your app. The company has already raised $163 million, and is rumored to be raising more in a deal that will value the company at $10 billion. But that value is only in the minds of its venture capitalists, thus the ads are there because: "We need to make money."

Understandably, a lot of folks want to know why we're introducing advertisements to our service. The answer is probably unsurprising – we need to make money. Advertising allows us to support our service while delivering neat content to Snapchatters. We promise that we'll use the money we make to continue to surprise the Snapchat community with more terrific products – that's what we love to do!

The bar for real talk in the tech industry is so low that Spiegel admitting he needs to make money pre-IPO or exit now makes him one of the more honest executives.

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A women's soccer coach at a Connecticut high school sent a 10-second Snapchat masturbation video to some of his players, state troopers told the Hartford Courant. The man says the jerk-off vid was intended for his girlfriend, but he inadvertently sent it to the high schoolers instead.

Jeffrey Sirois has been fired from his job—a non-teaching position—at E.O. Smith High School, and now faces charges of obscenity and disturbing the peace.

Accident or not, hitting send on that video couldn't have gone much worse for Sirois, 57. His players were out for pizza together when one of them received it.

"Once I realized what I was watching I threw my phone down on the table and said, 'guys, you have to look at this,'" she said, according to the police report.

They all looked, and agreed they should report it to the school immediately. The athletic director contacted state police the next day, Oct. 3, and Sirois was arrested.

"I was attempting to send a video of myself in which I was masturbating. I was making the video to send to my girlfriend. It is something she and I occasionally do," said Sirois, explaining Snapchat's unique value proposition to state troopers.

But instead of sending it to his girlfriend, per usual, he says he accidentally sent it to his entire soccer team group on Snapchat.

Making matters even more awkward, Sirois's face wasn't in the video, so he had to walk police through his home and show them where he masturbated, so they could match the furniture.

Social media is difficult and nuanced, and we're all still coming to terms with how to use it, but "don't have intimate sexytime on the same app you use to communicate with the teenage girls you coach" seems like a decent rule of thumb going forward.

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What a week! What a world! Let's unwind with some television and just try to remember what the world was like before Gone Girl redefined at least one TV writer's idea of what it's possible to accomplish, when you truly believe in yourself.

FRIDAY

At 7/6c. Syfy's got the sixth episode of Haven, and at 8/7c. Disney's Girl Meets "Flaws," while Last Man Stands in a "Sinkhole" and Utopia... What happens if we just stop? Is anybody watching it? What if they said, "No more Utopia on this channel because it sucks but guess what, we'll be back in two months when it's cold as fuck and see who's laughin' then."

The Utopia Survivor Special: Who Lived and Who Ate of the Flesh of the Fallen? Who Will Rule the Scattered Remnants? Who Wears the Skin of the Beast, Sewn to Flesh, Creating New Creatures? Who is Lord of Your Heart, Who Dieth Not Though He Is Burnt in the Fire Built Upon the Stone, Who Speaks to the Night and Hears Its Song? Who Got Knocked Up? How Tight They Keep It? What Strange Lights in the Silence?

At 9/8c., on America's Next Top Model a "Guy" "Wows Betsey Johnson," Disney premieres Chapters One and Two of Evermoor, a fantasy movie about something crazy starring Disney Kiddos, PBS broadcasts the San Francisco Opera's Porgy & Bess (subtitled or no?), there's two episodes of Say Yes to the Dress, and a new Shark Tank and Hawaii Five-0.

AT 10/9c.

• CBS continues its onslaught of programming with Blue Bloods, which I think is the one with Tom Selleck or maybe there isn't one with him on it and I'm thinking of something else, such as Friends?
• Dane Cook flips the cashew of comedy off the tip of his career in a new and puffy-faced Showtime special.
• The Knick also ends its first season on Cinemax with everything finally shortened: Knickerbocker becomes Knick, Thackery becomes Thack, surgery becomes sack, cocaine cack, heroin hock, and finally having ruined all of the words in our language, Thack (played by Clack Owen) turns his eyes toward Season Two, in which he invents and then shortens the metric system: Miles become kilometers, kilometers become kliks.

At 11/10c. you've got premieres of IFC's comedy-like television shows Comedy Bang! Bang! and Birthday Boys, or the debut of HBO's equally appealing Foo Fighters documentary series, Sonic Highways.

SATURDAY

At 8/7c., Animal Planet debuts its adorableweenishly cutespastic America's Cutest Pet: Disney Howl-O-Ween Special, Ovation premieres Season Seven of The Artful Detective, and Lifetime's Stephen King MOW Big Driver finally arrives. It's the hotly anticipated one with Maria Bellow getting raped near an interstate highway, so enjoy that while you can.

AT 9/8c.

• Nine Inch Nails is on Austin City Limits, which I'll remind you is on PBS, which concludes this week's edition of "All of My Prophecies Are Coming True!"
• Doctor Who is still on. How long is this season? I'm like five behind. (But in another way, maybe I'm not!)
• Finders Keepers is another MOW on Syfy regarding an evil doll and starring Patrick Muldoon, Jaime Pressly, Deanna Troi and Saw from the movie Saw.
• Ghost Inside My Child, long known both as the best show about ghosts inside stuff and having the very greatest in rhyming titles, hits up both "The Family Drama" and "Military Trauma."
• Iyanla tries to Fix the Life of "Toxic Obsession," which ends the third season. I hope Iyanla fixes that life! Hate for her to hang up her gloves just because of one toxic obsession.
• Hallmark has a MOW called My Boyfriend's Dogs that just has to be ripped from the headlines if we're to have any faith in the universe. (Animal Planet, not to be outdone, has a new episode of My Cat From Hell, which I think pairs nicely.)
• On Starz I have been told the show Survivor's Remorse is very good, by a source I trust. However, no amount of Iyanlas or ghost-whisperers is ever going to figure out if you or I have the network "Starz" available to us. It's just one unknowable thing in a sky full of them.
• TNT also premieres their show The Transporter with a double episode, if you enjoyed the movie about the Transporter and how he Transported things and the obstacles he encountered during their Transportation so very much that you thought to yourself, "I would like to see things Transported by this Transporter, or similar, on a regular weekly basis."

AT 10/9c.

• Kristen's got a Secret on an all-new episode of CBS's 48 Hours entitled "Kristen's Secret."
• LMN at this time of night usually takes you somewhere called The Haunting Of, which normally is about celebrities who have done too much "nose candy" and "believe" in "ghosts," but in this case it's a special about the very "Scariest Spirits" that have been on the show, which is about ghosts, which are not that scary, because they are not real.
• On House Hunters Renovation... Well, see if you can glean the episode's meat from just the shell of its title: "A Young Couple Leaves Manhattan's Pricey Real Estate Market for Something Outside of the City." I can't make heads or tails of that! What are you, e.e. cummings over here?

And finally, the second season of Black Dynamite premieres on Adult Swim at 10:30/9:30c.

SUNDAY

Tonight, you have no choice but to commit to one of several courses of action.

• You can watch two hours of a show called 90 Day Fiancé, between an update special and the season premiere. What is this show? I don't trust shows with names like that.
• You can turn to CBS for comfort, with Madam Secretary and The Good Wife—one of which is amazing and the other of which is just-okay but is this week called "Blame Canada," which is at least something—and then CSI if you're like that, with an episode called "Book of Shadows"!
• You can grapevine over to Bravo for Real Housewives of New Jersey, Old Housewives of New Jersey (with Children), and Watch What Happens: Live with such very famous, totally recognizable, high-glamour "gets" as Tamar Braxton, Nicole Napolitano and Teresa Aprea.
• Just kidding obviously you have to at least watch Fox long enough to see Treehouse of Horror XXV; plus maybe stick around for Halloween episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Mulaney if that appeals to you, with a bonus Breaking Bad-themed Family Guy jammed between them.

But then at 9/8c. the premium shit starts!

• Boardwalk Empire and, later, John Oliver, or
• Homeland and The Affair, depending. You cannot have both, unless you roll with technology.
• Otherwise you got the seventh season finale of PBS's Inspector Lewis, Resurrection and Revenge on ABC, or The Walking Dead, or
• On OWN, you got Oprah investigating the Nowabouts of Carmen Electra, Macy Gray and Shadoe Stevens, as well as what we're told right in the episode description is "Charice's Surprising Revelation." What do you think it will be? I think it should include the shocking revelation of "Who is Charice." Maybe preface the revelation with that, and then you've got two shocks, just in time for Hallowe'en. A Charice in the hand is worth two in the public eye, as Oprah well knows...

... Holy shit! I just looked it up and it's actually amazing. Charice was on Glee for a hot minute, so not actually a mystery person but a wonderful singer I remember, and the Oprah part is that it turns Charice out is a dude! Good for him. You know Ryan Murphy is choking on his fist right now. "Sunshine Corazon? The fuckity fuck was I thinking. God damn it. Bring me something to punch." He's a triple Scorpio, is the only thing I have managed to retain in my mind-banks about Ryan Murphy, so you know he takes this shit hard. But you know what, this is the kind of pain that creates great art.

At 10/9c., besides the things above, you have also the season finale of Manhattan on WGC and the fall premiere of TLC's My Five Wives, a show about a guy with no masculinity issues whatsoever... and the five completely healthy women that prove it.

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Harry Wagner, managing director of the investment bank Allen & Company, doored a CitiBike cyclist on Sixth Avenue today, sending him off of his bike, then took off sprinting before the ambulance arrived, according to a Complex report.

A Complexstaffer who witnessed the crash said the cyclist was riding on Sixth between 53rd and 54th Streets when he was hit by the opening door of a parked Lincoln Town Car. The cyclist went over the handlebars, the report reads, and hit his head on the curb.

Wagner, or someone carrying his business cards, then emerged from the car, brought the cyclist to his feet, pulled out a business card, and started running:

Wagner then threw a business card to his driver and took off running towards 54th and Fifth Avenue, even as witnesses yelled at him to come back. "It's just a cut, he's fine," the staffer told us Wagner said, before adding, "The driver knows me, I ride with him all the time."

The driver told Complex's reporter, however, that he had never previously driven his passenger, and knew only that he was a "VIP client" on his way to a meeting at the Coca-Cola building on Fifth Avenue. The cyclist reportedly had a bleeding head and was disoriented to the point of having trouble speaking, but as Wagner ran off—as witnesses asked him to stay—he yelled "It's just a cut, he's fine." The driver called 911 and an ambulance eventually arrived for the cyclist, Complex reports.

Allen & Co is a notoriously secretive, family run investment bank that generally works with entertainment and tech companies. Recently, it advised Facebook on its $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp.

[Image via Complex]

A man involved in the planning of the K-Pop concert where 16 were killed after falling through a grate in Seoul on Friday was found dead of an apparent suicide early Saturday morning, the AP reports. He had been questioned by the police about the incident on Friday and allegedly jumped from a 10-story building.

A wild black bear in Northern California made a meal out of a dead man's body last week when, upon discovering the man had died outside his trailer, the bear ate almost all of his body.

Authorities discovered the remains of 65-year-old Marion Williams after his friends had reported him missing after five days, authorities say. Humboldt County Deputy Coroner Roy Horton says he believes that Williams had died of a heart attack while sitting outside his trailer in a secluded area, the AP reports. When the bear found him, the man was already dead.

The black bear dragged the body to a nearby den. Police originally tried to bait and trap the bear but called off the search, claiming that the bear was just behaving naturally by eating the dead body.

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The Supreme Court ruled early Saturday morning that Texas could enforce its voter ID requirement law, SB 14, in upcoming elections in early November, Dallas News reports. The decision comes in the wake of a federal judge’s ruling last week that the law was unconstitutional. An appeals court has since put that ruling on hold.

Three Supreme Court justices—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan—dissented against allowing the law to remain in place. Ginsburg wrote, “The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.”

Last week, US District Judge Nelva Gonzalez Ramos ruled that the law “creates an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote, has an impermissible discriminatory effect against Hispanics and African-Americans and was imposed with an unconstitutional discriminatory purpose.” Ramos also agreed with estimates from civil rights groups that the strict identification requirements could keep an estimated 600,000 registered voters away from the polls. Texas officials have contested that statistic.

Early voting in Texas is set to begin on Monday. The upcoming federal general elections will be the first conducted under SB 14.

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An 80-foot inflatable butt plug by American artist Paul McCarthy was cut down from its supports early Saturday morning by vandals, forcing authorities to deflate the installation that many prudes in the city of Paris saw as an eyesore.

According to The Guardian, the vandals waited until the attention of security guards was elsewhere and then cut the cables keeping the sculpture, titled "Tree," in place. Police are investigating the incident; it had only been two days since the sculpture was inflated in Place Vendôme.

During the inflatable butt plug's grand unveiling on Thursday, one man's response was to slap McCarthy in the face three times, "yelling that he was not French and that his work had no business in the square, before running off," Le Monde reported.

The FIAC (a French contemporary art fair), who was responsible for bringing "Tree" to Paris, said they will reinflate McCarthy's work "as soon as possible."

Artist converts huge buttplug into huge condom in Paris square. pic.twitter.com/kacXI2QIy3

— beaubodor (@beaubodor) October 18, 2014

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The UN’s World Health Organization has officially declared Senegal to be free of Ebola. The country’s first and only case was confirmed at the end of August in a patient who had entered the country from Guinea.

After confirming the case, Senegal's government rolled out a response plan that included “identifying and monitoring 74 close contacts of the patient, prompt testing of all suspected cases, stepped-up surveillance at the country’s many entry points.” That differs just slightly from the CDC’s Ebola response plan, which is best characterized as “Uh, just do whatever and go anywhere.”

As The New York Times explains, the declaration of an outbreak’s end comes at the close of a 42-day monitoring period (twice the length of the virus’s incubation period) in which no new cases are found. Nigeria, where 20 people contracted the virus and 8 of whom have died, is set to reach the 42-day milestone on Monday.

According to WHO figures, more than 4,500 patients have died from Ebola, out of 9,216 cases.

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One of the big stories that goes around in tornado country is that tornadoes can suck the water right out of your toilet. It's true. A storm chaser riding out the hurricane in Bermuda noticed that the storm sucked the water out of his toilet, too. Here's how that works.

Mark Sudduth, whose handle is @hurricanetrack on Twitter, posted a video of the gurgly toilet in his hotel room to Instagram on Friday night during some of the worst winds in Hurricane Gonzalo as it passed over the island.

Even though our toilets flush into pipes that lead underground, they're still affected by weather conditions outside. All buildings with indoor plumbing are required to have a vent in the roof of the building. These vents are there for two reasons: 1) it allows gasses to vent outside as opposed to into the building, and 2) the open vent helps water and sewage flow through the pipes.

Just like a chimney or a leaky window, these vents are susceptible to windy days.

When a strong gust of wind blows over the top of these vents, the fast-moving air creates an area of low pressure at the top of the pipe. This low pressure causes the air within the pipe to rush up to fill the void (nature abhors a vacuum), creating suction within the building's pipes. If the sucking is strong enough, it can briefly tug on the water in the toilet. The water sloshes back up once the wind gust resides. Exceptionally strong gusts of wind, such as those seen in hurricanes or tornadoes, make this effect especially pronounced.

You can even see water subtly sloshing around on a regular ol' blustery day. It's a pretty cool effect, for as much as what goes on in a toilet can be considered "cool," anyway.

[Images: Sergey Yechikov/Shutterstock.com, author]

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A honey spill in the middle of a Florida highway drew thousands of stupid bees to their death on Thursday. According to the News-Press, Neslan Torralvo of Torralvo’s Honey & Pollination Service hit a bump in the road, spilling 200 gallons of honey—about 2,400 pounds—or nearly $5,000—worth.

Via the News-Press:

The spill caused thousands of honeybees to flock to the intersection to get a sweet taste. Torralvo, also a beekeeper, said the bees were drawn by the smell.

Emergency workers and police from Cape Coral, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the Florida Department of Transportation and the Florida Highway Patrol swatted the swarming insects as they tried directing traffic and cleaning up the honey.

With the bees landing on the honey residue, thousands were crushed by traffic or sprayed away by firefighters.

The bees hung around the area for hours after the spill, tempting fate to get some of that sweet, sweet honey, as local businesses continued to call for beekeepers. There were no human fatalities, just thousands and thousands of bees.

As one official helping with cleanup told reporters, “Everyone fared pretty well. Except the traffic . . . and the bees.”

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In new details revealed in a report by the New York Times, it was shared that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson told investigators that he feared for his life during the shooting of Michael Brown, who was unarmed when the officer killed him in August.

The report says that Wilson told investigators that he was pinned inside his vehicle in a struggle between Brown and himself over the officer's gun. According to a forensic test, Brown's blood was on the gun, on the interior of the car, and on Darren Wilson's uniform.

Via the New York Times:

This is the first public account of Officer Wilson's testimony to investigators, but it does not explain why, after he emerged from his vehicle, he fired at Mr. Brown multiple times. It contradicts some witness accounts, and it will not calm those who have been demanding to know why an unarmed man was shot a total of six times. Mr. Brown's death continues to fuel anger and sometimes-violent protests.

Wilson was not required by law to testify before a St. Louis County Jury, but experts believe that information from what happened on the inside of the officer's vehicle could be influential in determining the case.

The officials said that while the federal investigation was continuing, the evidence so far did not support civil rights charges against Officer Wilson. To press charges, the Justice Department would need to clear a high bar, proving that Officer Wilson willfully violated Mr. Brown's civil rights when he shot him.

The account of Officer Wilson's version of events did not come from the Ferguson Police Department or from officials whose activities are being investigated as part of the civil rights inquiry.

This information was shared with the New York Times by unnamed government officials close to the case. Many believe the St. Louis County grand jury is not intending on convicting Officer Wilson. Dorian Johnson, the friend who Michael Brown had been with when he was shot says that Brown did not reach for Wilson's gun.

A decision is expected to be made by mid-November.

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Cliven Bundy, the racist Nevada rancher who is terrible at speaking in public, has for some reason decided to open his mouth once again in a new campaign ad for a third-party congressional candidate.

“I know that black folks have had a hard time with, uuhhh . . . slavery. And, you know, the government was in on it,” Bundy tells Nevada candidate Kamau Bakari. “And the government’s in on it again,” he says, this time referring to the absurd state of political correctness in America.

“I worked my whole life without mistreating anybody,” claims Bundy, whose ranch played host to an armed standoff with federal agents over where some cows eat.

Bakari agrees: “A brave white man like you might be just what we need to put an end to this political correctness stuff in America today.” The duo has challenged Eric Holder to come to Nevada to discuss race. It is time to address this country's startling deficit of brave white men. The ball's in your court, Eric.

For what it's worth, The Washington Post notes, Bakari has virtually no chance of unseating the incumbent candidate, Democratic Representative Dina Titus.

While attempting to tell the people of Edmonton, Canada what their weather forecast for the week looked like (note: horrible), one weatherman was left to deal with a scrappy dog who was having none of it. I'm a dog. I don't even get what he's saying. Let's play.

The dog, an 18-month-old mastiff mix named Ripple, was on local news with the weatherman to promote animal adoption but instead ended up promoting not giving a fuck. Once again, I am a dog. These numbers are irrelevant to me.

Mike Sobel, the diligent weatherman, stuck it out with Ripple until the dog chewed through his leash like any dog would when they're just trying to be a dog.

[h/t Uproxx]

On his show on The Blaze yesterday, via Mediaite, Glenn Beck went on a tear against President Obama for his complete and utter failure to singlehandedly cure and then eradicate the Ebola virus.

“We need someone with actual balls to tell the people the truth!” Beck yelled. He did not clarify what he meant by the term “actual balls.”

Beck continued:

Stop hiding behind all of your cabinet members—who you haven’t even met. Stop hiding behind all of these agencies. You know who’s in charge? You are, sir! You spent a billion dollars for the job, now do the damn job!

(The job is Worldwide Epidemiologist.)

The radio pundit also suggested a march on the White House to get the FAA to suspend air travel to West Africa. Who should show up to this march? “Everybody: Republicans, Democrats, Independents. You know, even kids with chicken pox.” To be fair, that last part is in reference to a decades-old Armour Hot Dogs commercial, but it’s also a terrible idea for a protest attempting to quell a viral epidemic.

A man spotted in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania on Friday night carrying a rifle and covered in mud is believed to be fugitive Eric Frein, authorities say. Frein is the primary suspect in the murder of an officer at a Pa. police barracks last month. He has been on the run and eluding authorities since September 12.