“The British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it” reads a Washington Post headline about Brexit, which passed. In response to the news, British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would resign in October, and the stock market plunged. “Some British voters say they now regret casting a ballot in favor of Brexit. ‘Even though I voted to leave, this morning I woke up and I just—the reality did actually hit me,’ one woman told the news channel ITV News. ‘If I'd had the opportunity to vote again, it would be to stay.’”
Corey Lewandowski, the recently fired campaign manager for Donald Trump, has been hired by CNN as a political analyst. Lewandowski, a Trump loyalist who has had a number of ugly run-ins with journalists, once threatened CNN reporter Noah Gray for leaving the approved media area at a Trump rally, telling Gray to go “inside the pen, or I will pull your credentials. Media goes in the pen.”
In the aftermath of the Peter Thiel–funded campaign to bankrupt Gawker media with a lawsuit, other magazines are anxiously looking over their shoulders for billionaires with a grudge. Mother Jones feels threatened by conservative businessman Frank VanderSloot, who reportedly pledged $1,000,000 to parties interested in suing the magazine after a "three-year quest to punish
