Gawker Media is shutting down Defamer, Millihelen, Kitchenette, Valleywag, and several other sites in order to "focus intensely on politics, broadly considered, and the 2016 campaign". Several folks have obviously been canned as part of the "reorganization", with Millihelen's Jane Marie taking to twitter to share her displeasure. It is rumored that the changes are being made because Gawker began hemorrhaging advertisers after they outed a random married executive, and are part of Nick Denton's pleadge to make Gawker "20 percent nicer".

Andrea Polito, the photographer put on blast by "social media expert" Neely Moldovan over a contract dispute, may be considering legal action. According to a statement her attorney made to NBC 5: We will seek justice and do what is necessary to protect Andrea, and are in the process of investigating claims for defamation, business disparagement, and tortuous interference. Her attorney went on to say "Andrea may not ever be able to repair the damage caused by the Moldovans", and in a formal statement claims "the Moldovans have engaged in a public smear campaign to ruin Andrea Polito’s reputation". Neely...

What I Wore's Jessica Quirk, giver of "expert style tips", made the Style section of some local Indiana paper. Under the headline "Hoosier Jessica Quirk is fashionable girl next door, Her blog and book offer advice and a look at her own wardrobe", some midwestern daily ran this hilarious piece. For Jessica Quirk, fashion isn't about walking all over each other in this season's Prada pumps to get in the front row at fashion week. It's simply about looking good and feeling confident. In her book, "What I Wore: Four Seasons, One Closet, Endless Recipes for Personal Style" (Ballantine Books,...

Amber, apparently a successful blogger, announced that she would be moving to New York City today. I assume she has already arrived at this point and begun placing triangle patterns and all white furnishings throughout her no doubt bonkers insgrammable apartment. As for why she has relocated her entire family to a city with the most expensive cost of living outside of Cohaagen's dome, Amber takes the usual blogger route of claiming vague 'projects'. A lot of you have asked WHY we are moving… so let me sort of explain. First and foremost, David and I have been working on...

Jessica Quirk, empress of awesome, declared war so last year with her free t-shirt today. Her brave and lonely stance as the first person to ever urge this planet of barbarians to "imagine peace" is certain to fall on deaf ears, as everyone else alive like, TOTALLY LOVES WAR, but she will continue to use fashion for peace, suckers! A busy day of lunch with her "beau" (Neckbeard Quirk, maybe you've heard she's married?) and playing with markers was thankfully ended with a well-earned relaxing cocktail: Green tea and cardamom gin cocktail. @quirk is a mix master!! 4 minutes ago...

Jessica Schroeder Quirk, married, totally thinks Bloomtucky is better than New York City. In fact  she actually takes a moment to bask in her own smugness when others decide to join her in the Outer Zone: This is the woman who spent 4 years singing the praises of Brooklyn until she couldn't afford it anymore. The woman who basically admitted that the only reason she moved back to Indiana is because her husband wanted to. She is so sure that the middle state college town she resentfully resides in is superior to yucky loud NYC. So sure that she takes a quiet...

Michael Arrington, harbinger of disaster, is in Hawaii, where a tsunami threatens to dampen his fun*: go away, Tsunami. You're not wanted here. http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptw...13 minutes ago from web worst part about this tsunami threat is dealing with the parents, who are convinced I'm going to die today. sigh. Bartender!12 minutes ago from web It's the all caps that makes it scary: IF TSUNAMI WAVES IMPACT HAWAII THE ESTIMATED EARLIEST ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS 0111 PM9 minutes ago from web Of course in a shocking development, impending wetness brought out something in Arri that mankind has never witnessed:...

Hunter Allan's antisemitic private messages started coming to light yesterday. Now rumours and screenshots about the Utah nail narcissist's WILD behavior are starting to spill out of teapots.