Breaking shell news: Osama bin Laden found, in the image of a shell picked up on an English beach.
Breaking shell news: Osama bin Laden found, in the image of a shell picked up on an English beach.
I regret to inform you that it’s Wednesday morning and the president is tweeting madly.
Here’s a cursed headline: “Clinton responds to Trump urging her to run again: ‘Don’t tempt me.’” I beseech you: do not tempt her. Read more
I knew I was going to hate Chris Cillizza’s latest phone-in #analysis on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ heart procedure from…
Pretty stunning: the Brookings Institute, which has been tracking the massive staff turnover in the Trump administration, found the turnover rate among the president’s top decision makers hit 80 percent as of today. Is Trump leader of the Western world or running a digital media company into the ground?? Read more
Demi Lovato apologized for accepting a “free trip to Israel in exchange for a few posts,” saying on Instagram that no one told her about the “potential backlash” of such a trip. “This was meant to be a spiritual experience for me, NOT A POLITICAL STATEMENT,” she also said. I feel u but like, just do India next time. Read more
Speaking outside Orlando at The Villages, the nation’s largest retirement community and home to a bunch of seniors wh…
A new poll found just four out of 10 Republicans believe that Donald Trump talked about investigating Joe Biden in his now-infamous call with the Ukrainian president. Trump has said he talked about Biden on the call. The memo, released by his administration, says so too. There’s no excuse! Read more
During a visit to Rome on Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was gifted a big wedge of Parmesan cheese by a…
If only there was a middle ground. Rep. Maxine Waters tweeted: “Impeachment is not good enough for Trump. He needs to be imprisoned & placed in solitary confinement.” But for now, she said impeachment is the “imperative.” A kindly reminder that even the worst of the worst shouldn’t be kept in solitary! Read more
THEY FOUND THE RAT—or mouse, at least. (No, not that one.)
That didn’t take long. After it was reported earlier today that New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins would enter a guilty plea in an insider trading case, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office confirmed they’d received his letter of resignation, which will likely be effective tomorrow. Read more
Stacey Dash, the former Fox News host and Clueless actress, was arrested Sunday for domestic battery in Florida…
Read this great in-depth reporting from HuffPost today about the travails of working women just trying to breastfeed their kids, which found employers broke the law meant to protect a woman’s right to pump at work a staggering 68 percent of the time in the cases the site obtained. Read more
New York Rep. Chris Collins, who was the first congressman to endorse Donald Trump in 2016, will reportedly plead guilty in a federal insider trading case tomorrow. He previously pleaded not guilty in the case. Read more
Oh look, it’s my second-daily end of day post about literally anything else. Do I normally care about a BuzzFeed quiz about what Succession character I am? No. Do I care today, after finding out I am a Kendall? You bet I do. Read more
Seems fine: global warming going faster than expected, according to a landmark UN report out today, by basically any metric—the oceans are warmer and more acidic, the glaciers are melting, and “coastal extreme events” are getting worse. Unless we change everything, a billion people will be affected. Read more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is doing splendidly after that disastrous legal setback, why do you ask?
It’s not every day that you’re presented with a perfect metaphor from the natural world that captures the current…