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  • Axios and Google made a searchable-by-address widget that tells you what political issues people in your Congressional district were and weren't looking up on Election Day this year.
  • Houston police are looking into whether pills laced with fentanyl led to some of the deaths at the recent Travis Scott concert, where numerous people were also given naloxone to successfully reverse opioid overdoses.
  • NPR obtained audio recordings of top-level NRA conference calls in the days after the 1999 Columbine shooting, in which executives and PR consultants weighed whether to go ahead with a scheduled convention in Denver, worrying about gun-loving "hillbillies" showing up and bringing more negative attention to the powerful gun rights group.
  • Congrats to this former Hebrew school teacher from California who decided, at age 45, to move to Mumbai and become a successful Bollywood actor who frequently plays the role of the evil British military officer.
  • California can now jail you for up to six months for poaching and distributing the prized dudleya succulent on the black market. (Apparently there's a big market for this plant in South Korea.)
  • "A lot of queer park rangers hear 'Fire Island' and they're, like, 'I want to work there'": BBC America has a fun piece about the Sunken Forest national seashore near Cherry Grove, which was protected by locals in the 1960s from potentially getting turned into a highway.
  • Wood, stones, ladles, metal cups, toothbrushes, bathroom brush handles, shards of glass, flashlights, carrots, knitting needles, and other objects are increasingly turning up in people's butts around the world, with Eastern Europe leading the globe in reported rectal foreign objects.
  • On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of Alex Trebek's death, Variety remembers his brilliant ability to not make the show about himself, which no subsequent guest host has managed to do.
  • Gawker: In an age of irony, how do we know who's actually cool?
  • And finally, a ninja cat: