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- "The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy," Ta-Nehisi Coates argues in a powerful essay in The Atlantic.
- Turns out hackers can send ultrasonic commands to electronic assistants that humans can't even hear. Thanks again, Silicon Valley!
- Steve Bannon, who says he has great respect for the Catholic Church, also says the Catholic Church only supports DACA because "they need illegal aliens to fill the churches."
- Taking a look at the real estate boom happening along Flatbush Avenue.
- The Democrats don't feel great about Hillary Clinton's new book tour and its opportunity to keep the deathless 2016 primary fight going.
- Never forget that Bill Maher is an awful person who tells awful jokes about people less fortunate than him.
- Could Arnold Schwarzenegger's character from Predator also be the same guy as his character from Terminator? Maybe, who knows.
- Millennials are saving the houseplant industry.
- The Star Wars braintrust is busy firing directors, but also isn't busy hiring any women or non-white people to direct their films.
- And right on time here's the other shoe:
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