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- Not everyone is a fan of the MTA's plan to clean up 100 stations and 3,000 subway cars at a cost of $9.5 million: "This is a complete waste of money," said TWU Local 100 President Tony Utano.
- NBC's Savannah Guthrie is interviewing MAGA teen Nicholas Sandmann, Trump is tweeting his support for them, and the families of the Covington Catholic high schoolers are circling the wagons to protect their boys: "The left has an agenda," one father said. "Facts don’t really matter to them if it goes against their agenda."
- As Esquire wrote, "The teens on the National Mall are symptoms of a larger ailment."
- Stephen Colbert sent his "uninformed correspondent" to hit up Comic Con.
- Reasonable argument of the day: "Actually, Pizza Toppings Are Bad."
- Who wouldn't want a 60-pound emotional support alligator?
- NY Magazine spent a day at that Instagram influencer's $165 "Creativity Seminar."
- Rami Malek talked a little about Bohemian Rhapsody Oscar nominations and the behind-the-scenes Bryan Singer mess: "I think [people] can understand that Bryan Singer was fired from the film. And that can be something that they can look at from a perspective of understanding why they can appreciate the film."
- Melissa Etheridge is working on a Mystic Pizza musical adaptation, someone call Jenna Maroney.
- The Vampire Weekend new album rollout has begun.
- A hilarious rogue mascot is causing quite the stir in Japan.
- Lasagna gender reveals are a real thing.
- Check out some real chill photos of frozen Niagara Falls.
- Three young men and a 16-year-old were arrested for planning an attack on a Muslim community called Islamberg in upstate New York.
- What will a month of meat-only dieting do to you? Nothing good.
- And finally, it's time to go to bed:
This is the best thing I have ever seen pic.twitter.com/4t70qspYqS
— Puppies 🐶 (@PopularPups) January 22, 2019
