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- Another day, another round of plans to reopen the government shot down.
- Former Theranos CEO/scammer Elizabeth Holmes says "I don't know" 600+ times in never-before-broadcast deposition tapes.
- The Guardian spoke to five people about what it's like to be the focus of a conspiracy theory.
- The Dude will apparently be making some sort of appearance during the Super Bowl (most likely...an ad? Very un-Dudelike).
- Learn how five UWS neighbors joined together to help to track down two stolen dogs.
- The Senate Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena to compel Michael Cohen to appear before the panel next month.
- Serenity, a new film starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and a giant tuna, will make you question your reality according to The Atlantic.
- The newly appointed Florida secretary of state has resigned after photos emerged of him posing as a Hurricane Katrina victim in blackface at a Halloween party years ago.
- Kristin Scott Thomas and Fiona Shaw have joined the cast of Fleabag.
- What's it like being a real life polyamorous vampire (who drinks blood)?
- Wesley Morris deconstructs Oscar bait movies like Green Book about interracial friendships which follow the white character’s journey to enlightenment: "It's not friendship. Friendship is mutual. That hug is cannibalism."
- And finally, life truly is a duckblur:
things: *occurring*
me, determinedly: pic.twitter.com/6wFTGTpPjo— Bim Adewunmi (@bimadew) January 24, 2019
