In cool and normal news the number of covid-19 infections is 10 times what the Trump administration has reported, according to the CDC. [Gothamist]

I remember the Daily Show’s takedown of Watters four years ago b/c of his racist Chinatown visit.

Maybe my beef with polls is how they’re manipulated and abused.

The polls were pretty accurate it’s just how they were interpreted was way off. Leading into November Clinton was generally 3ish points ahead nationally and Trump’s wins in states like WI, MI, and PA were inside the margin of error. Despite that everyone was absolutely convinced that he couldn’t win when the polls…

After the 2016 mess, I refuse to believe any polls. Apparently people were too embarrassed to admit they were voting for Trump so they lied to pollsters? That’s one explanation I heard.

The thing to remember is that the business of the federal government is mostly conducted by career civil servants who take their legal responsibilities seriously. Quite often those responsibilities conflict because of sloppy drafting of the laws they’re required to follow. A lot depends on whether the agency has the…

The IRS–wait, let me sure I’ve got this—purposefully sent stimulus checks to more than 1 million dead people? [Politico]

And this has been today’s: Yeah but what are Adam Carolla’s thoughts on the matter?

What is Hamm wearing??? Shorts, puffy vest, scarf, knit hat... So much going on and then shorts...

growing number of law-enforcement related incidents in communities of color

I know we are supposed to hate the shit out of him here, but I think most people still really like the guy.

I love John Oliver but he also is the beneficiary of the time which his show is happening. Who knows what his show would have looked like 10 years ago? That's why we can't keep dragging people for not being 'woke' (ugh) enough back in the day. Either way, John Oliver my favorite part of Sunday. 

Of all the Daily Show alums parroting this style of comedy/journalism, I think Last Week Tonight does it the best. John Oliver isn’t just reading and making fun of the headlines—a lot of the time he’s actually doing journalism and activism. I mean, most of it is just weird funny bits like airing commercials on FN…

Y’all I married a borderline himbo and I’m so fucking happy. He’s smart and capable, and we can have serious deep talks when we have to...but most of the time we clown and joke and laugh and that’s literally all I want after a long day of thinking about Important Things at my job. HIMBOS 4 LYFE.

Most of this article is Stewart owning up to the lack of diversity on his staff and what lead to it. In an intelligent and insightful way. So why was the last bit necessary? I clicked it (maybe thats why?) thinking it was going to be about him having a history of yelling at staff. But it was only about the Cain…

Uggggghhhhhh. No. That is not accurate. False report stats ARE skewed but they are represented as higher than they actually are, not lower.

And now we sadly have a third option.

If your responses to witnesses—again within Bieber’s employ, and with the hotel(s)—is that they’re lying and covering for Bieber; and your response to the documentation that appears to corroborate Bieber’s account is that those documents could be fabricated... then you may as well not even bother following the story…

Burt Reynolds was not a himbo. Sure, he met the “not very bright” requirement in spades, but he was never particularly “nice” or “respectful.” He was, to quote a former president who was not very bright himself, a “major league asshole”...

To the extent that multiple witnesses in and out of Bieber’s camp can corroborate his alibi, and that the documents he alleges support his account can be authenticated... I would find that fairly compelling.