This Shit Is Dangerous

[Splinter]( October 4, 2019 [This Shit Is Dangerous]( [How long do you think it will take the national debasement of the Trump era to play out to its gruesome conclusion? It won’t be too long now. You can feel it. The weight of inevitability.]( [[State](](@feature1LinkUrl) [Kurt Volker's Private Statement to Congress Sure Looks Bad for Trump]( [On Thursday, former Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker testified before members of Congress in a private session about the Trump administration’s communication with Ukrainian government officials. Today, BuzzFeed News obtained Voker’s opening statement to congressional investigators, in which Volker alleges that President Trump and Rudy Giuliani repeatedly pursued their...]( [[The Discourse](](@feature2LinkUrl) [My Unusually Difficult Time Trying to Find a Specific Clip of Emily Blunt Doing an Impression of Tom Cruise]( [The other night, I was flipping through the channels and came across the most recent Mission: Impossible movie (Fallout). Suddenly, I remembered: Emily Blunt does a very good impression of Tom Cruise. I never could have predicted how difficult it would be to find video of it.]( [[White House](](@feature3LinkUrl) [The Hand...the HAND]( [Being near Donald Trump most days has to suck, but this seems like a cut above the usual misery:]( [[House of Representatives](](@feature4LinkUrl) [May We All Handle Batshit Trolls as Well as AOC Did Here]( [During a town hall even in Queens on Thursday night, an activist with the politically incoherent, wildly pro-Trump LaRouche PAC ambushed U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, standing up and shouting that with only a few months to live from the climate disaster, it was high time we started “eating the babies,”...]( [[Border Patrol](](@feature5LinkUrl) [The Border Patrol Allegedly Thinks It Can Just Ignore Court Orders Now]( [Here’s your regular dose of the hell that is our immigration system: An undocumented man living in New Mexico was detained by the border patrol last week–despite having documentation that showed a federal judge closed his immigration case years ago, the Texas Tribune reported Friday.]( [[2020](](@feature6LinkUrl) [A Truly Staggering Statistic About Joe Biden's Campaign]( [The latest round of Democratic primary fundraising totals are in, after a last-ditch push by many of the candidates to bring in as much money as possible before the end of the quarter. And the results for Joe Biden do not look great.]( [[Jacob Wohl](](@feature7LinkUrl) [World's Biggest Dipshits Hilariously Mangle Hit Job on Elizabeth Warren]( [With a gun to my head, I swear to god I’d be hard pressed to think of two bigger morons than right-wing smear merchants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman—men who would, if there was any justice in this cold, uncaring universe, spend the rest of their days stepping on rakes...]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [[Lifehacker](](@rec1LinkUrl) [Go Ahead and Use the First-Class Bathroom on Flights]( [Last week, an Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing because of a passenger’s threats, apparently uttered out of frustration over an especially long restroom line. “By making seven people wait here to use the bathroom, while the whole bathroom up there is empty, it’s wrong,” the passenger said in...]( [[Lifehacker](](@rec2LinkUrl) [Where to Get Free and Discounted Tacos Today for National Taco Day]( [Today, October 4, is National Taco Day. Like all made-up food-related holidays, that means you can score some great discounts on tacos today from a pretty wide range of places.]( [[Deadspin](](@rec3LinkUrl) [Inside TheMaven's Plan To Turn Sports Illustrated Into A Rickety Content Mill]( [Now that Sports Illustrated’s three owners, Meredith Corp., Authentic Brands Group, and TheMaven, have completed the callous layoff of half of Sports Illustrated’s newsroom and finalized a deal that gives control of the publication to TheMaven, a wannabe tech company helmed by notorious scumbags Ross Levinsohn and James Heckman, the...]( [[Jalopnik](](@rec4LinkUrl) [Lincoln Is Bringing Back Suicide Doors On The Continental But My God Are They Pricey]( [Back in late 2018, we rejoiced when Lincoln announced that it was making 80 special edition 2019 Lincoln Continentals with rear-hinging suicide doors. All 80 of those cars sold in 48 hours, so Lincoln later promised to build more for 2020. Now Lincoln is delivering on that, but if you...]( [[Gizmodo](](@rec5LinkUrl) [Viral Video About Eating Babies at AOC Town Hall Was Staged by Pro-Trump Group]( [LaRouche PAC, a far-right group that supports Donald Trump, has taken credit for trolling Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a town hall meeting yesterday. An operative with LaRouche made headlines overnight after standing up at AOC’s town hall in Queens yesterday and saying that humanity should eat babies, among other...]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Splinter]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Profile Center]( © 2019 Gizmodo Media Group 1540 Broadway, 27th Floor New York, NY 10036