The specks are on the transparent lens cap, which will be removed. NASA’s InSight Lander Has Returned Its First Image From The Surface Of Mars

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This is hysterical. Cards Against Humanity holds a 99% off sale, including a car, a yurt, a gold dildo, and a trip to Antarctica.

“Surely you must be losing a lot of money on this promotion.

Oh dear yes. This is a financial catastrophe for our company.” Cards Against Humanity’s 99% Off Sale

Okay, people. Monday 2 PM EST, put down the shopping websites and tune in for a live Mars landing, including the most exciting denouement in science: a 7-minute period during which an orbiter slows down by 12,000 mph, fires explosives and rockets, heats up to 3,000°, and hopefully does not make a new crater.

Meanwhile, it does this all on its own, because it takes 7 minutes for the speed of light to come back and tell us what the hell happened. Watching NASA receive word that it was successful: better than any movie.

Broadcast starts at 2 PM Eastern, scheduled landing at 3 PM. Massive party or wake 3:10 PM.

NASA Live: InSight Mars Landing

Democrats, you idiots. You fucking idiots. There is one person in the White House with Teflon, and you targeted her.

Let Mueller build the criminal cases because we know you don’t have the spine for it. Your job is investigating the president and protecting Mueller when he gets fired. Everything else is theater and we don’t have time for it. Also, you suck at it.

House Democrats plan to investigate Ivanka Trump’s use of personal email for government business

Oh my God. We were warned about a version of this scam when the Glee Club toured Hungary in *1990*. Trump Fans Sink Savings Into ‘Iraqi Dinar’ Scam

?Can we perhaps finally agree that press conferences are pure theater designed to generate propaganda, and news happens elsewhere? So maybe still send reporters, but make it the beat for the new guys while your best people are out working.? Daniel Dale on Twitter

The nice thing about having 16 is that it’s easy to form the circle for the firing squad.

(I swear to God, leadership Democrats, the reason we *like* Pelosi is that she can find her ass with both hands, and if this is how you think it’s effective to oppose her—in the pages of the Post during a crucial lame duck—our introduction to you is that you cannot.) Sixteen House Democrats vow to oppose Pelosi as next speaker

Joel Avery proposed for some weekend between 9/7/19 and 12/10/19

John Williams Creating New and Original Star Wars Themes Exclusively for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge

Of course I can’t politically support denying service to anyo… no, no, fuck them sideways WATCH: Right-wing Proud Boys forced to walk home from Philadelphia rally after taxi drivers refuse them

No points for common sense, but let’s all bask in that rare moment of “unexpected best possible explanation of events.” Washington Post

If ever there were a display of mass cultural delusion, this is it. When half the country has the same problem, it shouldn’t be secretly shameful anymore. And the problem is the word “fail,” because that’s simply not acceptable for us.

13th century minor nobles who believed economic problems were caused by lazy serfs would be entirely at home here.

The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans Living Paycheck to Paycheck

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