The American Civil Liberties Union said it received $24.1 million in online donations over the weekend.

In a normal year, the activist group makes about $4 million in online donations. In one weekend, it raised six times as much money.

Fuck Trump.

It’s not a Verizon commercial: If you receive a phone call from someone asking “can you hear me,” hang up. You’re a potential victim in the latest scam circulating around the U.S.

Virginia police are now warning about the scheme, which also sparked warnings by Pennsylvania authorities late last year. The “can you hear me” con is actually a variation on earlier scams aimed at getting the victim to say the word “yes” in a phone conversation. That affirmative response is recorded by the fraudster and used to authorize unwanted charges on a phone or utility bill or on a purloined credit card.

Awesome.

Cecil explains.

Would professional competitive cyclists put little electric motors inside their bicycles' frames?

Of course they would!

Varjas, a scientist and former cyclist, says he first designed a motor to fit inside a bike’s frame in 1998. He says a friend found an anonymous buyer who offered him nearly $2 million for it. Varjas says he took the money and agreed not to work on such motors, nor sell or speak of them, for 10 years. Asked whether he believes hidden motors like his have been used since then, he answers, “I think. Yes.”

JK Rowlings dropped a little stinky one:

There is clear evidence that the Chamber was opened more than once between the death of Slytherin and the entrance of Tom Riddle in the twentieth century. When first created, the Chamber was accessed through a concealed trapdoor and a series of magical tunnels. However, when Hogwarts’ plumbing became more elaborate in the eighteenth century (this was a rare instance of wizards copying Muggles, because hitherto they simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence), the entrance to the Chamber was threatened, being located on the site of a proposed bathroom. The presence in school at the time of a student called Corvinus Gaunt – direct descendant of Slytherin, and antecedent of Tom Riddle – explains how the simple trapdoor was secretly protected, so that those who knew how could still access the entrance to the Chamber even after newfangled plumbing had been placed on top of it.

"wherever they stood" ?

Like, lift your robe and wiz on the floor?

I gotta say... I've been trying to avoid all Trump-related media, but there is simply no such thing anymore. Everything is all-Trump all the time. Exactly as it has been for the past 18 months.

But, I have a concern.

I wonder if Trump et al have given any thought to what their constant lying will do to their ability to lead should something catastrophic happen? The media has finally caught on to the fact that Trump & Co. lies constantly, about everything, big or small; and now everything they say is reported with an eye-roll and a sigh. And that's great. But what happens if something major happens - a terrorist attack, hurricane, giant meteor, alien invasion, etc. - where the public needs to know exactly what the government is doing? If we can't trust them to tell the truth about trivialities, we can't trust them to tell the truth about important things, either. But do they care? I suppose they probably haven't thought it through. They should.

No, Gwyneth Paltrow, women should not put jade eggs in their vaginas, gynecologist says

It wasn't that long ago when Gwyneth Paltrow raved about the benefits of vaginal steaming, a non-scientifically proven process of sitting over a hot pot of water filled with herbs for up to 45 minutes to “cleanse your uterus” and “balance female hormone levels,” as the actress had put it.

Most recently, Paltrow's lifestyle website Goop, which promoted vaginal steaming, is at it again with another advice for women: putting a jade egg — yes, a solid object about the size of a golf ball — in your vagina, and keeping it there all day or while you're sleeping.

Hmm.

Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
The place is a madhouse
Feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved
Under moon and star
Where am I to go
Now that I've gone too far

I've never known what he was singing in the bolded part.

Took me 34 years to bother looking it up.

They spent the whole FX budget on a space lion/rhino suit and sedation for that dog. I don't even know what the sticks coming out of the back of its head are supposed to be.

Not me, this guy:

http://imgur.com/gallery/bSOKf