Fifty underground albums you’ve never heard of.

Almost every single one of my jokes that I wrote made the movie. But I was a ghost writer, and somebody might say, ‘Man, The Mule was hilarious.’ And, again, the Latino that wrote on it is going to get zero credit.

Comedian Steve Treviño on Mexican-American representation in Hollywood.

↩︎ Texas Monthly

9h

The Southern Poverty Law Center says hate groups in the US have increased by 30 percent in the past four years.

↩︎ NBC News 9h

"For my seventh birthday, Mickey Mouse gave me a Pontiac Firebird." Examples of when someone really was one in a million.

↩︎ Ask Reddit 9h

Yosemite National Park's Horsetail waterfall becomes a "firefall" in February, when the setting sun makes Horsetail look like molten fire.

Some bonkers history:

The magnificent glow is an eye-catching illusion known as a “firefall,” with its name drawing back to the manmade Firefall that used to occur at Glacier Point in the park. During the late 1800s, campfires built near the edge of Glacier Point were pushed off the edge to create the illusion of a flowing fire stream, later becoming a popular tourist attraction until it was eventually stopped due to fire hazards.

14h

This winter's heavy rainfall may cause a "superbloom" of wildflowers in California. A compilation of helpful resources for hikers.

↩︎ Modern Hiker 14h

The popularity of "stick framing" in construction has led to a boom across America of identical blocky mid-rises.

↩︎ Bloomberg Businessweek 14h

For the first time, digital advertising will be bigger than TV, radio, and print advertising combined in the US this year.

↩︎ Recode 14h

In case you need this today: Photographs of cats on glass.

↩︎ It's Cats on Glass / Twitter 15h

A wide-ranging disinformation campaign aimed at Democratic 2020 candidates is already underway on social media.

↩︎ Politico 15h

Only 27 percent of Americans under the age of 45 are able to demonstrate a basic understanding of American history.

↩︎ The Woodrow Wilson Foundation 15h

New findings uncover a forgotten generation of late 19th-century Italian pizza makers in America.

↩︎ The United States Pizza Museum 16h

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↩︎ TMN Memberships 16h

A data-dive from the Oscars finds that when women win an award, they, on average, only speak half as much as the men who win.

↩︎ The Little Dataset That Could 16h

Every photo taken by the *Des Moines Register* at the Iowa state wrestling tournament.

↩︎ The Des Moines Register 16h

A backlash forms on Tinder against proclaiming love for the Oxford comma in your profile.

↩︎ GQ 16h

What’s been left out is any reference to the structural and political systems that caused black leftists to adopt progressivism—or any understanding that maintaining woke views requires continuous work.

Reclaiming “woke.”

↩︎ The Believer

19h

Saying that you treat women well because of chivalry makes about as much sense as saying you treat them well because of the highway code.

Medieval sources never use chivalry with reference to women. It’s all about a knight’s obligation to the Church and his lord.

↩︎ Going Medieval

19h

A random city/song generator. "It might not be a good song, but hey: not all cities are either but we still love them."

↩︎ Midi City 19h

Venezuelans need help, but the international community agrees that the US should stay out; its motive is provocation, not aid.

↩︎ National Public Radio 19h

After opposing subsidies for Amazon, why did the New York Times editorial board change its mind?

↩︎ Hmm Daily 19h