Stuck with a golden toilet.

President Trump ordered special counsel Robert Mueller fired back in June, but he backpedaled after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign. 1/15

Here are five takeaways from the Mueller-firing news and lots of Beltway Twitter chatter. 2/15

“There are good reasons to be critical of how Comey handled the Clinton email investigation. But Comey as director was very, very far from being a Hoover, Pat Gray, or William Sessions.” A simple explanation for why Congress set a 10-year term for the Director of the FBI. 3/15

When Trump said recently that he’d speak to Mueller, his supporters jumped on Fox News—talking to an audience of one—to deter him. 4/15

Thirty-five new bilateral and regional trade pacts are under consideration around the world. The US is part of only one of them. 5/15

Not once has the US military cut funding—as required by law—to an Afghan commander for keeping child sex slaves. 6/15

Video: The US military once stored down sleeping bags in waterproof sardine tins for use in emergency situations. 7/15

Professional tennis has an alt-right moment after the media realized a breakout star thought Pizzagate was real. 8/15

Jia Tolentino on why so many people fear the potential overreach of the #MeToo movement, but no one seems to be worried about potential underreach. 9/15

Netflix nixed its rating system because people used the stars to measure their impression of a film, not their enjoyment of it. 10/15

Japan is the Asian country least appealing for foreign talent—too long hours, too little English, too inflexible. 11/15

Some goofy maps—aka, "anthropomorphic cartography"—drawn by a 15-year-old woman in the 1860s. 12/15

New schools no longer include lockers in their designs, and existing schools no longer use them. 13/15

“Make sure your kids know that if they see something they can’t handle, you want them to feel as though they can talk to you about it without you throwing a fit because you didn’t want them to know about, I don’t know, vore. They will find out about vore.” Nicole Cliffe starts a parenting column and it’s good. 14/15

Obituary for Mary Lee Berners-Lee, who programmed the first computer sold commercially and "grandmothered" the web. 15/15

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