Extra Extra: Mitch McConnell Thinks Making Election Day A Federal Holiday Is 'Political Power Grab'

Jan. 30, 2019, 5:26 p.m.

Because you can die from swallowing a toothpick, check out today's end-of-day links: bagel sandwich hot take, The Beatles rooftop concert anniversary, mailbox replacements, 'Stalinist Truman Show,' NY politician tattoos, and dog tolerates calf love.

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  • Here's the story of a young man who almost lost his life to a toothpick he didn’t even know he had swallowed.
  • The New Yorker has a must-read article (with a devastating video) about an asylum seeker who has been trying for weeks get her child out of government custody.
  • The USPS is replacing all NYC mailboxes with a new "anti-fishing model."
  • Today marks the anniversary of The Beatles' rooftop concert.
  • Drew Magary has a bagel hot take: bagel sandwiches are bad.
  • I almost can't believe this is real, but Mitch McConnell actually said outloud that making Election Day a federal holiday is a "power grab" by Democrats. "Just what America needs, another paid holiday and a bunch of government workers being paid to go out and work for I assume ... our colleagues on the other side, on their campaigns."
  • Learn about Dau, a sprawling Russian film project that is something between "Stalinist Truman Show" and the Stanford prison experiment.
  • NY politicians explain the stories behind their tattoos.
  • Speaking of tattoos: Ariana Grande got a new Japanese tattoo which translates to "barbecue grill."
  • The Criterion Collection will launch its streaming channel on April 8th.
  • A humorless Pittsburgh news station fired an employee for a graphic which called Tom Brady a "known cheater."
  • Mueller's team says that discovery materials shared with defense attorneys associated with Concord Management (the company owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is known as "Putin's chef") appeared online in October in an apparent "disinformation campaign" to discredit the Russia investigation.
  • And finally, Franklin is really taking Crouton's loving nibbles in stride: