She didnt sail across the ocean for this kind of treatment, Donny!
She didn't sail across the ocean for this kind of treatment, Donny! Also, we stand by this take. Pablo Blazquez Dominguez / Stringer

Jeremy Corbyn: is a big loser, as you've read. New York Times has live updates here.

Fun fact: British journalists aren't allowed to report on the election while polls are open. "It’s illegal for anyone in the country to publish information on how citizens say they have voted—exit polls or forecasts—until after polls close," writes the Times. "A code of conduct laid out by Britain’s communications regulator, Ofcom, specifies that all discussion and analysis of election issues on television and radio must cease once polls open, that no opinion polls can be published and that no coverage of opinion polls is allowed while people are voting."

Meanwhile, across the pond... Thousands of "penis fish" wash onto California beach.

Okay, okay, there's more going on than the penis fishies: But Mitch McConnell sure does look like a penis fish, amiright? The Senate's #1 penis fish is trying to "avoid an impeachment trial civil war," according to Politico. Also, House Republicans did a lot of shouting today.

Leschi Elementary is closed tomorrow due to a NOROVIRUS OUTBREAK: I hate vomiting so I put it in ALL CAPS. Don't touch kids. They're dangerous. In fact, ban kids. Especially all the ones who go to Leschi Elementary. 100! STUDENTS! AND! STAFF! REPORTEDLY! HAVE! THE! VIRUS!

Methane is invisible to the human eye: If we could see it, would we care more about climate change?

Trump better watch out: If he keeps mocking Greta Thunberg the planet is gonna send a bald eagle to rip out his eyes. Or a hurricane to pull him out to sea. Or a bog monster to the White House. I've never been to D.C. Is it really that swampy? Anyhow, these visualizations are fun.

Trump appears to have deleted the tweet, but its still visible on Google. Maybe Melania made him delete it.
Trump appears to have deleted the tweet, but it's still visible on Google. Maybe Melania made him delete it.

Greta poked fun at him in response: And more from CNN, below.
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Twitter will be a debate partner: Here are the next four scheduled debates (beyond next week's December debate), per the Guardian:

January 14: CNN, in partnership with The Des Moines Register, will host the seventh debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

February 7: ABC, in partnership with WMUR-TV and Apple News, will host the eighth Democratic debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

February 19: NBC News & MSNBC will host the ninth Democratic debate in Las Vegas, Nevada – in partnership with The Nevada Independent.

February 25: CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute will co-host the tenth Democratic debate at The Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina. Twitter will be a debate partner.

Some lanes at Snoqualmie Pass were briefly shut down today: due to snow. Bring it to Seattle!

Conservatives are in a tizzy over State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Governor Jay Inslee pushing for stricter gun control: They want state lawmakers to ban assault weapons and create new limits on high capacity magazines. The KOMO and MyNorthwest Facebook commenters were predictably outrageous. Here's the announcement from Ferguson.

Excuse me: What?