Extra Extra: De Blasio & Eric Trump Are In A Twitter Battle For The Ages

May 14, 2019, 6:10 p.m.

Because de Blasio and Eric Trump are engaged in a hilarious spat, check out today's end-of-day links: TV writers room terminologies, breakfast food lies, RIP Tim Conway, phone games & data collections, and dogs encounter creature.

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  • Is breakfast food a lie?
  • The House Intelligence Committee is investigating whether lawyers tied to Trump and his family helped obstruct the panel’s inquiry into Russian election interference by shaping false testimony.
  • Vulture got the lowdown on writers' room terminologies from TV comedies, like "Jeffing," "The Biggest Crabs," "Czechoslovakia," "Blow Dart," "Summer Frankenstein" and more.
  • Mayor Bill de Blasio and Eric Trump are currently engaged in a Twitter spat over de Blasio's Green New Deal press conference at Trump Tower yesterday.
  • Tim Conway, one of the stars of The Carol Burnett Show, has died. He was 85.
  • Joe Biden told supporters in New Hampshire today that he thinks once Trump is out of office, Republicans will have "an epiphany" and work with Democrats toward consensus. 🤣 🤣 🤣
  • Here's a terrifying look at how in just 318 words, arch-conservative Clarence Thomas "laid out a roadmap for overturning decisions permitting abortion, same-sex marriage, and more."
  • The Post reports that Governor Andrew Cuomo and girlfriend Sandra Lee are no longer living together "amid rumors that the couple have split up." (Cuomo has denied this.)
  • Find out what the rules are for bringing weed into airports in California.
  • You can blame games like "Angry Birds" for making people all too comfortable with giving away private information.
  • And finally, I can feel it crawling near me, get it away from me, nooooo: