Celebrity Mount Rushmore

The Celebrity Mount Rushmore For October 25–29

What four humans made lots of news this week?

We are starting a new weekly feature here at the Will Leitch Medium Experiment. It is a look back at the events of the week by focusing on five human beings of particular note. It will hopefully be informative and amusing but will likely be neither. Think of it as the Mount Rushmore of this week, if they carved statues on mountains every week, based on short observations on the news. Last week featured Timothee Chalamet, Katie Couric, Larry David and Nick Rolovich.

Email me your suggestions at williamfleitch@yahoo.com.

Joe Biden. The huge-but-not-as-huge-as-you-wanted Build Back Better bill seems to finally be set to pass, though again, with some of these whack-a-doodles hanging around, you never know. The bill does not have everything I think it should in it — losing family leave is a killer — but, you know, as it turns out, I am not the supreme dictator of earth and do not get to dictate every single that happens on it. There has been this strange left-wing tendency to blame Joe Biden for not getting the…