Early Addition: Move Over You-Know-Who, A Pig Just Successfully Donated A Kidney To A Human

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Published Oct 20, 2021

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James Ramsay

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency yesterday for his entire state, which means, among other things, that people won't be allowed to use potable water to wash their driveways.
Bloomberg has a long piece about Turkmenistan's Mordor-looking "Gates of Hell" crater that's been burning gas for 40 years, and how it's emblematic of the reckless environmental policies being pushed by the former Soviet country's dentist-turned-dictator.
They did it: Doctors successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a human, and it works.
Employees at Netflix are walking out today in protest of the Dave Chappelle fiasco, and as part of a broader push to get more transgender executives at the company and more trans-affirming content on the platform.
Years after famously dropping the "The," Facebook is planning yet another rebrand.
"Had I not been vaccinated, and with all my medical issues, this would be a far more dire situation": Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto got COVID.
Next week, Sotheby's is auctioning off what it expects to be $3 million worth of ephemera owned by the late magician Ricky Jay.
After all this, former British spy Michael Steele says the Trump pee tape "probably does" exist.
And finally, 'tis the season:

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