Early Addition: Suburban Millennial Mobsters Who're 'Always Texting' Blamed For The Mob's Downfall

James Ramsay

Published Oct 5, 2021

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James Ramsay

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SoHo isn't seeing enough foot traffic from European tourists and it's devastating the neighborhood's economy.
Ahead of a rumored Instacart IPO, thousands of Instacart shoppers are urging people to delete the app in protest of how horribly the company treats them.
If Congress doesn't sort out this debt limit increase, the Treasury Department may have to mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin up at West Point, put it on a helicopter, send it into Manhattan, and officially deposit the thing at the New York Fed, at which point our fiscal problem will... go away?
"Older members complain that the millennials — who grew up in the suburbs instead of city streets — are softer, dumber and not as loyal as mobsters of the past. Plus, they’re always texting." The Wall Street Journal has a pretty amusing account of how mismanagement and incompetent underlings led to the latest crackdown on the mob.
In the name of promoting diversity, big corporations like Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever, and Facebook (!!) are threatening to withhold payments to their corporate law firms if those firms don't employ enough attorneys of color.
The BBC published an extremely long piece about why humans feel so entitled to kill spiders — and why we shouldn't.
In a move that one-ups the New York Times' recent takedown of vegan Eleven Madison Park, New York magazine just kind of panned high-end dining in general.
Lindsay Lohan is starting a podcast at some point in the next year, and at least one person is urging her to have Mohammed bin Salman as a guest.
Silver Linings Playbook will become a Broadway musical.
And finally, a spooky squirrel:

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