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Early Addition: There's An Apple-Picking Backlash
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Published Oct 19, 2021
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- It turns out that ambulances don't save any substantial amount of time by turning on their lights and sirens, but doing so does cause more accidents and generally aggravate the public.
- The Kushner Companies have promoted someone who's not a Kushner into the role of CEO after Jared decided not to return to the family company.
- The supply chain situation has gotten bad enough that people are now hoarding frozen food again.
- A new documentary called At the Ready details the complicated and common phenomenon of young Latino people in the El Paso area joining the U.S. Border Patrol or becoming correction officers.
- Current and former drug dealers spoke with Vice about what the job is like and the general answer is: Nerve-wracking and not fun.
- Gawker asked Kiss frontman Gene Simmons how much money he has, and he didn't exactly answer, but he did say a bunch of other obnoxious stuff, mainly about Terry Gross and his weird obsession with trademarking things.
- Variety published a long excerpt from Meghan McCain's new memoir wherein she explains that she quit The View because people there had been very mean to her for a long time.
- The anti-apple-picking movement continues to gather strength.
- And finally, we got donkey over here:
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