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Early Addition: Aw, Glenn Beck Is Trying To Be A Decent Human Being
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Ben Yakas
Published Nov 7, 2016
Modified Nov 7, 2016
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- A women's wheelchair gold medalist got a flat tire yesterday, and NYers helped her out.
- The debate over chopped cheese sandwiches and food appropriation gets the NY Times treatment.
- A giant Trump effigy was burnt in the UK for Guy Fawkes day.
- What is a "Mazel Tov Cocktail" and can we drink it?
- The New Yorker reports that Glenn Beck loves Obama, hates Trump, and is trying to be a decent person now that he's in the midst of "a Dadaist time in my life."
- Somebody made a real life Butter Robot from Rick and Morty.
- You know the country is completely fucked when Trump fans are booing Bruce Springsteen songs at rallies.
- Billy Joel is voting for Hillary but doesn't care if he has Trump fans.
- Some light reading to start your week: "A Brief History Of Death."
- A group of researchers are recording typical NYC sounds to make the city quieter or something.
- The rare Slate pitch that is completely right-on: this election really was about the most important issues of our time, namely misogyny, racism and xenophobia.
- And finally, these fluffy white-handed gibbons are as freaked out by rats as we are:
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