Early Addition: Let's Watch Adam Sandler Play Basketball In Giant Clothes

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Published May 18, 2021

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James Ramsay

Published May 18, 2021

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New York City mayoral candidates are pissed that the next Democratic primary debate, which will air on WABC on June 2nd, is going to be yet another Zoom.
A ProPublica investigation found that hundreds of non-existent "farms," including many with Jersey Shore addresses, each received tens of thousands of dollars in PPP loans last year.
Staffers at the Whitney Museum of Art are joining other museum workers in they city in unionizing with the United Auto Workers.
NPR has a glowing review of Better, Not Bitter, the new memoir by Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five.
Fidelity is trying to get 13-year-olds to set up stock portfolios.
A flight from JFK to San Francisco had to make an emergency landing in Minnesota yesterday because an "erratic" passenger, who was later arrested for drug possession, allegedly touched another passenger and refused to wear a mask.
Adam Sandler was recently spotted playing pick-up basketball on Long Island while wearing enormous clothes.
NBC has extended Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show contract for another five years.
The New York Historical Society has a new exhibition about Cherry Grove, the gay haven on Fire Island, in the 1950s.
And finally, some impressive lower body strength:

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