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Early Addition: New York still won't let you put 'DEEZNUTS' on your license plate
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Published Feb 8, 2024
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Good Thursday morning in New York City, where broker's fees remain legal (and "insane").
Here's what else is happening:
- Complaints to 311 about sewer back-ups spiked in 2023, and the problem could get worse as New York City gets rainier due to climate change.
- The New York Times has a full play-by-play of President Joe Biden's Wednesday in the city.
- "ORG8ZM" and 3,000 other vanity plate applications got turned down by New York's DMV last year.
- Police in Fort Meyers, Florida managed to take out a bank robber with a sniper rifle while he was holding a hostage in a headlock.
- Former President Donald Trump's lawyers plan to argue before the Supreme Court today that he shouldn't be kicked off primary ballots in Colorado because he wasn't an "officer" of the United States and he didn't technically "engage" in insurrection by telling his supporters to "fight like hell" and "take our country back."
- Over on TikTok, people also love playing with language.
- The Luxor has gone Dorito mode for the Super Bowl.
- The feds are warning Trader Joe's shoppers to return or throw out their frozen chicken pilaf because there might be rocks in it.
- And finally, ding dong:
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