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Early Addition: Is Picking Free Furniture Off The Curb The New Birding?
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Published Feb 24, 2021
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- Illinois will be the first state to entirely eliminate the use of cash bail.
- Many experts agree that COVID-19 will be under control in the U.S. — or "over" — when we're seeing fewer than 100 deaths a day. (We're currently reporting 2,000 deaths a day nationwide.)
- The pandemic has been tough for, among other groups, Times Square's costumed characters.
- "Look, literally, it's a West Elm!": For some savvy NYC residents, picking free furniture off the curb is a hot trend.
- Canada has been scandalized by rising claims that their butter hasn't been spreading as well at room temperature lately.
- A New York appellate court ruled yesterday that the show Billions isn't guilty of libel against the Cayuga Nation for including a plot line about a shady (fictional) member of the tribe.
- Dr. Hibbert, the Black doctor on The Simpsons, will finally be voiced by a Black actor — Kevin Michael Richardson.
- 20,000 people have signed a petition to ban a popular squirrel hunt in upstate New York that's geared toward 12- to 15-year-old hunters.
- Good effort:
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