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Early Addition: Senior Advisor To The President Ivanka Trump Urges Jobless To "Find Something New"
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Published Jul 14, 2020
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- Tucker Carlson addressed the fact that his top writer, Blake Neff, was fired after secretly posting racist and sexist material on an online forum...and Carlson is now taking a "long-planned" vacation.
- The NY Times Magazine has a feature this week about how the U.S. is losing the battle with coronavirus due to the chronic underfunding of public health.
- A driver crashed into a new outdoor dining area on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, injuring four diners and a waitress.
- Some of the 211 University of Texas at Austin students who went to Cabo San Lucas to party during the pandemic explain why they did it and what happened after they got back: "I understand where people criticizing us were coming from. We were a bunch of kids who had the means to go on this expensive trip, and we decided to go despite the pandemic. It was selfish."
- A new White House-backed ad campaign is going to encourage people who are unemployed or unhappy in their jobs to go out and “find something new" in the midst of a pandemic that has caused the worst unemployment rate since the Great Depression.
- Bari Weiss is consciously uncoupling from the NY Times.
- Is it time to kill the penny?
- QAnon-obsessed Republicans who believe in nonsense conspiracy theories have been cheered on by Donald Trump, and now a few are becoming legitimate political faction.
- If you've already seen Money Plane, the best worst movie of 2020, read the oral history of how it happened.
- Grant Imahara, the electrical engineer and roboticist who starred on the reality series Mythbusters, has died at 49.
- Here is a headline you don't see everyday: "How Koalas With An S.T.D. Could Help Humanity."
- The koalas are helping us, but it's another story with the squirrels: a squirrel has tested positive for the bubonic plague in Colorado.
- Yo La Tengo launched a Bandcamp yesterday and they've already put up two new improvisational pieces.
- And finally, this pup is basically Rocky Balboa in dog form:
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