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Early Addition: A Secret Gathering Of NY Republicans Unanimously Decided They Don't Want Andrew Giuliani To Be Governor
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James Ramsay
Published Jun 29, 2021
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Published Jun 29, 2021
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- Ever since Trump left office and the news got boring, traffic to virtually every news site — but especially right-wing news sites — has plummeted.
- Vox investigated why infrastructure projects in the U.S. cost way more than in Europe, and found that high costs for labor and raw materials weren't an issue — the real problem, they said, is that NIMBY types file law suits every time a city wants to build anything, and that's what drags out projects and makes them so expensive.
- The New York Times investigated whether Subway tuna sandwiches have real tuna in them, and then followed that up with a behind-the-scenes interview about its Subway tuna investigation.
- A group of county-level Republican leaders from New York gathered in Albany this week for a secret vote on their preferred 2022 gubernatorial candidate, and nobody (0) voted for Andrew Giuliani.
- "If ending the conservatorship or flying to Mars or whatever the hell else she wants to do to be happy, I support that," Jamie Lynn Spears said of her sister Britney's recent court testimony.
- Peter Ostrum, a veterinarian and former child actor who played Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), told NPR that everything on set was real except for the fruit-flavored wallpaper, which just tasted like normal wallpaper.
- Elvis Costello defended Olivia Rodrigo over charges that she plagiarized one of his guitar riffs, saying that borrowing from others artists is "how rock & roll works."
- Fellas, we're doing jorts.
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