Early Addition: A Secret Gathering Of NY Republicans Unanimously Decided They Don't Want Andrew Giuliani To Be Governor

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Published Jun 29, 2021

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James Ramsay

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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