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Early Addition: Senate Republicans Go Nuclear

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John Del Signore

Published Apr 6, 2017

Modified Apr 6, 2017

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John Del Signore

Published Apr 6, 2017

Modified Apr 6, 2017

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• The Tampa Bay Times has put together an excellent interactive multimedia feature examining police shootings over the course of five years in Florida.
• Senate Republicans have gone nuclear to push through their pick for Supreme Court.
• Page Six hears rumors that Donald Trump, Jr. wants to be Governor of New York State.
• Watch Samantha Bee explain all the ways Ivanka Trump is not her father's "progressive conscience."
• Katy Perry googles "Katy Perry hot" to find hot photos of Katy Perry to share with all the Katy Perry fans.
• The Secret Service is spread thin and struggling to meet the security needs of the Trump family.
• WNYC reports that a needle exchange in the Bronx is turning drug users into... scientists!
• And finally, for F. Frederick Skitty, an Animal video:

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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.

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