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Early Addition: Person, Woman, Trump, Launch, Codes
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Ben Yakas
Published Jul 23, 2020
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- The game's up liberal dweebs, Donald Trump aced the kindergarten memory test, and he got extra points, and it wasn't an easy question, Trump/Cognitive 2020.
- A man on Long Island tried to fake his death—and he would have gotten away with it too if he hadn't misspelled "Regsitry" on his forged death certificate.
- Bill & Ted Face the Music will debut simultaneously on premium VOD and in any cinemas willing to play it on September 1st.
- The most relatable headline of the day: "Was E-Mail A Mistake?"
- The Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side has laid off 76 people, including its entire staff of part-time educators.
- Politico takes a closer look at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, his wife and the couple's questionable actions: "In a vast Cabinet department with extensive resources, tightly bound by protocol and with close oversight, Mike and Susan Pompeo have imported a model more familiar to smaller, less scrutinized congressional offices on Capitol Hill: a blurry line between the appointed secretary and unappointed spouse, and among official, political and personal agendas."
- Dr. Anthony Fauci doesn't necessarily think COVID-19 is going to disappear the way SARS 1 did.
- The NY Times announced that it will be acquiring Serial Productions (though This American Life will remain independent).
- Thrillist counted down the 50 best movie soundtracks of all time.
- Bloomberg writer: maybe I did not, in fact, need to credit Governor Ron DeSantis for Florida's non-response to the coronavirus.
- What's been going on inside the NBA bubble in Orlando?
- Taylor Swift is surprise releasing a new album tonight, folklore, which includes 11 songs which were cowritten and coproduced by The National's Aaron Dessner.
- And finally, one of these dogs is a boss, and it isn't the bigger one:
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