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Early Addition: Someone Designed An Uncomfortable Toilet To 'Improve Employee Productivity'
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Published Dec 18, 2019
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- It took a three person team over a week to produce Trump's unhinged letter to Nancy Pelosi, even though it ended up reading like an average rant on Trump's Twitter account.
- The NY Times Magazine reports on how Wayne LaPierre is battling for control of the NRA.
- The full reviews for Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker are here, and they're not specifically too good.
- Rain Dove, a nonbinary model and LGBTQ activist, admitted to selling TMZ incriminating private text messages from Asia Argento, falsely claiming to have graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and being a firefighter.
- Pete Wells looks at eight ways restaurants have changed in the last decade.
- From now on, only 10-year-olds should be allowed to interview John Mulaney.
- Great, somebody designed an uncomfortable toilet to stop employees from "wasting time" at work.
- A Manhattan judge tossed the mortgage fraud case against Paul Manafort on the grounds of double jeopardy.
- Here's our first brief glimpse at Christopher Nolan's mysterious next film, Tenet.
- A 60 Minutes producer has sued CBS for alleged retaliation over her complaint about "a sexually offensive photograph" her boss texted to her.
- Kanye West is bringing his "opera" Mary to Lincoln Center this Sunday.
- And finally, have you ever stopped your car in the middle of traffic to introduce your dog to another dog?
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