Extra Extra: Are You Included In Trump's Sprawling Sculpture Garden?

Jake Offenhartz

Published Jan 18, 2021

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Jake Offenhartz

Published Jan 18, 2021

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On his penultimate full day in office, President Trump has released an executive order calling for a 100+ person sculpture garden commemorating "American heroes" such as Barry Goldwater, Hannah Arendt, and Alfred Hitchcock, who was British.
On Tuesday, his last full day in office, Trump is expected to issue around 100 pardons and commutations.
Vulture has a good interview with director Sam Pollard about his new film MLK/FBI, which chronicles J. Edgar Hoover's years-long harassment campaign against Martin Luther King Jr.
A New Mexico County Commissioner was arrested for allegedly breaching the U.S. Capitol after returning to D.C. this week for inauguration protests.
The nude assailant who was killed by the third rail after pushing a man onto the subway tracks was off his meds, after COVID-19 wiped out the social services he'd been receiving, his mother told the Post.
Fox News insisted that a settlement reached with the family of Seth Rich, the murdered DNC staffer whose death was the subject of absurd right-wing conspiracy parroted by Fox hosts, remain secret until after the election.
Governor Cuomo says he will no longer attend Joe Biden's inauguration due to fears over security threats in Albany.
A Bronx man has died after he was struck by a hit-and-run motorcyclist.
Famously apolitical businessman Joe Ricketts is launching a national news outlet called "Straight Arrow News" focused on unbiased news.
And finally, someone please help this dog:

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