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Extra Extra: Pets Are Making TV News & Weather Broadcasts Worth Watching
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Published May 4, 2020
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- The Trump administration is privately projecting that the daily death toll will reach about 3,000 on June 1st, nearly double the current number of about 1,750. And yet Donald Trump is still pushing for states to reopen. (The White House has responded that the new projections had not been vetted.)
- Epidemiologist Dr. Ali Khan talked to the New Yorker about why we weren't ready for COVID-19: "This is about lack of imagination."
- So uh...are we ever going back to the office if we don't need to?
- Governor Andrew Cuomo was given a cameo role praising the federal government’s handling of the pandemic in a new TV ad by Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.
- The best part of television news and weather reports during the pandemic is getting to see pets interrupt the broadcasts.
- Trump has appointed near 30% of all of all active circuit court judges, which will have long lasting affects on the country for decades to come: "Trump has notched more confirmations of appeals court judges, faster, than any president at a similar stage in history."
- The best song of 2020 so far is definitely "I Wonder What’s Inside Your Butthole."
- NBC News Group Chairman Andy Lack will step down at the end of the month.
- Nicolas Cage will star as Joe Exotic in an upcoming eight-episode scripted series.
- What's Conner O'Malley been up to during the pandemic? Oh not much, just sneaking around Time Square to record this kickass video.
- Taika Waititi will direct and co-write an all-new Star Wars movie.
- In other Star Wars news, here is an exhaustive ranking of every Star Wars kiss and physical touch.
- If you bottled up the coronavirus pandemic and turned it into an insane, high-pitched rap music video involving aliens invading NYC, this is what you'd get.
- And finally, this dog loves her new trampoline so very much:
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