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Extra, Extra: GOP Making It Easier For Mentally Ill To Get Guns
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Ben Yakas
Published Feb 2, 2017
Modified Feb 2, 2017
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Published Feb 2, 2017
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- The lawyer for the losing side of the Metropolitan Museum admission fee case may still get $350,000.
- The New Republic reports on the New Left's resistance against Trump.
- Bruce Springsteen was back to trolling Donald Trump at a show in Australia last night.
- A Vice editor allegedly used Vice Canada to recruit drug mules for a global smuggling ring.
- More shocking reports about Trump's disastrous first military raid in Yemen: "Officials told Reuters that Trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support, or adequate backup preparations."
- GQ reports on a "cure" for men who pay for sex.
- Trump claims Patriots coach Bill Belichick once kissed him and said "I love you," which is just one of many reasons why we're rooting for the Falcons this weekend.
- Dogs and weed do not belong together.
- The House struck down an Obama-era regulation that sought to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
- The next time someone tries to argue that Milo Yiannopoulos isn't just promoting hate speech, show them this.
- The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism announced that they are launching a probe into Russian interferences with the election.
- Thank god for McSweeney's and Clickhole giving us something to laugh about as the world burns.
- The City Council has passed a set of legislation that would make it harder for operators of state-funded flophouses to shelter people in squalor and force drug addicts to relapse for rehab kickbacks.
- And finally, this is the happiest silly dog in the world:
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