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Extra Extra: Joshua Tree Suffering Because Of Government Shutdown
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Ben Yakas
Published Dec 28, 2018
Modified Dec 28, 2018
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- The all-consuming, ever-increasing fakeness of the Internet is overwhelming.
- The government shutdown is especially hurting Joshua Tree—with no federal employees to keep an eye on everything, the toilets are a mess, people are littering and starting fires, and some are even "stringing Christmas lights from delicate Joshua trees that they are supposed to leave untouched."
- A Woodstock 50th Anniversary Festival is being planned for next summer in the town of Bethel, NY, where the original took place.
- A Brooklyn man wore a sign on his back in an attempt to find his wife a kidney donor.
- Get ready for 2019 with this L train shutdown boardgame.
- The AKC Museum of the Dog, an entire art museum dedicated to dogs, is coming to Midtown in January.
- As if you needed more reasons why to delete Facebook, here's a report on Facebook's secret rulebook for global political speech that is filled with "numerous gaps, biases and outright errors."
- Learn how Netflix put together their new interactive choose-your-own-adventure Black Mirror episode.
- The NY Times takes a disturbing look at all the ways "a woman coping with the heartbreak of losing her pregnancy might also find herself facing jail time" in today's America.
- Awww: a dad didn't want his 25-year-old daughter to spend her first Christmas as a Delta Air Lines flight attendant alone, so he flew with her on six flights over three days.
- If you're looking for reading material, check out Deadspin's list of their best longreads of 2018. And ICYMI, here's ours!
- And finally, this dog does not care for his family's new cat pillow:
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