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Extra, Extra: NYers Can't Wait To Protest Trump To His Face
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Ben Yakas
Published Feb 21, 2017
Modified Feb 21, 2017
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Published Feb 21, 2017
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- New Yorkers are chomping at the bit for a chance to protest Trump when he finally shows his face in the city again: "The visual of Trump coming back to New York would be the Fifth Avenue of Manhattan flooded with people angrily protesting just about everything that Donald Trump has done — I don't think he wants to create that visual."
- Jimmy Kimmel says he's thinking about retiring from late night television once his contract is up in 2019.
- Listen to another great new disco-flavored Spoon tune.
- Could former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson run for a Senate seat in NJ?
- A teen woke up on the way to his own funeral.
- Daniel Clowes has forgiven Shia LaBeouf for plagiarizing him because they both hate Trump.
- Our long national Milo Yiannopoulos crisis is over, even if a few dummies continue to defend him.
- The medical examiner wants further investigation into the death of the Russian UN ambassador.
- Sean Spicer (Melissa McCarthy?) says that Trump has a “deep respect for the First Amendment" (LOL) and “a healthy respect for the press” (ROTFWL).
- There is such a thing as a $500 pizza.
- The new self-titled Dirty Projectors album is available to stream a few days before its official release.
- And finally, gotta get that cookie:
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