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Published Jul 17, 2020

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Ed Mullins, the president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association NYPD union, appeared on Fox News with a QAnon mug today.
Here is a piece about the kinds of things maintenance workers and custodians are being asked to do to keep places clean.
An upstate bar has responded to Governor Andrew Cuomo's rules about serving food with booze by selling $1 bags of potato chips they call "Cuomo Chips."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced that she has had a reoccurrence of cancer, but plans to remain on the Supreme Court.
There has been growing unrest within Fox News by some employees who feel the company has "created a white supremacist cell inside the top cable network in America, the one that directly influences the president."
Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans will star in Joe and Anthony Russo's next film for Netflix, The Gray Man.
A leaked White House document lists Florida and many of its counties in coronavirus "red zone."
A 28-year-old bartender who had COVID-19 was told by his restaurant's owner to not tell people about it.
Several people involved in this week's Twitter hack told the Times about what happened, and it wasn't "the work of a nation-state or a sophisticated group of hackers. Instead, it was done by a group of young people — one of whom says he lives at home with his mother — who got to know one another because of their obsession with owning early or unusual screen names, particularly one letter or number, like @y or @6."
You can't go in person to watch the Mets this summer, but you can pay to have a cutout of yourself at Citi Field.
There's still time to watch a live Guided By Voices concert here all weekend.
And finally, it's gonna be hot out this weekend, make sure to drink some water:

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