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Extra, Extra: Trump Invites Press Into Very Weird Cabinet Meeting
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Ben Yakas
Published Jun 12, 2017
Modified Jun 12, 2017
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- After Trump sued one of his biographers, he had to acknowledge 30 times during a deposition that he had lied over the years about a wide range of issues.
- The NY Times Magazine has a longread feature on Chelsea Manning.
- An oral history of the classic Sopranos episode "Long Term Parking."
- A second federal appeals court has ruled against Trump’s revised travel ban.
- When non-white autistic students get in trouble, schools have a track record of escalating tensions and treating it as a criminal matter.
- Is the fear of flying contagious?
- Trump reportedly gave chief of staff Reince Priebus until July 4th to "clean up" the White House or he's out.
- Men's Journal has the confessions of a former Tijuana cartel hitman.
- Here are some tips on good places to eat along I-95 between NYC and Boston.
- The Cut breaks down what they learned about sexual desire from crunching 10 years of PornHub user data.
- Trump held one of the strangest cabinet meetings in history today, praising himself for his accomplishments and then making each cabinet member praise him as well.
- And finally, this dog and deer are the best of friends:
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