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- Chris Christie's post-Trump media rehabilitation tour and (expected) 2024 presidential run continued last night with an interview on Axios on HBO, wherein he talked about almost dying of COVID.
- The armadillos are coming up north, and there's no stopping them: “It’s like hunting aliens,” said one hunter. “We know nothing about them. We can’t seem to kill them easily. They show up unexpectedly. And their numbers have just exploded.”
- Jury selection begins today for Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial.
- Bettina Grossman, an eccentric artist and longtime Chelsea Hotel resident whose studio apartment was so jam-packed that she slept on a lawn chair in the hallway, has died at the age of 94.
- Two weeks after the story broke, The New Yorker dove into the details around why Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet's number two guy, donated $200 million to UCSB to build an 11-story dorm tower that has no windows in the bedrooms—it was apparently part of some twisted experiment to deny students natural light and force them to socialize in communal areas.
- Cool teens prefer corded headphones over AirPods because that white string very clearly says "don't talk to me."
- Zut Alors! French President Emmanuel Macron changed the blue in the French flag from a royal-ish blue to a deep navy.
- Lil Nas X had an extensive conversation with Jeremy O. Harris about dating and the "gay agenda" in the new issue of GQ.
- Sesame Street is introducing a new muppet named Ji-Young, who'll be the show's first Asian American character in its 52-year history.
- And finally, slide into the week like:
Published Nov 15, 2021
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