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  • A village in Ohio voted against an affordable housing development after Dave Chappelle threatened to pull his business investments from the town if it was approved.
  • According to Confidence Man, Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book on Donald Trump, White House staff were convinced Trump was flushing documents down a toilet, sometimes clogging it.
  • I can't stop thinking about how everyone on social media talks like this, and neither can The New Yorker.
  • After successful union efforts at locations in Buffalo, employees at multiple Starbucks stores in NYC are seeking to unionize.
  • So James Harden wants out of Brooklyn, but he doesn't want to formally ask for a trade for fear of public backlash, but his team leaked the info to ESPN, so it is public now.
  • The City reports that drug seizures on Rikers went up between April 2020 and May 2021, when visitors were not even allowed on the island.
  • The Oscars aren't going to require proof of vaccination to attend this year, because apparently a bunch of stars — "including at least one of last year’s acting winners and prominent members of the casts of multiple best picture nominees, as well as nominees in other categories" — are unvaccinated.
  • TMZ reports that Bob Saget didn't die of a heart attack, stroke or anything involving drugs—he apparently hit his head: "Authorities believe Bob did not know the severity of the injury and got under the covers and went to sleep. We're told he never woke up and died from a brain bleed."
  • Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum are back to chasing dinos in the trailer for Jurassic World: Dominion.
  • And finally, few things are as wonderful as a skateboarding bulldog: