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• The NY Times spoke to politicians, officers, and other people who remain haunted and traumatized by the January 6th insurrection: "For many, [the Capitol] is now tinged with an unshakable sense of hypervigilance, trauma, anger and sadness."
• The New Republic examines how Tucker Carlson's devolution into cable news huckster flogging cruelty and racism mirrors the state of conservative media over the last 25 years: "He advocates again and again only on behalf of whites, particularly well-heeled ones. He contradicts himself constantly and seems to have no fixed ideology at all, beyond a sense of racial solidarity."
• Has the pandemic turned you into an insomniac, or were you always that way?
• The Nicki Minaj swollen testicles drama keeps getting bigger: the White House confirmed that it had "offered her a call with a doctor to answer questions about the safety of the vaccine."
• The second season of How To With John Wilson is coming to HBO on November 26th.
• NY Attorney General Letitia James is reportedly weighing a run for NY governor in 2022.
• New Jersey is apparently going to divest from Unilever, the NJ-based parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, because of its decision not to sell its products in the Israel-occupied Palestinian territories.
• Watch the trailer for Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, the first documentary about the brilliant, elusive folk and blues singer who faded into obscurity and tragically died of AIDS at 55.
• Do you ever stop and think about how big a stoplight is?
• And finally, this video may not change your life, but it very well may cheer you up for two minutes or so:
