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- This weekend, Trump became official best friends with Kim Jong-un and Ivanka Trump was widely criticized for inserting herself in international diplomacy.
- Drummer Janet Weiss announced that she is leaving Sleater-Kinney.
- A man was crushed and killed by a giant safe while attempting to move the 600-plus pound safe down a set of stairs in Lower Manhattan.
- Bounty hunting is still alive and well in America in 2019—and a GQ writer spent months working as one and discovered it "was a mess for pretty much everyone caught up in a broken system."
- Taylor Swift very publicly called out Scooter Braun for bullying and controlling her back catalogue, and then tons of people in the record industry and pop world took sides.
- Dante de Blasio wrote an op-ed for USA Today about his father giving him "the talk" about how to interact with police.
- The New Yorker has a longread on Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, who is under scrutiny for his business dealings and tumultuous personal life
- Hong Kong protesters have stormed a government building over the China extradition bill.
- Biden supporters and Harris supporters are not in agreement about last week's debates.
- Luis G. Alvarez, a former New York City detective who pleaded with Congress this month to extend health benefits to 9/11 first responders, died this weekend in hospice. He was 53.
- Listen to a new song by Belle & Sebastian from their upcoming original soundtrack to the film Days of the Bagnold Summer.
- A woman drowned in the waters off of Fire Island yesterday as violent storms tore across Long Island.
- First Look Media has decided to no longer fund The Nib, but here's how you can support them.
- And finally, THIS IS MY JAM: