Early Addition: Vast Majority Of People Ticketed For Jaywalking In NYC Are Black Or Hispanic

Published January 9, 2020

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An exclusive private golf club in Jersey City wants to seize a migratory bird habitat for itself.
Between Jan. 1st and Sept. 30th last year, the NYPD issued 316 summonses for jaywalking and 284 of them — or 89.5 percent of the tickets — went to blacks or Hispanics.
Sandusky, Ohio is making Election Day a paid holiday by swapping out Columbus Day.
Here's a hilarious satirical article about a "resistance socialite" and her embroidered line of woke cashmere sweaters—oh wait, I'm being told this isn't satire.
Larry David told Stephen Colbert that if Bernie Sanders becomes president, "it will be great for the country," but terrible for him personally because he has to "keep flying in from Los Angeles to do SNL."
Millie Peartree Fish Fry & Soul Food in the Bronx has been forced to close because it hasn't had cooking gas since November.
A New Jersey teenage pizza delivery driver says his manager went on an anti-Semitic tirade, including joking about burning Jews, when he asked for the night off on a Jewish holiday.
R.I.P. Buck Henry, the screenwriter behind The Graduate and What’s Up, Doc? who also co-created Get Smart and was a regular presence in the early years of SNL.
Grub Street has a fascinating piece about how New York's bagel union fought the mob (and won).
The White House has introduced major changes to "the nation’s benchmark environmental protection law, moving to ease approval of major energy and infrastructure projects without detailed environmental review or consideration of climate change."
Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits.
The Outline tries to pinpoint why all the recent Star Wars films have been so disappointing: "Once Star Wars represented limitless possibility of imagination; now it’s just another boring action series, of which there are already one million. Here, as with all cultural products, we’re approaching a general glut of the human spirit, caused by the overproduction of boring crap."
And finally, what an angel:

when you accidentally open the front facing camera
(oscarweimaraner IG) pic.twitter.com/zqJzdcSo8N
— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) January 8, 2020