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- The Washington Post reports that since taking office, Donald Trump has spent more than 342 days—a third of his entire presidency—at his private clubs and hotels. And he's profiting off of it.
- The number of hospitalizations in the United States involving pizza increased by more than 50% in 2018, but it's not pizza's fault, it's never pizza's fault.
- Here is an illuminating and disturbing interview with Harvey Weinstein's defense attorney Donna Rotunno, which becomes increasingly hostile as it goes along: "I was almost done interviewing Weinstein’s defense attorney when I decided to ask one more question: had she ever been sexually assaulted?" tweeted interviewer Megan Twohey. "'I have not,' she said at 23:50. 'Because I would never put myself in that position.' Then things really heated up."
- Mike Bloomberg is reportedly paying social media influencers to try to make himself seem cool and...I don't think it's working, Mike.
- Restaurateurs in Chinatown say their businesses are suffering because of the panic about coronavirus.
- You can finally stop Netflix's autoplay feature.
- Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez returned to Showtime’s Desus and Mero, and discussed how Washington might be a better place if it were easier to get a good bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich.
- The OA creator and star Brit Marling wrote an interesting op-ed about rejecting the concept of the "strong female lead."
- A panel of pastry chefs and Scouts ranked the best and worst Girl Scout cookies.
- It's new music Friday, and there's tons of stuff to recommend: our two albums of the week are Against All Logic's 2017-2019, Nicolas Jaar followup to the masterful 2012-2017; and post-punk band Shopping's new record, All Or Nothing.
- You'll also wanna check out a new Leonard Cohen-esque single from Hamilton Leithauser, new tracks from Meek Mill and Nicki Minaj, and another wonderful track from Moses Sumney.
- And finally, how is this real?!
Published Feb 7, 2020
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