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- The New Yorker is extremely disturbed by what we’ve seen from Trump in his first week as President-elect.
- Speaking of disturbing, The Washington Post has an interview with the impresario of a Facebook fake-news empire who can't believe people are dumb enough to believe what he writes: "I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything."
- The Steve Bannon image rehab campaign has already begun.
- Metallica, The Roots and Jimmy Fallon perform "Enter Sandman" with toy instruments.
- Piers Morgan is a bad writer and dumb person.
- Edward Snowden may not be a "fucking idiot," but he is wrong on this one.
- The Mid-Manhattan Library is finally getting a renovation.
- Stop trying to make "Gentrilennials" happen.
- Ryan Gosling has mixed feelings about becoming a meme.
- Ted Cruz is a very good boy who is very eager to work with the man who spent months batting him around like a piñata.
- The FBI was prepared to carry on their petty rivalry with the CIA even if the Soviet Union conquered America.
- And finally, push the sadness aside for a moment and watch a polar bear serenely pet a dog:

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