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- So...why exactly did Trump tweet about civil war this week?
- The son of a dead Deutsche Bank executive — armed with hundreds of confidential bank files — has been secretly helping the FBI and the House Intelligence Committee investigate the bank and Donald Trump.
- The Verge has audio of Mark Zuckerberg rallying Facebook against critics, competitors, and in particular, Senator Elizabeth Warren: “You have someone like Elizabeth Warren who thinks that the right answer is to break up the companies...if someone’s going to try to threaten something that existential, you go to the mat and you fight."
- Headline of the day: "He took a date to the park where he was gored by a bison, figuring it wouldn’t happen again. He was wrong."
- Grub Street ranked canned wines.
- How did the sexy peach emoji become so vital to our republic?
- A disabled “lobster girl” enrolls in sideshow school, and finds a deep connection with the “natural born” performers of the past.
- Aaron Paul talked to Vulture about playing Jesse Pinkman once again.
- The Department of Homeland Security has finally started to take white supremacist terrorism seriously.
- And finally, have yourself a meditative morning:
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