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- The city's new ferry service to Rockaway was, predictably, a shitshow on the first ideal beach weekend.
- Trump’s sabotage of Obamacare is working, New York magazine reports.
- Why are eight Confederate statues still proudly displayed in the the U.S. capitol?
- Here’s what life is like working in a factory making clothes for Ivanka Trump’s clothing line.
- A psychic allegedly scammed a Columbia grad student out of $2,500 after promising she could lift a family curse.
- Jeff Sessions met with the Russian ambassador repeatedly during Trump's presidential campaign not in his role as a Senator but as a Trump surrogate, The Atlantic reports. (Sessions will testify at 2:30 today.)
- Speaking of Russians, BuzzFeed News has a fascinating story suggesting the British government is covering up the mysterious death of a Russian corruption whistleblower.
- Oh and also speaking of Russia, their cyberattack on the U.S. electoral system before Trump’s election "was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed."
- Another Caucasian, Gary:

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