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- Police have arrested a 24-year-old man who allegedly opened fire outside Peter Luger Steakhouse last night, injuring two outdoor diners with stray bullets.
- Former Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice both said they're worried about President Biden's plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
- NPR interviewed two pediatricians about what is and isn't safe to do around kids once the parents are vaccinated.
- Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers released a photo of her with a black eye, saying she may have given herself the bruise by repeatedly shielding her eyes from the light when jail guards come to check on her every 15 minutes.
- Target is telling employees to be prepared to call the cops if Pokémon card resellers — who've apparently been raking it in during the pandemic — keep camping outside stores overnight.
- The past year of stock market gains is pushing a wave of Boomers to go ahead and retire earlier than they'd planned.
- The editor of Bitch magazine got some blowback for "joking" that Instacart should stop using male shoppers because guys don't know how to get a grocery order right.
- The New York Times has a thorough overview of "cheugy," a sort of nebulous term for the aesthetic that includes Barstool Sports, Minions, sorority culture, and the wall art you get at T.J. Maxx that says "It's wine o'clock somewhere" in a spunky font.
- Speaking of cheugy (?), the creator of Entourage complained that "a wave of righteous p.c. culture" is keeping HBO Max from promoting the show.
- And finally, what a generous spirit!:
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Published Apr 30, 2021
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