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- Trump is jealous that Greta Thunberg won Time Person of The Year over him, and he of course had a tantrum about it on Twitter: “So ridiculous,” Trump tweeted. “Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!”
- The New Yorker reports on how social media, FaceTune and plastic surgery have created a single, cyborgian look: the Instagram Face.
- Republicans are trying to kill the abuse of power charge in the articles of impeachment.
- There is no helmet that can stop football-caused brain damage.
- Are you into tear-jerking, spine-cracking chiropractic YouTube videos?
- Pour one out for the brands we lost in the 2010s.
- The Peloton ad actress gave her first interview, and she thinks she knows why everyone had a reaction to it: “My eyebrows looked worried,” she laughed. “People are like, ‘You look scared!’ I’m telling you, it was my face. That was the problem.”
- Curbed looks back at some of the cultural and historic institutions we've lost in the last decade.
- An A-list actor has apparently been "sending an extremely graphic picture to a number of couples online, without making any effort to conceal his identity."
- Phoebe Bridgers enlisted Fiona Apple and Matt Berninger for a holiday single.
- And finally, this is the most precious thing I've seen this week:

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