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Extra Extra: An Exceedingly Pleasant Way To Distract Yourself From The Election
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Extra Extra: An Exceedingly Pleasant Way To Distract Yourself From The Election


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Ben Yakas

Published Oct 30, 2020


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  • The NY Times created this election distractor to help calm you down.
  • Ronan Farrow looks at a culture of retribution against whistleblowers under President Donald Trump in The New Yorker.
  • Trump keeps falsely claiming during his rallies that doctors get paid more money if someone dies of COVID.
  • Some Americans remain shameless international travelers despite the pandemic.
  • A major earthquake centered off the coast of the Greek island of Samos has resulted in hundreds of injuries and over a dozen deaths on the island and in nearby Turkey.
  • Bloomberg reports that some senior officials on Joe Biden’s campaign are increasingly worried about insufficient Black and Latino voter turnout in key states like Florida and Pennsylvania.
  • After his fiancée was found dead, a man researched time travel to "correct a horrible mistake."
  • Showrunner Bryan Fuller talked to Rolling Stone about the possibility of a fourth season of beloved cult show Hannibal.
  • It's bad enough when you fall through a sinkhole and end up with rats all over you—imagine having a giant rat skeleton fall through your ceiling onto you!
  • If you're still thinking about adopting a dog, please go rescue one from the Animal Care Centers of New York City, because the conditions there are apparently not great.
  • Soooooo, uh, is this really Melania?
  • And finally, hmm, this corn tastes funny:

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