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Extra Extra: The Most Deranged Holiday 2020 Gift Guide


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Published Dec 10, 2020


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  • The Republican efforts to delegitimize the election are getting more desperate and absurd. Here are the names of 106 Republican House members who are supporting these attempts to undermine democracy.
  • FiveThirtyEight examines why so many men stuck with Trump in 2020.
  • The director of the CDC allegedly ordered the destruction of an email written by a top Trump administration health official who was seeking changes in a scientific report on children's risk for COVID.
  • Industry, my favorite new HBO series about coke-addicted finance babies in London, has been renewed for season two.
  • A Queens elementary school was forced to close just one day after reopening due to several COVID-19 cases.
  • Ellen DeGeneres has coronavirus, and her show will be shut down until at least January.
  • The NY Times' 2020 gift guide is both deranged and hilarious, someone please get me the Michael Jackson frog.
  • The Civil Aviation Administration of China has released new guidelines advising flight attendants should wear disposable diapers so they don't need to use the bathroom.
  • Pharmaceutical company AvKare has issued a recall for two separate drugs after an erectile dysfunction drug and an antidepressant and sedative were accidentally swapped at the factory.
  • Amazing, Showtime has made a new show just for me: Emma Stone, Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie will star in a comedy series about a cursed HGTV show, with Fielder directing.
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Ben Yakas

Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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