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- Why have a universal basic income when you could have a federal job guarantee?
- Tremendous shitheels Bill Maher and Milo Yiannopoulos might get together on TV, an early contender for Worst Televised Moment of 2017.
- Hey, the Mets re-signed Jerry Blevins! That's good!
- A drunk driver in the Bronx hit and killed a pedestrian and then ran his car off the road.
- Steve Bannon allegedly tried to prevent the head of the Department of Homeland Security from issuing a waiver for people with green cards to be exempt from Trump's immigration ban but he refused.
- Taking in a truly awful Knicks/Nets game as a distraction from the truly awful events of the real world.
- In other Barclays-adjacent news, Hartford is making a strong push for the Islanders to come be the new Hartford Whalers.
- Donald Trump's trust that was supposed to sever him from his business connections reportedly doesn't do that at all. Wow, who could have predicted, etc., etc.
- And finally, on this religious weekend of football worship, let us remember the tremendous failure that was the XFL:
Published Feb 4, 2017
Modified Feb 4, 2017
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