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  • And that's that: Republicans voted 51-49 against including additional witnesses and documents in Trump's impeachment trial.
  • It's the most important day of the year: the trailer for the latest installment of the Fast & Furious saga, F9, has been released. And it has everything: John Cena playing Vin Diesel's evil, heretofore unmentioned brother! Charlize Theron with a bowl haircut! A rocket strapped to a car! Vin Diesel literally catching cars! And most importantly, the return of Han, who is no longer dead apparently!
  • New York is considering a ban on retail pet sales: “A puppy is not a can of Campbell’s soup you buy on a store shelf,” said State Senator Michael Gianaris. “They are living things that need to be treated with respect.”
  • Some Instagram influencers are using the coronavirus hashtag to gain clout.
  • The company Cubic Corporation is going to start piloting a program where Miami bus and train users sit through advertisements to subsidize their rides—could it come to NYC?
  • Find out what Mike Bloomberg’s $11 million Super Bowl ad would cost you on your budget.
  • A man dumped 27,722 women with one text.
  • Elon Musk released an EDM single, and The Guardian writes, "if it wasn’t by a tech billionaire, no one would give 'Don’t Doubt Ur Vibe' a second thought, indistinguishable as it is from umpteen competent but unthrilling bits of bedroom electronica posted elsewhere on Soundcloud."
  • Vice has a good roundup of the most common Airbnb scams worldwide.
  • According to John Bolton's upcoming book, Trump asked his national security adviser last spring in front of other senior advisers to pave the way for a meeting between Rudolph Giuliani and Ukraine’s new leader.
  • This is what it's like to get fired by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (it's shockingly polite)
  • Three people were injured when a police officer, who was speeding in his vehicle with his siren on, slammed into another car and caused it to flip over in Astoria this morning.
  • And finally, playtime can be exhausting: