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- Depressing non-Trump related lede of the day: "Earth’s oceans are under severe strain from climate change, a major new United Nations report warns, which threatens everything from the ability to harvest seafood to the well-being of hundreds of millions of people living along the coasts."
- Here's all you need to know about Trump's press conference today on impeachment: "After rambling for about 20 minutes on his supposed achievements, Trump has started taking questions from reporters."
- Rudy Giuliani could possibly face legal trouble for his role in the Trump Ukraine mess.
- Facebook is making millions of dollars in ad revenue by promoting hate groups' content.
- So that's how that happens: a video shows a drone dropping drugs and a cell phone into an Ohio jail.
- Stereogum caught up with Big Thief as they prepare to release their second brilliant album of the year.
- The U.S. Military is apparently freaking out about possible Joker screening shooters.
- The ultra-Orthodox community's sex abuse problem has reached a tipping point.
- A 74-year-old man lost his leg to a subway train this morning when he lost consciousness and fell onto the tracks
- 369 fake Instagram accounts seems like too many fake Instagram accounts.
- A third of NYC residents ages 18 to 25 smoke, vape or otherwise ingest cannabis, according to the first-ever report on marijuana use by the city’s Health Department.
- Melissa Clark wrote an ode to canned food.
- All this impeachment talk has provided great opportunities for the peach emoji.
- Andrew Scott, a.k.a. "Hot Priest," has signed up to play Tom Ripley for a Showtime series based off of Patricia Highsmith’s novels.
- And finally, this face!!!

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