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Published Oct 24, 2018

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  • Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will re-team for an adaptation of Killers Of The Flower Moon, all about newly created FBI investigating a series of murders in the 1920s revolving around Osage Nation.
  • Ice-T was charged for blowing through a toll without paying at the George Washington Bridge.
  • George Soros's son Alexander wrote an op-ed for the Times about the pipe bombs and the hatred spewing from certain Republicans.
  • Unsurprisingly, violent political rhetoric leads to political violence.
  • Here is a highly amusing Twitter thread that asks: "What was the name of the 'head shop' near your town in High School?"
  • Theocratic bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services are abusing federal authority to punish vulnerable people.
  • New York’s attorney general has sued Exxon Mobil, claiming the company defrauded shareholders by downplaying the expected risks of climate change to its business.
  • BuzzFeed reports that a federal judge has blocked Georgia from throwing out absentee ballots with signature issues.
  • James Karen, who was known to TV viewers in the NYC metro area as the Pathmark spokesman, has died at 94. He also starred in Poltergeist and The China Syndrome.
  • Meghan McCain seriously equated bombs targeting Democrats with Republicans getting heckled at restaurants.
  • Going to bed late is great.
  • Most things are bad these days, but this headline is good: "Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito bonded over weed."
  • And finally, what a pair of best buds:
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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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