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Extra Extra: Manspreading And Mask-Slipping Have One Thing In Common


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Published Jan 21, 2021


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  • The new POTUS Twitter account follows twelve government accounts, and Chrissy Teigen. As it should be.
  • Instacart is firing all unionized employees and nearly 2,000 grocery store workers.
  • Moulin Rouge! was gonna be big on Broadway, but then... well, you know.
  • What if we brought a little razzle dazzle to the Lower Manhattan skyline?
  • Someone was bound to do the "Is Mask-slipping the New Manspreading?" story. I'm just surprised and a little disappointed that it wasn't us.
  • Fauci can now speak freely.
  • Do you think there are any cannabis factories in abandoned Midtown?
  • The Oval Office has been redecorated, and President Biden had Trump's Diet Coke button removed. Sad?
  • Meanwhile, on Russian TikTok there's a tutorial on how to act like an American tourist if the police try to arrest you at an Alexei Navalny rally.
  • It's time for another listen:

Jen Carlson

Jen Carlson has been an editor with Gothamist since 2004. Her writing has also been published on Jezebel, Deadspin, and a number of composition notebooks before the internet existed. In 2015 she won a spot in the inaugural Amtrak Residency program and traveled the nation via rail. She has an Ed Hardy tattoo, but she can explain. She is currently an editor and reporter on the NYC Accountability desk in the Gothamist + WNYC newsroom.

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