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    Extra Extra: 'SVU' Pledges To Hire As Many Broadway Actors As Possible

    by James Ramsay
    Published January 8, 2021
    Manhattan, as seen from a subway platform near Silvercup Studios
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    • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told her there are safeguards in place for preventing President Donald Trump from launching a nuclear strike during his final moments in office.
    • The pandemic has led to a drop in sperm bank supply — frat boys aren't near their campus-adjacent clinics right now — so people who want donated sperm are turning to Facebook groups and apps where they can meet with donors directly.
    • The pandemic also caused a skateboard supply shortage, so think twice before rage-snapping your deck like a damn poser.
    • Michael Apted, director of the groundbreaking Up series, has died at 79.
    • Michael Burry, a.k.a. the real life Christian Bale from The Big Short, thinks Tesla's booming stock is going to crash like the housing market in '07.
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    • AXE bodyspray was quick to condemn the pro-Trump riot after a can of Phoenix was spotted in the wreckage at the Capitol.
    • The creator of Law & Order: SVU said the show plans to hire as many out-of-work Broadway actors as it can this year.
    • Hope they hire this guy:

    doomscrolling break:

    this person trying to do an audition tape while their cat just wants attention pic.twitter.com/SC282aotCk

    — will parry, bearer of the knife (@faayza) January 7, 2021

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