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- This guy bought himself a monorail for $1,000.
- The Times has the story behind the tragic photo of a drowned migrant father and child.
- David Berman of the Silver Jews talked to Uproxx about his life.
- Vulture looks back at the classic Mad Men meme "Not great, Bob!"
- A NJ mom was allegedly attacked and knocked unconscious by a 13-year-old school bully after complaining to a school vice principal about the student because he threatened her son and told him "to go back to Mexico."
- Headline of the day: "Oh, Just an Utterly Insane Japanese Robot Restaurant."
- Adam Scott told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's social media team to stop using his image.
- Police say a pair of vandals broke into a Long Island nature preserve and poured beer down a goat’s throat.
- Which U.S. presidents were "wife guys?"
- Jeremy Renner apparently has an album coming out, and it is already the best album of all time.
- Dozens of drivers hoping to find a quicker route to Denver International Airport around a crash instead got stuck in mud after Google Maps rerouted them into an empty field.
- The NY Times made a list of the 50 best memoirs from the last 50 years.
- And finally, this cat thinks it's a dog: