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Extra, Extra: Woman Faces Year In Jail After Laughing At Jeff Sessions At Protest


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Published May 3, 2017

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Published May 3, 2017

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  • Darth Vader completed an upstate half-marathon.
  • Trump was directly involved in the hunt for the person who tweeted the inauguration photo.
  • Ugh, SNL invited Trump back on for Alec Baldwin’s episode earlier this year.
  • Wired took a trip to the Cheyenne Mountain complex, a super-bunker which can theoretically survive a nuclear attack.
  • Bombay Sapphire gin is being recalled in Canada for accidentally having twice as much alcohol as it’s supposed to.
  • A Portland, Oregon pizza parlor set a world record with a 101 cheese pie.
  • Radiohead left "Lift" off OK Computer because they were worried it would have been too big a hit.
  • A rabbi visiting the White House tweeted selfies with Steve Bannon, and captured Bannon's infamous white board of White House plans.
  • Chris Pine and Kate McKinnon had a lot of fun dancing themselves clean in the promo for this weekend's SNL.
  • FiveThirtyEight thinks the Comey letter cost Hillary Clinton the election, end of story.
  • A woman is facing a year in jail for laughing at Jeff Sessions during a protest.
  • And finally, Otter pups are a lot cuter than I realized:

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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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