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- On his penultimate full day in office, President Trump has released an executive order calling for a 100+ person sculpture garden commemorating "American heroes" such as Barry Goldwater, Hannah Arendt, and Alfred Hitchcock, who was British.
- On Tuesday, his last full day in office, Trump is expected to issue around 100 pardons and commutations.
- Vulture has a good interview with director Sam Pollard about his new film MLK/FBI, which chronicles J. Edgar Hoover's years-long harassment campaign against Martin Luther King Jr.
- A New Mexico County Commissioner was arrested for allegedly breaching the U.S. Capitol after returning to D.C. this week for inauguration protests.
- The nude assailant who was killed by the third rail after pushing a man onto the subway tracks was off his meds, after COVID-19 wiped out the social services he'd been receiving, his mother told the Post.
- Fox News insisted that a settlement reached with the family of Seth Rich, the murdered DNC staffer whose death was the subject of absurd right-wing conspiracy parroted by Fox hosts, remain secret until after the election.
- Governor Cuomo says he will no longer attend Joe Biden's inauguration due to fears over security threats in Albany.
- A Bronx man has died after he was struck by a hit-and-run motorcyclist.
- Famously apolitical businessman Joe Ricketts is launching a national news outlet called "Straight Arrow News" focused on unbiased news.
- And finally, someone please help this dog:
Published Jan 18, 2021
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