Early Addition: Commander-In-Chief Donald J. Trump Says U.S. Military Was 'Cocked & Loaded' To Bomb Iran
June 21, 2019, 10:59 a.m.
Because John Mulaney got a makeover, check out today's midday links: 'In Living Color' oral history, Trump calls off Iran strike, Bitcoin Family, NYC newsstands, and pup investigates hose.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/keithmichaelnyc/48100299603/in/pool-gothamist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">keith michael's flickr</a>
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- Trump claims that the US military was "cocked and loaded" for a strike against Iran last night, but he called it off with 10 minutes to spare when a general told him that 150 people would likely die in the attack, adding it would not be "proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone."
- Almost 40 percent of listings in New York City are about a block from active construction.
- The Hollywood Reporter has a brief oral history of In Living Color.
- Watch Tan France give John Mulaney "a hypebeast makeover."
- Things continue to go poorly for the organizers behind Woodstock 50.
- At their peak in the 1950s, NYC had 1,525 newsstands. Today, the city has a little more than 300.
- The Upside Down monster somehow speaks in the final trailer for season three of Stranger Things.
- A few White House journalists are throwing a goodbye party for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, presumably to thank her for all her lies.
- Who are the Bitcoin Family and why are they "traveling the world, unencumbered by centralized currency."
- And finally, a curious pupper investigates a hose:
What the heck?!
🎥: hello.its.hattie (IG)#mydogiscutest pic.twitter.com/vn5HV57dMh— My Dog Is Cutest (@mydogiscutest) March 22, 2019
