Extra Extra: Brilliant Dog Opens Window To Escape Upper East Side Apartment Fire
May 23, 2019, 5:20 p.m.
Because it's a bitter sweet symphony this life, check out today's end-of-day links: Trump goes full-Veep, new Sleater-Kinney coming, 'Picard' teaser, groping app, claw machine kid, weekday marriages, and two adorable dogs.
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- Julian Assange has been indicted on 17 new counts of violating the Espionage Act for his role in publishing classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010, the Justice Department announced today.
- Everyday, the Trump presidency becomes more and more like an episode of Veep.
- New Sleater-Kinney music from their St. Vincent-produced forthcoming album The Center Won't Hold is coming very soon!
- Greatest fucking headline of the week: "Super-Cute Dog Opens Window, Helps Save Himself From Apartment Fire On Upper East Side."
- The Proud Boys claims it’s just a pro-Trump "drinking club." But chat logs leaked to HuffPost reveal they plan weaponry and tactics for violent rallies months ahead.
- Jean-Luc Picard has produced really fancy-looking wine in the first teaser for Picard.
- Japanese women are turning to the "Digi Police" app to stop groping on trains.
- YouTuber and congressional candidate Joey Saladino attempts to do sex math.
- One of my absolute favorite genres of stories is "kid gets stuck in claw machine"—and this cheeky toddler did not disappoint!
- Here's why more and more people are getting married on weekdays.
- A group of media organizations, including the NY Times, asked a Chicago judge to unseal the records regarding Jussie Smollett's case, citing a need for more transparency about what the heck happened there.
- The Rolling Stones are finally giving their songwriting credit for "Bitter Sweet Symphony" (which sampled an orchestral version of the Stones' "The Last Time") to The Verve's Richard Ashcroft.
- And finally, who could ever stay mad at these two?
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