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• Adams starts legal defense fund amid probe of NYC campaign

  Politico Picks, Nov 17, 2023

  The trust will allow Eric Adams to raise money for personal defense without running afoul of the city’s gift ban.

• Rihanna, Lupita Nyong’o, and More of the Bestest Party Pics This Week

  The Cut, Nov 17, 2023

  Rihanna’s an F1 girl!

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• PJ Harvey plays a beautiful Tiny Desk Concert of her newest songs plus one "oldie" (video)

  Boing Boing, Nov 17, 2023

  The great PJ Harvey took over NPR's Tiny Desk to perform tracks from her latest album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, release in July. Following four of those new songs, she closed with the title track from White Chalk (2007), connecting her newest work "to her lifelong project of expressing women's solitude, pain and resistance," as described by Ann Powers. — Read the rest

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• Watch a dad clean a filthy baking sheet for an "ahhh" moment (video)

  Boing Boing, Nov 17, 2023

  Wow, after all these years of making cookies with a grubby black-smudged baking sheet, a dad of four shows us how he scrubbed up his own grimy tray to a mirror-like, perfect shine. The secret ingredients are simple: just baking soda, vinegar, and "ample amounts of elbow grease." — Read the rest

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• Dune: Part Two is coming sooner than expected

  AV Club, Nov 17, 2023

  If it’s starting to feel a little sandier than usual in here, there’s a reason: Dune 2 is coming, baby, and it’s sooner than you think. Read more...

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• https://www.manton.org/2023/11/17/the-latest-core.html

  Manton Reese, Nov 17, 2023

  The latest Core Intuition has everything about my road trip, getting COVID, seeing U2 in Vegas, and then back to blog-related topics with the state of Tumblr under Automattic’s ownership.

• Nurse banned for life from Carnival Cruise over CBD gummies

  Boing Boing, Nov 17, 2023

  Melinda Van Veldhuizen, a 42-year-old nurse practitioner from Dallas, received a lifetime ban from Carnival Cruise Line for having non-psychoactive CBD gummies in her luggage. The contraband was discovered during a routine security check at the Port of Miami, after an X-ray scanner detected metal nail clippers in her luggage, reports The Washington Post. — Read the rest

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• Washington Post lawsuit challenges Florida law shielding DeSantis travel records

  Politico Picks, Nov 17, 2023

  The governor's travels have come under scrutiny, especially after he jumped into the race for president.