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ICYMI: Acting U.S. Attorney General Won't Be Defending Trump's Immigration Ban
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- Sally Yates, the acting U.S. Attorney General (until Sen. Jeff Sessions gets approved), has announced that the Department of Justice will not enforce Trump's immigration ban.
- Apparently, Los Angeles ties with London for the world's highest concentration of leading universities in a metropolitan area. Hopefully, we'll also tie with London for the most Olympics hosted.
- Nic Cage crashed a Nic Cage festival at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, and even read a short story.
- Glee and American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy maintains a pretty swanky vacation pad down in Laguna Beach.
- Thousands of Google employees staged walkouts against President Trump's immigration policies.
- A strong argument for spending less time on social media and more time reading books.
- And here's an argument in defense of analog things.
- Ever wonder what Portuguese sounds like? Urdu? Aymara? Wikitongues is working to document every language on earth.
- Now enjoy this video of cats being flipped in slow motion:
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