Add "Sleeping" To Inauguration Day Blacklist

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Juli Weiner

December 12, 2008 04:29 PM

There will be no outdoor sleepovers the night before Inauguration, which is sexist against hobos. [DCist]

D.C. will get a commemorative quarter, just like a real state! The coins will feature Duke Ellington, who, fun fact!, was born in North Carolina. Oh, the city still won't have a senator or a (real) congressperson. [Washington Post]

In news that will come as a surprise to no one, commuting to D.C. is officially the worst thing in America. [DC Examiner]

Some hunters shot the shattered the glass window of a daycare, which they apparently mistook for a deer. [WTOP]

Fancy schoolchildren at Malia and Sasha's new Sidwell Friends School are teasing other fancy school children. [Gawker]

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Here's Elizabeth Warren Yelling At Big Banks, In Case You Were Confused About That!

Is she ready to rummmmble????

Class War

Cripes the News has been awful lately! And so Yr Editrix suggested we find some good, positive news. Especially after we pitched writing a Wonket about this Mother Jones story on how global warming may be killing the whales, even though Donald Trump knows their prince. (Reply: "Nope. FOR SURE NOT THAT.") And so, as a reminder that a gooder world is possible and apropos of nothing at all that definitely didn't set your Editrix off on Twitter, where she has been stewing and bitching most shrillfully about the 2016 election and the 2020 election and any terrible similarities thereof and thereupon and therefore and thereto, we present a collection of videos of Elizabeth Warren yelling at big banks and calling for them to be broken up and their criminal operators to go to jail. Puppies and kittens will only get you so far, after all.

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