Early Addition: 'Game Of Thrones' Cast Opens Hotline For Confused Fans In Kimmel Sketch
April 16, 2019, 11:47 a.m.
Because hedgehogs are the hottest Instagram influencers, check out today's midday links: 10 grifter stories, GOT guitars, Trump's performative 9/11 attacks, Bernie Sanders' Fox News town hall, Notre-Dame photos, and Sputnik! Loves! Puddles!

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- The Notre-Dame cathedral remains structurally sound after yesterday's fire, and there is hope for restoration—you can see photos and video of the damage.
- Do you love GOT and have $30K to spare? Then these are the novelty guitars for you!
- Topic Magazine learns about hustles and lies from all sides of a con: read their interviews with 10 scam victims, scam baiters, and the scammers themselves.
- Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has continued to shell out cash to celebrities, elite universities, and an all-girls school on the Upper East Side through a shadowy private foundation.
- The Atlantic dissects Trump's performative "9/11 loyalty test" attacks.
- Mick Mulvaney, Trump's new chief of staff, has been working for years to destroy the government from within.
- Bernie Sanders’s Fox News town hall didn't go exactly as Fox News hoped—everyone in the audience loved Bernie!
- Check out the first teaser trailer for Showtime's upcoming miniseries The Loudest Voice about Roger Ailes and Fox News.
- The Game Of Thrones cast opened up an education hotline for confused fans on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a bargaining chip, while publicly proclaiming to be protecting that data, according to about 4,000 pages of leaked company documents largely spanning 2011 to 2015 and obtained by NBC News.
- Learn how hedgehogs became Instagram's most miserable celebrity animals.
- And finally, Sputnik! Loves! Puddles!
Sputnik loves following Puddles around and copying what the does 🐈🐕 pic.twitter.com/DwiQ4Bhzon
— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) April 15, 2019