Early Addition: Man Blinded By Beach Umbrella Has Some Important Safety Tips
July 26, 2018, 1:04 p.m.
Because privileged millennials are supposedly doing stuff, check out today's midday links: see how everyone voted everywhere, why James Gunn shouldn't have been fired, having your friends rate you, and more in today's midday links.
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- Follow Gothamist on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here.
- The NY Times has an extremely detailed interactive map showing how people voted in the 2016 election.
- Republican congressmen have introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, as part of their mission to discredit and undermine the investigation into Russia’s ongoing attacks on America.
- Meanwhile, in what is certainly not a metaphor for anything, a dead body washed up near a Trump golf course in NYC.
- Rolling Stone profiles "the Hippie King of Cryptocurrency."
- A Staten Island anti-Semite was sentenced to six months in prison for painting a swastika on a neighbor's home because he thought they were Jewish.
- A number of privileged people in a certain age range have quit their high paying jobs and are just hanging out abroad, trend-watchers at the NY Post report.
- The White House has stopped providing public summaries of Trump's phone calls with foreign leaders.
- A man who was blinded by a flying beach umbrella and nearly died has some beach umbrella safety tips.
- Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan explains why Disney was wrong to fire director James Gunn after far-right trolls resurfaced his old offensive tweets.
- A guy who writes for GQ asked his friends to rate him, just like that Bryce Dallas Howard Black Mirror episode.
- And finally, these puppies are adorable, but should they really be driving a city bus?
