Early Addition: Trump's Lying Again About What Trump Said On Tape

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• The Washington Post has a truly disturbing report about how the Trump administration is accusing hundreds of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and is undertaking a widespread crackdown—including jailing or deporting passport applicants with official U.S. birth certificates.
• Gov. Cuomo quietly suspended the investigation into whether the Manhattan District Attorney's office had mishandled sexual-assault allegations made against Harvey Weinstein just a few days after Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm donated $25,000 to Cuomo’s reelection campaign.
• You either will or will not play yourself if you invest in DJ Khaled's furniture, who can say.
• Rising Democratic star Keith Ellison has been accused of emotional abuse by his ex-girlfriend, and the allegations are turning into "a test among many liberals for where to draw the line between a messy relationship and an emotionally abusive one, and some say they aren’t sure where it is."
• Pitchfork has a nice look back at the cosmic career of Gram Parsons.
• Evergreen headline: "Donald Trump just keeps claiming things he said on tape aren't real."
• Trump also has been personally lobbying Republican senators to join him in his quest to fire Jeff Sessions, something he could just do if he wasn't so much of a coward.
• Read Roxane Gay on Louis C.K. and other #MeToo men trying to make comebacks: "I have to believe there is a path to redemption for people who have done wrong, but nine months of self-imposed exile in financial comfort is not a point along that path."
• While we don't agree with his conclusions, this piece in which Ryley Walker listens to Leonard Cohen for the first time is pretty amusing.
• The Times reports on how Trump and Michael Cohen wanted to buy all the dirt and killed stories that the National Enquirer had on Trump before the election.
• Learn all about the (very real) Times Square Flea Circus.
• And finally, no dog has ever been more proud of sorta swimming: