Extra Extra: By God Sir, The Parks Department Will Not Abide Another Toe Sculpture

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• Betsy DeVos wants the Department of Education to cut all funding for the Special Olympics, because as The Atlantic once wrote, the cruelty is the point.
• Alex Jones is now pushing conspiracy theories about the death this week of the Sandy Hook father who was suing him.
• Why don't we have more revolving restaurants?
• Patricia Lockwood remains a national treasure (and one of our best living writers).
• A take we can all agree on: Dril deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• David Bernhardt, Trump’s nominee to lead the Interior Department, intervened to block a Fish and Wildlife Service report on the effect of pesticides on endangered species.
• Four people who have gone on hunger strikes explain what it's like giving up food.
• A mysterious toe sculpture found in Riverside Park is not long for this world.
• A furious Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the decision to drop charges against Jussie Smollett was a "whitewash of justice."
• The enlightened body known as the European parliament has voted to get rid of Daylight Saving Time.
• Conor McGregor, the Ultimate Fighting Championship star who announced his retirement this week, is under investigation in Ireland after a woman accused him of sexual assault in December.
• Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly’s holograms have announced a joint tour.
• And finally, WYD???