Extra Extra: The Year Of #MeToo

Oct. 5, 2018, 5:30 p.m.

Because Mayor de Blasio doesn't talk politics while he's working out, check out today's end-of-day links: The Situation going to prison, a year of #MeToo, Emma Gonzalez op-ed, Naomi Watts to play Gretchen Carlson, and puppy hits the playground.

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  • Emma Gonzalez wrote a very good op-ed for the Times.
  • Susan Collins of Maine and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia announced they will vote for Brett Kavanaugh, so that is that.
  • A year after the landmark NY Times piece on Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct, here's a complete accounting of accusations and fallout from the year of #MeToo.
  • Kathryn Linsday spent five nights at comedy clubs in NYC to see if #MeToo changed how comedians joked about sex and dating.
  • A lawsuit contends that La Croix water contains numerous artificial ingredients like linalool, which is found in cockroach insecticide.
  • The Situation has gotten himself into a prison situation.
  • Naomi Watts is going to play Gretchen Carlson in an upcoming Showtime limited series about Fox News founder Roger Ailes, who will be played by Russell Crowe. (This is not to be confused with the movie in which Nicole Kidman will play Carlson, Charlize Theron will play Megyn Kelly, and Margot Robbie will play a Fox associate producer).
  • Mayor Bill de Blasio was "stretched out in butterfly position" at the Park Slope YMCA when a homeless woman asked him to provide more housing for people like her: "I'm doing my workout," he said. "I can't do this now."
  • The NYPL launched their second Insta Novel this week, "The Yellow Wallpaper," a short story and important piece of early American feminist literature by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. You can see it here.
  • Go inside the Bay Area's craziest drug-fueled secret underground parties.
  • And finally, this is the life: