Extra Extra: Trump Declares Greatest Shutdown In American History A Total Success

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• Trump caved (but not before he repeated a bunch of scaremongering torture porn bullshit about taped-up women at the border to justify his Wall thirst).
• Here is a look at all the people in Trump's inner circle who have been charged in investigations relating to the 2016 election.
• Noisey apologizes for their part in getting Weezer to cover Toto's "Africa."
• De Blasio said today that he supports Cuomo's new L train plan.
• With one bad tweet, Greta Van Susteren helped fuel a completely baseless conspiracy theory.
• This dog is bizarrely nonplussed when a deer literally leaps over him.
• GQ has a profile of Ezra Koenig in anticipation of Vampire Weekend's new album.
• There was a brutal round of layoffs at BuzzFeed and HuffPost today.
• At least some BuzzFeed employees got the chance to unload on CEO Jonah Peretti on Slack.
• Johns Hopkins University announced it would be buying the Newseum building in DC, meaning the Newseum is going to have to find a new home.
• ScreenCrush makes the case for why the Oscars should be super long.
• Hey, end your Friday right with a new Kurt Vile song.
• Read about the insane, decades-long, continent-spanning Italo Disco feud.
• And finally, the game is rigged: