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Happy New Year!

The 2010’s turned out to be quite an interesting 10 years, but the world keeps turning and everyone continues to celebrate as we move into the 2020’s. We at Mediaite extend our sincerest wishes of a happy new year to you, and a happy new decade to go along with it.

Here in America, nothing quite signifies the new year like the Times Square ball drop in New York City. You can check out that moment in the video above, but since much of the world already turned into the year 2020, lets take a look at some of the biggest celebrations that took place:

Sydney

3…2…1… HAPPY NEW YEAR

Australia welcomed the new year with an impressive #NYE2020 display at the Sydney Harbour pic.twitter.com/QsIdgFlvPT

— QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) December 31, 2019

Tokyo

Crowds gather to welcome the #NewYear at #Tokyo's Shibuya Crossing pic.twitter.com/uJPfSGhxu4

— Ruptly (@Ruptly) December 31, 2019

Bangkok

Fireworks light up the night sky in Bangkok, as Thailand welcomes the new year. https://t.co/ctXq07y1a7 #newyearseve pic.twitter.com/y8m5knwaXH

— ABC News (@ABC) January 1, 2020

Moscow

Russia rings in 2020 with a firework display in Moscow. pic.twitter.com/AVHIyL3UB8

— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) December 31, 2019

Dubai

This is the moment fireworks exploded around the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, as Dubai marked the start of a new decade

Follow the #2020NewYear celebrations here https://t.co/JKfoVnpt1A pic.twitter.com/0Hilfrrf5l

— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 31, 2019

Berlin

Dazzling fireworks show heralds in the #NewYear in #Berlin pic.twitter.com/D98t1vb8rm

— Ruptly (@Ruptly) January 1, 2020

Johannesburg

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM JOHANNESBURG!!! #AfropunkWeSeeYou pic.twitter.com/mkRKCNgsC4

— April is in Jo’burg (@ReignOfApril) December 31, 2019

Athens

New Year's celebrations in Athens, Greece https://t.co/8Q8jlpGWMi

— Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) December 31, 2019

Paris

Happy New Year France

Paris is celebrating the beginning of a new decade with this fireworks display

Follow the #2020NewYear celebrations here: https://t.co/JKfoVnpt1A pic.twitter.com/S7IG5kJakG

— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 31, 2019

London

VIDEO: London celebrates the last New Year before Brexit with fireworks from the London Eye pic.twitter.com/QR4gg07YN5

— AFP news agency (@AFP) January 1, 2020

Watch above

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As President Donald Trump walked into his Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party, he told reporters that the situation at the U.S. Embassy of Iraq was “handled very well.”

The embassy came under attack by thousands of demonstrators earlier today who were protesting recent U.S. airstrikes against Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite militiamen. U.S. guards and Iraqi soldiers held the protesters at bay, and Trump invoked the 2012 Benghazi attack as he spoke about today’s incident.

“The Marines came in. We had some great warriors come in. They did a fantastic job,” Trump said. “This will not be a Benghazi. Benghazi never should have happened. This will never, ever be a Benghazi.”

Trump accused Iran of orchestrating the protest earlier today, threatening that “They will pay a very BIG PRICE” for any damages incurred.

….Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2019

Trump told reporters that he doesn’t see war breaking out between the U.S. and Iran, saying they “should want peace more than anybody.”

Watch above.

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President Donald Trump dismissed threats from North Korea on New Year’s Eve, noting that he has a good relationship with the North Korean leader who he described as “a man of his word.”

Earlier in the day, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un said, according to North Korean state media, that he will continue to develop the nation’s nuclear deterrents and will introduce a new strategic weapon in the near future.

In response to Kim’s warnings of a new weapon, Trump told the press he likes Kim and the feeling is mutual.

“He likes me, I like him, we get along,” the president said.

He added: “He’s representing his country, I’m representing my country, we have to do what we have to do.”

He also pointed to Kim signing an agreement in Singapore that dealt with denuclearization.

“I think he’s a man of his word, so we’re going to find out, but I think he’s a man of this word,” Trump said.

Watch above, via Bloomberg

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CNN’s Anderson Cooper could not contain himself when Cheri Oteri did her impression of Barbara Walters on New Year’s Eve.

“Anderson, Andrew, first let me say what an honor it is for you to have me on your New Year’s Eve special,” Oteri said, as Cooper’s giggling began.

She continued on: “Second, I’m afraid retirement didn’t suit me as much as people had hoped. And now that I’m trending on social media with the likes of Korean boy band BTS, climate change activist Greta Thunberg, and body-positive songstress Lizzo, I’ve decided to dust off my power suit and get back in the game,” she added.

Then, in her best Walters, she said this: “It’s no longer going to be a chico’s kind of day for this gal because I can finally say with confidence, this is 20/20.”

Cooper, who had already imbibed in two shots on-camera, lost his shit as Oteri’s Walters schtick continued on and at one the CNN host even bent over in laughter and nearly out of the camera’s view.

At another point, clutching his chest and holding on to the rail, Cooper just couldn’t handle it as Oteri continued on, finally gaining his composure enough as she ended her impersonation to exclaim “wow” and applaud her performance.

Watch above, via CNN

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Rudy Giuliani promised reporters some fireworks in 2020 by telling them he would testify in President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.

As Giuliani spoke to journalists outside of Trump’s New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, the president’s lawyer reaffirmed that “I would testify, I would do demonstrations, I’d give lectures, I’d give summations. Or, I do what I do best, I try the case.”

“I’d love to try the case,” Giuliani continued. When asked if that’s what he’s actually going to do, Giuliani answered: “I don’t know if anybody would have the courage to give me the case, but if you give me the case, I will prosecute it as a racketeering case.”

Giuliani’s involvement in Trump’s impeachment trial would almost certainly be an interesting development, due to the fact that his role in the Ukraine scandal has much to do with the reason why Trump faces the possibility of being removed from office. Not only did Gordon Sondland implicate Giuliani in the attempt to pressure Ukraine into investigating Trump’s political rivals, Giuliani has admitted to his part in the smear campaign against Marie Yovanovitch, and has made himself a major person of interest regarding the Trump administration’s Ukraine shadow foreign policy.

Watch above, via Bloomberg

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Things got a bit weird in the first hour of CNN’s live broadcast from Times Square on New Year’s Eve.

CNN’s Richard Quest showed up in a bizarre full Cats unitard to talk to the crowd.

Quest tweeted out a close-up of his cat-face which was meant to be in honor of the Great White Way.

pic.twitter.com/dF7BZNd8Lg

— Richard Quest (@richardquest) January 1, 2020

“I’m Rum Tum Tugger,” Quest told Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen., referring to a character from Cats.

He also noted that there are 42 theatres in the area around Times Square that “correctly” call themselves Broadway houses.

Then, in a bit of a trivia lesson, he explained the reason Broadway is called the “White Way” is because it was the first to have electricity to light the way.

Finally, after trying — and failing — to croon the Cats showstopper Memory, Quest approached revelers from New Jersey and Canada.

The revelers seemed unphased by Quest’s odd outfit and his questions.

As the whole bit came to a thankful end, Cohen declared Quest’s performance “as good as the fever dream that is the movie Cats.”

Watch above, via CNN

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One of the world’s biggest parties is already well underway, and you can watch it live. Right here, right now.

Thousands upon thousands of revelers are gathered together in Times Square say goodbye (and perhaps good riddance) to 2019, and welcome in 2020.

The evening’s festivities include performances from Post Malone, X Ambassadors, the Jonas Brothers, Snoop Dogg, and more.

The highlight, of course, will be the dropping of the ball as the clock strikes midnight. The theme for this year’s ceremony is Climate Change, and the special guests on stage who will push the big, crystal button are science teachers Jared Fox and Aida Rosenbaum, along with a few of their students.

Coverage from New York begins at 6:00 p.m. ET and runs until shortly after the ball drop at midnight. Watch above, via the official Times Square website.

Below is a video from event organizers with more on the theme and the special guests.

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Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight got close when it tried to show a picture of Gov. Andrew Cuomo for a segment – showing a picture of his brother, the CNN host Chris Cuomo.

Tucker Carlson was off Monday night, presumably due to the upcoming holiday, and had frequent guest Mark Steyn as his fill-in host. Steyn was reacting to comments from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio arguing “we have seen these violent forces emboldened” under President Donald Trump.

“Governor Andrew Cuomo, who spent his tenure in office demonizing pro-lifers and supporters of the Second Amendment, took the same point of view,” Steyn said while next to a photo of Chris Cuomo – who is not Andrew Cuomo – before playing a clip of Andrew Cuomo speaking on MSNBC where he claimed the president “fomented” hate.

This is the second case of mistaken identity in the media this evening alone – with CBS Evening News showing a photo of Elijah Cummings and wrongly identifying him as Rep. John Lewis earlier Monday evening.

Trump himself went after Chris Cuomo earlier in the night,  mocking the CNN host and asking “I should release some of his dishonest interviews?”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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You can thank the Daily Beast for today’s “wait, what?” White House reporting, with a story out tonight about a furious manhunt over who at the U.S. embassy in Brussels liked a Chelsea Clinton tweet.

Yes, you’re reading that correctly.

You may remember that back in 2017, Ivanka Trump briefly sat in for her father during a G20 meeting with world leaders, a move that received a lot of criticism.

President Donald Trump tweeted in defense of the move and said the “Fake News” would’ve loved it if Chelsea Clinton had done the same thing. Clinton tweeted in response, “It would never have occurred to my mother or my father to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not.”

Good morning Mr. President. It would never have occurred to my mother or my father to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not. https://t.co/4ODjWZUp0c

— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) July 10, 2017

As Erin Banco and Asawin Suebsaeng report tonight, one of the many Twitter accounts that liked that tweet belonged to the U.S. Mission to the EU in Brussels, which somehow set off a wild manhunt:

That kickstarted a weeks-long investigation, prompted by the secretary’s office, into who exactly at the Brussels mission had access to the Twitter account and hit like on Clinton’s tweet, according to two former U.S. officials… Nearly 10 people were interviewed about whether they, as administrators of the account, had mistakenly or deliberately pressed the “like” button. All of them denied any wrongdoing, those sources said. One individual familiar with the exchanges said the Secretary of State’s top managers in Washington “wanted blood” and called Brussels numerous times demanding the name of the culprit.

Apparently the investigation ended with officials there unable to give a name and the embassy ultimately updating the Twitter account so that it “limited access to just two individuals.”

One person described as a senior veteran of the Trump administration is quoted saying, “There were definitely times [during the Tillerson era] where ambassadors would complain about a complete lack of information flow between the White House and State, and that they would be in the dark about what they were supposed to say, or even put on Twitter.”

actual government resources and manpower and extended time were dedicated to this one twitter “like” in the early Trump era https://t.co/YYOKK2oS4C

— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) December 31, 2019

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CBS Evening News showed a picture of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings and wrongly identified him as Rep. John Lewis during a story on Lewis’ cancer diagnosis.

During Monday’s edition of the show anchored by Major Garrett (filing in for Norah O’Donnell) CBS Evening News ran a story on Lewis’ announcing he had been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer.

But during the news package, CBS showed a photo of Cummings – who was also wrongly identified as Lewis underneath the photo.

Cummings, the former House Oversight Chair and Maryland congressman, died in October at age 68.

CBS Evening News later sent out a statement saying “one photograph was misidentified as Congressman John Lewis. We have replaced the photo in all broadcasts and platforms. We deeply regret the error.”

Tonight on the 6:30 p.m. ET broadcast of the CBS Evening News, one photograph was misidentified as Congressman John Lewis. We have replaced the photo in all broadcasts and platforms. We deeply regret the error.

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) December 31, 2019

Earlier this summer, Fox News made a similar error – blaming a “technical snafu” as the reason for airing a clip of John Lewis and identifying him as Elijah Cummings.

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An incident involving a Herington, Kansas officer at a McDonald’s was apparently fabricated, the police chief said earlier tonight.

Over the weekend, per the Wichita Eagle, Chief Brian Hornaday posted on Facebook that an employee at a McDonald’s wrote “fucking pig” on a cup that one of his officers received.

The McDonald’s looked at surveillance video and the owner said, “My McDonald’s have the utmost respect for all members of law enforcement and the military and were troubled by the accusation made. We thoroughly reviewed our security video from every angle, which clearly shows the words were not written by one of our employees. We look forward to working with Chief Hornaday as he continues his investigation.”

Tonight Hornaday said at a press conference (video above) that after investigating, they concluded no McDonald’s employees were involved and that the whole thing was “completely and solely fabricated by a Herington police officer who is no longer employed with our agency.”

He said this is a clear violation of the public trust and, when asked why the officer made this up, Hornaday said it was apparently “meant to be a joke.”

“This is absolutely a black eye on law enforcement,” he added.

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NBC News reporter Ben Collins spoke with MSNBC host Chris Hayes about President Donald Trump’s habit of retweeting dubious accounts, arguing it was because he chooses to believe information from an ecosystem where he is a “god emperor.”

“Sometimes the president will retweet an account and it has very few followers, sometimes it’s following zero people. In one case he retweeted the first tweet of an account. I thought to myself, how did he get there to finding out this person to retweet their first one. How does that work?” Hayes asked on All In With Chris Hayes, with Collins noting a number of these accounts get taken down.

“[Trump’s] been on one recently,” Collins said. “That’s probably the best way to put it. When he is, he retweets these very shady accounts. The accounts all have very specific hyper-targeted messages.”

“What we really have to do is come to the reality that we are all in now, which is that there are two different realities for news now and he has ventured into the one that appeases him the most,” Collins continued. “There is an entire ecosystem that exists to push narratives that absolve him of every crime, absolve him of every wrongdoing that has ever existed.”

“He’s created a secondary ecosystem for himself that absolves him of everything. … In these spaces where he’s like a god emperor,” Collins said. “He cannot do wrong.”

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told CNN that he believes the impeachment of President Donald Trump is “open-and-shut,” but argued the Senate should be open to “exculpatory evidence” if Trump brings it forward.

Raskin was appearing on Anderson Cooper’s program Monday night, where he was asked to respond to The New York Times’ extensive report on the freeze on Ukraine aid.

It “suggests everyone was in the loop. Everyone understood it. The Times report says they tried to cover their tracks and tried to displace their own responsibility onto the Department of Defense and other actors,” Raskin said.

Cooper then asked if this would give Nancy Pelosi more reason to delay sending over articles of impeachment for further investigation.

Raskin said he didn’t think so.

“We could have had 18, 19, 20 witnesses if we were willing to drag this on for months, but all of them have told us the exact same thing. In any event what’s put into the bill of indictment, which is what an impeachment is, it doesn’t have to be exhaustive. That’s what the trial is for,” Raskin said. “The Senate ought to call everybody who they think they need to fill in any material element missing from the case. What we don’t have right now is any kind of alibi or any kind of alternative hypothesis about what happened. Everybody agrees this is not an Agatha Christie mystery. We know exactly what the president did.”

“I think all of the senators have to have a fair and open mind–including the Democrats who must be open to any exculpatory evidence, any evidence that contradicts the overwhelming weight of evidence coming out of the House,” he continued. “But unless that evidence comes forward, I would say that this is one of the most open-and-shut cases I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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Pete Buttigieg today said he wouldn’t have wanted his own son on the board of a Ukrainian company, while adding that he thinks the attacks on Joe Biden over his son’s ties are meant to “divert attention.”

Buttigieg spoke with the Associated Press and, when asked “how he would have handled a situation like Biden’s,” responded that “I would not have wanted to see that happen.”

“At the same time, again, I think this is being used to divert attention from what’s really at stake in the impeachment process. There’s been no allegation, let alone finding, of any wrongdoing,” he added.

Buttigieg did go on to say he would do everything to “avoid even the appearance of a conflict” if he’s elected president because “it can create a lot of complications even when there is no wrongdoing.”

Over the weekend, Biden himself reiterated he wouldn’t comply with a subpoena if called in the Senate trial, only to later tweet, “I want to clarify something I said yesterday. In my 40 years in public life, I have always complied with a lawful order and in my eight years as VP, my office — unlike Donald Trump and Mike Pence — cooperated with legitimate congressional oversight requests.” He argued there would be no legal basis for any such subpoenas.

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Politico media columnist Jack Shafer tore into both The New York Times and columnist Bret Stephens, all but outright stating that he believes readers would be better served if Stephens stopped writing.

Shafer’s column lambasts Stephens’ piece, which cited the work of a eugenicist to argue Ashkenazi Jews are more intelligent than other people.

“The Times disavowal and re-edit (tellingly neither cosigned nor acknowledged by Stephens) was too little and too late—if you’re going to edit a piece, the smart move is to edit before it publishes,” Shafer wrote. “If Stephens and his editors want to insist he was merely misunderstood, they do so at their own peril.”

“Did Stephens seek the advice of an editor before he filed his column? Perhaps his future success at the Times could be assured by finding a sturdy editor willing to sign off on slapdash, embarrassing copy like the “The Secret of Jewish Genius.”

What’s good for the columnist is not always good for his publication. Several hundred columns into his run, even the wisest columnist exhausts his store of ideas and starts repeating himself. That’s not so terrible if the ideas can withstand the tensile torture of being recycled, but such robust ideas are rare, and it becomes time to send the columnist to pasture.

But because columnists come to regard their jobs as tenured, lifetime positions, moving one to a new beat or (god forbid!) a non-columnist position is too emotionally draining for most top editors. So instead, they wait for the columnist to approach retirement age and cull with a buyout.”

“Maybe he should start looking for a job in management or an easy post at a journalism school?” Shafer muses near the end of the piece, calling on both Times editors and Stephens to think about “whether his ‘Jewish Genius’ column was a miscue or cue for a curtain call.”

Stephens’ piece came under heavy criticism soon after it was published and editors later appended a note saying they removed references to the eugenics study Stephens cited. The note also said it wasn’t Stephens’ “intent” to argue “Jews are genetically superior.”

Bret Stephens’ latest column (https://t.co/6ECSD0oWe8), which argues that culture and history drive Jewish achievements, has been edited to remove a reference to a paper widely disputed as advancing a racist hypothesis. We’ve added the following editors’ note to the column. pic.twitter.com/Aj7eU3Fce2

— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) December 29, 2019

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Former Bush ethics chief Richard Painter noted on MSNBC that past impeachments saw White House coordination with senators, but it is “brazen” for President Donald Trump’s impeachment.

Painter was appearing with anchor Yasmin Vossoughian, who was filling in for Ari Melber as host of The Beat Monday evening, and political analyst Elise Jordan.

“There is some precedent here that there was coordination as well during the Clinton impeachment trial,” Vossoughian noted to Painter.

“Impartiality in my view means there is no coordination. Now there are a number of things going on. It was 20 years ago that I believe that Tom Daschle and some of the Democrats were doing more that type of thing than they should have been, but it was nowhere near as brazen as what Mitch McConnell is talking about now,” Painter said. “Whether or not some Democrats violated it in some ways almost 20 years ago, there is absolutely no excuse for Mitch McConnell. He is going on national television and he is saying he is going to be working basically hand-in-glove with the White House.”

Vossoughian then asked Jordan if it was wise of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to withhold the impeachment articles to attempt to get a better deal in the impeachment trial.

Jordan referred to Trump tweeting about Pelosi multiple times during the holiday season following his impeachment, saying “she has gotten into his head and she isn’t playing by the traditional norms of going ahead and proceeding.”

“She is actually playing dirty a little bit. If Democrats are successfully going to go up against Trump, they need to embrace this asymmetric political warfare,” Jordan continued.

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Michael Bloomberg is still in the Democratic primary race, and with 2020 upon us, he shared a proposal for a White House open office plan.

Yes, really.

As president, I'll turn the East Room into an open office plan, where I’ll sit with our team.

I’ll use the Oval Office for some official functions – never for tweeting – but the rest of the time, I’ll be where a leader should be: with the team. https://t.co/zIU3ZL5uIv pic.twitter.com/jLwWKJCmxw

— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) December 30, 2019

“As president, I’ll turn the East Room into an open office plan, where I’ll sit with our team,” he tweeted tonight.

Bloomberg immediately received a lot of mockery on social media, including on the idea this is something voters would really care about:

"Now we're entering the East Room — where the bodies of Lincoln and FDR lay in repose, where LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act and Reagan signed the INF Treaty with Gorbachev, where Obama announced the death of Bin Laden, and where Todd now runs the West Wing March Madness pool." pic.twitter.com/jBTGv4qMzp

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) December 30, 2019

open office White House floor plan feels like a Veep plot https://t.co/p8nXd6gVgs

— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) December 30, 2019

What Bloomberg should do is have a livestream of the hundreds of millions dollars he is setting on fire to hit 5% in the Democratic polling average.

Seriously – how does he think it's a good idea to have a team of high level people with their screens in the open for all to see? https://t.co/EJIZvFu87W

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) December 30, 2019

It's actually fine for the President of the United States not to work in a cubicle. Talk about something real. https://t.co/lswJxbTR2p

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) December 30, 2019

Has the fire marshal approved this? https://t.co/eUutQlUZ8x

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) December 30, 2019

I so, so, so very much hate this campaign. https://t.co/5oT2cB6bfu

— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) December 30, 2019

This looks like a newsroom. It looks awful. https://t.co/z4KksHzbv0

— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) December 30, 2019

Managers are the only people who love open-office plans. https://t.co/th6trMZ8gB

— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) December 30, 2019

executive orders via slack, let's fucking GO

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) December 30, 2019

National security experts everywhere: https://t.co/UrLFtvMLTu pic.twitter.com/zTi8mh4LAm

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) December 30, 2019

What is Bloomberg’s plan to deal with the sound of coworkers eating tho https://t.co/3dAF3aqsAa

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) December 30, 2019

The WeWork Wing https://t.co/lNg4vxPF9Q

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) December 30, 2019

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