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  • Walmart says goodbye to Confederate paraphernalia

     • That Walmart is joining the list of places that will no longer sell the Confederate flag or anything bearing the Confederate flag? —Drew Hunt
    
    
    
     • That the guy who invented the plastic pink flamingo has died?  —Evin Billington