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He conceded the point, speculating that local governments could use Trump’s executive order as an excuse to end multilingual forms of communication, which would harm immigrant communities.

This is all theatre and that weird meeting was clearly a set-up to give Trump the excuse he needs to withdraw completely.

The investigator alleged the infusion of illegally grown weed was poorly governed and so large as to hurt legal growers, but was justified “with the oft-repeated excuse ‘at least we get the tax dollars.’”

Five is a lot of people to present costume design, but any excuse for Bowen Yang — especially in a “Wicked” costume.

Given that accessibility isn’t an issue, there’s no excuse not to take in as many of these films as possible before Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony.