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New Year’s Open Thread, 2016

It's probably going to be fairly quiet here at MaddowBlog today, and readers should expect a light-to-nonexistent posting schedule.

Confetti drops as the clock strikes midnight during New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square, New York
Confetti drops as the clock strikes midnight during New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square, New York, Jan. 1, 2015.REUTERS

Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."