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The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

Watching the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders on Netflix I learned that the Cowboys stadium in Dallas has a stadium jail and it comes stocked with giant TVs. And this is so dystopic.

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles, 1930 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135962

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"The fact that we're going to hold Joe Biden to one standard and Donald Trump to another, which is really no standard at all." - @JoeNBC on The New York Times et al.

This summation of Tory rule is everything: www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRE4pfut/

TikTok - Make Your Daywww.tiktok.com

Musta heard about the part that bans porn.

The ramped-up hits on Project 2025 must be landing — Trump just shoved it right in front of the bus

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A pro-BBC culture secretary. Finally.

I have an elder who lives down the block who sends me a GIF every morning in what I call the Tía on Whatsapp aesthetic: a sparkly kitten that says things like "Happy Monday" and "Que Dios te Bendiga." And lately I've taken to responding with the cheesiest ones I can find.

“Since taking over, Starmer has shown ruthlessness, iron discipline, fierce determination and – as the election results have finally proved – political skill.” Can the Dems pls hire him as a consultant www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

Labour hardly dared to believe. But it seems the polls weren’t lyingwww.theguardian.com After the Brexit battering of 2019, the party was at a low ebb. This has been a remarkable four-year turnaround

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An under-noticed aspect of Project 2025: criminalizing porn. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREC29gH/

TikTok - Make Your Daywww.tiktok.com

Happy 4th USA! It’s like living in a decaying house where we survive on cat food is not even a metaphor.

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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hey everybody remember to share #GoodNews too

🚨 BREAKING: The Tory party is set to suffer total annihilation, according to a final mega poll. Full story: trib.al/BeoNk1z

UK election: Tories set to suffer total annihilation, final mega polls predicttrib.al Keir Starmer’s Labour will romp to victory, according to pollster YouGov.

Can Jerry Jones please sell a work of art so that the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders can earn a living wage?

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Sometimes going to the museum is an escape, and other times

The union busters are back. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Tapping Hanneke Skerath as Director, Marciano Art Foundation Plans Return After Sudden Closure Nearly Five Years Agowww.artnews.com The Marciano Art Foundation has hired Hanneke Skerath as its first director; the organization closed abruptly in November 2019.

I just love love these Sam Sweet interviews with Angelenos about L.A. In the most recent dispatch, he talks to Mo Nishida about J. Town (a.k.a. Little Tokyo back in the day). www.allnightmenu.la/questionnair...

The All Night Menu Questionnaire: Mo Nishidawww.allnightmenu.la Japanese-American activist and organizer Mo Nishida shares his memories of Los Angeles.

Scary. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

This doesn’t at all look like a recycling dumpster.

What I admire most about the owner of the orange Cybertruck is his commitment to never having sexual intercourse again

This story is so depressing, but the most insane part is that it seems like Houghton Mifflin’s big publishing strategy is to write itself out of existence. What an appalling lack of foresight. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Schools That Are No Longer Teaching Kids to Read Bookswww.theatlantic.com “It didn’t even feel like learning.”

If you need a break from Supreme Court Junta news, I highly recommend this podcast interview with Mexican essayist and novelist Álvaro Enrigue — who talks about how fiction can make history come alive. tinhouse.com/podcast/alva...

Álvaro Enrigue : You Dreamed of Empires - Tin Housetinhouse.com Today’s conversation with Álvaro Enrigue about his latest novel, You Dreamed of Empires, translated by Natasha Wimmer, is set during the relatively undocumented first encounter between Moctezuma and H...

This is what has me fantasizing about unionizing the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. "We can't pay you, but you'll get exposure!"

Charlotte Jones: "(the cheerleaders) have a chance to feel like they’re valued, that they’re special and that they are making a difference." Emphasis on *feel* as distinct from actually being valued and correspondingly compensated for work generating profits for the Cowboys.

Incinerating the planet while stealing your content.

Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demandwww.theguardian.com Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres

This is a good Q&A with Porochista Khakpour about her new novel, "Tehrangeles." www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...

The Promised Landwww.altaonline.com Porochista Khakpour’s third novel, Tehrangeles, embraces the challenges of fiction.

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I kneel in the direction of Google HQ chanting my mantra, "the electricity needs of AI supercede the human requirement of an inhabitable planet" outside the window a choir of Boston Dynamics robot dogs bark the national anthem

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI.

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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

"This novel’s powerful ending reminds us that we are the sum of our whole lives: the bad and the good, the pain and the joy." Enjoyed @kashana.bsky.social's review of Nicola Yoon's "One of Our Kind." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/b...

She Moved Her Family to a Black Utopia. Then Things Got Weird.www.nytimes.com In Nicola Yoon’s first novel for adults, “One of Our Kind,” a woman finds that a lush California suburb is not what it seems.