July 13, 2016

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Sports organizations are increasingly comfortable with players promoting causes like #BlackLivesMatter.

Member of a Canadian singing quartet holds up an “All Lives Matter” sign during baseball’s 87th All-Star Game.

Black employee quits Yale after smashing stained glass depicting slaves picking cotton.

Black lives matter in NIgeria—if they aren’t Shiite, female, or gay.

Republicans adopt socially conservative, excessively religious platform, far to the right of Trump on gay rights.

David Cameron uses his final remarks to praise other politicians and receives a standing ovation.

May comes across as a very practical politician. How the UK’s incoming Prime Minister may handle Brexit.

Photographer Bill Jones dies at 81 from Alzheimer’s.

Chinese man wins lottery worth $23 million, joins tradition of collecting prize dressed as a superhero to avoid being recognized.

Chatbots who can “magically schedule meetings” discovered to be human.

People wearing fake Supreme are way more interesting than those that wear the real deal.

Häagen-Dazs closes stores in second- and third-tier cities in China.

Declining demand means fossil fuel reserves will stay in the ground, stranding $33 trillion in dirty investments.

Prosecutors pad their totals with conspiracy charges—easy to win when working in a neighborhood where everyone knows one another.

Newly unsealed court documents show that Joe Paterno knew long ago about Sandusky’s child abuse.

The four biggest US brewers have agreed to list calorie counts on beer bottles.

Toyota advertisement says women can’t ski at the same level as men, but they can take breaks equally well.

Caring for children shouldn’t be like carpentry. A manifesto against “parenting.”

Your Wednesday poem: “Keats is Dead so Fuck me From Behind,” by Hera Lindsay Bird.