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- Gen Zers in China who are fed up with economic inequality and the crushing demands of the capitalist-style work week are turning to the late Chairman Mao Zedong as their class war hero.
- The Tokyo Olympics will be held without spectators.
- Thousands of federal prisoners who were released to home arrest because of the pandemic are terrified of possibly having to go back to penitentiaries.
- A conservative group that's pissed about Major League Baseball's decision to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta (which happened in response to Georgia's new restrictive voting laws) is launching a seven-figure ad campaign slamming MLB for being "woke."
- People are turning to dating apps to just make friends.
- The Cut's Molly Fischer subscribed to a ton of newsletters to write a piece about newsletters and she wound up with a lot of negative things to say about all of them.
- The Tampa Bay Lightning won its second Stanley Cup in a row.
- Kanye West attended a fashion show wearing a cat print mask that covered his entire face.
- Eating tinned fish, tagliatelle bolognese, chicken nuggets, oysters, and every other kind of food is now a "hot girl" thing to do.
- And finally, two types of dogs:
Published Jul 8, 2021
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