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- The Times has a thorough overview of Miss Juneteenth pageants, known by proponents as "pageants with a purpose," which coincide with the holiday commemorating the day that news of emancipation reached Texas.
- More than half a million dollar's worth of Snuggies are still sitting on the boat that got un-stuck from the Suez Canal two months ago.
- The market valuation of Coca-Cola dropped by $4 billion yesterday after Portuguese soccer star Christiano Ronaldo moved two coke bottles off a table and pointedly held up a water bottle during a press conference.
- Rita Moreno defended "In The Heights" against accusations of colorism on The Late Show last night, arguing that Lin-Manuel Miranda "is the man who literally has brought Latino-ness and Puerto Rican-ness to America" and that people complaining about the lack of Afro-Latino leads in the movie should "just wait a while and leave it alone."
- The Call Her Daddy podcast is moving from Barstool to Spotify in a deal worth $60 million.
- The Book of Mormon is returning to Broadway on November 5th without known abuser Scott Rudin as a producer, but there's no word yet on the push to rewrite the script to get rid of the show's ironic racism.
- An NPR audience survey found that Ross was the worst friend on Friends.
- And finally, a turf battle in the Falklands:
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