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Trump Is Going All in on Weird, Lonely Young Dudes Who Hate Women

The New Republic 

UFC head Dana White, the wife beater, is “a fighter.” North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is “very tough,” while China’s Xi Jinping is “strong.” Elon Musk, the transphobe who has turned X into a megaphone for bigotry, is a “genius.” So said Donald Trump during his 75-minute live-streamed interview with Adin Ross, the 23-year-old gamer and influencer.

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Good bad news for Apple: The iPad Pro is soaring—and killing other iPads

Macworld.com 

Macworld

Is the iPad dead? No, or at least not yet. And a new report suggests Apple’s tablet strategy is getting more things right than wrong.

CIRP (Consumer Intelligence Research Partners) has posted to Substack an article called iPad Refresh Looks Like It’s Working (via MacRumors). This reveals that customers are increasingly turning to the iPad Pro, at the cost of sales of the iPad Air and iPad mini.

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Fed Seen Rejecting Calls for Jumbo Rate Cut in Economist Survey - Bloomberg

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  1. Fed Seen Rejecting Calls for Jumbo Rate Cut in Economist Survey  Bloomberg
  2. Jeremy Siegel backs off on calls for the Fed to do an emergency interest rate cut  CNBC
  3. Fed rate-cut fervor is gripping Wall Street again. It could be another trap.  MarketWatch
  4. Economic turbulence 'effectively assured' Fed will cut interest rates in September  Fox Business

Have a good weekend

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This has been a long-ish week, and weekend work still beckons. Nevertheless, I hope that you had a good week, and that you have a great weekend. See you on Monday.

19th-century animal rights activists had a lot of moxie. Here’s how to get it back.

Vox 

Many people think of animal rights and veganism, at least in the West, as a relatively contemporary phenomenon — and a niche one at that. Despite all the buzz surrounding plant-based diets, the share of Americans who call themselves vegan or vegetarian is in the single digits and may have even decreased in recent decades.  […]

American government built the meat industry. Now can it build a better food system?

Vox 

Over the last decade, it seemed possible for animal welfare advocates to dream that the US might be on the cusp of a meat-free revolution. The plant-based meat maker Beyond Meat’s valuation soared after it debuted on the stock market in 2019, a bet on future growth. Oatly couldn’t produce enough of its dairy-free milk […]

Richard Nixon Was Unlucky

The Atlantic  

The Watergate scandal forced his resignation 50 years ago. Today, he’d probably have gotten away with it.

Judge to rule whether Alabama can prosecute people who aid out-of-state abortions

TheHill.com 

A federal judge is expected to soon decide whether Alabama can prosecute health care providers and advocates in the state who help pregnant patients get an abortion elsewhere.  Abortion has been almost entirely illegal in the ruby red state since its trigger law took effect following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade...

Paris meets NYC: Would you eat a $35 caviar bagel?

New York Post 

“Can we do this and make it taste good, it’s not just about creating any random item,” says The Mark’s General Manager Etienne Haro. He sat down with The Post to talk about how Caviar Kaspia is bringing Paris to New York with their newest viral menu item: the caviar bagel. Etienne says it’s not...