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The DNC is planning a weekend of local events to focus on affordability concerns in the Trump era

The DNC is planning a weekend of local events to focus on affordability concerns in the Trump era

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🚀 Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: affordability,democratic national committee,Democrats,Donald Trump news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic National Committee is organizing hundreds of community events across the country this weekend in hopes of harnessing the same concerns about affordability that President Donald Trump tapped into to return to the White House. Events include school supply giveaways, food bank drives, neighborhood door knocking, and organizer training. “Everything costs more under Donald Trump and the Republicans,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin said in a statement. Read more: A key measure of…
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Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’ | Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’ | Dave Eggers

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dave Eggers,Culture,Books,Young adult,AI (artificial intelligence),Creative writing,Education,Fiction,Illustration 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: At Dave Eggers’s suggestion, we’re starting the interview by life drawing together. The novelist dropped out of art school but has been drawing for decades, and his new book is set in the art world. Prudence, our model, stands before us with her palms open, nude but for a pair of black knee-high socks. This, unsurprisingly, is an interview first for me. Eggers shows me how to hold my pencil at arm’s length and use my thumb…
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OpenTTD | News | OpenTTD 16.0-beta1

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: We’ve been working on some exciting new features for OpenTTD 16, and they need testing! The first beta release is now available, and we’ve opened the competition to create the title game for the next release. The first beta of OpenTTD 16 is now available with a host of new features including: Trains can now drive backwards! (read more) Multiplayer companies can be set to allow anyone to join without needing an invite. Map generation has been improved in many ways: Rocks on desert…
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Kin review by Tayari Jones – A painful story about motherhood | books

Kin review by Tayari Jones – A painful story about motherhood | books

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Fiction ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: ANene and Vernice (or Nessie, as Annie calls her) are "cradle friends", growing up in their hometown of Honeysuckle, Louisiana, in 1950s America. The heroes are defined by their lack of motherhood and their divergent motivations to escape their individual tragedies and pre-written destinies. In this haunting novel of motherhood and sisterhood, Tayari Jones writes about ignorance—how well we can know another person, or indeed ourselves.The pair, who speak in alternating chapters, are “not the same, but still the same.” Each is…
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schlae/IBM_MCGA: IBM MCGA reverse engineered chips · GitHub

schlae/IBM_MCGA: IBM MCGA reverse engineered chips · GitHub

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IBM's MCGA (Multi-Color Graphics Array) is a low-cost video chipset introduced with the PS/2 models 25 and 30. The Epson Equity 1e uses MCGA compatible video but does not use the same chips. The IBM chipset consists of the memory controller gate array and the video formatter gate array. Some examples of these were fabricated on an internal IBM gate array process, while others used an external gate array part by Seiko. Memory Controller Gate Array (72X8300) This gate array contains an implementation of the…
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“A mermaid combs her hair while people put things under her chest”: discover small secret festivals that rival Glasto in sentiment | Music festivals

“A mermaid combs her hair while people put things under her chest”: discover small secret festivals that rival Glasto in sentiment | Music festivals

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music festivals,Music,Culture,Festivals,Pop and rock,Dance music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: pPicture the scene: It's July 2025 and I'm DJing at a festival called Loveshack. I don't worry about losing the audience at a different stage because there isn't one: we're in a barn in rural Wales. The clothing theme is 90s icons, and underneath is Joanna Lumley talking to Andre Agassi while a cop from the Beastie Boys Sabotage video looks on. People's belongings are strewn everywhere but no one seems to be concerned, as the audience…
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Foreign Funds Help Make Housing Unaffordable

Foreign Funds Help Make Housing Unaffordable

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: International investment and local rules push prices up faster than supply Based on the research of Caitlin Gorback It’s no secret that U.S. housing has gotten less affordable. From 2019 to 2025, average home prices rose 60%, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. New research from the McCombs School of Business identifies a novel factor in rising prices: foreign investment. An influx of foreign money during the 2010s drove up housing costs in the areas with the greatest concentrations of purchasers from…
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The Last Viking review – Mads Mikkelsen thinks he’s John Lennon in von Trier’s spoof comedy | film

The Last Viking review – Mads Mikkelsen thinks he’s John Lennon in von Trier’s spoof comedy | film

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Comedy films,Crime films,Mads Mikkelsen,Denmark,Comedy,Culture,Sofie Gråbøl 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AEnders Thomas Jensen is a screenwriter, director and Oscar-winning 95-year Dogme veteran of Zentropa Studios in Denmark. Now he brings us this violently slapstick black comedy and outrageously absurd shaggy dog ​​story. It's well acted but relentlessly unfunny and bizarre. It's almost unfunny, but not really, in that the unfunnyness verges on the state of being in itself a joke, though never really reaches it. It's possible that the ghost of Zentropa's master of dark pranks, Lars von…
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Turandot Review – Holland Park Opera Celebrates 30 Years with the Great Guignol Puccini | Opera

Turandot Review – Holland Park Opera Celebrates 30 Years with the Great Guignol Puccini | Opera

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,Opera Holland Park 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt always boosts morale when a small company can do that. For the past 30 years, Puccini has been a mainstay of Holland Park Opera's artistic vision, in recent years providing landmark performances of Le Ville and Edgar. Now it's the turn of Turandot, the only work by the composer to elude them so far, with three concerts in the opera's centenary year.Given its call for powerful forces, it's no surprise that small businesses ignore it. However, Tony…
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