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    Off-Topic Books that focus on, or have a relation to, Chapel Hill

    Very cool. I will check it out!
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    Politics CURRENT EVENTS July 14 - July 31

    WH tried to make tariff relief contingent on the UK releasing him from prison in the spring. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/29/police-seek-tommy-robinson-alleged-assault-london-st-pancras Police investigating an alleged assault of a man at a London train station are hunting for...
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    Politics Mass Shooting & Gun Violence |

    NYPD officer killed in the skyscraper was a bangladeshi immigrant who had two young children, wife pregnant with a third.
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    Politics Israel Hamas War, West Bank, Etc. | Hostilities resume

    Food allotments rationed to the ghetto by the German civilian authorities were not sufficient to sustain life. In 1941 the average Jew in the ghetto subsisted on 1,125 calories a day. Czerniaków wrote in his diary entry for May 8, 1941: “Children starving to death.” Between 1940 and mid-1942...
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    Off-Topic The Weather Thread

    Heat Warning Issued at Tue 4:24 AM Jul. 29 Issued by: Environment and Climate Change Canada Description - An extended period of very warm and humid weather is expected. Time span: today through Wednesday. Maximum daytime temperatures: 29 to 31 degrees Celsius (Humidex 34 to 36), except cooler...
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    Politics Mass Shooting & Gun Violence |

    one NFL employee was shot
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    Politics CURRENT EVENTS July 14 - July 31

    Don't see a way to get an Athletic gift link, but I suspect many of you will be able to read it by the end of the week. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6511700/2025/07/23/pat-mcafee-apology-ole-miss-student-false-rumor/ Pat McAfee apologized to Ole Miss student Mary Kate Cornett on “The Pat...
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    Politics Is this why Dem’s Approval Rating Polls are so bad?

    It may not keep people for voting from Dems, but on the other side of the coin it most likely will ensure they vote the dems out the next cycle though. Enthusiasm will put them out to the polls to vote agaisnt the Trump stuff, but that enthusiasm won't carry over and we will be back in the same...
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    Politics —> ICE / Immigration | Venezuelans in Salvadoran Prison released to Venezuela in prisoner exchange

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/ice-glenn-valley-foods.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z08.uNIH.Lso7M7Swi_qH&smid=url-share
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    Politics Tariffs Catch-All

    If I am a German company, I think I take the path that brings more jobs to Germany, but I'm not a rocket surgeon.
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    Politics Tariffs Catch-All

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/us-eu-trade-deal-germany-france-tump-tariff
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    Politics Israel Hamas War, West Bank, Etc. | Hostilities resume

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/28/israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza-say-israel-based-human-rights-groups Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the...
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    Politics —> ICE / Immigration | Venezuelans in Salvadoran Prison released to Venezuela in prisoner exchange

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/us-citizen-ice-detained-houston/285-11f4cb64-fa4a-4a65-8d5b-518413664987 A Houston man says he was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for nearly two hours — even after he told them he was a U.S. citizen and showed valid...
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    Politics FAFO

    The non-profit I worked for when I graduated Carolina worked a lot with ARC. They do a ton of work. It's a shame, but FAFO.
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