July 13, 2016

• Sports organizations are increasingly comfortable with players promoting causes like #BlackLivesMatter.
• Member of a Canadian singing quartet holds up an "All Lives Matter" sign during baseball's 87th All-Star Game.
• Black employee quits Yale after smashing stained glass depicting slaves picking cotton.
• Black lives matter in Nigeria—if they aren’t Shiite, female, or gay.
• Republicans adopt socially conservative, excessively religious platform, far to the right of Trump on gay rights.
• David Cameron uses his final remarks to praise other politicians and receives a standing ovation.
• How the UK's incoming Prime Minister may handle Brexit.
• Photographer Bill Jones dies at 81 from Alzheimer's.
• Chinese man wins lottery worth $23 million, joins tradition of collecting prize dressed as a superhero to avoid being recognized.
• Chatbots who can “magically schedule meetings” discovered to be human.
• People wearing fake Supreme are way more interesting than those that wear the real deal.
• Häagen-Dazs closes stores in second- and third-tier cities in China.
• Declining demand means fossil fuel reserves will stay in the ground, stranding $33 trillion in dirty investments.
• Prosecutors pad their totals with conspiracy charges—easy to win when working in a neighborhood where everyone knows one another.
• Newly unsealed court documents show that Joe Paterno knew long ago about Sandusky's child abuse.
• The four biggest US brewers have agreed to list calorie counts on beer bottles.
• Toyota advertisement says women can't ski at the same level as men, but they can take breaks equally well.
• A manifesto against "parenting."
• Your Wednesday poem: "Keats is Dead so Fuck me From Behind," by Hera Lindsay Bird.