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A United Nations team finds many people injured in Thursday's attack on Palestinians awaiting food in Gaza City had gunfire wounds. / Al Jazeera

Researchers project excess deaths in Gaza may climb to between 74,290 and 85,750 if the war escalates. / Goats and Soda

A California congressman uses his time with Hunter Biden to roast former president Donald Trump. / Huffpost

An argument that the United States isn't ideologically divided so much as "psychologically polarized." / Wake Up to Politics

Related, from 2021: The rise and significance of "Secret Congress." / Slow Boring

An explainer of why pockets of social media think Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, is missing—or possibly dead. / Slate

Oregon reverses course on its experiment to allow people to freely use drugs like fentanyl and heroin. / The Wall Street Journal [+]

The number of fatal fentanyl overdoses in the US is still increasing, but appears to be slowing "to a gentle climb." / The Economist

Dharushana Muthulingam: Why has the lofty ambition of health information, backed by enormous resources, failed so spectacularly? / Logic(s)

"I would love to have more fun." A profile of RuPaul as a loner. / The New Yorker

See also: A round-up of queer love poems. / Poetry Foundation

Underground art galleries in Los Angeles exhibit in laundry rooms and garages. / The Los Angeles Times

Covers of popular songs performed with electric toothbrushes. / YouTube

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