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  "description": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosted by a fractured North America, this year’s World Cup feels like three separate—and competing—events, each with its own message and mascot. / The Wall Street Journal [$]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHosted by a fractured North America, this year’s World Cup feels like three separate—and competing—events, each with its own message and mascot. / The Wall Street Journal [+]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe coach of Iran’s World Cup team says US officials ordered them to return to their training base in Mexico imm",
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    "and mascot.",
    "match in California.",
    "regarding food.",
    "swing seats disappear.",
    "everything else.”",
    "he said they would not.",
    "average American.”",
    "online shopping.",
    "another pandemic.",
    "fewer triplets.",
    "painting’s unique “fingerprint.”",
    "typographic art",
    "by centuries.",
    "post-Stonewall era.",
    "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off happened.",
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  "textContent": "****Hosted by a fractured**** North America, this year’s World Cup feels like three separate—and competing—events, each with its own message and mascot. / The Wall Street Journal [$]\n\n**The coach of Iran’s** World Cup team says US officials ordered them to return to their training base in Mexico immediately after their match in California. / Associated Press\n\n**See also:** A running thread of the many nice World Cup-related stories popping up around North America, especially regarding food. / Bluesky\n\n****What happens if**** US states gerrymander themselves to the fullest extent? Neither party gains much, but swing seats disappear. / The New York Times [$]\n\n**Less durable than** authoritarianism, hyperfascism is “a shallow sort of fascism, obsessed with outward appearances and completely uninterested in everything else.” / Public Comment\n\n****A cost analysis shows**** Trump’s ballroom will cost $200 million more than he publicly stated, and taxpayers will cover more than half the total cost, which he said they would not. / The Washington Post [$]\n\n**When accounting for** all taxation—not just federal income tax—“no matter how one looks at it, billionaires pay much less tax than the average American.” / Mother Jones\n\n****What the long-debunked**** marshmallow test gets wrong about gratification—or, why the wonder of a marshmallow is nothing like online shopping. / The Atlantic [$]\n\nIf you enjoy these headlines, please join us as a Sustaining Member to support what we do and unlock access to paywalled links.\n\nSubscribe\n\n**Could prediction markets** foretell scientific breakthroughs? Probably not, but they’re a good indicator of people’s anxiety about another pandemic. / Scientific American\n\n**Unrelated:** It’s unlikely the iPhone reduced US birth rates, any more than a decline in frozen dairy products’ fat content resulted in fewer triplets. / Data for Health\n\n**Scientists have developed** a method for authenticating artworks that uses texture and topology to identify a painting’s unique “fingerprint.” / ARTnews\n\n**An archive** of typographic art that predates ASCII by centuries. / Heikki's Garden of Flowers, MetaFilter\n\n**A retrospective** of 1970s queer magazines from the post-Stonewall era. / Literary Hub\n\n**“Persuading the Roses** to let the crew shoot in—and drive a car through—their bespoke glass-and-steel home felt like a hard sell.” How the car-plunge scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off happened. / Chicago\n\n**How a 1969 camera** operators’ strike at Britain’s ITV created today’s _Upstairs Downstairs_ multiverse, where some scenes are in black and white and others in color. / Ironic Sans",
  "title": "We’ll always have Ferris",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-16T16:45:53.989Z"
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