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While New Yorkers nurse Knicks-championship hangovers in Donald Trump’s hometown, the president is celebrating his 80th birthday tonight by inviting his friends to a party designed to honor himself: a multimillion-dollar cage fight on the White House grounds. The UFC Freedom 250 event is being billed (by its promoters, anyway) as “the most historic sporting […]

Grift is never far away for this White House. No, I won’t be watching mixed martial arts on the White House lawn, the manmade spectacle ostensibly scheduled  to mark the nation’s 250th or Donald Trump’s 80th birthday. There is nothing about this hyped “special event” to find attractive, despite the recognition that MMA has become [...] The post Caged Heat appeared first on DCReport.org.

Sean Keenan, Next City. As World Cup matches begin, advocates warn that Atlanta is on track to repeat the arrests, displacement, and criminalization of homeless residents that drew criticism during the city’s 1996 Olympics. Atlanta promises a welcoming World Cup for everyone. But just days before kickoff, homeless advocates worry the city lacks the safety net […]

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war. FIFA and its leaders ignored international demands to host the matches elsewhere and now face calls for a boycott of the World Cup and of the U.S. “Football is […]

This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Across the globe, human activities are changing the way our planet smells. In Egypt, increasing temperatures are shrinking yields of aromatic jasmine flowers; in France, extreme drought has reduced the production of fragrant, night-blooming tuberose, a major ingredient in many […]

Trump's 80-year-old brain may be leaking out of his ears, but you can feel full of piss and vinegar with the Corpse Reviver #2 cocktail.