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The Wall Street Journal

How Do You Build a $500 Million Coffee Chain? By Selling Matcha to Teens. Jun 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM # The Wall Street Journal ### How Do You Build a $500 Million Coffee Chain? By Selling Matcha to Teens. Jun 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM [The Wall Street Journal](https://apple.news/AarKjqe-oQXaqugdQxBjmCw) Alessandro, 16, said she’d always thought matcha was “disgusting,” but enough peer pressure from friends had convinced her to try Blank Street’s. 

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Los Angeles Times

Lack of coordination over military deployment poses 'significant' challenge as immigration protests continue Jun 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM # Los Angeles Times ### Lack of coordination over military deployment poses 'significant' challenge as immigration protests continue Jun 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM [Los Angeles Times](https://apple.news/AhxIRlszvQMm5h5d898QCXA) On Tuesday morning, Kazumi Tsuji, owner of Millet Crepe in Little Tokyo, walked around her business and the surrounding buildings with a handful of burning sage. She passed by a scrawl of fresh graffiti spray-painted overnight. "It's to keep away the evil spirits," she said of the sage. "I'm OK with protests but setting fires, destroying businesses, all of that seems like people who just want to start chaos." While her shop was not damaged, around the corner what appeared to be masked teenagers smashed a glass door with a skateboard near the Shoe Palace. Property manager Frank Chavez showed a Times reporter footage of the individuals bashing a security camera around 10:30 p.m. Despite the damage nothing was missing from the building, he said.

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May 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM # ### May 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM []() I kicked the massive Cybertruck tires, and peered through the windows at the hex-nut cupholders and squat rectangular steering wheels. And I must say, upon reflection ... That's a whole lot of ugly.

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Slate

No One Goes to Happy Hour After Work Anymore. The Reason Why Is Grim. May 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM # Slate ### No One Goes to Happy Hour After Work Anymore. The Reason Why Is Grim. May 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM [Slate](https://apple.news/AsBEi-6gLSDy9pDNuseXYJg) “We give our employers enough as it is: The 40 hours a week they pay us for, and often more,” Lashbrook wrote. “Why would you drink with co-workers when you could hang out with your friends or family, anyway?”

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The Times of London

Meet the Teutons: more ragbag hippies than barbarian hard nuts May 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM # The Times of London ### Meet the Teutons: more ragbag hippies than barbarian hard nuts May 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM [The Times of London](https://apple.news/AhU0cBumLQ6e_GnXuKw0m1w) Perhaps the most striking thing about them was their “near-maniacal” egalitarianism and mistrust of concentrated political power.

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New York Magazine

It’s Time to Kill the Casual Workplace May 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM # New York Magazine ### It’s Time to Kill the Casual Workplace May 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM [New York Magazine](https://apple.news/ALU1HaTMISg2VUReqpZYcrw) friend. The original edition of Emily Post’s Etiquette, published in 1922, had little to say about workplaces. Post advised women, who mostly filled secretarial roles at the time, to leave their personal lives at home (“Mood, temper, jealousy … are the chief flaws of the woman in business”) and to not waste much of an employer’s time freshening up. But in a single incisive line, Post distilled the central difficulty of office life: “It takes no small amount of will and self-control,” she wrote, “to get on with any constant companion under the daily friction of an enforced relationship that is unrelieved day after day, week after week.” Basically: Hell is other people.

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TIME

A New Era May 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM # TIME ### A New Era May 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM [TIME](https://apple.news/AxoSoVKyzT-uMO1AxbH-R-Q) Francis’ criticism of capitalism’s excesses, his calls for world leaders to respond to the warming climate, and his impassioned advocacy for migrants made him globally popular. Yet within the church, his reformist interpretation of church doctrine—“Who am I to judge?” he famously responded when asked to weigh in on gay priests—set off a polarizing struggle between modernists and traditionalists. So too has his radical approach to inclusivity that welcomed the non-ordained faithful, including members of the LGBTQ+ community and lay women, to sit with bishops and contribute their thoughts on issues of church doctrine in meetings called synods. It is this vision of synodality—the church as a listening one, instead of a top-down teaching one—that was at the core of Francis’ progressivism, and the biggest threat to traditionalists who seek stability by maintaining the power and influence of church leadership.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Jaw-Dropping Cost of a Hamptons Girls’ Weekend May 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM # The Wall Street Journal ### The Jaw-Dropping Cost of a Hamptons Girls’ Weekend May 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM [The Wall Street Journal](https://apple.news/A0QoeOsb4S_mNOu1_NgbKIQ) Sacks warned of the danger of being overinfluenced to partake in expensive trips. “There’s a lot of pressure right now online of this idea of sameness, and the sameness pushes people into debt because it forces you to spend to keep up with a certain crowd.”

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The Atlantic

How the most remote community in America gets its mail May 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM # The Atlantic ### How the most remote community in America gets its mail May 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM [The Atlantic](https://apple.news/AsiMTeDcwSGqr1fBPjyiGDA) The Postal Service reflects the nation’s founding vision: to create a country both expansive and united. Supai has seen the worst of that vision. But the mules, unbothered by politics as they trod up and down the canyon, still carry with them a reminder of what America promised to be.

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The Wall Street Journal

‘The Damned’ Review: Stasis in the Civil War May 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM # The Wall Street Journal ### ‘The Damned’ Review: Stasis in the Civil War May 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM [The Wall Street Journal](https://apple.news/A8SLdtNqASUyesc6KVliwaw) Futility and disillusionment start to overtake the men’s souls, and the final act of the film feels much like an absurdist piece of theater in which characters wander endlessly for no purpose. “There’s no principle behind what I’m doing here,” says a soldier. “I don’t care who wins, I don’t care who loses.”

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The Wall Street Journal

A GMC Off-Roader Jacked to the Hilt May 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM # The Wall Street Journal ### A GMC Off-Roader Jacked to the Hilt May 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM [The Wall Street Journal](https://apple.news/AsDWyNfASRWqDrZDsLuAseg) Alas, all this next-leveling puts the floor of the cab at about waist height on me. There’s no grab handle on the driver’s side nor convenient running boards to step onto. How exactly does one get in?

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BBC Science Focus Magazine

After decades of guesswork, science might have found a real hangover hack May 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM # BBC Science Focus Magazine ### After decades of guesswork, science might have found a real hangover hack May 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM [BBC Science Focus Magazine](https://apple.news/Aprehg8jWQwOoamff7hykCQ) Another possibility is that exercise is anti-inflammatory, Leasure says. “One of the big ideas is that alcohol – especially a lot of alcohol in a short period of time – increases inflammation. And exercise has the opposite effect.”

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BBC Science Focus Magazine

Fungi could be conscious. Here’s what that means May 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM # BBC Science Focus Magazine ### Fungi could be conscious. Here’s what that means May 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM [BBC Science Focus Magazine](https://apple.news/AfofaGUpkQQm0ZRNndxdw0w) Yet, it’s easy to dismiss theories of fungal intelligence and consciousness as eccentric, but perhaps instead it’s worth exploring what’s driving the theories. Often it’s a desire to make organisms that seem almost alien to us more relatable. Giving a species human characteristics can, in some cases, persuade us to protect them.

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New York Magazine

It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl May 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM # New York Magazine ### It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl May 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM [New York Magazine](https://apple.news/Aea2z3J_nSyCYP657OBmI2Q) The original West Village Girls — those who have remained in the neighborhood and didn’t jet off to Greenwich or to a classic six uptown — aren’t entirely pleased with their new neighbors. One Tuesday in April, I met Kim Vernon, a former Calvin Klein executive who bought a loft in the neighborhood in 1997. “I don’t want to be an old-lady bitch, but this is the pinnacle of what happened to this fucking neighborhood,” she said when we sat down at Bar Pisellino, which even at 2 p.m. was packed with young women ordering spritzes and pastries.

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The New Yorker

Billy Idol: Still in Leather, Still Hot in the City Apr 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM # The New Yorker ### Billy Idol: Still in Leather, Still Hot in the City Apr 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM [The New Yorker](https://apple.news/Akbzak7GITGyrBWB0HgnRdw) In 1983, “Rebel Yell,” recorded at Electric Lady Studios, nearby, came out. The tour began in clubs and ended in arenas; afterward, Idol and his then girlfriend moved to a place on Jones Street, without the street couch. (“I could afford some black furniture, cool stuff.”) When fans began lurking outside their building, they moved to an area near the West Side Highway, “because no one fucking came out there.” They left New York when “we kind of decided, ‘Why don’t we have a baby?’ I was trying to get over drug addiction; we were living a vampire existence.” In L.A., they could “start living in the daytime.” Eventually, they did. Idol’s young grandchildren inspired the song “I’m Your Hero” on his new album. “They only know me as Granddad,” he said. “Quite soon, they’ll go to school, and they won’t give a shit about Granddad.” 

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USA TODAY

March jobs report expected to show gradual hiring drop but tariff uncertainty a wild card Apr 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM # USA TODAY ### March jobs report expected to show gradual hiring drop but tariff uncertainty a wild card Apr 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM [USA TODAY](https://stocks.apple.com/AU4E8PgGUR769Z-xxnB1YpA) The company roasts 300,000 pounds of coffee a year that it sells at four of its own local cafes, as well as to cafes, offices and grocery stores around the country. Cat & Cloud has no choice but to import the coffee from countries such as Columbia, Guatemala and Honduras. “Our product can’t be made in the U.S.,” he said,

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New York Magazine

Are the world’s oldest people conning us? The feud over centenarians and “blue zones.” Mar 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM # New York Magazine ### Are the world’s oldest people conning us? The feud over centenarians and “blue zones.” Mar 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM [New York Magazine](https://apple.news/AQqgI7nlYR1e55dPqsoj6xA) He went to a protest against the war and there saw a woman he had met once before, a 40-year-old Ph.D. student from Russia named Elena Racheva. She was surprised about how emotional he was about the wheat.