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Héctor Tobar on “Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino’”

— June 21st 2023 at 15:00

“One of the things that helps define Latino identity is this sense of having a history but also not knowing the history.”

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☐ ☆ ✇ Boing Boing

Did McDonald's change their Shamrock Shake mascot because of the IRA?

By: Thom Dunn — March 10th 2023 at 15:32

The furry green fry fella known as Uncle O'Grimacey was introduced into the fantastical world of McDonaldsland in 1975. McDonald's had introduced the limited-edition green Shamrock Shake only 8 years earlier, and it proved to be so popular that in fact the shake alone was responsible for funding the very first Ronald McDonald House. — Read the rest

☐ ☆ ✇ Salon.com

"What's your specialty today?": Trump brags that he knows McDonald's menu "better" than employees

By: Michael La Corte — February 23rd 2023 at 22:55
Tucker Carlson is encouraging Fox News viewers to "treat" themselves to a tape of Trump ordering McDonald's in Ohio

☐ ☆ ✇ Salon.com

Ron DeSantis calls for “new blood” in RNC — but Ronna McDaniel wins anyway

By: Samaa Khullar — January 27th 2023 at 23:00
“I do think we need some fresh thinking,” DeSantis says, before Trump-installed RNC chair wins another term

☐ ☆ ✇ Salon.com

"The Banshees of Inisherin": Competing concepts of justice wage war in McDonagh’s Irish tragicomedy

By: Eamonn Jordan — January 16th 2023 at 14:00
What happens when one adult friend decides to suddenly, violently decouple through chaotic vengeance

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