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A veteran from Capitol Hill says if you want to take politics seriously, don't send money to candidates.<\/a> \/ Matt's Five Points<\/span><\/p>\n This week in Chicago, a “Hotties for Harris” event was held for “the brat set,” with slogans like “Tim Waltz Got Me Laid.”<\/a> \/ Intelligencer<\/span><\/p>\n Related: A guide to “the streamer dipshits” that Donald Trump keeps appearing with.<\/a> \/ Read Max<\/span><\/p>\n For the first time in more than a decade, the Democrats' platform doesn't include abolishing the death penalty.<\/a> \/ Huffpost<\/span><\/p>\n Most men in the United States support abortion rights—and a group of them are recruiting more guys to be active about it.<\/a> \/ The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n An early gay icon was a Republican who saw the federal government as the enemy of homosexuals.<\/a> \/ reason<\/span><\/p>\n Unrelated: A very moving obituary for the globally famous gay penguin Sphen.<\/a> \/ The New York Times [+]<\/span><\/p>\n A handful of companies are commercializing varieties of edible microbes.<\/a> \/ Undark Magazine <\/span><\/p>\n A related white paper from last year: “From air to your plate: tech startups making food from atmospheric CO2.”<\/a> \/ Nature <\/span><\/p>\n Adopting a prosthesis as an extension of your body can be a challenge—moreso when the prosthetics company decorates it with logos.<\/a> \/ The Atlantic [+]<\/span><\/p>\n Hinge releases a print zine full of love stories about couples that met on the app.<\/a> (The stories are also online.<\/a>) \/ MarketingDive, No Ordinary Love<\/span><\/p>\n “Snapchat is really good at making everyone involved think that they care about you.” How teenagers rank each other on Snap.<\/a> \/ The Cut<\/span><\/p>\n For your weekend long read: A story about the psychological dangers of doing big adventures when you're an experienced outdoors person.<\/a> \/ Longreads<\/span><\/p>\n