TC server's St. Louis's Luxury Handle skin is online now~（*´▽`*) BTW Yangyi's Gumroad is online , too ! You can purchase past months rewards if you missed on my Patreon. Yangyi will slowly update Gumroad's contents ~ The photo is patreon202009 Gumroad:

Louie Franczak (‘28 IL) shoots the hands through the barrel and rifles a triple into the RCF gap; quick-twitch hands that move efficiently through the zone and sets up w/ a wide base at the plate; plus bat speed as he turns the barrel head on this one. #WWBA# @PG_Illinois @PG_Uncommitted

The strongest coalitions are not just built on identical identities, but built when one community recognizes another’s pain—and shows up. In 1950s San Francisco, Chinese immigrant Sinclair Louie was blocked from buying a home in Sea Cliff. A Jewish lawyer, Ben Lehr, understood that exclusion and helped him fight it. Their story became a symbol of the Chinese–Jewish solidarity that helped build America’s Civil Rights coalition. But that coalition fractured when success caused Asian and Jewish Americans to be recast as “privileged”—too successful to deserve protection, even when facing violence. Asian Americans experienced that abandonment during the wave of attacks from 2020–2023. Jewish Americans are experiencing it now amid rising antisemitic violence. In both cases, institutions too often protect a political narrative before they protect actual people. The lesson is not that solidarity was a mistake. It’s that solidarity cannot be conditional on whose suffering is politically convenient. A must-read beautiful and powerful piece by Forrest Liu @notGarryTan : The Merchant and the Lawyer (link 👇) on @garryslist with @garrytan.

Louise Haigh might now be Britain's most powerful woman - but what exactly will she do in Andy Burnham's government? On #ThisIsWhy#, @skynewsniall talks to Bloomberg's @RosaFPrince about the new First Secretary of State Listen now 🎧

Louis Vuitton is taking the fight to the China National Intellectual Property Administration. A trademark administrative dispute will be heard July 16 at the Beijing Intellectual Property Court, with the Chinese patent office as the defendant and a third party also involved. Details of the dispute are unknown.

Louis Wain was born in London in 1860 and became one of Britain’s most recognizable illustrators through his highly anthropomorphic cat drawings, which often showed felines dressed in human clothing or engaging in everyday social activities. His love of cats reportedly deepened through his wife Emily, who was diagnosed with cancer shortly after their marriage. To comfort her, Wain frequently sketched their pet cat, Peter, helping inspire the style that would define his career. At the height of his fame in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Wain’s work appeared widely in newspapers, magazines, postcards, and children’s books, greatly influencing popular perceptions of cats and helping transform them into beloved household companions. Despite his success, Wain struggled financially throughout much of his life due to poor business decisions, limited copyright protections, and supporting his mother and sisters. As he aged, his mental health declined, and he was eventually committed to psychiatric institutions. Though commonly labeled with schizophrenia, modern experts debate this diagnosis. Public concern over his welfare, including support from figures such as H. G. Wells, helped improve his living conditions, and he spent his later years in more comfortable hospitals where he continued creating art. #archaeohistories#