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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>An Anniversary of Destruction, Loss, and Bravery in Ukraine</strong> - Ukrainians have responded with remarkable dignity and courage, but there is little to romanticize one year into the Russian invasion. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/an-anniversary-of-destruction-loss-and-bravery-in-ukraine">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How the Government Cancelled Betty Ann’s Debts</strong> - For a ninety-one-year-old law-school graduate, the Department of Education discharged more than three hundred thousand dollars in student debt. Could relief be that simple? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-government-forgave-betty-anns-debts">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What Is Ron DeSantis Doing to Florida’s Public Liberal-Arts College?</strong> - DeSantis is not simply inveighing against progressive control of institutions. He is using his powers as governor to remake them. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/what-is-ron-desantis-doing-to-floridas-public-liberal-arts-college">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Jessie Diggins Wins the Gold in the Toughest Winter Sport</strong> - Diggins is the first American to take an individual gold medal in Nordic skiing. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/jessie-diggins-wins-the-gold-in-the-toughest-winter-sport">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>It’s O.K. to Be Confused About This Economy</strong> - Even the experts don’t really know where inflation and jobs are headed. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/its-ok-to-be-confused-about-this-economy">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>TikTok isn’t really limiting kids’ time on its app</strong> -
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TikTok’s younger users will now be told when they’ve been watching for a while. | Westend61/Getty Images
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Teens can still click right on through the new screen time limit.
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Amid <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/3/14/22971618/earn-it-sesta-fosta-children-safety-internet-laws">growing</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2023/2/15/23599879/congress-children-safety-online-big-tech">concerns</a> (<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-lawsuit-meta-tiktok-facebook-instagram-60-minutes-2022-12-11/">and lawsuits</a>) about social media’s impact on the mental health of children, TikTok announced <a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/new-features-for-teens-and-families-on-tiktok-us">on Wednesday</a> that it’s setting a 60-minute time limit on screen time for users under 18 and adding some new parental controls. Those “limits,” however, are really more like suggestions. There are ways young users can continue to use the app even after the screen time limits have passed.
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The news comes amid a larger discussion about the harms of social media on younger people as well as an <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2023/1/17/23552716/tiktok-ban-cfius-bytedance">enormous amount of scrutiny</a> on TikTok itself over its ties to China. And while the updates make TikTok look like it’s taking the lead on mitigating those harms, it likely won’t be enough to assuage the national security concerns many lawmakers have (or say they have) about TikTok. They might not even be enough to assuage concerns they have over social media harm to children.
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In the coming weeks, minor users will have a 60-minute screen time limit applied by default, at which point a prompt will pop up in the app notifying them and giving them the option to continue.
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For users under 13, a parent or guardian will have to enter a passcode every 30 minutes to give their kid additional screen time. No parent code, no TikTok.
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But users aged 13 to 17 can enter their own passcode and continue to use the app. They can also opt out of the 60-minute default screen time limit, but if they spend more than 100 minutes on TikTok a day they will be forced to set their own limits — which they can then bypass with their code. They’ll also get a weekly recap of how much time they’ve spent on the app. TikTok believes these measures will make teens more aware of the time they spend on the app, as they’re forced to be more active in choosing to do so.
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Finally, parents who <a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-introduces-family-pairing">link their TikTok accounts</a> to their children’s will have some additional controls and information, like knowing how much time their kids spend on the app and how often it’s been opened, setting times to mute notifications, and being able to set custom time limits for different days.
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<img alt="TikTok’s new screen time controls." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Up5QTjCFVjIHRQxv2EDzvWUqmiI=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24470984/tiktok_limits.jpeg"/> <cite>TikTok</cite>
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New controls for your (or your kid’s) TikTok experience.
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The Tech Oversight Project, a Big Tech accountability group, was not impressed by TikTok’s announcement, calling it “a fake ploy to make parents feel safe without actually making their product safe.”
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“Companies like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok centered their business models on getting kids addicted to the platforms and increasing their screen time to sell them ads,” Kyle Morse, Tech Oversight Project’s deputy executive director, said in a statement. “By design, tech platforms do not care about the well-being of children and teens.”
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TikTok has long been criticized for its <a href="https://sites.brown.edu/publichealthjournal/2021/12/13/tiktok/">addictive nature</a>, which causes some users to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/13/kids-and-teens-watch-more-tiktok-than-youtube-tiktok-91-minutes-in-2021-youtube-56/">spend hours</a> mindlessly scrolling through the app. It has implemented various screen time management tools throughout the years, and <a href="https://support.tiktok.com/en/account-and-privacy/account-information/screen-time">currently allows</a> users to set their own time limits and put up reminders to take breaks or go to sleep. These new controls will let them customize those settings even more. TikTok says those controls will soon be available to adult users, too, but adults won’t be getting that time limit notice by default like the kids will.
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TikTok is one of several social media apps that has introduced options for minor users. Meta allows parents to <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2022/06/tools-for-parents-teens-vr-and-instagram/">limit</a> how much time their kids spend on Instagram, for instance. And the devices kids use these apps on also have <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-screen-time-for-a-family-member-iph7f15d92dd/ios">various</a> <a href="https://support.google.com/android/answer/9346420?hl=en">options</a> for parents. But these aren’t enabled by default like TikTok’s 60-minute notice will be.
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This all comes as lawmakers appear to be getting serious about laws that would regulate if and how children use social media. President Biden has said in both of his State of the Union addresses that social media platforms are profiting from “<a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/3/1/22957507/biden-state-of-the-union-social-media-mental-health-children-accountability-frances-haugen">experimenting</a>” on children and must be held accountable. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3860333-hawley-proposes-ban-on-social-media-for-kids-under-16/">wants to ban</a> children under 16 from using social media at all. On the less extreme side, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) will be reintroducing a bipartisan bill called the <a href="https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/kids_online_safety_act_-_one_pager.pdf">Kids Online Safety Act</a>, which would force social media platforms to have controls over kids’ usage and give parents the ability to set them.
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TikTok specifically is also facing the possibility that it will be banned in the US, as lawmakers who are concerned over its China-based parent company have been <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23453786/tiktok-bytedance-cfius-data-trump-ban">increasingly vocal</a> about the app and are <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-house-panel-approves-bill-give-biden-power-ban-tiktok-2023-03-01/">introducing bills</a> to ban it, believing China could use it to access US user data or push propaganda or misinformation onto US users. TikTok is already banned on <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/12/20/23518973/tiktok-for-you-algorithm-omnibus-bill-ban">federal government devices</a> as well as government-owned devices in the <a href="https://www.govtech.com/biz/data/where-is-tiktok-banned-tracking-the-action-state-by-state">majority of states</a>. The company is currently in talks with the government on an agreement that would alleviate national security concerns and let it continue to operate in the country, but that process has dragged on for several years.
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In the meantime, TikTok can say it’s taken the lead on controlling kids’ screen time with its default setting, even if its mostly voluntary measures don’t really do all that much. That might — but probably won’t — win it some points with lawmakers who want to ban it entirely. And that would be the biggest screen time control of them all.
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<li><strong>America’s school lunch crisis</strong> -
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Schools and families are scrambling to feed kids after the end of a program that provided free lunch to millions. | <a class="ql-link" href="https://www.gettyimages.com/search/photographer?photographer=MirageC" target="_blank">MirageC</a> via Getty Images
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A federal program allowed schools to provide free lunch to all children. Why did it have to end?
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In 2020, when schools across the country closed to slow the spread of Covid-19, federal lawmakers <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/1/23148185/congress-school-meals-summer-hunger-inflation">did something unprecedented</a>: They decided to pay for free lunch for every public school student in America, every day, no questions asked. <a href="https://thecounter.org/summer-hunger-new-york-city/">Millions of children</a> rely on free or reduced price meals at school, and policymakers knew that need would only grow as families faced a devastating pandemic.
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The effect of the free meals was dramatic. Parents, many of them facing layoffs, illness, and grief, no longer had to worry about the cost of lunch for their kids — which, at about <a href="https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/SNMCS_Summary-Findings.pdf">$2.50 a meal</a>, was a $50 monthly expense per child that stretched many families even in normal times. Instead, they could pick up a free, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/health/healthy-school-food-nutrition-wellness/index.html">nutritious</a> meal at their children’s school, or in some cases even have it <a href="https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/innovations-in-school-food-during-covid-19/">delivered by school bus</a>. As a result, food insecurity in at-risk households with children <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/04/less-hunger-in-at-risk-households-during-pandemic-expansion-of-school-meals-program.html">declined by about 7 percentage points</a> between the beginning of the pandemic and summer 2021.
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Schools, meanwhile, were able to skip the time-consuming paperwork necessary prior to the pandemic to determine which students were eligible for federally subsidized meals. And kids no longer faced <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/9/18563324/lunch-shaming-rhode-island-warwick-policies">lunch “debt”</a> — a running tally kept by schools when students ate but didn’t pay — that too often resulted in humiliation and anxiety for hungry children. Such debts were widespread before the pandemic because the threshold for free lunch was set at a household income of <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-03-20/pdf/2019-05183.pdf">$33,475 for a family of four</a>, leaving out many families who couldn’t afford the meals but made too much to qualify for subsidies. Students in lunch debt could be subjected to humiliating treatment, anything from a stamp on the hand branding them as indebted to having their lunch thrown away by cafeteria workers, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/08/its-embarrassing-kids-students-who-owe-lunch-money-will-only-get-cold-jelly-sandwich-district-says/">according to the Washington Post</a>.
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The shift to universal free lunch “worked beautifully,” said Diane Pratt-Heavner, director of media relations for the School Nutrition Association, which represents school food workers. “There were just tremendous benefits.”
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The <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/1/23148185/congress-school-meals-summer-hunger-inflation">federal waiver program</a>, which cost about <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2022-03-09/congress-set-to-cut-funds-that-made-school-meals-free">$11 billion per school year</a>, expired last fall, forcing school districts to start charging for lunch again just as inflation was <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/13/23402361/inflation-food-cpi-prices">decimating family food budgets</a>.
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As some families struggled to add another daily expense, districts were faced with a choice: Let kids go hungry, or go into debt themselves, potentially sacrificing other necessities from computers to teacher pay. In a <a href="https://schoolnutrition.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-School-Nutrition-Trends-Report.pdf">November 2022 survey</a> by the School Nutrition Association, 96.3 percent of districts reported that the end of federal waivers have led to an increase in unpaid debt. At East Hampton Public Schools in central Connecticut, for example, debt is going up by $500 every week. At one district, the Washington Post reported,<strong> </strong>debt for the school year has already reached <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/01/11/schools-swamped-by-lunch-debt/">$1.7 million</a>.
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“We had a sixth-grader crying in line, because she had heard her parents talking the night before about how they didn’t have money for lunch,” said Jennifer Bove, director of food and nutrition services for the East Hampton district. Another student asked his teacher if he could borrow money for lunch. “I almost quit my job that first day,” Bove said. “It was so awful.”
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/23141259/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-child-family-social-policy">Children</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2022/6/9/23159624/kids-covid-pandemic-formula-anxiety-2022">families</a> are generally on their own in America when it comes to policies that would help them lead healthy, thriving lives. But the beginning of the pandemic was a time of unusually broad support for child-friendly programs, including the expanded child tax credit, which kept <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/8/30/23317834/child-tax-credit-ctc-ira">nearly 4 million children</a> out of poverty and helped countless families afford necessities like utilities and food. After that program expired at the end of 2021, child poverty <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23056876/expanded-child-tax-credit-poverty-american-families-impact">increased 41 percent</a>. Families are now facing the same kind of whiplash with the expiration of federal waivers for school lunch, as a program many had come to depend on is suddenly ripped out from under them.
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But there’s a simple fix, education and nutrition experts agree: make universal free school lunch permanent. Making sure kids are fed is like making sure they have textbooks to learn from, Pratt-Heavner said: “It just makes sense.” But so far, there’s no momentum in Congress to bring the free meals back, leaving families and schools scrambling, and kids, in some places, struggling to learn.
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“If a child is hungry,” Bove said, “that is all they think about all day.”
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School lunch in America dates back to the late 19th century, when the passage of compulsory education laws and child-labor bans led to more kids in school for more hours per day than ever before, according to A.R. Ruis, a research scientist at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and the author of <a href="https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/eating-to-learn-learning-to-eat/9780813584072"><em>Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States</em></a>. Health screenings in schools gave rise to concerns about malnutrition, which in turn sparked privately funded school meal programs in many cities. The programs were popular, but most were wiped out by the Great Depression, at which point the federal government stepped in with emergency programs. Those programs were so popular that they eventually gave rise to the National School Lunch Act, passed in 1946.
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The act created a three-tiered system: Children in poverty received a free lunch, children whose families were above the poverty line but still struggling economically got a price reduction, and everyone else paid full price. The cost of a full-price lunch was set by states and sometimes by districts: in <a href="https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/SNMCS_Summary-Findings.pdf">2014-2015</a>, the last pre-pandemic school year for which data is available, the average was $2.42.
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This system was “better than nothing,” Ruis said — millions of children in poverty received free lunch under the program, but it had problems. The <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-03-20/pdf/2019-05183.pdf">income thresholds</a> — set at 130 percent of the federal poverty line for a free lunch — were too low to help all families in need, especially in areas with a high cost of living. For example, “most families in New York are going to be struggling at 200 percent of the poverty line, 250 percent of the poverty line, 300 percent of the poverty line,” said Crystal FitzSimons, who leads work on school meal access at the nonprofit Food Research and Action Center.
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News of lunch debt and <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/9/18563324/lunch-shaming-rhode-island-warwick-policies">“lunch-shaming”</a> repeatedly went viral in the late 2010s, sometimes inspiring individuals to <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/05/07/721142955/philando-castiles-mother-wipes-out-school-lunch-debt-continuing-son-s-legacy">pay off the debt</a> of entire schools. But this philanthropy didn’t solve the root problem: School lunches were unaffordable for too many families.
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Meanwhile, lunch-shaming revealed another big problem with the three-tiered system: stigma.
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When free lunch is only available to kids in poverty, those kids invariably feel singled out, even in the absence of overt lunch-shaming tactics. East Hampton schools don’t identify kids receiving free lunch in any way, Bove said, but “it doesn’t matter. They feel it. They feel that they are different.”
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The result is often that kids who can’t afford lunch, especially older ones, just don’t eat lunch at all. “If all your friends are packing their lunch, you’re not going to go into the cafeteria and get your free meal,” Bove said. “You’re going to just sit hungry with them.”
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In March 2020, however, everything about school lunch suddenly changed. Kids weren’t going to the cafeteria anymore, but “everyone was very aware of the millions of kids who rely on free and reduced price school meals,” FitzSimons said. In fact, there was more need than ever as the economy <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/21/21188541/coronavirus-news-recession-economy-unemployment-stock-market-jobs-gdp">plunged sharply into a recession</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/5/11/21233063/food-banks-snap-coronavirus">food banks became overwhelmed</a>. Schools needed to be able to give students meals quickly and without a lot of face-to-face interaction in a time when vaccines were not yet available. So Congress passed a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/1/23148185/congress-school-meals-summer-hunger-inflation">series of waivers</a> allowing schools to give a free meal to any student, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/free-school-lunch-pandemic-waivers-congress/">without regard to their family income</a>.
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Besides helping families and relieving schools of the administrative burden of processing free lunch applications, the waivers were also a welcome change for cafeteria workers and other school staff. “People who work in schools are caregivers,” Ruis said. “They care about their kids, and they don’t want to be enforcing debt collection.”
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The new system wasn’t perfect. Some districts offered food pickup only during very limited time windows, making it difficult for families to get meals, said GeDá Jones Herbert, education special counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. At least one district, in <a href="https://www.eater.com/22251352/school-meal-access-racial-gaps">Leeds, Alabama</a>, simply shut down its food distribution program when it became overwhelmed by the number of families who needed free meals. Such shutdowns and access barriers <a href="https://www.eater.com/22251352/school-meal-access-racial-gaps">disproportionately impacted Black families</a>, who were less likely to live near a meal distribution site.
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In many cases, however, the Legal Defense Fund and other advocates were able to improve access — the Leeds district, for example, reinstated meal distribution after the group sued. And overall, experts say the federal waivers were a huge step in the right direction. They allowed school nutrition programs to “operate the way they always should,” FitzSimons said. “Kids are in school for six-and-a-half, seven hours a day. They need to have access to nutrition in order to learn and focus and concentrate.”
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After several extensions, Congress allowed the waivers to lapse just as the 2022-23 school year was beginning. Districts notified families that they’d have to apply if they wanted their child to keep receiving free meals. In East Hampton, it didn’t go well. “I was getting calls constantly trying to figure out how to apply,” Bove said. And when the applications were in, those calls turned into questions about why they don’t qualify and why they no longer get free meals.
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East Hampton never turns a child down for a meal, Bove said. But when they eat and don’t pay, they rack up debt — and often, they know it. One middle schooler, Bove said, asked the cafeteria cashier every day if his application for free lunch had gone through yet: “He was so worried about the debt.”
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East Hampton is on pace to have $13,000 in lunch debt this year, up from a previous high of around $3,000. The problem is even worse now than before the pandemic “because people are so in need right now,” Bove said.
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<q>East Hampton never turns a child down for a meal. But when they eat and don’t pay, they rack up debt — and often, they know it. </q>
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The district tries to collect the debt from parents, but often, that doesn’t work. “I know the families who have these large balances,” Bove said. “They’re not just choosing not to pay it; they cannot pay it.” So at the end of the year, the debt will have to come out of the district budget. That could mean putting off getting new Chromebooks for students, or not hiring a paraprofessional for one of the classrooms. “I don’t know where it comes from, because we’ve never had to deal with this before,” Bove said.
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For many district officials and nutrition advocates, the success of the federal waivers and the mess that schools find themselves in now send a clear message that free meals should be permanent for all children. <a href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/sanders-and-omar-unveil-sweeping-legislation-to-provide-universal-school-meals-to-children-2/">A bill introduced in 2019</a> by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) would do that, but it gained little traction at the time, and its prospects in the current Congress are slim. That leaves states and districts on their own to figure out how to feed kids.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks at a press conference about the legislation to provide universal school meals in 2019.
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Two states, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/01/11/schools-swamped-by-lunch-debt/">California and Maine</a>, have made universal free meals permanent, while several others are considering such a move. Meanwhile, a growing number of districts across the country are taking advantage of a provision in the 2010 <a href="https://www.fns.usda.gov/cn/healthy-hunger-free-kids-act">Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act</a>, signed by President Barack Obama, that allows schools and districts to offer free meals to all if a certain percentage of students are low-income.
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This approach has shown big benefits for schools and districts that can meet the threshold. In New York City, for example, which began offering lunch free to all students in 2017, a recent report found that free meals <a href="https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/8/16/22627981/universal-lunch-may-help-nyc-students-view-their-schools-as-safer-places-a-report-finds">made students feel safer at school</a>, and improved their perceptions of bullying and fighting. “School cafeterias are particularly salient in shaping school climate,” said Emily Gutierrez, a research associate at the Urban Institute who wrote the report. And “providing universal free meals takes away any visible indicators of kids having less than someone else,” which in turn can reduce bullying. Other research in New York City found that the free meals <a href="https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2019/10/15/21121847/universal-free-lunch-is-linked-to-better-test-scores-in-new-york-city-new-report-finds">improved math and reading test scores</a> as well.
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In the absence of federal action, though, these benefits are reserved for districts that can qualify — and those that can’t have to go it alone. For Bove, it makes no sense.
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“If we don’t prioritize hungry children, I don’t know what we prioritize,” she said. “I don’t know what else is more important than that.”
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<li><strong>The Chicago mayor’s race shows Democrats still have a crime problem</strong> -
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks at an Election Night rally on February 28, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. | Kamil Krzaczynski/Getty Images
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Incumbent mayors in Chicago almost never lose a reelection bid. But Lori Lightfoot ran into an issue that’s plaguing Democrats across the country.
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Lori Lightfoot made history four years ago when she won every ward in the city of Chicago to become the first Black woman and first openly gay person to be elected mayor of America’s third-largest city. She made it again last night, becoming the first Chicago mayor in 40 years to lose a reelection bid.
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Lightfoot’s loss was expected, but it also served as a referendum on her first four years in office and on crime in Chicago. The coronavirus pandemic dealt a huge economic hit to the city, and violent <a href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-2022-midterm-elections-lori-lightfoot-chicago-1441bca5446f2eb30cd9dfe377f85fff">crime surged during the outbreak</a>, reaching levels not seen in the city since the 1990s. Because of this, and because of Lightfoot’s poor relationship with other political leaders, she was viewed as the underdog, just like in her last race. Nearly half of Chicago voters rated crime and public safety as their top electoral issues, and more than 60 percent of voters said they felt personally unsafe in the city, according to <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/poll-crime-tops-chicago-voters-issues-this-mayoral-election/d883f428-d268-4c39-9a9d-6aa13566c447">an early February poll</a>.
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That continues a trend in many American cities dominated by Democrats. Crime rates rose during the pandemic and have since moderated a bit, but some visible kinds of crime have continued to test Democrats politically. In Chicago, homicides and shootings have trended down after drastic rises in 2021 and 2022, while <a href="https://home.chicagopolice.org/wp-content/uploads/1_PDFsam_CompStat-Public-2023-Week-9.pdf">property crimes have risen</a> over the last four years. The city has also seen high-profile shootings, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/concerns-over-downtown-crime-forcing-businesses-to-make-changes/">increasing crime in downtown</a>, constant media coverage about the violence, and heated rhetoric about how bad crime has become by the police union and Lightfoot herself.
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Those conditions have meant Chicago’s mayoral race has echoed local races in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC over the last two years. And in some national elections as well: Republicans had mixed success in trying to make it a political cudgel during midterm elections last year, when 61 percent of Americans cited it as a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/31/violent-crime-is-a-key-midterm-voting-issue-but-what-does-the-data-say/">major electoral issue</a>.
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Violence was a constant topic of the Chicago mayor’s race with challengers taking every opportunity to criticize Lightfoot’s approach to crime and policing. The 60-year-old Democrat and former prosecutor did not get enough votes to make it to a runoff election in April, coming in third behind challengers to her ideological right and left: Paul Vallas, the former head of Chicago’s public school system, took in the most votes Tuesday night, mostly from the city’s predominantly white neighborhoods. A progressive challenger, Cook County commissioner Brandon Johnson, came in second, with support concentrated in the city’s racially diverse and mixed north and northwest neighborhoods, where he spoke about crime in a more nuanced way.
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How Chicago became disillusioned with a trailblazer
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Lightfoot faced serious struggles as an incumbent who managed the city during one of its toughest times, and many of the challenges that helped bring her down have also tested Democrats in the country’s biggest, bluest strongholds.
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The coronavirus pandemic and its shutdowns, a surge in crime, and battles with the city’s police union and the teachers union all dragged down Lightfoot’s political shine. She is also <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-lori-lightfoot-leadership-thin-skinned-20210625-udalc7ntdne5dabwg4kak6fd3u-story.html">famously</a><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-lightfoot-racism-sexism-20210630-yuyvypcfavadlfnybmk7sr7ucq-story.html"> short-tempered</a> (she has <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/28/lightfoot-chicago-mayoral-election-on-politics-00084669">acknowledged</a> some criticism of her leadership style before), and Lightfoot’s clashes with the press and city council didn’t help her: Many of her former supporters there backed her challengers.
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The Chicago Teachers Union backed Johnson, the progressive in the race, while the police union backed Vallas, the conservative Democrat who ran on a tough-on-crime message.
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Crime and policing were <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/crime-becomes-top-issue-for-many-voters-in-chicagos-mayoral-race">frequently</a><a href="https://news.wttw.com/2023/02/25/poll-top-issues-black-voters-chicago-include-crime-police-accountability"> cited</a> as the top issues for voters this year — both topics where Lightfoot was at a disadvantage because of her incumbency and her campaign promises four years ago. Back then, she had pledged to clean up the city’s<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVo9raTWeNE"> political machine</a>, reduce violence across the city, and invest in Black and brown neighborhoods. Though she did make progress on the economic front (including passing a higher minimum wage and planning and investing in more affordable housing), Lightfoot has floundered on her public safety and police reform efforts.
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And after union clashes in 2019, the pandemic halted hopes of rapid change and saw a spike in violence: 2021 was the deadliest year in the city <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/1/3/22858995/chicago-violence-dangerous-murders-per-capita-2021-2020-surge-garfield-park-police-lori-lightfoot">since the 1990s</a>: nearly 800 homicides, the highest total number <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/2021-ends-as-chicagos-deadliest-year-in-a-quarter-century/2719307/">since 1996</a> and 300 more than in 2019, when Lightfoot took over.
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While she told Chicagoans that crime was trending down — and homicides and shootings were down from their pandemic peak last year — those statistics didn’t resonate with the lived experiences of many voters. Much of this feeling was driven by the <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/2021-ends-as-chicagos-deadliest-year-in-a-quarter-century/2719307/">spike in shootings</a> and homicides during her tenure, and more visible property crimes in the touristy areas downtown that got a lot of media coverage. Also not helping Lightfoot’s case was the fact that particularly visible property crimes, like burglaries and theft, did increase last year (<a href="https://counciloncj.org/mid-year-2022-crime-trends/">as they have in other cities</a>).
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Chicago is indicative of a larger trend in Democratic city politics
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The next round of voting will take place on April 4 and will see a new standard-bearer of Chicago progressive politics. Johnson will square off against the conservative top vote-getter, Vallas. Though Vallas currently identifies as a Democrat, he was attacked throughout the race for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U_95FO70Jo">previously saying</a> he’s “more of a Republican than a Democrat.”
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The result of that clash in ideology, race (Vallas was the only white candidate in the field), and class fits in with the broader trend among big-city Democrats to moderate their politics and resort to more conservative proposals for dealing with crime and policing. Vallas has <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulVallas/status/1627854662329139206?s=20">called for</a> hiring more police officers, more patrolling of the city’s public transportation system, and dismissing the city’s current public safety leadership. Johnson is <a href="https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/639580998-all-but-one-mayoral-candidate-wants-to-continue-community-policing-vallas-would-hire-nearly-2-000-more-cops">running as a progressive</a> hoping to attack root causes for crime: Instead of cuts to police budgets, he calls for better mental health treatment and schools, addressing poverty, and training new detectives to solve homicides and find illegal guns.
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That same kind of dynamic has played out in cities across the country since the pandemic’s outbreak. In New York, it led to the election of Eric Adams as mayor, who pledged to make crime his top priority. (The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/nyregion/eric-adams-mayor.html">jury is out</a> on Adams’s agenda, and <a href="https://www.curbed.com/2022/12/eric-adams-nyc-mayor.html">on his popularity</a>.) In Los Angeles, it meant a billionaire former Republican forced a top Democratic Congress member into a runoff election to <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23445238/midterm-elections-2022-democrats-oregon-new-mexico-los-angeles-upsets">lead the city</a>, in what is a bit of a parallel to Chicago’s race. Vallas shares the tough-on-crime message that Rick Caruso, the centrist LA billionaire used, and Johnson has sought to talk about crime with nuance, like now-Mayor Karen Bass.
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In DC, it forced an incumbent mayor to move to the right on crime policy in 2022, and set up a clash with the city council as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/us/politics/biden-congress-dc-crime-bill.html">Congress scrutinizes a new local law</a> that would reform the city’s criminal code. And congressional Democrats are responding with scrutiny on local crime policy after facing a flurry of attacks from Republicans during the midterms for their <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23433184/crime-midterms-oz-fetterman-pennsylvania-senate">supposed weakness on crime</a>. (Those attacks didn’t fare well everywhere, but <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/12/zeldin-hochul-crime-midterms-new-york-00066287">did in New York</a>.)
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In this context, Chicagoans might give another example of how the Democratic base and its elected leaders are recalibrating their approaches to crime as the party finds a middle ground between conservative and progressive solutions.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>NZ announce unchanged squad for Test series against Sri Lanka; to tour UAE in August</strong> - Former captain Kane Williamson will continue to be the batting mainstay along with Tom Latham, Henry Nicholls, Devon Conway, Daryl Mitchell and Will Young</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>PM Modi, Amit Shah thank people of Nagaland for making NDPP-BJP alliance victorious</strong> - Mr. Shah thanked the people of Nagaland for what he called ‘choosing peace and progress by re-electing PM Modi-led NDA’.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Greece train crash: Survivors describe ‘nightmarish seconds’</strong> - Passengers smashed windows to escape burning carriages after two trains collided in central Greece.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Medieval manuscripts may have described “new” whale feeding trick centuries ago</strong> - Old Norse <em>hafgufa</em>, medieval bestiaries seem to depict “trap feeding.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1920523">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>First wave of PCIe 5.0 SSDs arrives with high prices and ridiculous heatsinks</strong> - You really, really don’t need these. But other, better versions will come later. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1921032">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Eli Lilly cuts insulin prices after years of outrage</strong> - Advocates say it’s a long overdue start to fixing outrageously high prices. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1921106">link</a></p></li>
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The gambler calls his tax attorney and they go to see the IRS agent. As they are waiting in the office, the agent looks over his paperwork and says:
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“The reason for your audit is that you live such a lavish lifestyle, yet not much income to justify it. Can you tell me what you do for a living?”
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The gambler says, “I’m a professional gambler.”
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“A gambler?” asks the agent.
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“Yes, I make money from bets. Let me demonstrate. I bet you $1,000 that I can bite my eye.”
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“You have a bet!” the agent has a smug smile on his face. But it vanishes when the gambler takes out his glass eye and bites it. The agent did not see that coming, but he did agree to $1,000 in front of the gambler’s attorney.
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“Fine, that wasn’t fair,” says the gambler. “I’ll give you a chance to win your money back by betting another $1,000 that I can bite my other eye.”
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The agent looks through the guy’s paperwork and sees he’s not legally blind, so he takes the bet. To his horror, the gambler takes out his dentures and bites his other eye. Now he’s on the hook for $2,000.
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“You know what,” says the gambler, “Double or nothing; I’ll stand on the edge of your desk, close my eyes, piss into the garbage can on the other side of the room without spilling a drop. What do you say?”
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Perplexed but desperate, the agent agrees. The gambler stands on the desk, unzips his pants, closes his eyes, then pisses all over the agent’s desk.
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“YES!!!” exclaims the agent, glad he won’t owe the gambler anything.
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“Ah, shit.” sighs the attorney.
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“What’s the matter?” asks the agent.
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“Well… He bet me $20,000 that he’d come into your office today, piss all over your desk, and you’d be happy about it.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lamelumi_"> /u/lamelumi_ </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/11fgjg8/a_gambler_gets_a_notice_from_the_irs_that_hes/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/11fgjg8/a_gambler_gets_a_notice_from_the_irs_that_hes/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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At the entrance, the guard says to the husband, “Hey Simon, how’s it going?” The woman asks her husband how he knows you, the husband answers from the gym. They enter and sit at the bar, and the bartender asks, “Hey Simon, the usual?”. The husband turns to his wife tensely saying, we play bowling together… A stripper approaches the husband and asks, “Do you feel like getting the same as last time?” His wife grabs Simon and they run out and get into a taxi. The driver looks at them and says “Simon, you picked a real dog this time…”
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R.I.P Simon
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/uriar"> /u/uriar </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/11f3opt/a_wife_takes_her_husband_to_a_strip_club_for/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/11f3opt/a_wife_takes_her_husband_to_a_strip_club_for/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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That was really hard to hear.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/r0gerii"> /u/r0gerii </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/11fri0x/my_dr_told_me_i_was_going_deaf/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/11fri0x/my_dr_told_me_i_was_going_deaf/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Oh, never mind. The punch line is too long.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sirpunsalot69"> /u/sirpunsalot69 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/11f8k9o/do_you_wanna_hear_a_joke_about_jim_jones/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/11f8k9o/do_you_wanna_hear_a_joke_about_jim_jones/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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She’s lying on her back on the examination couch, her blouse undone and looks up into his eyes and says, “Kiss me doctor,” “No I can’t,” replied the doctor. “Oh go on, kiss me, kiss me,” she insists, “No it’s out of the question,” said the doctor, “Why’s that?” She asks disappointedly. “It’s completely against ethics rules,” he replies, “in fact strictly speaking I shouldn’t even be having sex with you.”
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