Early Addition: Long Live The Weed Spot

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Today is Canada Day, which Canadians are marking by solemnly reflecting on the country's genocide of Indigenous people.
China — or at least China's leaders — are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party.
The University of North Carolina will grant Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure after all, overruling a conservative board member who tried blocking her promotion because he didn't agree with her work on the acclaimed "1619 Project."
The New York Times interviewed New Yorkers who smoke weed about how legalization has (or hasn't) changed their routine of going to a designated, generally-cop-free place to blaze it.
Abhimanyu Mishra, a 12-year-old from New Jersey, became the world's youngest chess grandmaster yesterday after beating another grandmaster who's also 12, but slightly older than Mishra.
A new Vanity Fair profile of veteran writer, actor, and tastemaker Tavi Gevinson, who stars in the Gossip Girl reboot, reveals that she's still somehow only 25.
Nicholas Cage is set to essentially play himself in a new movie called The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which is about what it's like to be Nicholas Cage.
And finally, an octopus on the run:

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