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The Cracker Barrel mess exposes the cynicism of the rightwing culture war | Sidney Blumenthal

The Cracker Barrel mess exposes the cynicism of the rightwing culture war | Sidney Blumenthal

First they came for the Smithsonian. Then they came for Cracker Barrel. Whether it’s the museums or the corporations – or the universities, law firms, federal departments and agencies – the attack lines of the Trump culture war and its culture warriors are the same. The vicious full-scale assault on the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain after the company naively wandered …

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Alibaba’s Profit Slides After China Food War Slashes Margins – Bloomberg.com

Alibaba’s Profit Slides After China Food War Slashes Margins  Bloomberg.com Alibaba’s cloud unit shines even as rivalry heats up in China’s ‘instant commerce’ space  CNBC Alibaba Sees Historic Opportunities As CEO Points To AI And Quick Commerce Wins  Yahoo Finance Alibaba misses revenue estimates, but AI boosts cloud business  Reuters Alibaba Group Announces June Quarter 2025 Results  Business Wire Source link

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Democrats seize on Utah in redistricting war – Politico

Democrats seize on Utah in redistricting war  Politico Utah to proceed with redrawing map that could help Dems, despite pressure from Trump  The Washington Post Judge rules Utah’s congressional map must be redrawn for the 2026 elections  CNN Trump attacks Utah’s anti-gerrymandering ruling  Axios Trump lashes out at Utah redistricting ruling  yahoo.com Source link

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Gears Of War: Reloaded’s First Fixes Are Now Available

Gears Of War: Reloaded’s First Fixes Are Now Available

Gears of War: Reloaded launched this week with a few issues. Thankfully, developer The Coalition is on the case, and fixes have already been deployed or are coming soon. In a social media post, the studio said it has resolved an issue that blocked players from accessing the Adam Fenix and Anya Stroud skins they got for preordering the game …

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Why the bond market remains so calm amid Trump's Fed war – Axios

Why the bond market remains so calm amid Trump’s Fed war  Axios Wall Street convinced Nvidia will rally on earnings, but retail investors are losing enthusiasm  CNBC Trump’s efforts to remove Fed governor set to test Treasury market  Reuters Worried about Trump’s attacks on the Fed? Watch these 3 market signals.  Business Insider Citigroup Says to Boost Bets Against Long Bonds on Risks to …

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Russian Air Strikes on Kyiv Kill 18 as Putin Snubs US on War

Russian Air Strikes on Kyiv Kill 18 as Putin Snubs US on War

Emergency service workers at the site of a Russian air strike on a residential building in Kyiv. (Bloomberg) — Russia unleashed a wave of drone and missile strikes on Kyiv, in defiance of US calls for an end to the fighting, as Ukraine and its allies kept up efforts to obtain future security guarantees for the war-torn nation. The Russian …

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MAGA wins its war on … a restaurant chain’s new logo?

MAGA wins its war on … a restaurant chain’s new logo?

Cracker Barrel’s logo change didn’t last long in the face of MAGA’s weird furor over the southern-themed restaurant chain’s “woke” transformation.  “We thank our guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel. We said we would listen, and we have. Our new logo is going away and our ‘Old Timer’ will remain,” the company said in a statement …

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The Big Dawn of War 4 Interview: How a New Developer Took On Warhammer 40,000’s Flagship RTS, Why It Returns to Kronus, and Why Chaos Isn’t Here… Yet

The Big Dawn of War 4 Interview: How a New Developer Took On Warhammer 40,000’s Flagship RTS, Why It Returns to Kronus, and Why Chaos Isn’t Here… Yet

Gamescom’s Opening Night Live is, by its very nature, a show that thrives on big surprises, but few would have tuned in expecting to see Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4. After all, a remaster of the original game had only just arrived days prior, and developer Relic Entertainment – now independent after a decade-plus of being owned by Sega …

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He designed the Cracker Barrel logo. Now it’s caught in a culture war. – The Washington Post

He designed the Cracker Barrel logo. Now it’s caught in a culture war.  The Washington Post Cracker Barrel customers in the company’s hometown weigh in on logo: ‘If something’s not broke, don’t fix it’  Fox Business Cracker Barrel had good reasons to rebrand. But after its new logo misfired, here’s what’s next  AP News After right-wing backlash, Cracker Barrel says it will get …

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Gears of War Reloaded Is A Mess On PC And Players Aren’t Happy

Gears of War Reloaded Is A Mess On PC And Players Aren’t Happy

Gears of War: Reloaded, the newly released remaster of the original Gears of War, has a low review score on Steam due to crashes and missing split-screen support. This follows a day-one patch that was supposed to fix a number of bugs and crashes on both console and PC. On August 26, Xbox launched Gears of War: Reloaded–a remastered version …

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