CULTUREWORK Voter Guide Incoming... + Timothee Chalemet Look-a-like Contest + America's Killer Food Era + Surviving Sudan + Major League Booty + Cynthia Erivo's Double-Edged Broom
For folks in L.A., a CULTUREWORK VOTER GUIDE is coming this week!
(I got caught up in Dodgerdom and Honey doesn’t let me do anything after 6PM).
Look how cute she is. I love that I can shamelessly spam y’all with my dog.
“The Chaos And Hormones” Of The Timothée Chalamet Lookalike Contest (Vogue)
The Meta Fires 24 Employees For “Abusing” Grubhub Perks (VICE)
…and also lays off teams at WhatsApp and Instagram (AP)
Ananda Lewis Announces She Has Stage 4 Breast Cancer (WaPo)
Six New Terrifying Lawsuits Against Diddy (NYP)
The Hotel That Diddy Paid Off Is Getting Renovated (Urbanize)
Broadway Dancer Zelig Williams Is Still Missing (HuffPo)
Menendez Brothers Case Gets Reevaluated (ABC)
Sydney Sweeney Kinda Channels Precious-era Mariah Carey (IG)
Also, if you want to kickstart your New Year’s body, plan to skip protein altogether and just commit to the 90’s heroin waif look:
Kroger might be using facial recognition to randomly charge you more
McDonalds’ e-coli outbreak kills one and hospitalizes 75 (I’m still boycotting but yall be safe)
“There is no funding, no fuel, no fertilizer, no pesticides. There is nothing this year.” - Yousif Abdullahi, Displaced Farmer
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Nearly 2 million of the people trapped in the middle of Sudan’s civil war are at risk of starvation. During a time where farmers should be harvesting their crops, the scenes in breadbasket of the country show generational farms burned, crops abandoned, and livelihoods destroyed as able-bodied civilians and farmers fled for their lives, or risk torture and death. Mass killings in the last week alone have claimed 120 villagers. Rape, an unfortunately common weapon of war, has women reporting choosing mass suicide instead.
Mahad Haj Hassan, a religious school off the side of a main road in Gadarif town, is now a makeshift camp housing 5,000 displaced people. There are currently 280 pregnant women in the camp and many of them are sleeping on mats on the hard ground.
"All of us here are farmers," says Mansour, gesturing to the men, women and children all around him. "The RSF came into our homes - attacking people, torturing people and killing people."
He adds: "We left our homes and our elderly - who later died of hunger. We left our farms. We grew wheat, sugar cane, eggplant and watermelon and left that all behind. And now, it is time for harvest." (SkyNews)
According to the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), the ongoing war has pushed 14 million people in Sudan to acute hunger and 1.5 million to famine.
The help, funding, foreign policy intervention, and news coverage the Sudanese desperately need remains an afterthought to Western populations focused on funding wars and not help civilians survive them.
Elsewhere…
US knows Israel has nuclear weapons and is planning to use them on Iran
Israel US bombs a school that was prepping to be polio vaccination site
A Virginia man asked Israel to save his family in Gaza, Israel blew them up instead
“$341 for a leg”… Texas med school caught selling body parts
Cuba’s power grid has collapsed
Reminder: Here’s how to report churches to the IRS for political activity