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The blockbuster success of weight loss drugs is fueling a wave of giving that’s boosting Christian ministries across the U.S. and Canada.

Eli Lilly and Company’s largest shareholder, the independent Lilly Endowment, gave nearly $1.3 billion to religious causes in 2025, much of it specifically to Christian groups, according to its annual report released last week.

The donations have funded theological seminaries, religious displays in museums and an initiative meant to “tell compelling stories that portray the vibrancy and hope of Christian faith and life to inspire and help people from a wide variety of backgrounds to come to know and love God.”

Religious giving made up a third of the $3.85 billion the Lilly Endowment sent out the door in 2025, according to the report. Its other core focuses — education and community development — also exceeded $1 billion in gifts for the first time.

With a nearly 10% stake in the Zepbound creator, the endowment has been the biggest beneficiary of its 230% stock surge since the end of 2022.

It overtook the Gates Foundation as the country’s largest private foundation at the end of 2024 and became the first private foundation in the U.S. to cross $100 billion in assets last year. It finished 2025 with $105 billion and will have to deploy at least another $3.9 billion in 2026, according to its federal tax filing released in May.

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tothewhirlwind

Moreover, the constant expansion of manufacturing and trade put the force of a powerful class interest behind the new version of liberalism. This statement does not imply that the intellectual leaders of the new liberalism were themselves moved by hope of material gain. On the contrary, they formed a group animated by a strikingly unselfish spirit, in contrast with their professed theories. Their very detachment from the immediate interests of the market place liberated them from the narrowness and shortsightedness that marked the trading class — a class that John Stuart Mill adverted to with even more bitterness than did Adam Smith. This emancipation enabled them to detect and make articulate the nascent movements of their time — a function that defines the genuine work of the intellectual class at any period. But they might have been as voices crying in the wilderness if what they taught had not coincided with the interests of a class that was constantly rising in prestige and power.

Dewey on intellectuals and ideology (in Liberalism and Social Action)

despazito

When the riff comes back slower and nastier

frogmoss1

When his finger comes back smellier

sarkos

Gee Ted, Why does your ma let you be the Zodiac Killer and the Quaker Oats Man?

anarchistmemedistro

weerd1

As much as I really think that EVERYONE who holds ONE job of at least 30 hours a week should never have to worry about rent or groceries EVER, I also think raising the minimum wage will just lead to corporations inflating their prices so within a short time that $25 an hour spends like $10 now. We need to consider rent and food price controls hand and hand with wage increases.

letterbox-sparrow

Rent and food price controls are absolutely a good idea. However it is worth noting that when California increased its minimum wage to $20/hr, it caused very little overall inflation (1.5% roughly per this article).

“The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,” Berkeley’s Michael Reich told Fortune.

noneedtofearorhope

here are the living wages for 2026 for a single parent of 2 in the top 10 largest metro areas in the usa, whose combined population includes over a quarter of the entire population of the usa

NYC: $72.10

LA: $68.41

Chicago: $57.98

Dallas: $48.97

Houston: $45.97

Atlanta: $52.11

DC: $67.32

Miami: $53.66

Philly: $62.71

Phoenix: $55.27

the last time the minimum wage was set was in 2009. the fight for 15 began in 2012. adjusting for inflation that would be just over 21 in today's money. so it's nice to see them go a little higher this time, given how long a new battle would take, if the previous is any measure. so maybe by the time they start to see some success it will have maintained some sliver more relevance.

but it's clearly not enough, and will likely hardly keep up with inflation by the time they're even able to push it thru

anarchistmemedistro

anything not tied to inflation is a joke at our expense

mrawkweird

Tonight Clark & Lois do a Die Hard.

sarkos

Every show needs at least one Guy Hard episode

depsidase

craftmausoleum

Whenever I've been waiting for something to download/print, I've been making colorwork charts for the witch runes in Puella Magi Madoka Magica (based on the modern rune graphics on the Wiki). Really just a brain exercise with pixels, but I tried to be as consistent as possible. Each chart is 35 stitches/pixels tall, generally 35 stitches/pixels wide with some exceptions. ／人◕‿‿◕人＼

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