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Date: 2025-06-06

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So my Sunday reading group class was rescheduled for tomorrow so this will be an open thread but...well, you know...

You know what? I’d like to see MAHA try to ban the school pizza.

The deliveries are part of Domino’s “Smart Slice” initiative, which sends pizzas to school districts around the country—often at little or no cost to students themselves. “Smart Slice” is part of the national school-lunch program, so taxpayers foot a portion of the bill to guarantee that every kid has lunch to eat. Despite kids’ enthusiasm, you can see the problem: Students munching on free fast food might seem to embody everything wrong with the American diet. If school cafeterias can be thought of as classrooms where kids learn about food, giving them Domino’s would be akin to teaching driver’s-ed students how to drive by letting them play Grand Theft Auto. The days of school Domino’s—and school pizza in general—are numbered. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his supporters are on a mission to overhaul school lunch. Late last month, the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again Commission released a highly anticipated report on children’s health that pointed to school meals as one venue where ultra-processed foods are offered to kids unabated, contributing to obesity and other kinds of chronic disease. Unless cafeteria workers make school pizza from scratch, nearly every kind contains industrial ingredients that qualify the meal as an ultra-processed food. In effect, ridding school lunch of ultra-processed foods means the end of pizza day as we know it. Many of the food reforms pushed by RFK Jr.’s movement are popular. Doing away with artificial food dyes, for example, is far more sensible than Kennedy’s conspiracist views about vaccines. But in the case of banning most school pizza, RFK Jr. could be facing a tougher sell. MAHA’s vision for food is about to run headfirst into a bunch of hungry kids in a school cafeteria.

They give the kids Domino’s Pizza for school lunch nowadays instead of...whatever it was called that was lunch pizza back in the day?

Still...(BTW, I don’t think this is a bad thing...some of the things that RFK Jr. wants to do are decent and seems reasonable and this pizza ban may be one of those things.)

x This man is playing fetch with a Beluga Whale. This is INCREDIBLE.



We honestly don't deserve these Majestic Creatures.



Protect them at all costs. pic.twitter.com/a8tl0Ycffq — why you should have an animal (@ShouldHaveAnima) May 31, 2025

And...there’s always the stars...

x The Andromeda galaxy in ultraviolet.



📸: NASA, JPL-Caltech, GALEX pic.twitter.com/4cPjrwBYeb — Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) June 5, 2025

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