IT: 👨‍🚀 The UAE bans the new ‘Lightyear’ movie over a same-sex kiss, and... 🗽What's your Fourth of July Jam?

Welcome to Thursday, June 30th, bacon and eggs...

The UAE announced it will ban screenings of Disney Pixar’s newest animated movie “Lightyear” because of a same-sex kiss.

UA Media Regulatory Office Executive Director Rashid Khalfan Al Nuaimi said that the film was banned due to on-screen depictions of “homosexual” characters. The film features a kiss between two women.

The news comes despite the UAE announcing it would no longer censor films last year. Homosexuality and same-sex relationships remain illegal in the country.

What do you think of the UAE and other countries’ movie censoring?

At Least 53 Migrants Dead After Being Found in an Abandoned Semi-Truck Near San Antonio

At least 53 people believed to be unauthorized immigrants were found dead inside of and around an abandoned tractor-trailer in a remote area near San Antonio, Texas, on Tuesday.

Federal authorities made three arrests on Tuesday, with one man facing human smuggling charges and two others arrested on suspicion of possessing firearms while in the U.S. illegally per the San Antonio Express-News.

All Work and No Playlist

In honor of the Fourth of July, we're compiling a playlist of songs you, our Causes Community, think best define symbolizes America.

Need some ideas?

Past playlists have seen classics by Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Marvin Gaye, and Bob Dylan. They're usually joined by more contemporary compositions: Childish Gambino's "This is America," Imagine Dragon's "America," and Disturbed's cover of "The Sound of Silence."

Patriotic to pessimistic, let us know. We'll release the🗽Causes Playlist for America 2022 on Monday.

So what's your Fourth of July Jam?

#TeamSeas for NFTs

Planning to support efforts to clean the oceans of toxic plastics? May as well get something for all that giving you do...

We call it a "charitable sweepstakes"—each dollar you donate to #TeamSeas earns you entries for a chance to win 1 of 4 NFTs by famed Japanese artist Hiroshi Yoshii. 

All the Memes Fit to Post

And, in the End…

Today is National Organization for Women Day, founded by a group of activists raising awareness to end sex discrimination and has remained a strong group for women's rights. 

—Jamie Epstein

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