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George Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, spent 17 years and about $1 billion of their own money building the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles. It's a massive, futuristic building full of art, film history and, yes, "Star Wars."
But one of the things people are talking about most isn't on the walls. It's on the café menu.
A grilled cheese sandwich costs $2. A peanut butter and jelly costs $3. In the gift shop, there are pencils for 25 cents and postcards for $2.
That's no accident. It's personal.
Mellody Hobson grew up the youngest of six kids, raised by a single mom in Chicago. Money was always tight. Her family was evicted more than once, and there were times they lived without electricity or a phone. When her school went on field trips to museums, she often couldn't afford to buy food or anything from the gift shop, while the other kids could.
She never forgot what that felt like.
So when she and George built their museum, she made sure no kid would ever have to feel that way there. Everything is priced so that every visitor, no matter how little money they have, can afford to eat and take a small souvenir home.
"Everyone can eat something in the café for $2," said Katie Harel, who runs the museum's restaurants. "Every single person."
Admission is free for anyone 17 and under, and residents of the surrounding neighborhood can get in free too. The garden, library, café and shop don't require a ticket at all.
Mellody Hobson went on to become one of the most successful businesswomen in America. But she built this museum for the little girl who once stood in the gift shop with empty pockets 💛
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But we did get the amazing comedy walk 😂
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What a knock from Tom Banton 🔥
The Somerset batter smashed a brilliant 121 from just 99 deliveries against Australia!
Well played, Bants 🙌
#YouAreSomerset
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Argentina entered recession today.
Is the Musk idiot ever right about anything?
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@TiceRichard Claiming a newspaper wants someone dead & exploiting someone's death in one tweet is quite something even by Reform's appalling standards.
The fact is Farage & Reform have given multiple accounts of what the money is for & as a result nobody knows what to believe!
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Hey America, I don’t mean to brag or anything but our skies are safe and we don’t have a fucking plumber in charge of our national security.
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Saturday's front page: Reform chief lobbied Bank of England on crypto after £9m donation
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How do you know when @TiceRichard is lying?
You can see his lips move.
Exclusive: Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice lobbied the Bank of England over cryptocurrency rules after the party received a £9m donation from Christopher Harborne - a billionaire investor in the industry, The i Paper can reveal.
Letters released by the Bank, seen by The i Paper, show Tice urged senior regulators to take a more permissive approach to digital currencies, arguing that Britain risked losing financial business to the United States.
The timing of the intervention, so soon after the £9m donation, raises questions about the relationship between Reform’s financial backers and its position on cryptocurrency regulation.
Harborne is reported to own a stake of about 12 per cent in Tether, the company behind USDT, a digital token designed to remain worth one US dollar. Tokens of this kind, known as stablecoins, are usually backed by traditional currencies and are intended to hold a steady value.
The billionaire gave Reform £9m in August 2025, the largest political donation by a living individual at the time. The donation was not publicly disclosed until December.
Eight weeks after the donation, on 27 November, Tice wrote to Sam Woods, chief executive of the Bank’s Prudential Regulation Authority, warning that Britain was falling behind other countries in developing stablecoins.
“It will not have escaped your attention that in the meantime the U.S. has already passed the GENIUS Act and that US dollar backed stablecoin issuance is now over $250bn,” he wrote.
He added: “With London the largest foreign exchange market in the world it is surprising that we are not leading global thinking in this area.”
Tice then pointed to Reform’s political prospects, telling the regulator: “You will note that based on current opinion polls Reform UK is set to form the next government.’”
“We cannot accept the current situation,” he added.
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Sean Lock had a rare ability to make the most uncomfortable observations sound absolutely hilarious.
The best comedians understand that being funny sometimes means saying what everyone else is too polite to say.
Drew Lynch turns something that could easily make him uncomfortable into the very thing that makes people laugh.
What makes his comedy interesting is the way he exposes the awkwardness surrounding his stutter without allowing it to define him. His jokes about speech therapy and regular therapy reveal how differently people approach the same words depending on the setting.
There is also something clever about his delivery. He doesn't hide the difficulty of speaking; he builds his comedy around it, using timing, honesty, and self-awareness to control the room.
The real strength here is not simply laughing at an unusual situation. It's watching someone take ownership of an experience that could have limited his confidence and turn it into his creative advantage.
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Happy 82nd Birthday
Ron 'Chopper' Harris
#CFC #CFCHeritage
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Yesterday’s by-elections: Reform lost the seat they were defending in Bosmere to the Conservatives. Reform collapsed to 17.4 %.
Labour held Huncoat and smashed Hindley Green with nearly 50 %.
Muhammad Ziauddin Yusuf and Nigel Farage spent months screaming about the political establishment.
The actual results show their outrage version has expired.
Voters are moving on. The hype is dead.