Pick a Roe Column: After bragging about ending Roe, Trump read the political winds made a new statement on abortion in which he said such matters should be left to the states. The video statement pissed off the religious right and was viewed by the left as being laughably untrue. The rest of us are playing checkers while he’s playing punch your campaign in the balls. (Meanwhile, a serial sexual assaulter who bragged about getting abortion banned declares that rape should be an exception, and the media covered it as a normal policy announcement.)

+ Krem Fresh: “In an ongoing campaign that seeks to influence congressional and other political debates to stoke anti-Ukraine sentiment, Kremlin-linked political strategists and trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles, social media posts and comments that promote American isolationism, stir fear over the United States’ border security and attempt to amplify U.S. economic and racial tensions.” WaPo (Gift Article): Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show.

+ School of Hard Knocks: “Inside this maximum security prison, a groundbreaking program offers inmates the chance to earn a degree from one of the country’s top schools. Some will never leave these walls. Here’s why it still matters.” Welcome to Northwestern University at Stateville.

+ I Spy a Spy: “Yossi Sariel unmasked as head of Unit 8200 and architect of AI strategy after book written under pen name reveals his Google account.” Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse. If you missed it last week, here’s a look at one of Sariel’s most significant military tools: An AI program called Lavender.

+ Hampton Comes Alive: “The workers, who are for the most part undocumented immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico, are kept sufficiently busy during the stretch from April to September, when consistent landscaping work is available and they can make $100 to $150 a day — enough for a room in a house or apartment, or at least a designated sofa somewhere. But the colder months — when there is no imperative to trim the hedgerows — demand alternatives. Some workers find them in the rhythms of the harvest, moving to the North Fork in October to pick grapes at local vineyards and then traveling to Florida to pick oranges during the winter. Others remain, and when they cannot afford a room, they live in the woods.” A stark look at the economic divide from the NYT (Gift Article): The Perilous Existence of a Hamptons Day Laborer.

+ Watching What You Eat: “In Canada, University of Waterloo students discovered that multiple on-campus vending machines were using facial recognition to track the age and gender of customers, without their knowing.” How fast food is becoming a new surveillance ground. (In the future, it’s going to be impossible to sneak in-between meal snacks.)

+ I Bless the Runs Down in Africa: “After more than 9,940 miles over 352 days across 16 countries, Russ Cook, aka the ‘Hardest Geezer,’ has completed the mammoth challenge of running the length of Africa.” Upon completion, Cook remarked, “I’m a little bit tired.”