And So It Roes: “One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died. Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.”

+ Fire Outside Courtroom: “Three law enforcement sources told NBC News that the man appears to have been a follower of some conspiracy theories and may have had emotional issues. He may have posted his intention to set himself on fire in advance, the sources said.” Man sets himself on fire outside courthouse where Trump trial is being held.

+ Not College Material? “New York City police officers in riot gear began making dozens of arrests at Columbia University Thursday afternoon, after school president Minouche Shafik asked for help clearing protesters from a pro-Palestinian encampment.”

+ A Little Diddy About Puff: “‘I felt like I disappointed the hip-hop community,’ Combs told MTV’s Kurt Loder in 1999, after allegedly beating Nas’s former manager Steve Stoute with a Champagne bottle and a telephone. He continued, ‘Because everything I do I’m trying to be a team player in taking hip-hop to the next level.'” Vulture: Diddy’s Open Secrets. The rap mogul shook off decades of rumored bad behavior with wholesome PR revamps.

+ This Hacks Me Off: “Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure and are waiting ‘for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow,’ FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday.”

+ Yuck Truck Stuck: “Tesla has issued a recall for effectively every Cybertruck it’s delivered to customers due to a fault that’s causing the vehicle’s accelerator pedal to get stuck.” (No word on how they’ll compensate the rest of us who have had to suffer seeing one of these monstrosities on the road.)

+ Keep Your Thoughts to Yourself: No data mining in Colorado minds as state passes U.S.’s first brainwave privacy law.

+ Ant, Man: “As their population grows and their reach expands, the animals lay claim to more territories, reshaping the relationships in each new landscape by eliminating some species and nurturing others … This might sound like our story: the story of a hominin species, living in tropical Africa a few million years ago, becoming global. Instead, it is the story of a group of ant species.” Ant geopolitics.

+ Punctuated Equilibrium: “I’d like to think of the tortured poets collectively hanging out together in a department of their own, a space to feel their feelings and write about them in a supportive environment.” NYT (Gift Article): Tortured Poets’ or Poets? Taylor Swift Meets the Apostrophe Police.