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Nuke Warm: “President Joe Biden approved in March a highly classified nuclear strategic plan for the United States that, for the first time, reorients America’s deterrent strategy to focus on China’s rapid expansion in its nuclear arsenal. The shift comes as the Pentagon believes China’s stockpiles will rival the size and diversity of the United States’ and Russia’s over the next decade.” Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat.

+ Pain Relief: “Gehrig struggled with thoughts of suicide. ‘For many with chronic pain, it’s always in their back pocket,’ she says. ‘It’s not that we want to die. We want the pain to go away.'” There’s a promising new class of drugs that could offer some hope for chronic pain sufferers. SciAm: New Painkiller Could Bring Relief to Millions—Without Addiction Risk.

+ Health Careless: “Over two days, two emergency rooms turned her away. When she arrived at the second ER, her jeans were soaked in blood.” Women denied care for miscarriages and other crises are getting involved in this election.

+ Shirts Shouldn’t Cost the Shirt Off Your Back: “A T-shirt is one of the simplest and most ubiquitous pieces of clothing in the world, but like many apparently simple things, it turns out to be incredibly complicated, especially if you’re set on making it entirely in the United States.” GQ: Can This $13 Walmart T-Shirt Save the American Garment Industry?

+ I Guess She Wasn’t on Social Media: “María Branyas Morera, a U.S.-born Spaniard, died in her sleep. Her family said she recently spoke of nearing death and that she would miss daily mundanities like drinking coffee.” World’s oldest person, whose secret was avoiding ‘toxic people,’ dies at 117.

+ Meloncoly: $5 million worth of meth disguised as watermelons found at California customs checkpoint. (I don’t think I could ever let meth get in the way of my watermelon addiction.)