Extra, Extra
Perp Talk: “High-level executives with the NFL’s New Orleans Saints football team and the NBA’s Pelicans basketball team had a deeper role than previously known in connection with a list of priests and deacons faced with credible allegations of child molestation while the clergymen worked with their city’s Roman Catholic archdiocese.” Crisis communications’: emails show how NFL’s Saints and NBA’s Pelicans helped New Orleans church spin abuse scandal. (Who hears about child sex abuse and thinks, “How can we help the perpetrators?”)
+ In Fact It’s a Gas: “In fact, culinary professionals generally don’t shop for equipment at stores with names like Puff N Stuff or Condom Sense. The true clientele inhales the gas to get high.” The Atlantic (Gift Article): The Illegal Drug at Every Corner Store. (In 2025, we’ll classify this as news you can use.)
+ He Comes Lowly Recommended: “The letter was meant to lend credibility to Kennedy’s nomination, which has faced strenuous opposition from experts due to his decades of anti-vaccine activism.” Doctors Whose Licenses Were Revoked, Suspended Named In Pro-RFK Jr. Letter To Senate.
+ A Gov Supreme: It’s not just who they’re firing. It’s who they’re hiring. “Darren Beattie, a conservative journalist who was fired from the Trump administration in 2018 after revelations about his attendance at a conference with white nationalists, will serve as the acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy under Secretary of State Marco Rubio,”
+ Berlin Sprawl: 160,000 people took to the streets of Berlin to protest against Germany’s far-right. (A teachable moment for Americans?)
+ Luka What I Found: For any sports fans, I buried the lede today. Everyone was swept up over the weekend with news of one of the most shocking trades in NBA history—so shocking that people assumed the reporter who first broke the news had his account hacked. The Luka Doncic–Anthony Davis Trade Is an All-Time NBA Shocker. (When I first heard about a shocking trade, I was hoping America had traded Elon to Russia for an oligarch to be named later.)