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Med Dread: “We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and those other journals because they’re all corrupt.” That’s RFK Jr on plans to stop publishing in the world’s most trusted medical journals. The new plan? In-house publications. RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals.
+ Forecast of Hundreds: “The projections come from more than 200 forecasts using computer simulations run by 10 global centers of scientists.” And what’s the consensus? Heat. Get ready for several years of killer heat, top weather forecasters warn. (Don’t worry. It’s a dry heat.)
+ Partners in Crime: “President Trump will fully pardon the reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted three years ago of evading taxes and defrauding banks of more than $30 million to support their luxurious lifestyle.” (In fairness, they were on reality TV, they didn’t pay their taxes, they duped people into giving them money, they lied to banks, and they celebrated faux religiosity. How could Trump not pardon them?) NYT (Gift Article): Trump to Pardon Reality-Show Couple Convicted of $36 Million Fraud.
+ Cost Overrun: Netanyahu says Israel killed elusive Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar in a recent Gaza strike. Hamas is a murderous organization and its leaders deserve their fate. But at this point, even Israel’s staunchest allies are suggesting the price of the ongoing war is too high. Tom Friedman in the NYT (Gift Article): The Flashing Signals That I Just Saw in Israel. “I did see signals flashing that more Israelis, from the left to the center and to even parts of the right, are concluding that continuing this war is a disaster for Israel: morally, diplomatically or strategically.”
+ FIFA Fo Fum: “Their case quickly erupted into the biggest corruption scandal in modern sports history. It eventually led to 31 guilty pleas and multiple trial convictions. It recovered hundreds of millions of dollars. It triggered a reckoning at FIFA, the global soccer governing body at the center of the storm, and led to a raft of promised reforms.” But ten years later, has anything at FIFA changed? How FIFAgate, soccer’s biggest scandal, became ‘a missed opportunity’ for reform. “FIFA, meanwhile, now boasts of ‘excellent relations with President Trump [and] the Trump administration.'”
+ Teaching the Big Lie: “Starting with the next academic year, Oklahoma students in U.S. history classes will be asked to ‘identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information,’ including on ‘sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends.'” ‘Stop the Steal’ in U.S. History Class.
+ Meth Odd Actor: “Early on Memorial Day, a Florida man was bitten by an alligator as he swam across a lake. Bleeding from a bite to his right arm but undeterred, he climbed out, grabbed a pair of garden shears and walked into a gated neighborhood, alarming residents, according to local authorities. Within minutes, the man, Timothy Schulz, 42, of Mulberry, Fla., was dead — shot by sheriff’s deputies after, they say, he charged at them with the shears, failed to be subdued by a stun gun and tried to grab either a shotgun or rifle from their cruiser.” NYT (Gift Article): Bitten by Alligator, Man Is Killed After Charging at Deputies, Sheriff Says. “Sheriff Judd also said that Mr. Schulz had a lengthy criminal history, which he described as ‘meth arrest, meth arrest, meth arrest, meth arrest, meth arrest.'” (Seems like a decent starting point to begin to piece together a theory of the case.)
