Extra, Extra
Minnesota Arrest: “The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another crawled to officers in surrender Sunday after they located him in the woods near his home, bringing an end to a massive, nearly two-day search that put the entire state on edge.” He went to at least four lawmakers homes with the intent to kill. Here’s the latest from the StarTribune. As Brian Klaas explains in The Atlantic (Gift Article): In Minnesota, America’s Luck Ran Out. “In a context such as the United States, three key factors stand out: easy access to deadly weapons, intense polarization that paints political opponents as treasonous enemies rather than disagreeing compatriots, and incitements to political violence from high-profile public figures. When you combine those three social toxins, the likelihood of political violence increases, even as it remains impossible to predict who will be targeted or when attacks might be carried out.”
+ Leave Us Alone-a-Lisa: “It was an almost unthinkable sight: the home to works by Leonardo da Vinci and millennia of civilization’s greatest treasures — paralyzed by the very people tasked with welcoming the world to its galleries.” The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, shuts down with staff sounding the alarm on mass tourism. This one big example of a much broader issue. Spaniards turn water pistols on visitors to protest mass tourism. (And Summer just started.)
+ Pick Six: “MI6 will be led by a woman for the first time in the foreign intelligence service’s 116-year history.” (The fact that she’s a woman isn’t the only way the situation differs from American government hiring trends. She’s also qualified.)
+ Mobile Phony: The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible. A branded phone and a branded wireless service? Par for the course at this point. Home-goods companies prepare new Trump-linked products. “One of the companies, Instant Pot Brands, noted that ‘a portion of the profits from’ its forthcoming collection ‘will be donated to the Trump Presidential Library.'” (I’m holding out for “the snow globe with a small version of President Donald Trump raising his fist.”)
+ Let Them Eat: Give up the weight without giving up the fun! I’m in. Wired: A New Obesity Pill May Burn Fat Without Suppressing Appetite.
+ Polygraph Quest: “As part of the GOP campaign attacking the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office for the grim fiscal projections for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of tax and spending cuts pending in the Senate, Tim Scott posted a one-minute video.” It included nine claims. All of them were false.
+ Pedialyte at the End of the Tunnel: “She had a stomach bug and was vomiting all night long. I was just like, ‘OK, my wife was up at 3 a.m., and she’s like, Violet is vomiting all over. She can’t keep anything down. It was kind of a rough start to the morning. I’m not blaming that on my start, but it kind of fit the mold of what was going on, the chaos.” A middle of the night visit to CVS for his daughter and the most evil course in golf couldn’t stop JJ Spaun from winning his first major.
+ Dude, That Was Historic: In the end, the big Army parade was a relatively quiet affair. Here are some photos. “What had been billed as an overwhelming display of military might turned out to be a linear history lesson, from the early days of revolution to the age of robotic dogs and flying drones. A narrator made sense of it all over loudspeakers and for those watching the live stream on television, with a script that rarely strayed from the Army’s disciplined sense of itself as a lethal fighting machine in the service of democracy and the Constitution.” (Which explains why Trump looked so irritated and bored throughout.) WaPo (Gift Article): Trump wanted a military spectacle. Instead, he got a history lesson.
