Extra, Extra

Do One’s Damnedest: For those who subscribe to the pay attention to what they do school of thought, there’s this: “Two Russian cruise missiles slammed into an American electronics factory in a remote corner of far western Ukraine … The attack came as Russia carried out one of its largest airstrikes of the war.”

+ Bibi’s New Offensive: “Israel launched strikes on Gaza City overnight as it moved forward with a new offensive in the Palestinian enclave despite international condemnation and mounting domestic protests.”

+ Cutting a Fine Figure: New York appeals court throws out Trump’s more than $500 million fraud judgment. “Some judges of the state Appellate Division’s First Department agreed that Trump and his companies had engaged in fraud, but agreed with their colleagues that the award was an ‘excessive fine.'”

+ Who’s Your Daddy? “Since the first commercial DNA test débuted, in 2000, the market has exploded. A 2025 YouGov poll found that one in five Americans has taken a direct-to-consumer DNA test. A few years ago, a research team at Baylor College of Medicine surveyed more than twenty-three thousand customers of these kits and learned that three per cent of them had discovered that a person whom they’d believed to be their biological parent wasn’t.” The New Yorker: The Family Fallout of DNA Surprises. (I will never question my mom as my biological parent as long as she remains a subscriber with a consistent open rate.)

+ Bargaining Chips: “The failed payoff — a wad of cash in a red envelope stuffed inside an opened bag of Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chips — was made by Winnie Greco, a longtime Adams ally who resigned last year from her position as the mayor’s liaison to the Asian community after she was targeted in multiple investigations. She resurfaced recently as a consistent presence in his re-election campaign.” (I’m starting to wonder if modern politics is attracting our best and brightest…)

+ Sub Optimal: “Where protest movements take hold, symbols of resistance soon follow. In Washington, since the Trump administration has taken over the city’s police force and ordered the National Guard to patrol the streets, that symbol has taken the form of a person who flung a footlong sub. His name, colloquially, is ‘Sandwich Guy.'”

+ The Anti-Rainbow Fanatics: “A rainbow crosswalk was removed overnight outside of Pulse nightclub in Orlando, one of the most significant LGBTQ sites in Florida, as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe ‘political banners’ from public roadways.” Rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub removed overnight. “The rainbow was first installed on Esther Street in 2017, a year after 49 were killed and 53 were wounded at Pulse.”

+ Bottom of the Barrel: Cracker Barrel outrages conservatives with new logo: ‘This is your Bud Light moment.’ (Our era is reaching unimagined levels of idiocy.)