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Message in Full Throttle: “Trump is teaching his many supporters that public office is just a game of revenge, that there’s no difference between the government pleading with an ex-president for 17 months to return stolen secret documents and a serving president using claims about documents to target a critic for retaliation.” David Frum in The Atlantic (Gift Article): Trump Is Sending a Terrifyingly Clear Message.
+ Bringing Down the House (Prices): “Advocates say the [Swiss] model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing, particularly in the biggest cities. The details will seem foreign to many in the West, where building home equity is baked into the system. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains?” NYT (Gift Article): A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It.
+ All Bets Are On: Gambling logos and ads seen up to every 13 seconds during big sports games in US.
+ Enemies, a Love Story: “President Xi Jinping will gather more than 20 world leaders at a regional security forum in China next week in a powerful show of Global South solidarity in the age of Donald Trump while also helping sanctions-hit Russia pull off another diplomatic coup.” China’s Xi to welcome Putin, Modi in grand show of solidarity.
+ Bridge Player: “Extreme heat is taking a toll on the US’s aging bridges. These researchers are enlisting AI and automation to perform drive-through inspections.” Bloomberg (Gift Article): Are Bridges Near You Safe? This MRI-Like Scan May Prevent Disaster.
+ Kim Jong-unfit: Today in horrifically embarrassing Oval Office news: Trump Repeatedly Praises North Korea’s Dictator in Meeting With South’s President.
+ Not So Hot For Teacher: “The pitch by Alpha School is as innovative as it is sensational: For $65,000 a year, students study for just two hours a day using adaptive apps and personalized lesson plans and spend their afternoons on life skills such as learning to ride a bike or financial literacy.” WaPo (Gift Article): For $65,000 a year, a teacher-less AI private school comes to Virginia.
+ Dust in the Wind: Phoenix got a break from extreme heat. Instead it got something called a haboob: “a dust storm pushed by the wind produced by a weather front or thunderstorm and typically occurs in flat, arid areas.” Towering wall of dust rolls through metro Phoenix, leaving thousands without power.
+ Crimes and Misdemeanors: “The director said he did not ‘feel cutting off artistic conversations is ever a good way to help’ after Ukraine calls the film-maker’s participation a ‘disgrace.'” Woody Allen rebuts Ukrainian condemnation over Moscow film festival appearance.
