Extra, Extra
Garden Variety Bummer: “As part of enhanced security measures with President Donald Trump attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday, there will be no watch party outside Madison Square Garden.” Trump is going to ruin an NBA playoff game to warm up for ruining the World Cup and then ruining the Olympics. (I still have a weird feeling he’s gonna cancel at the last minute.)
+ Run Your Ossoff: From Michelle Goldberg in the NYT (Gift Article), an interesting look at Why Everyone Wants Jon Ossoff to Run for President. If he doesn’t run, other Dems should borrow his message in which he constantly ties Trump’s corruption to individuals’ pocketbooks.
+ Minutes to Memories: “And about four hours after our deadline, Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? … And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.” Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at 60 Minutes.
+ E-Gad: “Global EV sales grew 20% in 2025 to exceed 20 million, with one in four new cars sold worldwide now electric…EV sales in the U.S., though, fell 2% last year.” As the world embraces EVs, the U.S. hits the brakes.
+ Get Your Heg Out of Your Ass: “The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has been accused by historians and rights campaigners of ‘grotesque stupidity‘ and desecrating the memory of the soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy after he sought to link immigration to the D-day anniversary, saying Europe was facing a different ‘invasion’ of its shores.'” More international humiliation.
+ Good Time To Be Bad: “Kim Jong Un offered China’s president a grand welcome Monday. But the North Korean leader is playing host from a position of rare strength, and his country has come a long way since Xi Jinping’s last visit seven years ago.”
+ Their Heads on a Platner: “The Maine Senate candidate’s supporters shrugged off the Nazi tattoo and the mountain of old incendiary Reddit posts, drawn to his charisma and ready to believe in his redemption arc. Putting real people in Washington, they argued, meant accepting the real-life baggage that came with it, even if it might get exposed in the gauntlet of the campaign. But now the party is confronting the potential costs of that risk. In the last two weeks, revelations that Platner sexted women early in his marriage and accusations from an ex-girlfriend that he was physically threatening have disturbed national Democrats and raised questions about what other damaging revelations might drop between now and November.” The Democrats’ Platner Problem.
+ Neon Lights Are Bright: Tony Award winners list: ‘Schmigadoon!’ wins best musical, ‘Death of a Salesman’ lives on. And Pink killed as host.
+ GLP Soup: GLP-1s are popular. For some corporations, a little too popular. WSJ (Gift Article): Your Weight-Loss Drugs Are Next on the Corporate Chopping Block. “With as many as one in eight American adults taking the pills or injectables now, big employers from Cigna to PricewaterhouseCoopers are dropping coverage of so-called GLP-1s in droves. Others, like Chevron, are making workers jump through extra hoops to get coverage—and to ensure the drugs are used effectively—such as requiring multiple weigh-ins a month, meal-tracking on apps or sessions with an online health coach.”
+ Tab Keys: “The tablets, made of compressed ground coffee without a coating, binder or gelatin, can only be used with a Tablì coffee machine made by Lavazza. Each tablet is marked with the words ‘100% coffee.'” Coffee pods, without the pods?
Italian coffee giant Lavazza launches single-serve tablets to make espresso in the U.S.
