Extra, Extra

Popping a Donor: “Elon Musk has quietly funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups and his super PAC since the start of July, building a huge turnout operation to help the party battle headwinds in the midterm elections.” (Nothing like trying to win an election about affordability by deploying a bottomless pit of funds from a trillionaire.)

+ Riyadh Attacks: “A projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 people, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said. The Houthis claimed responsibility for those attacks and others.”

+ Platonic High Colonic: “The censorship bot—officially known as the Course Content Review Process—ordered a Tech philosophy professor to remove Plato’s Republic from a syllabus because ‘it references Plato’s beliefs concerning gender roles and homosexuality.'” All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say in Texas.

+ Shock and Ahhh: “American economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics Monday for their work on models that have helped governments and central banks manage economic shocks, such as energy crises and inflation.”

+ Defrost Bite: “An ongoing cyberattack has reportedly struck major supermarket chains across Europe, disrupting refrigeration control systems. The attack — which has reportedly seen units set to continuously defrost at 50 degrees Celsius — is also apparently affecting deliveries and in-store pricing powered by electronic shelf labels”

+ Let’s (Tray) Table The Discussion: The good news: You finally have access to decent WiFi on airplanes. The bad news: So does the person in the seat next to you. The latest nuisance on flights is a Zoom call at 30,000 feet.