Extra, Extra

BiBi Cue: “Trump said in a post on social media that Netanyahu ‘has been a Great Warrior Prime Minister, and an even greater Partner for Peace.'” NPR: Trump endorses embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection.

+ Crosswalking the Chasm: “At an intersection in Hyde Park that, days earlier, had been the scene of chaos — a young girl on the ground, a car with a teenage boy on the windshield, a mother screaming — Jonathan Hale led his band of rebels. They were armed with paint rollers.” Risking arrest, he paints illicit crosswalks across L.A.

+ Meta Vendetta? “Meta’s action against No Kings is the latest in a series of ‘errors’ impacting the accounts of Trump critics.” Meta shuts down ‘No Kings’ account during major anti-Trump protest.

+ Return of the Prodigal Sun: “Last Saturday night in the Eastern Sierra town of Lone Pine, Cayden Thompson was hanging out on his friend’s front porch when the two men noticed a pair of what he described as “incredibly bright” beams of light shining down thousands of feet from the mountains near Mount Whitney into the low-slung desert below.” It turned out to be no big deal. Just a startup testing a new product that offers sunlight on demand.

+ Let Them Eat Equity: Elon Musk pledged to donate one share of SpaceX to each of America’s 72 million children. (And only half those kids are his.)

+ Try to Contain Yourself: “The idea of what is essentially a paper bucket dates to 1894, when inventor Frederick Weeks Wilcox was granted a patent for what he called “a new and useful improvement” for pails used to carry oysters. A single piece of material would be folded in such a way that it would have structural stability while also limiting the ways it could leak, and also incorporate a lid.” The American story of the Chinese food carton.