Extra, Extra
Spain Train Crash: “A high-speed passenger train rear-ended another near Toledo, months after a crash involving the same carriers killed dozens and stunned the country.” At Least 68 Killed in Train Crash in Spain. “The accident happened after traffic control operators told a high-speed train to continue its journey when another train was stopped farther along the tracks, Spain’s transportation minister, Óscar Puente, said. He called the operators’ instruction ‘inexplicable.'”
+ Flava Flavio: Give me your tired acts, your poorly behaved, your huddled asses yearning to breathe free from justified prosecution. Flávio Bolsonaro Lands in Miami After Fleeing Brazil. (It’s also troubling that the elected government in Brazil would go after a political opponent so quickly. Who do they think they are, America?)
+ Brothers in Harms: “Three brothers convicted of leveraging their wealthy lifestyle to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison after one victim described her attack as an ‘eternity of terror’ and the judge slammed their behavior as shameful, degenerate and monstrous.”
+ Under a Different Influence: “In recent years, an average of 30 people a day in the U.S. have been killed in vehicle crashes involving drugs including methamphetamines, cocaine, painkillers and marijuana — meaning at least one driver tested positive for drugs other than alcohol. Yet local, state and federal officials are failing at the most basic levels to confront the carnage.” America Waged War on Drunk Driving. Now, a New Epidemic Is Taking Hold. (Waymos don’t party.)
+ The Dan Plan: “In the summer of 2025, a staffer for Mary Peltola, the Alaska Democrat who was eyeing a run for Senate, received unusual instructions from top campaign aides: Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can.” NYT (Gift Article): Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot. (I once tried to compile an exhaustive list of Dave Pells, mostly because I was hoping to find someone else to read through this hell every morning.)
+ La Activista: “Dolores Huerta, arguably the nation’s most well-known Latina civil rights leader, has died. She was 96.”
+ Does This Register? “The Federal Trade Commission has sued the bargain chain Dollar General for what it characterized as ‘long-running deceptive pricing practices’ by charging customers more once they reach the register than the prices that are displayed on shelves and in advertisements.”
+ Choc Full of Photos: “The German Society for Nature Photography recently announced the top images from the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.” Looking for something a little more appetizing? Photos of chocolate transformed into creatures at the World Chocolate Masters in Belgium.
