Trump bombed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and proved its point

Members of the media mocking a leader’s dismal performance on live TV and all across the internet? In some other countries, that’s a criminal offense. But in the US, it’s the norm, so maybe Trump’s speech unwittingly underscored the theme of the dinner: America’s robust First Amendment protections.

CNN

Trump orders warning signs near Smithsonian, escalating fight over history

The president’s executive order calls for signage near the National Museum of American History cautioning visitors about “inaccurate information.”

The Washington Post

The White House Correspondents’ Disgrace

The WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.

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Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Trump His New Air Force One

A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.

The New York Times

Gender-affirming care for insecure men

The Low-T call is coming from inside the Pentagon.

Public Notice

A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1,000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold more than a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly’s Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and It’s Gross

It’s a bizarre extension of our newfound obsession with keeping track of every single thing that’s being said around us, a trend that could have severe privacy implications, from people being shocked to find their therapist has been recording them to wearers of Meta’s AI glasses harassing strangers.

Futurism

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

Revolution For Cowards

ChatGPT now has a space for sharing medical records. Should you?

“Our healthcare is broken,” Choudhury told CBS News. “I think that’s why we are seeing so many people asking for advice.”

CBS News

Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall

Officials became convinced by FDA’s findings, and gave the agency the green light to make them public

The Wall Street Journal

Fired ‘60 Minutes’ journalist says she was pressured to report on events that ‘never happened’

Cecilia Vega said CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pressured her to include “misinformation” and “political bias” in several news segments.

MS Now

DOGE delayed a grant that would have reduced fire fuels in a Minnesota forest now ablaze

Fire crews now have to thin out thousands of acres of dense, dry forest as wildfires burn.

The Washington Post

Even Trump Can’t Spin This One

You can’t post your way out of a war.

The Atlantic

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane

More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.

The New York Times

Is Transition a Choice? The Question People Keep Asking

Is being transgender a choice? This question is often asked with confusion or skepticism but rarely answered honestly. This article explores why being trans is not a decision, why transition is often necessary for survival, and why framing identity as a choice misunderstands the realities transgender people face every day.

Transvitae

Trump Admin Admits It Canceled Clean Energy Funding Only for Blue States

Renewable energy projects in states that voted for Trump? Their grants were all untouched.

Jezebel

Trans director at progressive think tank says Dems should adopt this party line on trans athletes

“We hope that this lowers the temperature and lets us come out of this really scary moment for folks.”

LGBTQ Nation

ICE Is Conducting a Reign of Terror

In less than one week, ICE agents killed twice.

Neither victim was the man they were looking for. And each time their excuses made no sense. But the killings served a purpose: terrorizing immigrant communities, in pursuit of Trump’s white nationalist agenda.

In These Times

Troy Jackson Will Officially Be Maine’s Democratic Senate Nominee

Jackson will have just under 100 days to mount a new campaign against Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

NotUs

Hegseth’s Testosterone Bit Isn’t About Health

Endocrinologists and military veterans also responded to Hegseth’s video, making the case that testosterone treatment is not for everyone and that hormonal levels alone don’t measure the performance skills—leadership, bravery, precision, judgment—vital to military combat.

Ms. Magazine

A secret trans support group met above a brothel in 1890s Manhattan. It may have changed the world.

The Cercle Hermaphroditos is the earliest known trans advocacy group in the nation and marked a big shift in how trans people saw themselves.

LGBTQ Nation

The new electoral promise in Latin America: Connecting is no longer enough

Two decades of public policy have shown that the challenge is to complete coverage and turn access into capabilities.

Latino America 21

Chinese EV Drivers Are Ditching Hotels for High-Tech Car Camping

Zhen and Cui are part of a growing trend. Government efforts to boost domestic tourism as well as consumers in search of cheaper holidays are enticing more Chinese travelers to take road-trip vacations. Many are doing so in deluxe electric or hybrid SUVs that can plug into the nation’s expansive charging network, letting them bypass traditional lodging and transforming “car camping” into a multibillion-yuan lifestyle economy.

Bloomberg

Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

Polar Night Energy said the project is estimated to have slashed greenhouse gas emissions from the heating network by almost 70% and reduced the use of wood chips by about 60%. An existing wood-chip power plant remains in operation as a backup and peak-load facility.

CNBC

Wildfire Smoke Chokes Skies in Spain and France

Hundreds of thousands of people, residents as well as vacationers, were forced to evacuate or told to remain indoors.

The New York Times

Former Labor senator Nova Peris accused of ‘amplifying’ anti-Muslim social media posts

Olympian and Labor Friends of Israel patron shared posts about Palestinians that were ‘dehumanising’, Muslim advocacy group alleges

The Guardian

Foreign policy and the electoral contest in Brazil in 2026: Washington wants to go to the polls

Brazil’s presidential race is now being fought in Washington as well, where Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro seek to turn foreign policy into electoral capital.

Latino America 21

Andy Burnham’s reshuffle: New jobs, old trade-offs

The new PM is playing a political blinder, but still risks tripping up on Keir Starmer’s dilemmas

Prospect

Houthis claim strike on Saudi Arabia as conflict deepens

The Houthis’ Ansarollah media said on Telegram early Saturday that a “Yemeni missile strike” had sparked fires in the southern Saudi city of Jizan on the Red Sea.

Al Monitor

UK gay couple struggling to conceive via surrogacy finds possibility in Mexico

Mexico has a robust surrogacy system that legalized the process for same-sex parents in 2021.

LGBTQ Nation

What a reporter learned covering the impact of USAID cuts on aid workers-turned-sex workers in Nepal

The workers are among 280,000 worldwide whose jobs were eliminated along with the U.S. Agency for International Development last year, after U.S. President Donald Trump called the agency a waste of money and dissolved it. In a statement to The Associated Press, the U.S. State Department said the Trump administration had reinvigorated its assistance programs to focus on efficiency, effectiveness and partnership. The department also said the U.S. spends more on health and humanitarian assistance than any other country.

SFGate

Ukraine is under attack—but defiant

Drones have given the country military strength and renewed hope. But in Kyiv, the war feels closer than ever

Prospect

The Fujimorist restoration

Keiko Fujimori’s return to power heralds a revival of Fujimorism, which promises order but revives the tensions and risks of the past.

Latino America 21

Van slams into crowd at Berlin Pride festival, killing 1 and injuring 16, as police identify suspect

According to police, a white van had driven into the Tiergarten park around 10 p.m., which is next to the route that the pride march had passed along earlier, and hit several people before colliding with a tree. Police could not say how many officers had been deployed to the scene but that it was “definitely a lot of police.”

AP News