“I love you, let’s hang out.”

Making the case that Vladimir Putin assassinated his imprisoned rival Alexei Navalny. / Why It Matters

See also: Navalny seen in video a day before his reported death. / BBC News

How Navalnyorganized anti-Putin Russians—who remain and are in larger numbers than ever. / Foreign Affairs

Tucker Carlson's quip on Monday, that "leadership requires killing people," takes on a more chilling tone. / The New York Times [+]

Gaza cease-fire protests disrupt the tiny farming/tourist town of Ojai, Calif. / The Los Angeles Times

Eight artists deface their own work, saying a San Francisco institution asked them not to advocate for Palestine. / Hyperallergic

Related: For hundreds of years, people thought California was an island. / Atlas Obscura

Unrelated: California teenagers are suspicious of adults who drink espresso—and other things recently overheard. / Meditations in an Emergency

A financial columnist tries to understand how she was conned into giving a stranger $50,000 in cash. / The Cut

For the past hundred years, people have championed value-adding design "for objects that did perfectly well without it." / Misfits' Architecture

If AI is about to upend everything, how do you prepare your children to live—never mind work—in that world? / Otherwise

Reeling from a layoff, a writer creates a new children's show. / The Most

"It's nice to get a text that says only 'splat' and means 'I love you, let's hang out.'" On the joys of playing Splatoon with your family. / The Verge

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