Earth don't lie.

Trump’s tariffs are pushing away some of his most loyal Congressional allies and Republican backers. 1/19

Macron asks other G7 countries to confront Trump on trade, climate change, and the Iran nuclear deal. And then there’s that handshake. 2/19

A doofus's unpredictability and narcissism helped precipitate the fall of the German Empire. Sound familiar? 3/19

North Korea is already winning from its outreach to the White house. 4/19

The world’s population will be forty percent African by the end of the century. The United States isn't ready. 5/19

Reasons to be optimistic about free trade: cross-border migration; the impotence of politics; interpersonal ties. 6/19

McDonald's figures out that people buy more from touch-screen kiosks than other people. 7/19

Thinking of starting a food truck? Plan to work 100-hour weeks for the first three years. 8/19

Analysis finds that siphoning carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is actually becoming commercial viable. 9/19

“I’ve always thought of the earth as an intelligent consciousness, my relationship with fairies and earth spirits grew from that.” Interviews with some of the forty-four percent of Britons who believe they’ve seen fairies. 10/19

Kyrie Irving doesn’t believe the Earth is round, and he doesn’t mind if children agree with him over their teachers. 11/19

See also, with a nice cup of tea this weekend: “The Defeat of Reason.” 12/19

Romania’s Simona Halep wins the French Open, 3-6 6-4 6-1. The world No.1 is finally a Grand Slam champion, no longer obligated to make her own clothes. 13/19

Hollywood has replaced the typical evil Russian with the evil Silicon Valley nerd. 14/19

Video: A time-lapse film of a decade spent on Mt. Everest. 15/19

I’ve seen guys duking it out in the waiter station over who gets a table for six. I’ve seen a chef clamp his teeth on a waiter’s nose. Before Kitchen Confidential there was Anthony Bourdain’s funny, surprising column in the New Yorker. 16/19

Suicide remains a rare event, though rates have risen in nearly every state in the US in the past two decades. 17/19

When in doubt, help is waiting—for you, a friend, a relative. Call 1-800-273-8255 (the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) or text HOME to 741741 at any time, about any type of crisis. 18/19

In 1977, Mister Rogers writers wrote a style guide to the show’s unique child-centric language, “Freddish.” 19/19


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