June 15, 2016

• Neither Clinton nor Trump have articulated why more airstrikes in Syria are the right response to an attack ISIS didn't coordinate.
• Clinton wins the final primary in DC and meets with Sanders, who will address his supporters on Thursday.
• If Trump wins, he'll be the oldest US president. If Clinton wins, she'll be the second-oldest.
• People are saying that "people are saying" signals when Trump is conspiracy-theorizing.
• The growing list of media outlets Trump has banned.
• After Pulse, it's too easy to imagine the most difficult kind of coming out.
• Pulse shooter's wife may be implicated in the attack for knowing of his plans in advance.
• Mateen's relationship with “radical Islam” was real but incoherent—he swore simultaneous allegiance to both Sunni and Shia organizations.
• IS ridiculed for claiming Mateen—who drank alcohol and may have been gay—as a solider.
• Alexander Chee: "A certain violence has always followed me since coming out."
• Court decision removes the biggest threat to net neutrality, as regulators were correct to classify broadband as a utility.
• Americans donate more than $1 billion to charity every single day, a record rate; individuals account for two-thirds of the giving.
• "Smart houses may usher in a leisurely world for some and more work for others."
• For the first time in seven decades, there is a professional baseball scout who is a woman.
• Peter Thiel now accusses Gawker of defamation for its investigation of Trump's high-tech hairpiece.
• It would cost about 5 percent more to assemble an iPhone in America rather than abroad, but we could never actually source everything from here.
• The atlas of long-distance relationships depicts the greatest challenges to those trying to make it work.
• The arabica coffee your cube mate—but never you, of course—drinks is nine years old.