The kind survive.
Trump officially launches his reelection bid and quickly fires several pollsters after numbers leak showing the President trailing Democratic candidates in key states. 1/19
Trump says ICE will make mass arrests of “millions” of undocumented immigrants starting “next week.” 2/19
In El Paso, Border Patrol is detaining migrants in “a human dog pound.” 3/19
Power is restored to much of Argentina and Uruguay after a massive electrical failure. 4/19
Facebook launches its own cryptocurrency called Libra, so users can send payments to one another. 5/19
New York City is about to get bombarded by electric scooters. 6/19
See also: The Instagram account for scooters that meet an untimely death. 7/19
A good episode of the Planet Money podcast demonstrates why big cities are bad calls, economically, for people lacking college degrees. 8/19
Watch: A (mesmerizing) typical commute up the 405 in Los Angeles from 1988. 9/19
Why do people in LA use definite articles before their freeway names? Because they had freeways before everybody else. 10/19
YIGBY, or “yes in God’s backyard,” refers to churches starting to build affordable housing on their properties. 11/19
Watch: "Survival of the fittest" really means that we should be sympathetic to one another. 12/19
A free documentary for downtime tonight: Thank You for Coming, about one woman's journey to find her biological (sperm-donating) father. 13/19
Hearing this woman say it to my face, it shocked me. She said, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry I treated you as entertainment.” Amanda Knox explains what it’s like to exist in the odd space of “involuntary public figuredom.” 14/19
Another "hidden figure"—the woman whose actuarial insights, employed by the Census, were borrowed to pioneer life insurance. 15/19
Celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow tout crystals for healing properties, with no idea if they're connected to human-rights abuses. 16/19
In 2017, the hunt for “su filindeu,” possibly the world's rarest pasta, required a march of 20 miles in the dark. 17/19
Ark of Taste is a catalog of "more than 200 delicious and culturally significant foods in danger of extinction." 18/19
Mackerel migration, berries in season, the constellation of the month: a collection of natural facts about June. 1/19
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