New: I talked to Trump Media investors about their shares' value getting cut in half. A tree remover in Oklahoma who bet basically his whole nest egg told me, “This isn’t just another stock … I feel like it was God Almighty that put it in my lap' washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Something people underrate about Japan is bike ➡️ train now totally overwhelms bus ➡️ train among users.

(I'm not endorsing the protest but I can think of an easy way to avoid this)

Anti-Israel protesters in Chicago are blocking roads leading into O’Hare Airport. People are having to walk to airport to make their flights.

Wow, wild differences. At least British people can sleep easy in presuming, with America's much higher incomes and much larger homes, that their houses are at least more expensive in general. Right? Right guys?

Kenya: fertility rate patterns in three figures (as of 2022).

The reason most cities don’t do this may shock you. Once you understand that traffic engineers consider the sidewalk to be a “recovery zone” — into which vehicles should be able to hurtle without damage to their paint — you’ll just can’t unlearn it

Battle for the American West - on.ft.com/43WSQ5k via Financial Times

This piece is *so good*

A sensible Israeli government would recognize that Iran made a strategic error last night, that a rash reprisal would be foolish and that it owes a debt to the Western and Arab partners who helped it. Unfortunately, the current government is anything but. economist.com/middle-east-an…

Terrific stuff cta, really 'meeting the moment' today

I'm pretty clueless about art so take this with a pinch of salt, but if I were an arts journalist in Chicago I would be pitching a profile of Lucca Colombelli, a gallerist I met by chance in a bar who seems in the past two years to have built an empire up here