Private Equity–Backed Firm Bowlero Is Ruining Bowling (jacobin.com)
Biden sets out new Israeli proposal to end war in Gaza (www.bbc.com)
Ending the Gaza war: Three phase proposal...
X planning town hall with Donald Trump as Elon Musk reportedly gets cozy with the former president (mashable.com)
Trump campaign raises record $34.8 million in donations after guilty verdict (www.cnbc.com)
Key Points...
Amazon, Walmart, and Target finally realize their colossal pricing mistake—now they’re slashing costs to win back customers (finance.yahoo.com)
San Diego ponders a bid to take over its for-profit energy utility (grist.org)
Pride event canceled because they were going to give away banned books (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Arizona can execute Danny Lee Jones, 6-3 Supreme Court rules (www.courthousenews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/arizona-can-execute-danny-lee-j…
Voice analysis shows striking similarity between Scarlett Johansson and ChatGPT (www.npr.org)
Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic (arstechnica.com)
Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict (www.reuters.com)
Texas Republicans open to death penalty for abortion providers (www.theguardian.com)
GOP convention votes on wide-ranging platform including striking law protecting abortion providers from being charged with murder...
"No words for this": Legal experts pan Aileen Cannon's "outrageous" pro-Trump bias (www.salon.com)
Judge Cannon has appeared confused by basic legal concepts and indulged the Trump defense team’s wildest arguments...
Lawsuits claim 66 people were abused as children in Pennsylvania's juvenile facilities (apnews.com)
IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025 (apnews.com)
The IRS said Thursday it will make permanent the free electronic tax return filing system that it experimented with this year and is asking all 50 states and the District of Columbia to help taxpayers file their returns through the program in 2025....
Muslim nurse in New York fired after calling Israel's war in Gaza 'genocide' (www.reuters.com)
WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) - A New York City hospital fired a Palestinian American Muslim nurse after she called Israel’s war in Gaza a “genocide” during an acceptance speech for an award for her work with bereaved mothers who lost their children during pregnancy and childbirth....
Trump is not the only convicted criminal to run for U.S. president. Over a century ago, Eugene Debs ran from his prison cell. (www.nbcnews.com)
Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton dies after assault in prison (www.theguardian.com)
New York Education Department Hindered an Abuse Investigation at Boarding School for Autistic Youth (www.propublica.org)
Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from climate change (apnews.com)
Oregon defendants without a lawyer must be released from jail, US appeals court says (apnews.com)
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling that Oregon defendants must be released from jail after seven days if they don’t have a defense attorney....
Columbia Coincidentally Rewrites Disciplinary Rules Just in Time to Screw Over Student Protesters (theintercept.com)
Just as summer vacation is getting underway, students at Columbia University in New York are left dealing with a raft of looming disciplinary charges from their participation in campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza. But some students at the school said 11th-hour changes to disciplinary procedures are making it harder...
Andrew Tate loses appeal to relax judicial restrictions as he awaits human trafficking, rape trial (apnews.com)
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer awaiting trial in Romania on charges of human trafficking and rape, lost an appeal Thursday to have the court relax geographical restrictions preventing him from traveling outside the eastern European country....
Robust Economy Can’t Shield Biden From Blame for Higher Prices (www.bloomberg.com)
Even if inflation has slowed, food and energy cost far more than they did at the beginning of his term, and many voters are angry about that....
What polls say about Trump’s conviction and the 2024 presidential race (www.axios.com)
A YouGov poll conducted in the wake of the verdict found that 27% of voters said the conviction made them less likely to vote for Trump, while 26% said they were more likely to vote for him and 39% said the verdict “makes no difference” in how they’ll vote.