There's a sea lion in the news for enjoying music. —Choire Sicha
IT HAPPENED TODAY
Plane Problems
It's ... Tariffic
I have only skimmed today’s immense and authorless HHS document intended to guide American policy on young trans people, but even then I did see things in it that are misstated and overstated. If you asked any random American how many trans kids they thought had surgical interventions each year, I bet they would overstate the number by an immense factor. (The total is negligible.)
Ryanair threatens to cancel a Boeing order of 300 planes over tariffs.
Eric Adams released his proposed New York City budget today, and I don't want to alarm anyone but much of this looks like SOCIALISM and DEI (the two things New Yorkers crave).
BEST LIFE
The Protein Era
You simply cannot stop it.
Are you getting enough protein? Literally everyone will tell you right now that you are not. You literally cannot consume enough, apparently, and so Khloé Kardashian is selling popcorn coated with protein dust, and all the Cut folks here tried it. It was not popular! “I am a protein fanatic, but this is offensive,” said Cut boss Lindsay Peoples.
There’s like three places in this story about a normal, everyday, healthy fit woman who stopped having her period for a decade where she nearly dies just because of doctors. How are any of you alive??? Seems like being a woman is just endlessly thinking Something seems wrong, hmm, and having professionals tell you to stop worrying. This is wild because I had a little sneeze earlier and several people came running to assist. Also this reminds me to recommend the new Amanda Hess book.
There’s a hot new cutting board — and I wasn’t informed???
Lunar belt???? A new and unexpected word combo for me, very pleasing on just a linguistics level.
Chic handkerchief? What is English?
If there’s one thing TikTok loves, it’s showing me videos of rugby players being lifted by their teammates and also an ad for “Protect the Dolls” T-shirts. The algorithm really knows. Anyhow, here’s vintage clothing you can buy that supports the Trans Justice Funding Project, including from my beloveds Vaquera.
You know it, we know it, everyone knows it. But if you need something beyond Vanicream, here’s more moisturizing stuff for the real messed-up skin.
New Balance walking shoes at a recession-y price of $63.
Click Your Way Out
Headline of the day that I missed days ago: "Why Japan’s Electromagnetic Railgun Succeeded Where the US Navy’s Failed."
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