Final Billboard 200 Predictions (chart dated May 4th, 2024; via HITS Daily Double)

Fun friday reading newyorker.com/magazine/1989/…

Since y’all wanna be assholes for Taylor. Iron man dies in endgame

Caroline Fohlin, the Emory professor of economics seen on video being thrown to the ground and handcuffed by an Emory police officer for expressing concern at the violent arrest of a protester on campus, was jailed for 11 hours and charged with... Battery Against Police Officer

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

The Biden Camp has entered its Taylor Swift Era

Visiting a vinyl record store in798 art district in Beijing China, Blinken spots Taylor Swift's Midnights -- calls it a successful American export -- and buys album by Chinese musician Dou Wei.

Blinken drops by Beijing record store whose owner plays him vinyl by classic Chinese rocker Dou Wei. Blinken buys it — and Taylor Swift’s “Midnights,” which he describes as a successful American export

tweet for local DC: a friend found this pup in Malcom X Park about an hour ago. She's looking for their owner! reach out if you know who he belongs to

The untold story of those affected by the sudden closing of Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen: Dozens of immigrant workers who can’t get unemployment.

“We are families, we are not garbage,” they chanted in Spanish in front of the Foxtrot commissary in Pilsen.

More to come.

Friends, acquaintances, readers, haters—join me and my colleagues at Politics and Prose at the Wharf next month to discuss The Atlantic's list of the Great American Novels! It's going to be a blast: politics-prose.com/atlantic-great…

just realized one of the reason's i love guilty as sin's 'I keep recalling things we never did' is because it reminds me of Carly Rae Jepsen's 'before you came into my life, i missed you so bad'

There is rising fear in some quarters that Canada is going to be the next country to fall to the far-right populist wave. The reality is more subtle — and more interesting vox.com/politics/24140…

can someone put the song over the video of luann dancing

We must be a scary bunch because @Washingtonian felt the need to hire security for last night’s Women in Journalism event.

Mostly, though, the security just encouraged guests to throw away our flyers for fair pay and parental leave.

Washingtonian is hosting a Women in Journalism party tonight honoring
Kara Swisher Meridith McGraw @carolleonnig Rachel Scott.

NOT invited: The women journalists who work at Washingtonian. But we’re here anyway fighting for fair pay and parental leave!

just remembered ClubChalamet turned down a job offer at the world trade center 2 months before 9/11 because she had a bad feeling and then went on to live a life stanning Timothee. this woman is so fascinating, her biopic will do huge numbers on Lifetime

Morning

President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that would ban TikTok unless it’s sold to an American company.

Vox's Christian Paz explains. open.spotify.com/episode/4i5XC1…