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"I write because I am not happy. I write because it is a way of struggling against unhappiness," Vargas Llosa once remarked. www.ft.com/content/7cc0...

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This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

Me on the arrogance, thin-skinnedness and zeal of JD Vance on.ft.com/4i0H3rR

With US iPhones about to get way more expensive, seems a good time to re-up this FT Big Read on how Apple went all-in in China. First 300 clicks free

Shot: danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-exorbi... Chaser: 👇👇👇

on.ft.com/3DWYPhM US pushes for new and expansive deal to control Ukraine’s minerals and energy

Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, has passed away at age 105. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Le Colisée et l’arc de Titus vus du Palatin à Rome (photo de mars 2020)

Elon Musk, DOGE, and a few stories of actual public service. Me @financialtimes.com, free to read: on.ft.com/4kPsdqN

Le sénateur Claude Malhuret sonne la charge contre Trump, le « traître »

The so-called Klahammar Warrior. A silver pendant found 2015 in a rich but rather damaged cremation burial on Selaön in Lake Mälaren, 22 Km west of Birka. 📸: Ola Myrin/SHM (CC BY 4.0) Excavation report (in Swedish) here: pub.raa.se/dokumentatio... #FindsFriday 🏺