Good morning. We cannot stop thinking about this tweet:

Seriously, who’s doing the PR for marine biologists? Like, it’s so specific. It’d be like a seven year old saying they wanted to be a foot doctor.

If you or your family have any information as to how the Marine Biologist Industrial Complex began, please do reach out.

And now, as always, whether it’s a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, THE NEWS.

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“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”

–Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

On Friday, the DOJ unsealed an indictment against former President Donald Trump that accuses him of illegally storing and hiding classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago residence after leaving office. It marks the first time in US history that a former president has been charged with a federal crime.

The 44-page indictment, which follows a six-month investigation by DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith, relates to more than 100 classified documents recovered by the FBI as part of its search of Mar-a-Lago last August.

⚖️ So, what are the charges?... Federal prosecutors are accusing Trump of initially refusing to turn over the documents after a request from the National Archives in 2021, then later directing his personal aide to move boxes of classified documents to conceal them from federal investigators.

The indictment contains 37 individual counts across seven different federal charges, including 31 counts of willful retention of national-defense information (a violation of the Espionage Act). The other six charges, featuring one count apiece, are:

1. Conspiracy to obstruct justice
2. Withholding a document or record
3. Corruptly concealing a document or record
4. Concealing a document in a federal investigation
5. Scheme to conceal
6. False statements and representations

According to federal prosecutors, each of the 31 counts of willful retention refer to a specific document found at Mar-a-Lago marked “Secret” or “Top-Secret.” These allegedly included information on domestic nuclear programs, as well as the military capabilities of the US and foreign countries. The indictment also accuses Trump of sharing classified information with unauthorized people in at least two instances at his golf club in Bedminster, NJ.

👀 Looking ahead… Trump, who has denied all charges, is scheduled to report to a federal court in Miami tomorrow, kicking off a legal battle experts say will likely extend beyond the 2024 presidential election.

The most serious of the charges carry a sentence of up to 20 years in prison and/or a hefty fine, though defendants rarely receive the maximum penalty. Neither these charges, nor a potential future conviction, disqualify Trump from running for a second term.

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🇨🇴 Four Indigenous children who survived for 40 days in the Colombian Amazon jungle have been rescued. When a small passenger plane crashed on May 1 and killed all three adults onboard, the four children – aged 13, 9, 4, and 11 months – were left on their own deep within the Amazon jungle. According to the kids, who are slowly beginning to talk while recovering in a hospital, they survived for the next month-plus by eating from survival kits airdropped into the jungle and utilizing wilderness skills passed down by their grandmother. The children were eventually rescued by Operation Hope, a massive search mission launched by the Colombian government after it discovered footprints, chewed fruits, and used diapers near the crash site.

🇮🇷🇷🇺 Iran is helping Russia build a drone manufacturing facility for its war in Ukraine, per US intelligence. On Friday, a White House official unveiled newly-declassified intelligence showing the Iranian government has secretly been sending supplies to Moscow to help build a new plant capable of manufacturing at least 6,000 Iranian-designed drones per year. Tehran has already provided Russia with hundreds of drones used to hit military and civilian targets in Ukraine. Separately, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow will deploy some of its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus in early July as part of a previously-announced plan.

🇬🇧 Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned from Parliament on Friday. Johnson, who served as the UK’s top lawmaker from 2019 to 2022, said he resigned after learning he would be sanctioned for misleading lawmakers about a series of rule-breaking parties the ex-PM held during the height of Covid lockdowns. He called the sanctions a “witch hunt” and claimed he was being "forced out of Parliament."

+Update: The AP reported on Saturday that an anonymous Biden administration official confirmed China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019; it came two days after the WSJ reported that Cuba agreed to host a new Chinese spy base in exchange for “several billion dollars.”

The moochers did, in fact, have the moolah to pay for their own Netflix accounts.

Netflix recently began enforcing its one account per household password policy, anticipating a “cancel reaction” following the crackdown. But, based on numbers released last Friday by data analytics firm Antenna, it looks like the new policy had the opposite effect (aka the “fine-just-take-my-money reaction”).

🧮 By the numbers… Netflix began rolling out its new policy in the US on May 23. The very next day, daily sign-ups skyrocketed, starting what went on to become the company’s biggest four-day stretch of sign-ups (May 24-27) since Antenna started measuring this data four years ago.

• May 26 and 27 each saw ~100k new sign-ups per day. The only other time the streamer recorded daily sign-up numbers nearing 100k was in April and May of 2020, during the beginning of COVID lockdowns.

Cancellations were also up, but not as much as sign-ups. Antenna’s data showed that the ratio of sign-ups to cancellations increased by over 25% when compared to the previous 60-day period. Meaning, there were 25% more sign-ups per cancellation than before the password clampdown began.

📸 Big picture: According to Doug Anmuth, an analyst from JPMorgan, about 14 million password borrowers could become paid Netflix subscribers by the end of 2023, 26 million by the end of 2024, and 33 million by the end of 2025. The streamer currently has ~232.5 million subscribers.

💬 Quoted… “That's the Miami Heat toughness that we're talking about."

During halftime of Saturday’s Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Miami’s mascot, Burnie, participated in what was supposed to be a fake boxing match with UFC champion Conor McGregor. Except… McGregor didn't exactly fake punch Burnie, sending him to the very real emergency room for treatment (he's fine now).

• Miami Heat’s head coach, Eric Spoelstra, jokingly praised Burnie, adding that the mascot shouldn’t miss any time due to the injury.
• The Nuggets ended up winning Game 4 (many say largely due to what happened to Burnie). And up 3-1, they’ll aim to close out the series at home tonight.

💒❌ Stat of the Day: Much like the perms, power suits, and parachute pants of the 1980s, marriage has gone out of style for the younger generation. Only 22% of 25-year-old Americans were married in 2021, compared to about 63% in 1980, per a new Pew Research report.

🤯 Did You Know?... E.T. star Drew Barrymore, who was six years old when the movie was made, believed the titular alien was real. Not wanting to ruin the magic for her, director Steven Spielberg appointed two people to keep E.T. alive whenever Barrymore was around. The two of them – Barrymore and E.T. – would eat lunch together every day.

📖 Worth a Read: The illusion of moral decline → (Experimental History)

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• ☝️ A section of the Interstate 95 freeway in Philadelphia collapsed yesterday morning after a gasoline tanker truck caught fire; local authorities said they’re still working to determine if any individuals were caught in the collapse; it’s expected to take several months to rebuild the freeway, which saw a high volume of daily traffic.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 💰 US markets closed up across the board on Friday (S&P: +0.1%; Dow: +0.1%; Nasdaq: +0.2%).
• 🏘️ Less than one-quarter of all US homes are considered affordable for middle-income households (annual earnings of $75,000), per a new report from the National Association of Realtors.
• 🤖📱 Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new plan to Meta employees that will see the company incorporate AI text, image, and video generators into its flagship products like Facebook and Instagram.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• ⚽ Manchester City won the UEFA Champions League for the first time in team history after beating Inter Milan 1-0 on Saturday; Man City is the second English team to ever win the Premier League, FA Cup, and Champions League in the same season. | 🎟️📈 MLS club Inter Miami has seen a 28x increase in ticket sales on secondary marketplaces since the Lionel Messi news broke.
• 🏇 Arcangelo won the 2023 Belmont Stakes on Saturday; Jena Antonucci becomes the first female trainer to win the race in its 155 years.

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• 🧬 High doses of the amino acid taurine, a common ingredient in energy drinks, has been shown to delay aging in worms, mice, and monkeys, per a peer-reviewed study published Friday in Science.
• 🥗🤖 University of Cambridge researchers invented a robotic chef with a bionic arm that learned to recreate eight simple salad recipes just by watching cooking videos.
• 🌋 A “supervolcano” in Italy that’s been dormant since 1538 is getting closer to a potential eruption, per a new peer-reviewed study published in Communications Earth & Environment; the volcano’s last eruption spread a plume of sulfur and toxic ash that plunged Earth into global winter for years.

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MISCELLANEOUS

• 🌁🔥 Poor air quality alerts were issued in several locations across the Northeast US yesterday, though index readings were far lower than most of last week; hundreds of wildfires continued to burn across Canada over the weekend, though firefighters have managed to reduce the number of out-of-control blazes. (Background)
• 🗽 New York City announced a first-of-its-kind law establishing minimum pay requirements for app-based restaurant delivery workers; the minimum wage starts at $17.96 on July 12, and eventually increases to $19.96 by April 2025.
• 📰 Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician and convicted terrorist known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his prison cell early Saturday in a suspected suicide; he was 81.

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On Friday, we covered the recent decline in Americans who consistently leave a tip across different services, which has coincided with an increase in opportunities to do so.

❓ Our question to you: In general, how do you feel about the practice of tipping?

• 👍 Positive: 26%
• 👎 Negative: 47%
• ↔️ Neutral: 27%

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Monday: NBA Finals Game 5

Tuesday: Former President Trump to appear in federal court; Stanley Cup Finals Game 5

Wednesday: The Federal Reserve decides whether to hike baseline US interest rates; Bonnaroo starts

Thursday: Weekly unemployment claims; Magna Carta day; the US Open tees off⛳️

Friday: DC’s The Flash hits theaters nationwide; Wes Anderson's Asteroid City hits select theaters; Men’s College World Series kicks off in Omaha

+Over the weekend: Father’s Day is on Sunday

It was the wedding day of all wedding days in India recently when more than 2,000 couples said "I do," starting their lives together and breaking a world record at the same time.

💞 Cheers to the couples... The mass wedding was organized by a registered trust called Shri Mahaveer Goshala Kalyan Sansthan, as part of a mission to help underprivileged couples get married.

• Each couple received a blessing from city officials, along with gifts including jewelry and basic houseware.

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2. Digit
3. Necr
4. Opt
5. Plut

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1. Anim = Breath (e.g., animal, animation)
2. Digit = Finger (digital)
3. Necr = Dead (necromancer)
4. Opt = Choose (option, adopt)
5. Plut = Wealth (plutocracy)