Your Mid-Week Experiment
Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.
Let’s get right to it:
So a bi-partisan bunch of experts, including ex-military leaders and a former cabinet secretary, war-gamed how a second Trump presidency might begin and hoo-doggy. (The Guardian)
Oh my lord, this is so smart. (Axios)
So is the the shift from calling Trump/Vance a threat to democracy (which it is) to “weird,” which it also is. (Politico)
More smart stuff about deploying weird as a weapon: “In the parlance of Michelle Obama: They go low, we go ‘ew.’” (Monica Hesse)
I didn’t know I needed this piece on Flavor Flavor and a water polo champion, but here we are. (Dan Zak)
This is pretty awful, but heroic. After getting hit in the face with a fastball, James McCann stayed in the game because otherwise Adley Rutschman would have had to catch 17 innings of a double header on a hot, muggy day in Baltimore. So he changed his blood-soaked jersey and played the rest of the game with a broken nose and an eye swelling shut. He even got a hit after getting hit. Legendary. You can even buy the T-shirt here.
This is pretty great.
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