¶In the days and weeks immediately afterward, an overwhelming majority of Americans understood that the former president had incited it, for the purpose of staying in the White House. Two years of Trump lies and lukewarm media pushback later, that percentage is far lower, and an increasing number of Republicans now believe Trump was not responsible for his own coup attempt.

¶How much deeper into the looking glass are we going to fall if journalists fail to provide the most basic of context to our audience?

¶In an age when most journalism is produced and consumed online, with no physical “column inch” limit like with print, there is simply zero excuse not to include just a sentence or two of context about Trump’s Jan. 6 conduct in every news account about him. The relative clause “who attempted a coup to remain in power” adds precisely eight words to a story.

¶Journalism is broken in many ways, the “horse race” nature of political journalism being just one of them.

¶The guard, who played high school basketball at Sierra Canyon in Los Angeles, chose USC over Oregon and Ohio State.

¶My Buckeyes lost out. Or avoided the circus. Or both.

¶Each CubeSat will orbit at about 340 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth’s surface and capture hourly observations of the precipitation, temperature and humidity of tropical storms. Current satellites take similar data, but only about every six hours, which makes it more difficult to measure the intensity of storms.

¶More frequent data can help scientists understand the rapid changes that can occur within a storm, impacting its structure and stability, and help meteorologists improve their prediction and forecasting models.

¶Looks like hurricane data will grow six-fold this season. Hopefully that finds its way into weather apps for phones and tablets, which, I think, is where most people track storms (true for me).

¶No one expects further progress to come easily; but that has never deterred Milman and Neeman. “From my experience,” Milman said, “all of the major things that I was fortunate enough to be able to do required just not giving up.”

¶The problem here is fascinating, and I can grasp that. I can’t grasp the math of the solution, but I know somebody who can and I look forward to talking to him about it.

¶I love the closing paragraph quoted above. True in math, true in everything. Don’t give up. Ever.

¶Reid later asked Self about criticism that “prayers aren’t cutting it” when it comes to addressing gun violence before the Texas Republican took aim at the analysis.

¶“Well, those are people that don’t believe in an almighty God who has… who is absolutely in control of our lives,” said Self, who later emphasized a need for more ways to address mental health and remarked that he’d “like to stay away from the politics today” to focus on the shooting victims.

¶If some god is “absolutely in control of our lives,” aren’t we powerless to change anything? How would addressing his bogey man of a lack of mental health resources help end gun violence?

¶You’re an idiot, sir. You represent people who believe in a god, and those who don’t. You’ve got a problem on you hands, as we all do, and you’re tasked with fixing it. By all means continue praying if that’s your thing. But you also need to get to work on developing real world solutions that address the problem. That’s literally your job.

¶When the chair was originally commissioned by King Edward I in the early 1300s, its primary purpose was to house the monarch’s newly acquired Stone of Scone (pronounced “skoon”). The 300-pound rock had previously been in Scotland’s possession, whose monarchy had used it as a throne for hundreds of years — though some legends date it as far back as Biblical times.

¶Of course there’s a centuries-old special chair. And a stone. And of course they pronounce “Stone of Scone” as “Stone of Skoon.”

¶“For the majority of residents who own single family homes, it’s going to be all electric, all day long,” said Daniel Mabe, founder and president of the American Green Zone Alliance.

¶Electric vehicles are the obvious elephant in the room when it comes to gas-powered engines. But, once you think of all the lawnmowers, blowers, trimmers, edgers, snowblowers, and other small equipment out there, it’s easy to see that, collectively, they could be a bigger deal.

¶And the shift to electric for the lawn is well underway—a visit to an big box store this spring revealed that. All are stacked to the ceiling with electric mowers and trimmers.

¶We bought our first electric mower this year. I mostly love it. The battery claims are bullshit, of course. It doesn’t even come close to the range listed on the box. My thick lawn and the wet conditions we’ve had so far are probably not the conditions they used to test the battery to support those claims, but I don’t think my lawn is much different than most. But, it’s no big deal. I just break the job up a bit, and will likely buy a second battery someday.

¶Basically what we’re trying to do is amplify what’s considered good behavior and then de-amplify what’s considered bad behavior.

¶Sounds good. But, um, ‘considered’ by whom?

¶[C]hecking their account, they’re not only tweeting like nothing’s happened, they’ve just started to upload Bee Movie onto their account. And honestly, that may just be the most Twitter thing to happen out of this whole ordeal.

¶Twitter took down the boosts with the Mario Bros movie, but apparently didn’t lock or limit the poster’s account, allowing them to post another movie. I checked the account right after reading this article and, sure enough, the two most recent tweets included The Bee Movie, split into two parts.

¶Apparently lack of consequences for copyright infringement is another perk of a Twitter Blue subscription.

¶[Jerry] Jones has been part of more than 30 drafts as the team’s owner and general manager. He has presided over No. 1 overall picks and a number of high-level trades. “I’ve never had an experience like that in the draft room. Ever,” Jones said.

¶This is a pretty cool story. Randy Scott on ESPN SportsCenter summed up my thoughts on it pretty well: “Don’t you make me like the Cowboys…don’t you dare humanize that star.”

¶CEO Mary Barra also announced that GM will stop building the electric Chevrolet Bolt hatchback and small SUV by the end of this year. The Bolt is now GM’s top selling EV, but the plant north of Detroit that builds it is being converted to make electric trucks.

¶Transitioning to electric vehicles is weird. GM is killing the Bolt, its current best-selling EV. Why? Trucks, of course. It makes sense…it’s just weird.

¶Amid widespread concern about the decline of wild pollinating insects like bees and butterflies, University of Sussex researchers have discovered that moths are particularly vital pollinators for nature.

¶Save the bees. And the moths.

¶People who live near the Bad Axe, Mich., area may hear and see fighter jets between 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.. The jets may be in close proximity to a Civil Air Patrol aircraft, which will be taking on the role of a potential threat in the exercise.

¶Jake thought about joining the Civil Air Patrol. They gave a great presentation at BGSU a few months back - “we do all sorts of cool things, like help with logistics after hurricanes, floods, etc....you get flight hours on the government’s dime.”

¶They didn’t mention “taking on the role of a potential threat” in F-16 training exercises.

¶Thaler told the Supreme Court that AI is being used to innovate in fields ranging from medicine to energy, and that rejecting AI-generated patents “curtails our patent system’s ability - and thwarts Congress’s intent - to optimally stimulate innovation and technological progress.”

¶Congress can change this at any time. I bet we’ll have Congressional hearings on AI inventorship over the next few years, which will be fascinating. For me, at least.