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  • Staffers from Andrew Yang's failed presidential campaign are blaming New York City-based consultants for Yang's failed mayoral bid, arguing that Tusk Strategies, the group advising the mayoral campaign, was too preoccupied with "virtue signaling," didn't "let Yang be Yang," and failed to take advantage of Dave Chappelle's support.
  • Britney Spears gave an absolutely harrowing testimony in court yesterday about the conservatorship that allows her dad to essentially control every aspect of her life, noting that she's been forced to take lithium, made to perform against her will, prohibited from having more children, and barred from speaking to the press.
  • BuzzFeed is planning to go public in conjunction with a SPAC (look it up).
  • The hottest field for anyone looking for an office job: HR.
  • There's a section of rural Australia where a plague of mice is so bad that drivers can't even see the roads because they're covered with mice, people in their homes hear the snapping of traps all night long, and inmates have had to be evacuated from prisons. But locals are wary of using the necessary poison to kill the mice because it would also destroy the farmland.
  • Taking pictures of abandoned houses for Instagram is a thing.
  • A second posthumous album from the Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke is set to come out on July 16th.
  • Mountain Goats frontman and avid runner John Darnielle gave GQ a very detailed take on how to build a good playlist for two-hour jogs.
  • And finally, hydration is key: