100 Best Albums (a list from Apple Music (Wikipedia, 1-100 list that should work with most browsers))

1. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 2. Thriller 3. Abbey Road 4. Purple Rain ... 100. Body Talk

The Apprentice is a 2024 movie about Donald Trump and Roy Cohn, directed by Ali Abbasi and starring Sebastian Stan (CW, discussion of rape).

One of its backers, former Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder, tried to stop its release. Shown at Cannes, it received an eight- (or eleven-) minute ovation. The Trump campaign says it will sue the filmmakers. Abbasi says "Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people, they don't talk about his success rate [with those lawsuits]."

A New Centrism is Rising in Washington (NYT gift)

Target to Cut LGBTQ Pride Month Products From Some Stores After Backlash (Bloomberg, archive.is)

Target Tries to Opt-Out of This Year's Pride Month Right-Wing Rage-fest. Good Luck With That. (commentary from Parker Molloy, The Present Age) More reporting on this subject: Advocate, Pink News, NYT, WaPo