for Columbia Daily Spectator I spoke with tenants and reviewed public records to reveal how a block just steps from Columbia’s campus became unrecognizable after one of the city’s largest landlords took over. “This is just a hollow building, it used to be home,” one resident said.

So proud of the Columbia Daily Spectator staff for winning Best All-Around Student Newspaper in the nation in the Society of Professional Journalists annual Mark of Excellence Awards. Can’t express enough how deserving this group is of such an honor. spj.org/spj-announces-…

Elon Musk used to be a political force on X. Now he’s back to business. The shift mirrors Musk’s effort to revive his companies, which suffered reputational damage and, in Tesla’s case, steep declines in stock price. wapo.st/3FnIq6P

IT'S A 4-GOAL THIRD PERIOD!

NEW: Within Pete Hegseth’s divided inner circle, a ‘cold war’ endures A deep dive on who the defense secretary has left in his inner circle, where personality conflicts, raised voices, and paranoia are all common. MORE ⬇️

Our brave colleague Hajar Harb passed away on Monday after a difficult battle with cancer. Support for her family can be offered here: justgiving.com/page/hajarharb

Vance to headline Vegas fundraiser for Trump PAC costing $1 million per head, from Natalie Allison washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

One of Trump’s IG picks is a former GOP Rep. accused of putting his mistress + fiancée’s daughter on the payroll. Another is a GOP lawyer once accused of mishandling taxpayers’ $. A 3rd advised the secretary she’d be a watchdog of. Past IGs have concerns. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

At a time when my news org & many others are targeting copy editors, a salute to those awesome colleagues who catch our mistakes and oftentimes write insanely great headlines like this one: A Streetcar named retire …

“I’ve been on the phone with Trump before, and he’s just said, ‘I’ve got to go. I have someone from another country calling.' He doesn’t even know which country. He just sees the number and thinks, 'This might be a foreign leader I want to talk to.'” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

NEW: Black Democrats fume over 2024 while ‘searching for a leader’ in 2028. By Sabrina Rodríguez in South Carolina: washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

🚨Trump has posted ~ 2,262 times to Truth Social since his inauguration, more than 3X the number of tweets he sent during the same period of his first term. A look inside the president’s social media habits, with Drew Harwell ⁦Ence Morse⁩ washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

I don’t know if Americans realize how often ICE arrests US citizens, and how long those citizens can spend detained. I spoke to Davino Watson, who spent 3.5 years in a detention center. He was a citizen every minute of that time. 1/3

Re-upping this Washington Post exclusive from October washingtonpost.com/business/2024/…

Democratic Party chair lashes officer in leaked call, prompting more infighting by ⁦Dylan Wells⁩ washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

NEWS: Elon Musk and Donald Trump very privately spoke on Monday night. Musk called Trump, and that led to Musk's post overnight that he had "regrets." Scoop with Jonathan Swan. nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/…

I’M WRITING A BOOK!! GOOD BOUNDARES: Essays on The Age of Risk-Aversion is coming in 2027 with Random House Group Essays on therapy culture, Luigi Mangione, tradwives, AI girlfriends, and how risk-aversion drives Gen Z’s loneliness and alienation, headed your way soon!

SCOOP: The House tax bill includes a carve out sought behind the scenes by a $75 billion private credit giant The firm is owned by billionaire brothers Lawrence & David Golub, who have given $2 million in campaign contributions since 2020 The provision, an exemption to a global

🚨NEW POLL : A plurality of Americans oppose the GOP's tax-and-spending bill, with mixed opinions on specific provisions and concerns about its impact on the national debt and Medicaid, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll this month. More via me, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin:

Metro is eliminating 527 bus stops! washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…