It’s been one heck of a week. I picked a few topics of interest to dive into. But, first, as per usual, lets start off with some music.
⚾ Baseball
The Drought Is Over, Baby — Let’s Go Cubs
The Chicago Cubs finally ended their 10-game losing streak Wednesday night, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-4 behind Ian Happ, who hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the seventh and drove in five runs total — in his hometown, no less. The man waited until he got back to Pittsburgh to remind everyone he still exists. Very on-brand for a Cub.
Here’s the truly chaotic part: Chicago is now just the second team in major league history to have two 10-game winning streaks and a 10-game losing streak in the same season — the other being the 2017 Dodgers. So yes, your Cubs are historic. They’re just also occasionally historically bad. The clubhouse had reportedly been gripped by what one baseball person described as a “cluster of awfulness.” And then, like a switch flipped, Ian Happ went to his hometown and decided enough was enough.
Cubs fans: you may now exhale. But keep one eye open. It’s Chicago. It’s always something.
📺 Media
60 Minutes As We Knew It? Gone.
This was a bad week to be a 60 Minutes legend with a spine. CBS News fired veteran correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, along with executive producer Tanya Simon and senior producer Matthew Polevoy, in what’s being called the most significant editorial restructuring in the program’s nearly 60-year history.
The drama traces back to editor-in-chief Bari Weiss — yes, that Bari Weiss — who came in from The Free Press and has been steadily remaking CBS News in her image. Weiss had pulled one of Alfonsi’s segments about Venezuelans deported to a brutal El Salvador prison, yanking it even after it had already been publicly promoted, citing “a need for more reporting.” It aired weeks later with minimal changes.
“It sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom. I think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting.”— Sharyn Alfonsi
And Anderson Cooper? He signed off earlier this month after 20 years, noting the show’s independence had been compromised.
So: 60 Minutes. Anderson Cooper gone. Alfonsi gone. Vega gone. A Vanity Fair writer installed as the new executive producer with zero broadcast leadership experience. The stopwatch is still ticking — but toward what, exactly?
💰 Politics
Megyn Kelly Discovers Water Is Wet
Oh, this one. This one.
Megyn Kelly — who endorsed and campaigned for Trump in the 2024 election — appeared on a podcast this week and said the quiet part out loud:
“I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread as it has been. The self-dealing, the lining of his and his family’s pockets. It’s shocking. You look across the board at the Trump family, I’ve never seen a family get so rich off the presidency.”— Megyn Kelly, Hodgetwins Podcast
Ma’am. Ma’am.
The internet was swift and merciless — and honestly, earned it. Saying “I didn’t expect it to be quite this widespread” is essentially admitting you knew corruption was on the menu. You just thought it’d be a small plate. She also raised questions about stock trades apparently timed around major presidential announcements involving Iran, adding: “This is not the way it’s supposed to be. Even one of those would have caused a massive scandal 12-13 years ago.”
And here’s the maddening part: former Trump advisors said this, out loud, on the record, during the 2024 campaign. The phrase “first term without guardrails” wasn’t a secret. It was a selling point for some and a dire warning for others. The information was there. The warning signs were there.
The Real Issue: Tribalism
The deeper villain here isn’t any one person — it’s the reflexive tribalism that makes half the country defend anything their team does and condemn the same behavior from the other side. It’s corrosive, it’s tiresome, and the antidote is simple: ask yourself, if this were Biden — or any other president from a different party — what would I be saying right now? If the answer differs from what you’re saying now, that’s your tell. The us-vs-them fast lane leads exactly nowhere fast.
🥊 Sports & Politics
Who Asked for a UFC Fight on the White House Lawn? Nobody. Not Even Joe Rogan.
Crews are erecting an octagon-shaped cage on the White House South Lawn for a UFC event scheduled for June 14 — which also happens to be Trump’s 80th birthday — as part of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations. The arena will hold 5,000 people on the lawn, with an additional 85,000 watching on giant screens at the nearby Ellipse.
Now. Here’s where it gets delicious. The man who arguably did more than anyone to mainstream UFC’s relationship with this whole political moment, the man who will literally be in the commentary booth for this event — Joe Rogan — wants absolutely nothing to do with this idea outdoors.
“The White House thing is odd. I don’t like it. I don’t like the idea of fighting outside at all. In June, in DC — we looked it up, last year the same day was 100 degrees. That’s hot as [expletive]. You add the lights, that attracts bugs. I just don’t think you should compete in a world championship fight in a non-controlled environment. It should be inside an air-conditioned arena.”— Joe Rogan, The Joe Rogan Experience
The bugs. The man is concerned about bugs at a presidential event. And he’s not wrong! The fight card itself has already been panned online as underwhelming, featuring just two championship bouts. So to recap: a lukewarm fight card, in June D.C. heat, outdoors, with bugs, on the White House lawn, doubling as a birthday party.
Peak 2026 energy.
📺 Entertainment
Euphoria Season 3: Gloriously, Chaotically Unhinged
Euphoria came back after a four-year hiatus, and it came back swinging — at critics, at good taste, at your expectations, and occasionally at snakes.
Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie has been at the center of the chaos, including a scene where she wrangled a python while nearly nude while filming content for an OnlyFans account she’s running to fund her dream wedding. The internet had questions. Many, many questions.
Despite critics giving the season a bruising 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, it remains HBO’s most popular show on streaming — which tells you everything you need to know about the gap between what critics think and what people actually watch at 10pm on a Sunday.
The really fun wrinkle? A massive wave of new viewers showed up specifically because of Sydney Sweeney’s mainstream star power — many watching the show for the first time and discovering four seasons worth of trauma, glitter, and questionable life decisions all at once.
Welcome, new fans. You picked a wild entry point. Creator Sam Levinson described Sweeney as able to “anchor scenes with madness and chaos going on around her” — whether that’s a compliment to the show or just an accurate description of what it feels like to watch it is, perhaps, both.
That’s the week. Stay hydrated, watch the Cubs nervously, and maybe ask yourself once — just once — whether the thing you’d call a scandal under the other party is a scandal now, too. See you next week. 🤙 I’ll try to blog more often. For those asking about the podcast, if you know, you know. It’s very beta and finding its feet. Eight episodes in. I’ll share it more publicly as it finds more polish.