Sunday Good Reads for June 28th, 2026

How is this year only half over?

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Princesses: The problem with strong female characters ….

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk | The New Republic: If we want our society to work again, rich people need to start going to jail for their crimes.

There Are More than Five POVs - by Lincoln Michel: Interesting craft note.

Read this before you vibe-code another app | The Verge: Imitative AI is walking us into a security apocalypse.

Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week - The New York Times: Hint — it is not productivity.

How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism - Boston Review: thoughtful piece on the value of policy, attitude, and labels on voters.

My Daughter's Friends - by Noah Berlatsky: Lovely piece on parenting and growing up. Also, Noah is having a sale, so go subscribe.

Cargo Culture: A good explanation for why imitative AI has swarmed the tech financing world.

New Orleans man becomes first in Louisiana functionally cured of sickle cell disease: Science is amazing.

Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE - syracuse.com: We do not live in a free society of agents of the state are allowed to intimidate people over talking about publically available information.

Special report: Searching for Mexico’s disappeared in the shadow of the World Cup - The Athletic: Heartbreaking but important story.

Sanders releases emails showing RFK Jr.'s vaccine influence: RFK jr doesn’t care of your kids live or die.

‘Centrists,’ This Is on You - TPM – Talking Points Memo: As long as centrist is synonymous with cowardice, people are going to turn elsewhere.

Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft - New Jersey Globe: The details of this make it pretty clear OpenAI knew what it was doing was wrong. Now the only question is if it is too rich to be punished.

Have the best possible week, everyone.