June 2024
Hello all: Welcome officially to summer! We have a busy few months ahead, so let’s get to the roundup. Here are my latest posts: Experimenting with AI Content Creation, 10 Best Luggage Brands of 2024, Pop Girl Summer, Mocktail Summer, and most importantly, American Women SOS. Please, please, please fight for women’s reproductive rights that keep getting stripped away, full red alert, and follow writers Jessica Valenti & Jill Filipovic for in-depth coverage and updates.
Have a safe upcoming Independence Day + Canada Day, and keep fighting the good fight to make things better for everyone, because we have work to do.
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Business & Tech
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity winners
A warning about AI from current and former employees
SpaceX unveils backpack-sized ‘Starlink Mini’ satellite
Chiquita found liable for financing paramilitary group (Dole is not much better)
Boeing CEO blasted by Senate panel amid new whistleblower claims
Surgeon General wants warning that social media use can harm teenagers' mental health + Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in schools
Travel & World News
Conde Nast Traveler + Afar Media on Solo Travel (my favorite)
Is High-Speed Rail Finally Happening in the U.S.
Americans in Europe: WSJ Europe Has a New Economic Engine, American Tourists and NYT The Taylor Swift Economy Has Landed in Europe
Paris prepares for the Summer Olympics (qualifiers happening now)
D-Day 80th anniversary ceremony highlights in Normandy
Alarming EU Parliament Election Results, France calls snap election
Thailand passes same-sex marriage bill
Putin and Kim Bring Back Cold War-Era Military Alliance to Tense Region
Culture Club
Pop Girl Summer - which I wrote about and so did The Atlantic - has women dominating the charts and concert circuit: Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, Raye, Nomani, and more
Reads for Pride Month! Exploring the “queerest century.”, Drag Takes Off in the Philippines, Colonel comes out as gay in his obituary, How LGBTQ+ rights changed around the world this past year
Juneteenth: Before Juneteenth + History + Kendrick Lamar Concert in L.A.
Sports Bonanza: NBA Championship Winners, WNBA Drama, NHL Stanley Cup Finals, Wimbledon begins July 1, UEFA Championship, Cricket Surprise USA win
Tony Award Winners + Dolly Parton bringing a musical about her life to Broadway
Jon Oliver on election/Project 2025 + Jon Stewart on the stakes of this election
Is Phoenix a vision of America’s future?
Summer of the “rat boyfriend,” and stay at home girlfriends apparently
How Food Critic Keith Lee Went From MMA Fighter to TikTok Star
Fabulous actor Ncuti Gatwa on being the 15th ‘Doctor Who’
Amy Poehler is a charming guest on Keke Palmer’s pod
Kevin Costner new film press tour: out at Yellowstone, in GQ, on Armchair Expert pod, and Bodyguard 2 / Princess Diana
Justin Timberlake arrested for DWI and the hilarious memes (karma)
Vogue legend Grace Coddington on reinventing yourself
Andrew McCarthy’s doc about the 80s Brat Pack releases
Crazy Alex Jones to liquidate assets to pay the $1.5 billion he owes Sandy Hook families + those children who survived that massacre just graduated high school
Louisiana keeps making bad decision, after bad decision, + unexpected decision
Supreme Court Drama pod discussion with lawyers + bribes + insurrection flags
RIP actor Donald Sutherland and baseball legend Willie Mays
Take care out there x Carrieamitchell.com