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Here’s what’s making headlines today: a deadly shooting hits a Seattle food festival, Trump teases a 2028 run, and more.
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Nostalgia Nerd
On this day in 1943, a Swedish teenager founded what now-global furniture company? (answer revealed below!)
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Before We Dip In (TL;DR)
In today’s issue:
Festival shooting kills three in Seattle. ⚖️
Trump teases a 2028 presidential run. 🏛️
Pentagon revises Iran casualty reporting. 🌍
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LAW & ORDER
⚖️ Shooting at Seattle Food Festival Leaves Three Dead
A shooting at the Bite of Seattle food festival Sunday evening left three people dead and four injured, including a 2-year-old boy. Police say several people opened fire at each other as the event wound down, catching bystanders in the crossfire.
A 15-year-old was arrested at the scene and faces three assault charges; a 19-year-old among the dead is believed to have been a second shooter, and at least one more is at large. A local creator had posted a video the day before the shooting criticizing lax bag checks.
The response: Officials said dozens of officers were working the festival and saw no ongoing threat. The four injured have been released or are in stable condition. The shooting has renewed calls for metal detectors and clear-bag rules at large events.
POLITICS
🏛️ Trump Teases 2028 Run in Posts and Dinner Speech
President Trump spent the past day promoting a 2028 campaign in over half a dozen AI-generated Truth Social posts. At Friday’s Correspondents’ Dinner, he donned a “Trump 2028” hat and said he intends to seek a fourth presidential term.
The 22nd Amendment bars anyone from being elected president more than twice, and legal scholars say proposed workarounds would still be illegal. Most coverage framed it as a joke, but allies like Steve Bannon say he means it.
Why it matters: Trump has floated a third term before and currently sells “Trump 2028” merch. Analysts say the talk freezes the 2028 GOP field, since no rival wants to challenge him while he hints at running. Critics call it a normalization play.
Dipper Poll
:📈 Today’s Poll: Trump Talk
Trump has spent the weekend teasing a 2028 run, from AI-generated posts to a hat-wearing bit at the Correspondents’ Dinner. Supporters and critics disagree on whether any of it is serious.
When Trump teases a 2028 run, how should Americans read it?
WORLD NEWS
🌍 Iran War Casualties Reclassified as Death Toll Drops on Paper
The Pentagon changed how it reports casualties from its war with Iran. Four service members killed this month were moved off the war’s official page onto a separate overseas-operations list.
That lowered the headline death toll from 18 back to 14. Officials said the four died after April's ceasefire, which later collapsed, and blamed the shifting numbers on temporary data anomalies. Counting both pages, the totals reach 18 killed and at least 624 injured. Critics say the split hides the war’s true cost.
The backdrop: Trump told lawmakers the July fighting is a new conflict, not a continuation, easing War Powers Act deadlines. Strikes are paused amid low-munitions reports, though Iran continues to launch drones. Ukraine also hit an Iran-linked ship in the Caspian Sea.
Fun Facts
🐨 Animals: Koalas have fingerprints so similar to ours that even a microscope struggles to tell them apart. Nature’s plot twist.
💬 Language: The first known use of “OMG” appears in a 1917 letter to Winston Churchill from a retired admiral. The original texter just used pen and paper.
🦞 Food: In colonial America, lobster was so abundant it was routinely fed to prisoners and servants. Talk about a rebrand.
🤯 WTF: Ed Headrick, the man who patented the modern Frisbee, had his ashes molded into a limited run of memorial discs after he died. Forever in flight.
TODAY’S QUIZ ANSWER:
IKEA
A 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943, at first selling small goods like pens, wallets, and picture frames by mail order. Furniture came a few years later, and the now-iconic flat-pack, self-assembly model followed in the 1950s. The name blends Kamprad’s initials with his family farm and home village. Today IKEA is one of the world’s largest furniture retailers.
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