Welcome to The Weekend Notes. If you were busy hunting for the nearly $1 million in trading cards stolen off an unlocked FedEx truck and didn't get to catch all 15 hours of my radio show this week, I have good news. I pulled together the highlights: the best monologues, top tweets, and the stories that sparked the biggest conversations.
🛢️ PROBLEM: Oil hits $116 for the first time since April - FT (paywall)
🏀 ARE YOU KIDDING: Knicks reportedly duped employees with championship ring email that was actually a phishing test - CBS
👽 UFO: Strange, flying “black triangle” cited in new UFO documents - Axios
🚨 IMPEACHMENT RUMORS: Up first, and perhaps before even the end of the year, Thomas Massie intends to offer up articles of impeachment for Pete Hegseth. Some Republicans are willing to go along with it. - Puck
🚨🚨 BREAKING: Two men re-arrested on suspicion of assisting Iran intelligence after RAF Fairford incident - BBC
🇺🇸🇮🇱💣🇮🇷ATTACKS COMING. The United States and Israel have drafted plans for new attacks on Iran as soon as the elections are over. - NY Times
🤐 OUCH: President Trump refuses to endorse JD Vance for 2028 and says “we’ve never talked about it.” - 𝕏X
💰 STUNNING: Elon Musk’s giving tops $445 million in a final midterm push for the GOP. - Bloomberg
🕊️ HEADLINE: First Lady Melania Trump secures a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, localized to Oleshky. - White House
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