Early Addition: Minor League Baseball Team Apologizes After Comparing AOC To Murderous Dictator

May 28, 2019, 12:17 p.m.

Because UFOs are real I guess?, check out today's midday links: Lakers 2.0 implosion, Incels embrace plastic surgery, spotting deepfakes, GOT doc, left-coiled snails, minor league baseball team insults AOC, and dogs chase child.

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  • Did the Times really confirm that we've been visited by UFOs, or was that something I dreamed after polishing off a tray of hot dogs over the weekend?
  • ESPN goes inside the absolute disaster that was the Lakers 2.0, led by Rob Pelinka and Magic Johnson.
  • The Supreme Court upheld an Indiana state law that required fetal remains to be buried or cremated—but it sidestepped a larger abortion question, turning down an effort to reinstate the law’s strict abortion limits.
  • A minor-league baseball team in California, the Fresno Grizzliez, apologized after it showed an image of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez alongside a photo of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the voice of President Ronald Reagan warned of "enemies of freedom" in a video that was shown during Memorial Day at their ballpark.
  • Incels are going under the knife to get plastic surgery to reshape their faces and improve their dating lives.
  • A man was stabbed at the Bryant Park subway platform, reportedly during a fight over money.
  • Trump has made rolling back environmental regulations a cornerstone of his anti-science administration, and there's more to come: "In the next few months, the White House will complete the rollback of the most significant federal effort to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, initiated during the Obama administration."
  • Here are some tips on how to spot deepfakes.
  • In case you missed the Game Of Thrones documentary this weekend, here are some takeaways about the final season.
  • Trump thinks that African-Americans won’t vote for Joe Biden in 2020 because the former vice president backed the controversial 1994 Crime Bill...conveniently avoiding/forgetting the fact that Trump demanded the death penalty for the wrongly accused Central Park Five.
  • The Times has an adorable story about left-coiled snails just trying to have it all.
  • And finally, did you take part in the ceremonially hunt this weekend?