The Brutalist Report

Fortune

• Trump speeds review of psychedelics after Joe Rogan texted him about ibogaine. ‘Sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let’s do it’ [13d]
• The jet-fuel surge is making global flight connections disappear [13d]
• Putin finally admits Russia’s economy is in trouble and grasps for answers, after warnings about a financial crisis have been piling up [13d]
• A bizarre insurance scam was exposed as ‘clearly a human in a bear suit’ damaging luxury cars [13d]
• The record-setting U.S. drought is so bad that 97% of the Southeast and two-thirds of the West are parched [13d]
• U.S. extends waiver on Russian oil sanctions to ease Iran war shortages, just days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ruled it out [13d]
• The U.S. is ready to seize Iran-linked ships with boarding parties, report says, while Marines practice maritime raids [13d]
• Iran’s Hormuz whiplash highlights divide within regime as U.S. blockade tightens. ‘The fight between different factions has started’ [13d]
• MacKenzie Scott has donated more than $26 billion—but it’s barely made a dent in her net worth because of the power of Amazon shares [13d]
• Zillow’s CEO says his friends were shocked when he quit a cushy Microsoft job—but Steve Jobs led to his success at the $10.5 billion real estate firm [13d]
• The $6 billion Vatican Bank was beset by scandals, disastrous investments—and ties to the Mafia. How Pope Francis tried to fix it [13d]
• AI’s next act: how Salesforce is turning efficiency gains into revenue [14d]
• This founder was an AI layoff 9 months ago. Then he built an instantly profitable company with 2 partners and 12 agents [14d]
• Dana Perino was terrified to leave the White House — until George W. Bush changed how she thinks about her career [14d]
• NJ Transit scrambles to defend $150 tickets for 9-mile World Cup ride: ‘This isn’t price gouging’ [14d]
• Trump lawyers confirm talks with Scott Bessent’s IRS to resolve $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax returns [14d]
• Air Canada suspends all summer flights to New York’s JFK airport on Iran-surging fuel price [14d]
• Former Alabama football player wore wigs and makeup to impersonate NFL players in $20 million fraud, prosecutors say [14d]
• George Foreman buried in Sioux City; family says he always remembered his only visit there nearly 40 years ago [14d]
• Mississippi alcohol community roiled by liquor, wine delay from state warehouse failure [14d]
• Trump backs down after New York sues him over Second Avenue Subway funding freeze [14d]
• America’s busiest airport told to cut 300 flights per day from summer schedule [14d]
• Trump on idea of Iran tolling the Strait of Hormuz: ‘Nope. No way. No. Nope.’ [14d]
• Iran closes Strait again, says it will be shut until Trump lifts blockade [14d]
• Trump has already endorsed the Monroe Doctrine. Now he needs to endorse the Truman Doctrine [14d]
• From drought to demand: Biotech IPOs roar back with Kailera and Alamar [14d]
• Tariffs alone won’t save American manufacturing — here’s what actually will [14d]
• Trump’s big housing market solution is dead on arrival, UBS says—its model is Texas from 25 years ago [14d]
• ‘We should absolutely be concerned about non-college-educated men today’: higher rents, living at home, falling out of the labor market [14d]
• The ultra-wealthy have a new favorite status symbol: From a $14.5 million guitar to an $812,500 bottle of wine, rare collectibles are on a tear [14d]
• United CEO Scott Kirby and American CEO Robert Isom were once colleagues known as the ‘dream team.’ Now Kirby wants to acquire his rival [14d]