World’s Smallest Deer, a Pudu Fawn, Born at San Diego Zoo

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World’s Smallest Deer, a Pudu Fawn, Born at San Diego Zoo (Maria)

The author writes, “A Pudu fawn, the world’s smallest species of deer, was born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park this past weekend. The tiny one is doing great in the habitat she shares with her mom, Posey. The zoo describes her as having an adventurous and confident personality. … The small deer barely reach human knees when full-grown, according to the zoo.”

Contract Reveals Fundraising Deal for Financing Trump’s East Wing Overhaul (DonkeyHotey) 

From CBS News: “A newly revealed agreement between the White House, the National Park Service and the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall shows the inner workings of how President Trump and his allies are financing a $400 million overhaul of the White House East Wing. The 14-page document, which was obtained by the left-leaning advocacy group Public Citizen and shared with CBS News, empowers the Trust to ‘accept donations in an amount sufficient to cover all costs’ of the project, as determined by the White House. The agreement was signed by the parties in October 2025.”

Supreme Court Weighs Phone Searches To Find Criminals Amid Complaints of ‘Digital Dragnets’ (Reader Steve)

The author writes, “A man carrying a gun and a cellphone entered a federal credit union in a small town in central Virginia in May 2019 and demanded cash. He left with $195,000 in a bag and no clue to his identity. But his smartphone was keeping track of him. What happened next could yield a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court on the 4th Amendment and its restrictions against ‘unreasonable searches.’ The court will hear arguments on the issue on April 27.”

Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs (Dana)

From Capitol & Main: “In their third report on the subject and second update of data, University of California researchers reach the same conclusions that have twice bedeviled the anti-wage hike sector of the restaurant industry: California’s $20 an hour fast food minimum wage, instituted in 2024, did not reduce employment. It led to only the most modest of price increases — barely noticeable to a consumer. It significantly improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of California workers in many of the industry’s largest fast-food chains, with an average wage increase of more than 10%.”

Campus Dinners Aim To Repair Black-Jewish Alliance, Frayed by the Gaza War (Russ)

From The Washington Post: “The Unity Dinner began awkwardly, with scores of strangers picking at plates of salmon in a campus ballroom. College students read icebreaker questions and fumbled through answers. When a George Washington University freshman picked up a mic to answer whether a hot dog is a sandwich and jokingly cited the teachings of the Talmud, half the room laughed out loud. But the other half looked blank. And when someone called out, ‘H.U.!’ many people smiled and yelled the expected response from Howard University students: ‘YOU know!’ The rest looked surprised. They had no idea. The guests, about half Black and half Jewish, were invited to the dinner at GWU late last year as part of a national effort to combat racism, antisemitism and other forms of bigotry. The initiative was launched by three philanthropic heavy hitters: the UNCF, Hillel International and the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate, founded by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.”

Supermicro’s Co-Founder Used a Hair Dryer to Pull Off a $2.5 Billion GPU Heist (Sean)

The author writes, “A 71-year-old executive, thousands of dummy servers, and a hair dryer. That’s how $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia AI chips allegedly ended up in China. Wally Liaw co-founded Super Micro Computer in 1993. Three decades later, federal prosecutors say he masterminded one of the largest export control violations in U.S. history. ”