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• NASA needs funds to survive.
• Nintendo is positioned to thrive.
• Slop goes into overdrive.
• China injures Tesla’s hive.

President Donald Trump sure has a unique way of putting “America First in Space.” His team wants to slash NASA’s budget by 25% and shrink its science funding by 47% — “the smallest White House allocation request for NASA since 1961, the year that the first American flew into space,” notes Adam Minter. Trump also withdrew the nomination of Jared Isaacman, who was hailed on one of those Trump-friendly bro-casts as “a visionary leader.” And just this afternoon, he threatened to terminate the government contracts of all of Elon Musk’s companies, including SpaceX:

Is the administration’s “ gold standard science” in the room with us? Because it’s sure as heck not in outer space. Now that NASA’s budget appears to be headed for the trash can, its office supplies are getting dumped, too:

All that sidewalk junk came from Columbia University’s iconic NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The 43,000-square-foot office situated atop the diner in Seinfeld was birthplace of the term “black hole” and the lab where NASA scientist James Hansen first warned about climate change. It now sits empty after the Trump administration severed its lease.

The hollowing-out of the space agency comes at a time when the US should be desperate to cling onto any remaining global goodwill. Aside from national parks, Adam says, America’s space program is one of the country’s “most powerful brands and instruments of soft power.” Think about all the merch you can find at affordable retailers: Target hoodies. Old Navy t-shirts. Hot Topic tanks. The list goes on and on. And high-end designers — Coach, Ralph Lauren, Vivienne Tam, Prada — profit from that soft power, too.

All that merch has global appeal: “Chinese e-commerce sites are filled with NASA-branded apparel, even as tensions between the countries rise. Travel almost anywhere in the world, and sooner or later, someone — probably a young person — will walk by wearing a NASA backpack, hat or shirt,” writes Adam. The fact that Trump — a man who can turn anything (even the Bible) into merch — doesn’t see how he’s limiting America’s branding potential by ending dozens of space missions is cause for concern.

The president’s meddling isn’t just a death blow to space science. F.D. Flam says his executive order on “restoring gold standard science” is riddled with language that gives “government officials the power to reject evidence they disagree with — without any accountability or transparency.” That’s not exactly a message that tourists are gonna want to wear on a t-shirt.

Bonus Space Reading: The Golden Dome is a chance for superpowers to make space safer for everyone. —Bloomberg editorial board

Lines are BACK, baby! And not for some dumb Dubai chocolate-stuffed cronut that costs $14 and gets stuck in your teeth. Dave Lee says Nintendo faithfuls showed up in droves for the launch of the Switch 2:

If you had shown me photos of this wholesome affair yesterday, I would have guessed that they were taken on Black Friday in like 2005. There’s something so quaint about lining up outside Best Buy in the wee hours of the night to purchase your little handheld game console! Of course, I’m saying that as a person who went to the midnight premiere of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, so take my nostalgia with a grain of salt.

How come Nintendo, of all brands, is the one getting people out of their houses? Dave says it comes down to the fact that the Japanese gaming giant has virtually no competition when it comes to handhelds; it’s the only launch of its kind.

“The company has sold more than 150 million Switch consoles globally, proving the form factor — a high-end mobile gaming device that could be played on TV if you wanted — hit a sweet spot. You’d think, then, that competitors would be ready to pounce, but no,” Dave writes. Read the whole thing.

For non-Switch users, this summer will be a sordid, slop-filled affair. Not “slop” as in sloppy joes, “slop” as in Shrimp Jesus. “The likeness of the Christian figurehead fused with crustaceans started going viral on Facebook last year,” explains Parmy Olson. But now that Meta is working to fully automate its ads with AI, she says, “Shrimp Jesus might try to pitch you on a local seafood restaurant.”

If the thought of your 67-year-old mother-in-law sending you an advertisement for Joe’s Crab Shack that’s endorsed by the Prince of Prawns himself doesn’t send goosebumps down your spine, perhaps Erin Lowry’s column on the burnout-to-slop pipeline will: “Against the crushing pressure of a never-ending to-do list, slop seems to calm the overworked brain and nervous system because it provides a stimulating and quick distraction,” she writes.

All that bed rotting is a product of burnout, she argues: “We’ve become so accepting of brushing excessive exhaustion off as a necessary evil for achieving success that it doesn’t get enough blame.” If you wanna stop slop summer, first you gotta address your burnout.

While Musk was busy breaking up with the White House, his car company got some ugly results from China: “Shipments from Tesla’s Shanghai factory fell by 15% in May compared with a year before, according to preliminary data from China’s Passenger Car Association. That marks eight straight months of declining output from Tesla’s single biggest electric vehicle factory, accounting for around 40% of its global capacity,” writes Liam Denning. “With the end of the second quarter approaching, and the sales figures emanating from China and Europe portending another set of weak earnings, it is perhaps little wonder that this narrative is crowded out by all manner of other things.”

Remember when Manhattan office towers were cloaked in a disgusting blanket of orange smoke that had wafted down from Canada? That was TWO years ago this week, if you can believe it. And Mark Gongloff says another “huge cloud of the stuff has invaded the Lower 48, spoiling air quality from North Dakota to South Carolina — and, again, Chicago and New York. Some of it even crossed the Atlantic to Europe,” he writes. “It’s no fluke this has happened in two of the past three years. The heat from a relentlessly warming planet has made wildfires more frequent and intense (and weird) around the world.” It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize how bad that is for our health.

Filing for bankruptcy is generally a bad sign, but for 23andMe, it had some advantages. — Matt Levine

A hiring freeze that hurts the Bureau of Labor Statistics may cost Americans a lot more than it saves the government. — Jonathan Levin

South Korea’s new president should tackle the roadblocks to renewables. — David Fickling

Why is India talking to the Taliban? The militant group’s reintegration into regional politics was inevitable. — Mihir Sharma

There is an alternative to the dollar — it’s the euro. — Paul J. Davies

There is no world in which Keir Starmer meets all the commitments he’s made. — Rosa Prince

Just because the Supreme Court tossed Mexico’s lawsuit against US gun manufacturers, doesn’t mean the US is blameless. — Stephen L. Carter

How the Houthis rattled the US Navy.

Where oh where did the engineers go?

DC’s National Airport is closing on June 14.

The Trump family is confused about crypto.

The Birkin to end all Birkins.

The chocolate purse everyone’s talking about.

Noughties nostalgia is all the rage.

Happy kitten season to all who celebrate.