Memorial Day weekend in the U.S., so it’s been pretty slow for news.

Trump announced yesterday that his recently proclaimed 50% tariff on the E.U. would be delayed from June 1st to July 9th.

And today Trump announced that, in a continuation of his war on the war on public corruption, he would be pardoning a man named Scott Jenkins, who had been scheduled to report to federal prison tomorrow to start a 10-year sentence. Jenkins had been the sheriff of a rural Virginia county (which Trump won 62-37 in 2024), and in December 2024 he was convicted of accepting bribes in return for appointing the payors as auxiliary deputy sheriffs.

I’m going to deviate from the usual topics here and take a minute to, erm, memorialize the vast array of different sporting events going on yesterday. In the U.S. morning, one could choose from the Monaco Formula 1 race, the playing of 10 simultaneous English football games to mark the end of the Premier League season, and the bronze medal men’s hockey world championship game from Sweden. Moving into the U.S. afternoon, we had the Indianapolis 500 IndyCar race, the gold medal men’s hockey game (which the U.S. won for the first time since 1933), the college women’s lacrosse final, and an NHL conference championship game. And then moving into the evening, there was the Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race and an NBA conference championship game. And on top of all of that, there were regular season baseball and footy (starting at midnight Central time Sunday morning) games, as well as the conclusion of the best-of-3 college softball ‘super regionals’ (cutting from 16 teams to the 8 that make the College World Series). And in addition, at other points in the weekend we had games 3 and 4 of the women’s hockey Walter Cup playoffs (congratulations, Minnesota Frost!), of which my family attended game 3.