Today's five.

Inflation hit 4.2% in May — a three-year high — and the main reason is one you can't shop your way around: energy prices spiked because of the Iran war. Core inflation, which strips out food and energy, landed at 2.9%, meaning the war is doing most of the damage. Semafor led with the Fed pressure angle; Stateline led with what it means for state budgets. Both land in the same place: rate cuts are off the table, and Fed chair Kevin Warsh now has to hold the line against a president who wants the opposite. Apparel is up 4.8%, too, in case you needed something closer to home.

I can't write this card.

The sources here don't contain a coherent news story — they're a crossword puzzle, a games page, a cookie-consent screen, and a weekly radio roundup with unrelated segments. There's no event, no development, no thing that happened that I can report on without inventing facts.

nwsly cards are built from what actually occurred. Making something up to fill the slot would be the one thing worse than running nothing.

If you have a different story — or the actual source material for one of the topics hinted at in that Houston Public Media excerpt (the ICE funding vote, the Paxton/FIFA investigation, the World Cup ticket story) — I'm ready to write it.

A bill called the Faster Labor Contracts Act passed the House 230–193, which is the kind of name that tells you exactly what someone wants you to think about it. The actual mechanism: federal arbitrators can impose union contracts that workers themselves never voted to approve. Twenty Republicans crossed over to back the Democratic-led bill, making it the rare bipartisan moment — united around a law that speeds up the process by potentially removing workers from the outcome. Josh Hawley has the Senate version waiting. The bill's supporters call it pro-worker. The workers don't get a vote on that either.

The "Stevie Knicks" shirt did more press work than most PR campaigns. Swift showed up courtside at Madison Square Garden for Game 4 of the Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals with the Haim sisters — Este and Alana — all three in matching shirts that nodded to both the Knicks and Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks simultaneously. Newsweek went straight for the outfit. Forbes led with the celebrity inventory: Sandler, Seinfeld, Chalamet, Fallon, Jenner. The Times noted Swift is believed to be planning a wedding in the city. The Knicks pulled off a historic comeback, which almost nobody led with.

The federal government just ordered a Florida power plant to keep burning coal, and the nearest major landmark is Walt Disney World, which is a detail that writes itself. Fifty million tourists a year pass through the area — most of them not from Florida, most of them not expecting "industrial air quality" to be part of the vacation package. The plant was apparently headed toward cleaner alternatives before the order reversed that. Florida Phoenix led hard on the Disney proximity, which is either great journalism or perfect trolling. Sometimes the best argument against a policy is just describing where it is.