Today's five.

"Taking the time to reflect on the best path forward" is campaign-speak for "we're watching the polls crater in real time." Graham Platner, a Maine oyster farmer running to unseat Susan Collins, is facing calls to drop out after Politico published a former girlfriend's account alleging he sexually assaulted her in 2021. Platner denied the allegations within minutes of the story going live — calling them "troubling, serious, and false" — but also acknowledged the "political reality" the report would inflict. NPR noted this is the latest in a string of controversies. His party didn't wait long to start calling it a wrap.

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The Supreme Court wrapped its term and the coverage split so cleanly you'd think reporters watched different proceedings. The New Yorker catalogued a string of conservative wins — on agency firings, voting rights, trans athlete bans, and deportation powers — mostly 6-3, mostly along predictable lines. The Hill wants Congress to de-politicize the court before it becomes a "political football," which suggests the Hill may have missed the last decade. The Nation ran a political cartoon. The historical footnote that started it all: John Marshall, the chief justice who invented judicial review, died on this date in 1835. He'd have thoughts.

Eight People Walked Away From a Seaplane Crash in the East River

A seaplane with eight people onboard made a hard landing in New York's East River, and somehow everyone is fine, which is the kind of story that exists specifically to restore your faith in emergency responders. The NTSB is investigating. Bodycam footage from Harbor Unit officers shows the less dramatic half of the story: cops securing the aircraft with a rope and calmly helping passengers in life jackets step onto a patrol boat. CNN led with the NTSB investigation. The Daily Mail led with the rescue footage. The passengers got an unscheduled boat ride. The pilot has some paperwork ahead.

A federal appeals court just told Florida, for the second time, that private college accreditors are not actually a constitutional crisis. The Eleventh Circuit upheld dismissal of DeSantis' 2023 lawsuit, which argued that accrediting agencies hold unconstitutional governmental power over how Florida runs its universities — essentially that they're enforcing "woke" diversity standards the state didn't sign up for. The court disagreed, again. The accreditation system has worked roughly the same way for decades. Florida walked into an existing structure, didn't like the furniture, and tried to litigate it out of existence. Twice now, the courts have pointed at the door.