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It’s Tuesday, May 7 — here’s what you’ll find in today’s newsletter:

• Trump’s VP options

• The beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake

• 4 quick hits of news from the last 24 hours

- Jeff (co-founder of Shades)

🎩 Trump’s VP options

🎩 Who's on Trump's VP shortlist? Forbes says Sen. Tim Scott and Gov. Doug Burgum are up there. Gov. Krisit Noem too.

🎩 CBS: Rubio, Scott, and Burgum are leading the pack, but Noem seems unlikely — her dog-killing scandal tanked her chances.

🎩 News Nation thinks Scott could help Trump target black voters, and Burgum could help Trump win the center.

🎩 The NY Post points out that there's a snag — the 12th Amendment could prevent Trump from choosing Rubio, Donalds, or DeSantis since they live in the same state as Trump.

🎩 Bloomberg: This whole process is like an episode of “The Apprentice”. Contenders are being paraded before elite donors; it really feels like reality TV!

🥩 Kendrick and Drake’s beef

🥩 The NYT says rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake have had beef for 10+ years. But in May 2024, the two went head-to-head in relentless diss tracks.

🥩 Rolling Stone crowned Kendrick Lamar the winner of the beef: He outshined Drake in their public rap battle.

🥩 Daily Mail says Meta's AI bot would agree: It responded that Kendrick had a “slight edge” in the showdown.

🥩 But rapper Gillie thinks Drake took the cake: “The Heart Part 6” beat out Kendrick's tracks.

🥩 Pitchfork had yet another take: We're all losing here! The Kendrick-Drake beef got toxic fast — crowning a winner would be a hollow triumph.

4️⃣ Quick hits

🕊️ Biden aims to combat antisemitism amid Israel-Gaza conflict and campus protests, with a keynote speech planned.

🔬 The American Cancer Society launches VOICES, a major study on cancer among Black women in the US, targeting disparities.

🇷🇺 Putin inaugurated for a fifth term as Russian president, promising victory and open to dialogue with the West.

✊ Pro-Palestinian campus protests escalate globally, with MIT demonstrators reclaiming their site and arrests in Amsterdam.