In less than an hour yesterday evening, two federal district courts issued two contradictory rulings on the legal status of a key abortion pill, creating a high level of uncertainty around medication that is the most common method of abortion in the US. Together, these decisions constitute the most significant court rulings since the federal right to an abortion was scrapped by SCOTUS last year.

The first ruling suspended FDA approval of the drug

In Texas, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk suspended FDA approval of mifepristone, the first part of a two drug regimen commonly used to terminate a pregnancy—a ruling with nationwide reach. Mifepristone was approved by the FDA back in 2000, but Kacsmaryk ruled that the agency violated a rule when it originally approved the pill and that it ignored risks in subsequent years when it loosened restrictions on access to the drug.

The FDA and 12 respected US medical organizations have pointed to studies showing that mifepristone is overwhelmingly effective and safe (about as safe as standard over-the-counter drugs like ibuprofen). Kacsmaryk’s ruling is unprecedented—it marks the first time that a judge has suspended a medication’s regulatory approval over the objection of the FDA and the drug’s manufacturer.

Washington state enters the chat

Less than an hour after the Texas judge suspended FDA approval for mifepristone, a federal judge in Washington, Thomas Rice, ruled that the the FDA…could not make the pill any less available. Siding partially with 17 Democratic-led states that wanted to increase access to the pill, the judge blocked the agency from changing access to the pill in the states that brought the lawsuit.

What you need to know: The Texas ruling will not take mifepristone off the market immediately; the judge gave the government seven days to appeal the decision. And the government has already filed a motion to appeal and said it would seek to have the ruling put on hold while the appeal is pending. The status of the abortion pill, the subject of numerous legal challenges since Roe v. Wade was overturned, will likely end up at the Supreme Court.—NF

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas defends his free White Lotus-style trips. A ProPublica report revealed this week that Thomas had been taking luxury trips for two decades paid for by his ultrawealthy friend Harlan Crow. Yesterday, Thomas defended his decision not to report the lavish gifts, saying he had been advised early in his career that “personal hospitality from close personal friends” did not need to be reported. Still, he noted that he intends to follow new guidance released last month that requires a more detailed accounting of these kinds of jaunts.

Classified US military docs are showing up on social media. The first confidential documents to surface were what appeared to be classified plans for the war in Ukraine. Then yesterday, even more documents with US secrets about China and the Middle East also popped up on Twitter and elsewhere. The leak may be even bigger: Analysts told the New York Times that more than a hundred documents could be compromised.

Racial gap in unemployment drops to a record low. We may not know how the jobs report is going to impact the market yet, but we do know it contained this nugget: The gap between the unemployment rate for Black and white Americans narrowed last month. The Black unemployment rate fell to 5%—the lowest since the 1970s. And though it’s still higher than the white unemployment rate of 3.2%, the distance between the two is the smallest it’s ever been.

Bitcoin’s iconic white paper—the document that first revealed the plan for the digital currency—has been saved on every Mac running an operating system from late 2018 on, tech entrepreneur Andy Baio discovered this week.

• Yes, Hansel, the files are in the computer: Type “open /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf” into the Terminal app on a Mac, and a PDF of Bitcoin’s white paper will pop up (it worked for us at least!).

Do you want the fun explanation or the most likely one?

Conspiracies are flying around Twitter that Steve Jobs could low-key be the anonymous Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and this is his way of breadcrumbing the world.

Choose your truth, but Occam’s razor suggests that an unknown crypto-loving Apple engineer coded the PDF into Macs just for funsies (or for testing that was never meant to reach users). It wouldn’t be the first time: The Pages app used to contain a secret text file of Apple’s “Here’s to the crazy ones” ad and the commencement speech Jobs gave at Stanford in 2005.

Looking ahead…“a little bird” told Baio that Bitcoin’s white paper PDF will likely be deleted in a future Apple update.—JW

Taking a page from Undercover Boss (minus the fake Billy Ray Cyrus wigs), some CEOs are opting to pick up a shift in the field. The new CEO of Starbucks spent time training as a barista before taking on the title, and Uber’s chief exec has completed almost 100 passenger and food delivery trips as a driver.

Laxman Narasimhan will continue working in Starbucks coffee shops for a half day each month to stay “close to the culture and our customers.” And Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s CEO, said he didn’t fully grasp drivers’ concerns about the app’s clunky driver sign-up process or the inability to see ride destinations in advance until he got behind the wheel himself.

• Simple changes based on Khosrowshahi’s experiences helped Uber return to pre-pandemic driver numbers and jump from 62% of the ride-hailing market in 2020 to 74% now.

Why now? CEOs getting their hands dirty may decrease the gap between them and the workers below pulling espresso shots. But both companies also happen to be facing extreme pressure from labor organizers and legislators over how they treat their workers, which probably has something to do with why they’re choosing this moment to put their top bosses to work.—MM

Stat: Homes with pizza ovens and other professional-grade appliances sell for ~5.3% more than they otherwise might—a premium of around $17,400 on a typical US residence, according to new research from Zillow. Meanwhile, mentioning a “she shed” in your listing can boost the price by 2.5%, and a doorbell camera can help your house sell five days faster. One thing buyers aren’t looking for: walk-in closets. Houses with a closet big enough to sit in while you wolf down one of your homemade pizzas go for 0.7% less than similar homes without.

Quote: “People were job-hopping from jobs where they were doing nothing, working from home, to another where they were doing nothing, working from home, and got paid 15% more.”

As tech workers transition from a world where Big Tech couldn’t hire fast enough to one where mass layoffs are the norm, ex-employees are coming out of the woodwork to talk about one very special kind of job: the kind with no work. While scaling back, tech CEOs have admitted they overhired during the pandemic talent wars, and the experience of former staffers now speaking up bears that out. Many say they wanted to work, but there wasn’t enough to go around.

Read: The impossibility of logging off. (The Verge)

Follow the directions: This Costco bakery certainly did.

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Open House

Welcome to Open House, the only newsletter section that still kind of wants to live in an art gallery. We’ll give you a few facts about a listing and you try to guess the price.

Today’s 3,659-square-foot home is in Winter Haven, Florida, a city that set a world record in 2007 for hosting the largest easter Egg hunt with 501,000 plastic eggs. This house is also full of Easter eggs, like a bunch of tiny man statues that will scare the crap out of you in the middle of the night. Amenities include:

• 4 beds, 4 baths
• Pool with waterfall edge
• Bathtub with a view

How much for a West Coast mansion stuck in the Florida wetlands?