To learn more about this rumor and the strategy underneath it, read my blog: katestarbird.substack.com/p/here-we-go... And stay tuned, as we head into the midterms, for some future work in this space. Our team is going to try out a new communications approach. Wish us luck.

NEW — Virginia voters have approved a 10–1 congressional map, putting Democrats in a strong position to flip four seats from red to blue. The new map is now among the most aggressive gerrymanders in the country.

Virginia is for FAFO! #Virginia #Redistricting #FAFO www.axios.com/local/richmo...

WELL DONE VIRGINIA!!! www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Read it and weep. Good rant @alexzfinley.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/alexzfin...

"During the past decade, voters in four Republican-leaning states — Arizona, Florida, Missouri, and Nebraska — enacted big minimum wage increases." In the four states, "wages rose substantially, while restaurant and retail employment was unaffected." – @arindube.bsky.social

Me: Hey wirecutter/ny times what's the best sleep aid? NYT: You should get a vibrator dude. NYT: and maybe a white noise machine hashtag ai slop

I don't understand the absurd level of attraction to most Rolex watches, esp this one.

ah - the great @elizkolbert.bsky.social already wrote this up with incredible video here: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Cholula ingredients have been degraded. Artificial flavor and synthetic acid added to the new recipe.

AMAZING!

I was assigned to go with McKay to Vegas and teach him the ways of darkness. Best assignment I ever had - and included as a story in here. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Every single time I've listened to the amazing "Over Everything" by Kurt Vile & Courtney Barrett...every single damn time...I've wished they'd record more together. Thus, learning they made an entire album together in 2015 is giving me very mixed feelings of glee plus goddamn how did i not know.

Why No One Wants Democracy in Iran open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

NEW EXTRA POINTS The Big Ten and SEC wrote a paper saying that combining CFB media rights won't make anybody more money I actually think they're (mostly) right! But "will this make everybody more money" isn't the right question to ask about this stuff: www.extrapointsmb.com/p/the-b1g-sa...

Immigration judges have been unconstitutionally restricted from speaking publicly in their capacity as private citizens. There’s no good reason they shouldn’t be able to challenge this prior restraint in court. Our cross petition for cert, filed yesterday. knightcolumbia.org/content/immi...

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”

This video is from the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Will be very interesting to see if NBC plays this in prime time tonight and acknowledges the enormous anti-Vance reaction...

“13 men on the field”😬 Georgia Dems use former UT coach Derek Dooley’s abysmal coaching at @utknoxville against him as he tries to run against @ossoff.senate.gov

what a beautiful idea for a coffee shop

Get yourself a butcher like Friendly Nick. #carnivores #FortCollins

“Basically, what we are finding is that people hate AI.” As Firefox pushes AI on its users, Vivaldi does the complete opposite. Even more reason to try it.

I quite enjoyed Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials on Netflix. Mia McKenna-Bruce carries the show with cheeky charm and pugnacious energy. Martin Freeman and Helena Bonham Carter are also substantial.

We see it.

Is it possible to follow @fintwitter.bsky.social and not be driven insane due to repetition and inanity?

Epstein-Barr Virus #EBV was linked to #MultipleSclerosis - now a plausible cause has been found, misidentification by longterm memory T-cells that pick on the wrong protein, ANO2, instead of the EBV-antigen. Massive inflection towards the elimination of MS!!! 🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The college football portal/NIL situation sucks but it's hilarious how mad it makes Georgia, LSU and Alabama fans. They're so used to their boosters cheating so their schools could dominate. Someone moved their cheese.

Cam Coleman to the Texas Longhorns is confirmed.

Fort Collins right now.

Get yourself a good backscratcher and an orthopedic foot roller #lifeadvice

I love this article. It explains so much. It's been amazing to see what a tiny bakery -- The Bread Chic in Fort Collins -- has done in a region that has none of the typical advantages for making GREAT BREAD. TY @tineywristwatch.bsky.social

Denver airport seems insanely chill and uncrowded for 21 December at 1:30. Druver pulled right up to the curb. Security clearance in a minute and the Polaris lounge is sleepy.

Microsoft keeps airing big flashy commercials showing people using Copilot on Windows to do all kinds of things... and we keep making @superantonio64.bsky.social test those exact prompts and discovering nothing actually works www.theverge.com/report/84705...

Spotted while out and about

Colorado regulators want rules in place to shield ordinary household and business customers from getting stuck paying for increased generating and transmission capacity.

@umichfball.bsky.social hey how's it going, big blue? Having a good day?

We're so thankful for your support that we decided to do a giveaway to one winner for a free t-shirt (available in the US only, sorry!) 💜 (1) Follow our account here, (2) repost & like this post, & (3) send us a screenshot to show that you subscribe to our pod for a chance to win!

This is the worst selection committee we've ever had. Cannot believe Alabama didn't even drop one spot after the SEC title game blowout. Cannot believe they waited until the final reveal to flip Miami-ND. Could have done it at ANY point.

The voice of a woman in the opthalmologist's waiting room with me sounds like Paulie Walnuts' "mom." #Sopranos

John Hiatt Rolling Stones REM Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers The O'Jays

My sister, who's heading to the Denver airport tomorrow, typically dresses like a 10 year-old going to a slumber party. If anyone's going to get sent home from the airport for dressing like a slob, it will be her.

Did the DOJ's demand for technology companies to remove immigration tracking apps come with implicit threats? EFF is suing to find out. www.eff.org/press/relea...

What a fucked up world it is.

Everone excited for the OPEC nations to own a good-sized chunk of US media?

Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling? They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns. What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:

Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the… braddelong.substack.com/p/bidenomics...