from the group chat today: ✍️ Gavin Newsom is trying to write his own “oppo” book 🐍 Moltbook, the social platform just for AI, is going as well as you’d think 🍅 Ketchup made a keg 🐘 RNC is beating the DNC on fundraising (… unbelievable yikes)

from the group chat today: 🏛️ unpacking the world of federal employees and contractors 🐘 the conservative women fighting for a blue district in Utah 📺 YouTube slop is vanishing 🏒 where agents are looking for the next Heated Rivalry

as a looooongtime @deliacai.bsky.social reader and stan, you better believe i jumped at the chance of GCC in the Deez Links classifieds!! 💜

in today’s group chat: 💰 Harry Styles ticket sales sparks huge outrage at Ticketmaster (and same!) 🔫 Trump claims he has a secret “discombobulator” weapon 🍿 TikTok micro-dramas are taking over 🥅 Heated Rivalry takes off in Russia

RE: gross media news (have been informed this says "brash" not "trash")

new year, new name, same good clips and stories you need to know :)

from the chat today: 🐘 Gen Z Trump voters don’t want JD 🎆 Katy Perry as soft power at Davos 🧹 chimney sweeps are apparently back?? 📰 the NYT rolls out their first multiplayer game

in today’s tabs: 🩵 blue hair is trending again (and some historians have a theory) ☀️ tech billionaires are making plans to flee paying their taxes in CA 📕 the cult of Louise Carmen notebooks 🚲 gig workers are making 76¢ on average in tips

the thing about my search history in law school is that it's just me googling abrogate every time someone says it

🚨🚨🚨 poll in today's newsletter! pls and ty! 🔗: www.opentabs.news/p/today-in-t...

in today’s tabs: 🤖 elon’s pervy bot… gets added to the Pentagon network 🚊 train travel rises as airline prices/experiences become untenable 🎾 Nike signs their first pickleballer (no emoji??) 📰 what Wikipedia teaches us about news

in today’s tabs: ⬜️ 56% of Gen Z identify as independent 📺 YouTubers are flagging a major vibecession on the platform 🫏 Dems are trying to figure out where to vote first in 2028 💸 the biggest TikToker’s net worth

"Digital space is where attention starts. In-person space is where trust forms. The mistake is thinking one can replace the other." Arianna Jones, ED of @nextgenamerica.bsky.social, shares some incredibly poignant thoughts about youth electoral power in 2026 in today's Open Tabs 👇👇👇

in today's open tabs: 🗳️ Arianna Jones, ED of NextGen America, unpacks how we tackle 2026 ⚽️ Fifa and TikTok make a streaming deal for the World Cup 💼 the rise of the analog bag 👔 the first meme of 2026 is already a mess

I've read 60 books thus far in 2025 (to cope with ✨the horrors✨), and if you are looking for something to read, i made a list where you can get the best ones from a local bookstore :)))

in the final Open Tabs send of 2025: 🕯️ my ins and outs for 2026 (featuring Obama-era froyo) 💼 why women are pretending to be men on LinkedIn 🏞️ a fight on social media that ended with funding for Texas parks 🪩 Beyonce is officially a billionaire

in today’s tabs: 🎙️ why podcasts aren’t selling but shows are 📱 the year that politics became entirely parasocial 🧗‍♂️ Netflix will livestream a free solo climb 🍫 your holiday chocolate might be “fake” this year

📢📢📢 everyone read this @makenakelly.bsky.social piece please!

There's a big 2026 battle brewing in Texas. In this week's edition of FWIW, @lucyritz.bsky.social takes a look at the two young superstars running in the Democratic primary for Texas' Senate seat and how they're using social media to catapult their campaigns.

in today’s tabs: 🤳 new research on how the influencers who move the needle on politics aren’t the ones talking about politics 💊 the misinfo that’s causing chaos for Gen Z women 🤖 the chatgpt app store 💙 updates on elon musk v. operation bluebird

back for a FWIW send today :) my analysis on how the TX Dem Senate primary is playing out on socials thus far... definitely something to watch as we head into 2026 👇👇👇

in today’s tabs: 🤖 why women are flocking to Reddit as Google falters 🧊 ICE’s use of TSA passenger data… (please be aware, anyone flying this holiday season!) 📺 IG wants to take over your TV 🥛 Congress puts whole milk back in schools

ICYMI, Angel Tree "hauls" are going viral this year in a way they never have before... my thoughts on why in today's Open Tabs! 🔗 www.opentabs.news/p/today-in-t...

in today’s tabs: 🪽 Angel Trees go mega viral this year 🎅 people are spending hours a day talking to AI Santa… 🛏️ MyPillow is trying to take on Gov. Tim Walz 🎁 blind boxes are dominating the holiday season

I do think this is the graphic that I'm the most/least proud of yet...

in today’s tabs: 🍪 Dr. Oz wants his federal employees to eat fewer holiday cookies… 👃 a new “AI Scent Advisor” 📉 being a woman in the workplace is officially even worse than it was 📍 2026 trends from Pinterest so you can prepare your bits now and more!

the financially deadly combo of finals sads/uglies and the @wmata.com winter pop up

I'd be curious to see if/how many people who regularly engage with NewDaddy or @couriernewsroom.bsky.social or @aaronparnas.bsky.social would describe themselves as following the news... or if a good amount of them may not think of it that way (which is kinda my hunch) RE: CHARTR + @pewresearch.org

in today’s open tabs: 🌎 X’s new geotagging feature is exposing where MAGA actually lives… 💊 Kyrsten Sinema is going MAHA to get a psychedelic approved 🤳 how many sponsored videos it takes to make a living as a nano-influencer 🐟 a moral debate over fish’s emotions

in today's Open Tabs, I chatted with a TikTokker who is trying to make actually understanding public health issues as easy (and viral) as possible 👇👇👇

in today’s tabs: 🩺 a tiktok account that wants to make understanding public health issues easier 💰 how billionaires took over US politics 🤫 the words that are being silenced on socials in this era 🧀 the 2025 winner of the world’s best cheese

in today’s open tabs: 💸 the dues and funds that members of Congress are told to raise for 🤳 Vine is back-ish and backed by Jack Dorsey 📉 foreign enrollment in the US tanks 👕 the Vineyard Vines 6-7 shirt already sold out once

absolutely huge newsletter from @camaron.bsky.social – if you aren’t subscribed to Below The Beltway already, I highly, highly recommend 👇👇👇

in today’s tabs: 🫏 Dem anger over the capitulators is everywhere (even the shaheen family gc it seems) 💉 MAHA is fangirling over Elizabeth Holmes 🤳 TikTok is only getting bigger, from shopping to podcasts 🥗 freaky caesar salads & other 2026 emerging dining trends

today in tabs: 😍 texts from the creator of @bfswedeserve.bsky.social (AKA @monicavenzke.bsky.social) on why we need to laugh and elect hot people! 🎶 Spotify is launching mini weekly Wrappeds 🐘 GOP redistricting efforts hit another roadblock 🤔 Tinder is now in your camera roll...

i really wanted to call him the hero hero, but that felt too much lol

in today’s open tabs: 🥪 the trial of sandwich resist man begins 💙 Dems head into a major election day while still bearing a lot of blame as a party for the shutdown 🦤 why bird theory is all over TikTok (and what it is) 🥘 Martha Stewart is coming for Gen Z

today in tabs: 👑 Trump fires the entire Commission of Fine Arts 🤖 an AI novel is topping the charts in Japan and creating chaos 🐘 MAGA singles can’t find love in DC 👻 horror travel is all the rage

in today’s open tabs: 🛒 etsy sellers are expressing their (many) emotions about the east wing through merch 🗣️ debate shows are everywhere… and is it too much? 🚗 Waymo seems pretty nervous about winter 🎃 pumpkin spice creates chaos and divides in Europe

this is apparently a PRIVATE university btw... it's giving goodbye Third Amendment RE: @404media.co + @jasonkoebler.bsky.social + @josephcox.bsky.social

since we are just a bit out from technically being in the on-year... check out what's cookin' in Wisconsin 👀👀👀

if you read one thing today, please let it be this mini interview from @evelynquartz.bsky.social! 👇👇👇 www.opentabs.news/p/today-in-t...

in today’s open tabs: 💰 Americans are obsessed with the Louvre heist on socials 🇺🇸 @evelynquartz.bsky.social unpacks our crisis of legitimacy 📝 the admin’s new US citizenship test is harder… see if you can pass it 👾 Bieber fever hits Twitch and more...

everything is bad BUT I fear we are, in fact, in the golden age of crisis PR... Re @theguardian.com, the German company that built the furniture lift that was used in the Louvre heist is now advertising it as "quiet as a whisper"

in today’s open tabs: 🤳 a musician’s brilliant TikTok tactic is sweeping the socials 🦋 MAGA joins Bluesky to troll… which, in a (sad) way, kinda legitimizes the platform? 😬 Gen Z turnout warning signs for 2026 🛜 Wikipedia is losing human traffic and gaining bot traffic in the era of AI

in today’s open tabs: 🫀 human design, like astrology, is taking over socials during these uncertain times 🤖 legislation in OH might prevent people from marrying AI chatbots 📺 Spotify and Netflix are in cahoots to publish video podcasts 🐀 scientific controversy around Chicago’s mega-viral rat hole

in today’s open tabs: 🍕 unpacking what’s going down, town by town, in NJ’s political shifting 🍹 MAGA is taking over the mocktail movement 📊 why “microshifting” at work might not actually work 🤖 people have already ruined “clanker,” a term for AI use

today in tabs: 🌆 Liam Elkind, community organizer, fellow Zoomer, and candidate for NY-12, shares his “why” and his bagel order 🖍️ young GOPers are messing with the 2020 census 🤳 the “furlough diaries” hit TikTok 🎬 the box office… is kinda doing great?

today in tabs: 🎙️ MAGA and the podcasters who bolstered them are fightingggggg 💍 Instagram is picking its top 25 🐒 Jane Goodall’s passing was the trigger for a new Netflix show 🎃 the economic powerhouse duo of Halloween and Trader Joe’s mini totes

in today's Open Tabs 👇👇👇