Love to see it! A live map to track ICE flights to know when they could be coming to your city. Feels like an important thing to share so maybe go and do that.
The Independent Variable
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Lines, Ranked
lists13. Bread. What your grandma thinks Zohran wants.
Things to Click already nailed the best one, but this one I pulled is fun as well. Lots of great lines.
Cure For Paranoia /// 2026 Tiny Desk Contest Winner
videosI discovered Cure for Paranoia last year (or the year before..?) when they were doing a new rap song every day that got very political. It was superb. Then I learned about all their Tiny Desk submission videos: superb again. And this year, they won. The lyricism, the musicianship, the skill, and the performance. It's all there.
'Goliath only gets toppled once': Napa Valley's winemakers on 50 years since the Judgment of Paris
wine12 judges, 20 wines, the finest bottles Burgundy and Bordeaux could offer, alongside a handful of upstart California labels that most of the French wine establishment had never heard of. When the scores were tallied, a 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay had beaten them all. So had a 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon.
What better way to learn about the moment Napa was put on the map in the world of wine than from the local paper (with a byline from friend of the Variable, Keith Cousins). While I’m personally not a fan of their strict paywall, they’ve put in a ton of work to cover the 50th and this one is free for all to read. Highly recommend checking out this wonderful compiled interview with some of the best winemakers in the country (and world) and maybe crack open a special Napa Cab to celebrate.
Hidden Cassettes
internetThis is really creepy... but also a cool way to take something creepy and make something cool on the internet with it... I can't get myself to actually listen to any of these... but the rest of Emily's site is also a delight so it's worth just going straight there as well.
Rule of Thirds /// MLB
designI try not to link to Threads (or the MLB for that matter), but these photos that play on the lines from the Rule of Thirds are just too damn good not to share.
