🏛️ Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from state’s ballot — Axios

I refuse to be optimistic about anything these days, but it will be fascinating to see how the US Supreme Court handles this.

📧 Digital media startup Puck launches sports vertical, poaching veteran journalist John Ourand — CNN

Feels like this has been a long time coming. I don’t read Sports Business Review, so I’m not familiar with Ourand, but it definitely feels like a Puck-y place to poach from.

🚄 California Is Getting ‘World-Class’ High-Speed Trains — Condé Nast Traveler

Pretty far out still so who knows if I’ll still be in California, but it’s still pretty exciting to see these things finally be built out.

🧑‍💻 Implications of the failure of the Adobe-Figma deal. — On my Om

Maybe it wouldn’t hurt if we slowed down a bit (stopped breaking thing) and stopped building companies for the sole purpose of selling and letting rich guys 10x their investments…

🖼️ Beer and Art Movements — @pintsandpanels

Just a fun little Instagram post.

🎸 Scarface — Tiny Desk Concert

I’m not super familiar with Scarface’s discography (an issue that will be resolved immediately), but this was incredible. There’s not much better than a poet with stage presence backed by a real band with real instruments.

📚 Lou Reed’s Nephew’s Author Gets a Book Deal — Jim Hanas

This is pretty cool. I fell behind on the newsletter about 70% through—been meaning to catch up for awhile, but I’m excited for this. And Coffee House Press looks pretty neat too.

🥃 Seattle distillery makes history after whiskey ranks 3rd in the world — KIRO 7 Seattle

Pretty neat; good for them.

📧 Substackers Against Nazis: An Open Letter — INDIGNITY

Glad I made the decision to Buttondown a couple months ago. Really hoping some of the Substacks I subscribe to make the jump too.

🤢 Wondery Sports Podcast Now Has An AI Host Named Striker — Defector

This sounds pretty awful. Just not what I think most people want from podcasts. At all.

🌉 NBA suspends Draymond Green indefinitely, cites ‘repeated history’ — ESPN

I gave Green the benefit of the doubt (even though he didn’t deserve it) last year with Sabonis, but this year has been something else.

🐛 #500 — The New Grub Times

I try not to post about my newsletters here too much and while I’ve only been doing this one for a couple weeks, today marks the 500th Grub I’ve drawn (and recorded). I’m also soft launching a little monthly snail mail letter…

📺 Apple TV+ to Adapt Martha Wells’ Murderbot; Alexander Skarsgård Set to Star — Tor.com

Someone recently wrote that Apple has become the go to place for sci-fi between Foundation, Silo, and more, and this one really solidifies that. I need to catch up on the books.

🐭 Keychron Was So Close To Demolishing Logitech’s Best Mouse — Aftermath

I think this may have finally convinced me to get a Logitech MX Master…

🎙️ That’s a wrap (for now) — Recode Media

I didn’t realize Peter Kafka was leaving Vox and now I’m super curious where he’s going. I don’t think he’d go to one of the big boys, Semafor had plenty of people on the media beat, Rebooting is probably too small. Puck?

🌐 Indieblog.page

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such a comprehensive database of indie blogs. Ever. I just kept scrolling and scrolling and it never ended. Truly incredible work by @splitbrain@octodon.social.

💰 A $700 Million Blurry Instagram Post — Impersonal Foul

And it looks like Ohtani’s team allegedly planted false rumors and made this fake Twitter account to get $100 million more from the Dodgers.

Wild and brilliant stuff, if true.