Extra, Extra
Mayorkas and Effect: “Republican members of the House impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas with a simple majority vote Tuesday.” NYT (Gift Article): Mayorkas Was Impeached. What Happens Next? (Spoiler Alert: Something that has nothing to with actual governing.)
+ Suozzi Moto: Maybe all the House shenanigans aren’t playing that well with voters. Or maybe suburban voters are just tired of the ALL CAPS ALBATROSS. “Democrat Tom Suozzi won a special election for a U.S. House seat in New York on Tuesday, coming out on top in a politically mixed suburban district in a victory that could lift his party’s hopes heading into a fiercely contested presidential election later this year.” (It’s always fun when the future of democracy depends on the voting patterns of people in the district that brought us George Santos.)
+ Fertilies: “The most devastating revelation came this summer, when Hill found out that one of her newly discovered siblings had been her high school boyfriend – one she says she easily could have married.” Woman’s horror story reflects loosely regulated nature of US fertility industry.
+ Basement Entrance: “Ms. Carryl supervises the meticulous bookkeeping. She keeps track of the expected — guns, drugs, samples of DNA — and the bizarre: a gold dental grill, a half-drunk bottle of Smirnoff and a weathered brown suitcase. It is stuffed with muskets.” NYT (Gift Article) takes you inside a New York evidence room: A Plush Dog, Samurai Sword and 42,439 Guns: Inside an N.Y.P.D. Basement.
+ Pop Culture: “According to his obituary, William Post was a Keebler plant manager in Grand Rapids in the early 1960s when he was approached by executives at cereal giant Kellogg’s to create a breakfast food for the toaster. Post and a team of co-workers then developed the early versions of something he called fruit scones, but which soon became Pop-Tarts.”
+ Drawing a Blanco: “Blanco’s son, Michael Corleone Blanco, and his wife, Marie, filed the suit on Jan. 17 in a Miami-Dade County Court, claiming the family did not authorize Netflix to use their ‘image, likeness and/or identity’ and wanted to block the six-part show from airing on Jan. 25.” Griselda Blanco Estate Settles Lawsuit With Netflix Over Sofia Vergara Show.
+ Zero Sum Game: “Lyft’s fourth-quarter report initially forecast that an important profit metric was expected to climb by 500 basis points, or 5%, in 2024. However, the company informed investors about five minutes after the original release that there was one zero too many in that number and corrected it to 50 basis points, a much more realistic 0.5%.” Lyft shares rocket 62% over a typo in the company’s earnings release. (In fairness, even the name of the company is a typo.)
