Kyle Nowak

🏛️ The House rejected a Trump-endorsed plan to fund the US government and suspend the debt ceiling, in a vote held hours before the Fri. midnight deadline for a partial gov’t shutdown.

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🔥 It’s Friday, December 20th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

⚛️⚡ A new fusion joint is coming to Virginia. Startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems plans to build the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant outside Richmond by the early 2030s.

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"The meaning of life is that it stops."

–Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

📲 The link-in-bio phenomenon is expanding from social media. Gaming emulator Delta is the first major app to receive Apple’s approval for an external payment link in its App Store profile.

❓ Our question to you: In general terms, how involved do you think the US government should be when it comes to the current Syria situation?

🔥 It’s Thursday, December 18th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🎶🧠 You know when your favorite song comes on, and you instantly feel a little better? Startup LUCID aims to harness that phenomenon for whenever you may need a mental boost.

🇸🇾 The decades-long regime in Syria led by President Bashar al-Assad was toppled last week, ushering in a period of transition – and major uncertainty – following ~14 years of civil war.

🚘👌 A Denver Fiat dealership is offering a 27-month lease on a 2024 Fiat 500e for $0/month and $0 down, as the automaker’s parent seeks to accumulate zero-emission credits.

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“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”

–Sun Tzu (544 BC – 496 BC)

🏛️🎟️ The days of playing hide-and-seek with Ticketmaster fees are at an end. The FTC approved a new rule preventing hotels and ticket sellers from hiding extra fees for purchases

🔥 It’s Wednesday, December 17th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Kyiv said it used a scooter bomb to assassinate a top Russian general in Moscow, who’s the highest-ranking military official to be killed inside Russia since the Ukraine war began.

Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

🪙 An Austin-area man received two years in prison for underreporting his bitcoin earnings to the IRS, in the first-ever criminal prosecution solely for crypto-related tax evasion.

“The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”

–Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)