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This is Day 12 of 14 for the Hearts group (last day of semifinals!) This group will run through December 18th. Find the full schedule on the Jeopardy site. Subscribe to receive the daily fashion recaps via email. The list of Season 39 Second Chance contestants dropped yesterday! This will cover four weeks from December 19 - January 15. I’ve published a quick refresher here if you’ve forgotten some of the names and faces since their original appearances.

It’s Day 2 of the Jeopardy Invitational Tournament! (The 2nd of 9 Quarterfinal games.) Here’s the full lineup for the JIT. I am SO excited to see these iconic contestants, some of whom I GREW UP watching, back on the Jeopardy! stage! I’m posting occasionally on various social media (mostly Instagram right now), but this newsletter is the best place to find daily recaps, photos, and announcements. I love this color!

Yay, Alison is back in florals! You can tell from her straighter hair that this is the beginning of a new tape day. Today she is wearing a black cami under this pink floral wrap dress, and a wide black belt. She has a new necklace too, but I can’t identify it! I believe Alison’s dress is the brand xhilaration (found on Poshmark) This grey shirt reminds me of Cris Pannullo’s!

Several Republicans formally filed to run for City of Shelbyville political offices yesterday, including Scott Furgeson, Mayor (top left); Scott Asher, re-election for Clerk-Treasurer (top center); Chuck Reed, Council At-Large (top right); Denny Harrold, Council At-Large (lower left); Betsy Means-Davis, re-election for Council 2nd Ward; Mike Johnson, re-election for Council 4th Ward; Linda Sanders, Council 4th Ward (lower center); and Thurman Adams, re-election for Council 5th Ward (lower right). Local Democrats are also in the process of organizing candidates, to be announced in an upcoming edition.

After an unfortunate event wherein I thought Showgirls was 90 minutes long and insisted Frank watch it with me, only to realize it is over 2 hours long… I’m reconsidering my habit of Googling runtimes and not double-checking them before getting halfway through a martini. But! I’m not reconsidering my habit of getting y’all to subscribe, so: Summer is here! Which means the weather in New York has immediately turned into an unpleasant combination of overcast skies, rain, and consistent humidity.

The trouble is, you think you have time. From Buddha's Little Instruction Book, by Jack Kornfield Another word that has touched my heart. I fell in love with it because it's a term expressing optimism, and it also manages to depict a circumstance that I encounter pretty frequently with minimal effort. Tidsoptimist refers to someone who is optimistic about time, that is, someone who assumes that time will pass slowly enough, and who is always late, even when they do not intend to be.

In this episode, David interviews Tiffany Fong – an investor activist and independent journalist whose extended post-arrest interviews with Sam Bankman-Fried played a major role in unpacking what happened in the FTX collapse. Tiffany first entered the public eye in 2022 as a victim of the Celcius collapse and alleged fraud, becoming a conduit for leaks from the company. She then interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried for many hours while he was on house arrest in Palo Alto, helping uncover specific crimes – and more importantly, gaining insight into how Sam’s brain worked.

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, from Kate Lindsay and Nick Catucci. Yes, I got to see Nala over Zoom. —Kate The TikTok song that most often gets stuck in my head isn’t available on Spotify. In fact, you can only hear it under special circumstances. When, that is, creator Chris Lindamood scratches his dog Nala Lindamood’s butt. “She stomp, she stomp, she do the Nala stomps.” The Utah-based creator and his golden retriever have earned over three million followers on TikTok thanks, in part, to the signature stomps Nala’s back legs can’t help but perform whenever she’s scratched just so.

Hello friends, I have these three things in common with Tim Alberta. We both grew up as the sons of pastors in evangelical churches. We both became journalists and have spent two decades reporting on American politics. We both wrote books this year that are critical of the evangelical culture that we were raised in. But in the year that I published my book, I did not write a magazine profile of the new CEO of CNN that was so deeply reported and revealing that the CEO resigned within days.