A look at voters’ moment-by-moment reactions to the 2020 presidential candidates during their first debate shows how the nation’s divisions mirrored those on the debate stage. wsj.com/articles/what-… by Tom Di Fonzo Aaron Zitner

First got a glimpse of dial testing watching the West Wing and was always a bit intrigued. Well I managed to scratch that itch this week when Mercury Analytics let us dial test voters to see what they thought about the debate. Cc Aaron Zitner wsj.com/articles/what-…

A baby squirrel was left outside our apartment by it’s mum and a 6 year old girl who lives a few doors down gave it a home for the night hoping the mum would come back. Alas it hasn’t so it’s off to an animal shelter. Cuteness levels made this a must tweet story.

In which Werner Herzog gives the an incredible answer when asked how many languages he speaks

Goldman Poised to Pay More Than $2 Billion in DOJ’s 1MDB Probe buff.ly/31nZP8p

HHS halted a coronavirus ad campaign funded by $250M in taxpayer money that would’ve had Santa performers promote the benefits of a vaccine in exchange for early vaccine access ahead of the general public. The deal was Michael Caputo’s brainchild. wsj.com/articles/healt…

NYT: "The erasure of Mesut Özil. A year ago, he was one of the Premier League's highest-paid players. Now, after angering China…he has simply vanished…Özil knew the risks…when he decided to offer a…denunciation…of China’s treatment of the Uighurs." nyti.ms/3movsqo

An afternoon recap of The Wall Street Journal's early vote tracker w/ Danny Dougherty: _ ~93.8M have voted early so far _ 45 states + DC have exceeded 2016 early vote totals _ Where the battlegrounds stand --> Source: AP wsj.com/articles/mail-…

A nugget from AP VoteCast -> Biden Winning Among Suburban Women in Georgia, Survey Finds wsj.com/livecoverage/t…

Other nonsense indeed

A casual cycle around the DC protests today youtu.be/mO2pHZtrNT4

License-plate scanners on garbage trucks, toll plazas, bridges and parking lots form a vast surveillance network that makes it difficult to drive anywhere in the U.S. without being observed - excellent story from Byron Tau wsj.com/articles/licen… via The Wall Street Journal

Wild podcast from Tom Wright and Project Brazen - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fat…

I know I don't tweet a lot, but I want to share a little bit about Carlos Tejada—an editor at the NYT, formerly of WSJ, a close friend and mentor—whom we tragically lost last week. 🧵 nytimes.com/2021/12/22/bus…

"Look around, he told me from his office; the “infiltration” of Hong Kong that is under way is not by any foreign forces but by Beijing, via its representatives in the city." theatlantic.com/international/…

Incredible from Mbappe but I was doing this shit in 2006

🚨🚨 Our new piece is out at Perspectives on Politics!! "Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy" cambridge.org/core/journals/… /1