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The 1980s proved surprisingly fruitful for licensed greeting card mascots. It turns out American Greetings understood the Marvel playbook before Marvel did.

92% of U.S. adults have delayed or forgone medical care over fears they can't afford it.

Victoria Song, The Verge: The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn’t about the hardware. Sure, there’s a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition. Under the hood, there’s a slightly faster Qualcomm processor and an itty-bitty batte...

New York Times: “The new information about Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s private life is coming alongside a spate of speculation that she’s preparing to run for president. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has said she hasn’t ruled out a presidential run or a run for Senate, could now be navigating a possible national or statewide campaign as a young, […]

“Donald Trump’s social media company has been leaning on Wall Street’s fear of missing out in its pitch for a controversial new subscription to faster feeds from the president’s Truth Social account,” Bloomberg reports. “More than ten customers — mostly high-speed trading firms — have signed up for its new Truth API service, executives told […]

From TPM Reader AB … I am but one anecdotal data point from Wisconsin, but as a politically engaged liberal in...

Luke Bronin toppled an incumbent in the name of generational change. Behind his rise is a hedge fund billionaire building a new Democratic political machine.

Tesla wants to build one of its biggest Superchargers yet right in the middle of San Francisco. Planning permits have been filed for a 124-stall V4 station on the city’s south side.

The site is a yellow-cab storage lot at the corner of Alemany and Bayshore, wedged against the US-101 freeway. The permits also call for a 400-square-foot amenity building on the property.

Out of nowhere, and after only a few short days of negotiation, Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger have agreed to buy the Los Angeles Lakers from Mark Walter for a reported record price of $12.5 billion. Every part of that sentence is wild, especially given the recent financial man...

Added auto-saving drafts on the web, for longer posts. If you start writing a new post and it gets over 300 characters, Micro.blog will now occasionally save a copy of it in the background so you won’t lose the text if something happens. Also works when editing drafts.

Debate over the true villain in Obsession is raging again after Universal Studios announced the movie’s female lead will be featured at an upcoming Halloween event.

After six straight months of year-over-year declines, the average transaction price (ATP) paid for a new EV in the US is rising again.

The UK government is considering relaxing its landmark electric vehicle rules, even in the face of inflated oil prices, a recordbreaking year for temperatures and wildfires, and EV sales that are already rising fast enough to meet the government’s current target.

Mia Sato, The Verge: Earlier this summer, Amazon customers began noticing that emails related to their online orders looked sparse: Order confirmation emails didn’t name specific items anymore, and instead listed only item categories. “Your Beauty item is confirmed!” an...

JCB has invested heavily in hydrogen to power its diggers and other machinery.