The Update with Brandon Julien

The Update- December 9th


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In The Update Journal, we have brand-new recurring side-series: Great Ideas… On Paper, where we take a fond look back at brilliant concepts that absolutely should have worked — until reality showed up wearing sweatpants and holding a melted McFlurry. Today’s inaugural lesson: McDonald’s All-Day Breakfast. A concept so perfect, so universally beloved, that it crumbled the moment someone tried ordering an Egg McMuffin at 3:47 in the afternoon. And in today’s Honorable Mention: Millennials are gearing up to make more 2026 New Year’s resolutions than any other generation — because nothing says “I am holding my life together” like putting unrealistic expectations into a Notes app and then ignoring them until March. If everything sounds great… on paper, that’s because it is.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, the Archdiocese of New York announced it will set up a $300 million fund to compensate victims of sexual abuse who have sued the church.

Bruce Blakeman, a Republican county official in Long Island, is expected to launch a campaign for New York governor on Tuesday, according to a person with knowledge of his plans.

And overseas, Japan was assessing damage and cautioning people of potential aftershocks after a late-night 7.5 magnitude earthquake caused injuries, light damage and a tsunami in Pacific coastal communities.

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