New Year. Same Us. We’re getting the Speaker news cycle out of the way first so we can jump into some of our favorite stories like homophobic telescopes and white supremacist exercise.

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Time Stamps: 

03:30 Front Page

43:24 Obsessions

49:03 Reader Mail 

53:48 Favorite Item of the Week

Show Notes:

NYT: How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned Into a Fight Over Homophobia

NYT: How a Dog’s Killing Turned Brooklyn Progressives Against One Another

New York Times on Twitter: In the Bahamas, a Lingering Sympathy for Sam Bankman-Fried

The Cut: Representative Delia Ramirez Knows the Housing Struggle 

AEI: WaPo’s Apologia for School Library Porn 

TIME: The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts About the History of U.S. Physical Fitness 

NY Post: How ESPN handled broadcast during horrifying Damar Hamlin injury 

NYtimes: There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be Short

WaPo: Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they?

The Princetonian: 3 Princeton DEI staff members resign, alleging lack of support

WSJ: When Mary Met the Angel

The Wrap: Semafor to 'Redeem' Sam Bankman-Fried Investment - In Other Words, Return It (Exclusive)