“Few questioned whether the MAGA tent was big enough to cover the tech futurists and the evangelical Christians.” Inside the pro-Trump 2024 Bitcoin Conference. / The Verge
Hamilton Nolan: “The Democrats are a Big Tent Party…in the way you might feel if you arrived at a group camping trip to find that there were not individual accommodations.” / How Things Work
How is Zoom now a thing for the Harris campaign? Compared to the 2020 election cycle, by this point voters had Zoom fatigue, but now it's novel again. / The New York Times [+]
By breaking with other news orgs and the White House, Bloomberg seemed willing to put the prisoner swap at risk in its pursuit of a scoop. / Intelligencer
Project 2025 aims to weaken the federal agency responsible for curtailing disinformation during elections, and seems to misunderstand what the agency actually does. / WIRED
Gaza's health ministry says 500 health workers have been killed and another 300 have been detained, which means both are happening at a higher rate than Gazans. / The New York Times [+]
“If these banned substances were as dangerous as WADA would have us believe, elite athletes should be dropping like flies. But they aren't.” The myth at the heart of anti-doping. / STAT
At two gold medals, the winningest 2024 Olympic mountain bike is very expensive—to the tune of $12,500—but the bike that won silver costs $3,500 more. / Outside
See also: A recap of bike stuff from the first week of the 2024 Olympics. / A Whole Lotta Nothing
And also: The @artbutmakeitsports Instagram account has been having a field day with imagery from the 2024 Olympics. / Instagram
Africa likes mammals, South America likes birds, and more from a worldwide analysis of animals on currency. / Griffith University
“It's hard to imagine another artist where that radical leap forward took place on a Christmas album.” On Low's Christmas. / Tobias Carroll