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Three scenarios imagine how the Supreme Court may handle Donald Trump's imminent appeal to avoid an election-subversion trial. / Politico

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi never lost a vote in eight years as leader. Speaker Mike Johnson just lost two in one night. / Wake Up to Politics

Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery, and Disney are creating a single joint venture for streaming sports. / Variety

Around 1,000 private planes are expected in Las Vegas for the Super Bowl—double the amount of parking spots. / Pro Football Network

See also: "Taylor Swift joins Elon Musk in trying to silence student who tracks celebrity jets." / The Verge

This week's long (long) read: Investigating the mysterious death of a London teenager who pretended to be an oligarch's offspring. / The New Yorker

A Hinge report claims Gen Z daters are 47% more likely than millennials to say the pandemic made them nervous talking to people. / FastCompany

The average age of people using TikTok in the United States is 30-plus. / The Economist

Hackers used deepfake technology on a video call to persuade a finance officer to pay out $25 million. / CNN

Meghan Boilard says cocomelon is probably not an existential threat to children and parents—or, if so, it's too late anyway. / Off-Topic

Nicholson Baker says space aliens are not an existential threat to the United States and everyone needs to calm down. / Intelligencer

Related: Remembering the 1990s San Francisco beach rave that collectively hallucinated a UFO. / SF Gate

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