Venice Bullied Jeff Bezos's Wedding to a Second Location (compliment)
Plus Free Merch in NYC's Mayoral Race
Hi chat! Today all I keep hearing about is the NYC Mayoral Primary. Which is important and I think it’s great that so many people are seemingly participating in it. I hope the seemingly-ness is wrong on my part and people actually are. And before you ask, no I don’t have all the facts so I’m not going to attempt to share an opinion on it, though I’ll offer an observation. It looks like a ton of public figures and young influencers are supporting Zohran (he even made free merch!) and as a result Andrew Cuomo and team have been actively trying to typecast the kid as “other” iykwim.
So like idk between that and the whole SA accusations piece, I’m hoping people stay on the right side of history and just don’t fux with Cuomo at all. But hey, I could be way off base. I’m going off of what TikTok and an article in The Cut tell me. And sadly, this is how we get our news now, so I can’t assure you it’s right. Anyway if you can exercise your right to vote, I hope you do, it’s such a privilege and who knows how much longer we’ll even have it lmao.
Cultural Currency
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Dear Media acquires fitness platform, obé for an undisclosed amount. Okay this one really made my ears perk up. Because obé was founded by two ex-CAA agents, Mark Mullett and Ashley Mills, and the platform has identified itself as an “entertainment” fitness app which is a unique selling prop to me and here’s why…
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