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Marsha, Marsha

Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn tweeted, “Merrick Garland appointed David Weiss as special counsel because he knows Weiss will protect Hunter.”

Turns out she was one of 34 Republican senators that specifically requested Weiss for the job in September. Enough X users pointed out this dissonance that the platform marked her tweet with that special box that reads, “Readers added context they thought people might want to know.”

Corporate Memphis

A new-ish design illustration trend, called “Corporate Memphis,” has emerged, and you’ve probably already seen it in Kroger TV ads.

YouTuber Cat Graffam explained the style to be “flat, digital illustrations with characters that have exaggerated proportions.” Graffam breaks the whole thing down in a video posted last week.

Well Done

Bartlett Police Department and Bartlett Fire Department rescued a missing child from a storm drain this past weekend and posted the drone footage to X. “Everyone loves a happy ending,” reads the post. We do, too.

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This Checks Out

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Two Cities

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What’s In a name?

Posted to Twitter by @EvanCollins90

True fans of Memphiana will know the 1980s “Memphis Group” (of Italian designers and architects) launched a new design style of cartoony-looking furniture, fabrics, lighting, and more. It was named “Memphis” for Bob Dylan’s “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again.”

The style reemerged recently in illustrations of large, cartoony-looking people, now referred to as “Corporate Memphis” and widely used by companies. Design expert Evan Collins explained why the name may be misplaced in a long thread on Twitter.