Welcome to the Tuesday Report, a brand new weekly Pirate Wires news product.

Henceforth, in addition to my bi-weekly piece (“Pirate Wires”), our team’s special features, and an assorted selection of wild cultural stories from the internet’s seething underbelly, we’re getting back to our newsletter roots. My writing style tends toward strange connections between unlikely subjects while surfing broader but specific themes. In the context of an essay, this naturally leads to a singular focus, and forces me to edit out a lot of the news stories I find interesting each week. While the editorial process makes for better writing, it perhaps leaves readers with an incomplete sense of what’s going on. So, from now on, I’ll be doing both bangers and banger newsletters. You’re welcome.

The purpose of the Tuesday Report is to flesh our story out. Links will be starker, connections will be brief, and I genuinely do encourage you all to join me in the comments. I expect the community component of the report to be much more active given the livelier, more rapidly evolving content (The News (I am a Newsman, now)). But, as I’ll be opening comments up — for these posts only — I intend to be strict on moderation. The rule remains thus: be smart, be funny, or be destroyed. Enjoy the links, and catch you back here next week with the usual piece.