Good Morning. A 200-mile snake of a district just got struck down, and eight states are already redrawing maps. We break down the Voting Rights ruling.
Plus, Vine's surprise comeback, James Bond's growing limbo, and Billionaire Lucy Guo's career playbook (forwarded this email? Join 523k readers).
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Voting Rights Reset
Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's majority-Black 6th Congressional District in a 6-3 ruling, finding the 200-mile map relied too heavily on race. The decision sharply narrows Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which protects roughly 70 of 435 House districts.
Plaintiffs challenging future maps must now prove intentional racial discrimination, a far higher bar than discriminatory effect. Hours later, Florida lawmakers passed a new congressional map projected to flip the delegation from 20-8 Republican to 24-4, the latest move in a mid-decade redistricting race across at least eight states.
The full effect likely lands in 2028, since most 2026 filing deadlines have passed. Louisiana's primary is May 16, and lawyers for the challengers asked the justices to send the opinion to the lower court immediately, leaving open the chance of a remedial map this cycle.
Vine Resurrected
Divine, a Vine reboot bankrolled by Jack Dorsey's nonprofit "and Other Stuff," launched publicly Wednesday on the App Store and Google Play. The app revives the six-second looping format with an archive of roughly 500,000 restored videos from nearly 100,000 original creators.
Built on the decentralized Nostr protocol, Divine bans AI-generated content, requiring users to record in-app or verify uploads through the C2PA provenance standard. Vine peaked at over 200 million users before Twitter shut it down in 2017 (Dorsey 2009 interview here), when Dorsey was CEO. He now calls that decision a mistake worth correcting.
The app is structured as a public benefit corporation with no revenue model, currently invite-only, and ships before Elon Musk's competing Vine revival, which X teased in August 2025 but has yet to launch. Early returnees include Lele Pons, JimmyHere, and Jack and Jack. Best of vine, here.
Amazon’s 007 Problem
It has been more than a year since Amazon MGM took creative control of James Bond, and the 26th installment is on pace to set the franchise's longest gap, eclipsing the six-year stretch between 1989's Licence to Kill and 1995's GoldenEye. Steven Knight's (Peaky Blinders) script is reportedly nowhere near ready.
Director Denis Villeneuve is locked into post-production on Dune: Part Three through Oscar season 2027, and no actor has been cast despite swirling rumors around Jacob Elordi, Callum Turner, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman were enshrined on the project last March.
A 2028 release is the earliest realistic window, with 2029 increasingly likely. Daniel Craig's No Time to Die grossed $774 million in 2021, well below Skyfall's $1.1 billion peak, raising the financial stakes for a relaunch the studio paid over $8 billion to acquire.
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TODAY’S LIFE ADVICE
Youngest Female Billionaire: 3 Career Rules
Lucy Guo became the world's youngest self-made woman billionaire by treating "risk" differently than everyone around her. Dropping out of college, job hopping through Quora and Snap, cold emailing strangers, couch surfing on Soylent. None of it scared her, because the worst case was always survivable. A few years lost, a job offer accepted, life resumes. Her three rules worth stealing:
Optimize for learning, not salary. The knowledge compounds across decades. The paycheck doesn't.
Use youth as leverage. VCs answer kids' cold emails they'd ignore from anyone else, and college is the only window where smart people actively want new friends.
Ask for things. The first yes changes your life.
Curious how a second-grader running Neopets bots became a billionaire by 30? Watch this 16-minute interview.
Stan Lee's Rule For Stubborn Creators
Stan Lee's boss called Spider-Man the worst idea he'd ever heard. Wrong hero, wrong age, wrong problems. Stan buried him in a dying magazine anyway. Sales exploded. The lesson holds for anyone with a notion someone tried to talk them out of:
Trust the gut signal a critic can't articulate around
Find a low-stakes place to ship it quietly
Let the scoreboard argue back
Want to hear Stan tell it himself? Watch this.
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