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Welcome to The Monday List.

Every Monday, we link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.

What We’re Reading This Week:

What’s Ahead for IPOs in 2020

This year’s class of Reynolds, Stripe, and Airbnb are hoping to outperform the lagging, newly public fortunes of Uber and Lyft.

Big Tech Doesn’t Like DIY Repair, But Won’t Say Why In Public

The most interesting thing about Tuesday’s Right to Repair hearing in Washington state was what the tech lobbyists wouldn’t say.

The Tesla Skeptics Who Bet Against Elon Musk

$TSLAQ is an informal collection of obsessives pushing back against the cult of Elon.

The US Space Force Has a Rough Launch on the Internet

From controversy over camo print to Star Trek comparisons, the new military branch can’t buy a break online.

Old Musicians Never Die. They Just Become Holograms.

Companies are making plans to put droves of departed idols on tour — reanimating a live-music industry whose biggest earners will soon be dying off.