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Well, at least someone is glad that the Kansas City Chiefs are back at the top of their game.
The rest of the country might be rolling their eyes at the prospect of another year of Chiefs dominance, but newlywed Taylor Swift is loving every minute of it.
Tay was on hand Sunday night as the Chiefs edged out the Indianapolis Colts in overtime and Travis scored his first touchdown as a married man.
And his wife had a rather memorable way of celebrating.
Patrick Mahomes connected with Kelce for a 13-yard touchdown in the first quarter, giving Kansas City an early 10-7 lead.
The NBC broadcast then cut to Taylor in the suite, where she was celebrating enthusiastically alongside family members.
In a memorable celly moment of her own, Taylor pointed directly at her wedding ring.
Yes, after all these years of watching Travis find the end zone, she wanted to make absolutely certain everyone knew that this particular touchdown belonged to her husband.
“That’s my husband!” Taylor seemed to shout during the celebration. We couldn’t hear her on the broadcast, but we could certainly read her lips.
Hey, subtlety has never exactly been the name of the game when it comes to Taylor and Travis. And we’re fine with that.
The couple, who began dating in 2023, got married at Madison Square Garden earlier this summer.
Taylor has since continued showing up to support Travis and the Chiefs, and Sunday marked her second consecutive appearance at Arrowhead this season.
It remains to be seen if she’ll skip the Chiefs’ away games, as she did last season.
Travis, meanwhile, reminded everyone that he can still make plenty of noise on the football field.
The 36-year-old tight end finished the game with nine catches for 101 yards and a touchdown. His score was his first of the season after he caught three passes for 71 yards in Kansas City’s season-opening victory over the Denver Broncos.
And while the Chiefs ultimately needed overtime to defeat the Colts 33-30, Travis’ touchdown gave Taylor an early reason to celebrate.
The game also provided another reminder that Taylor and Travis remain one of the NFL’s most closely watched couples.
It’ll likely be Travis’ last season in the NFL — and clearly, he and Taylor intend to make the most of it.
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Former state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, third from left, speaks at a gubernatorial candidate forum on Sept. 16, 2026, while former Attorney General Treg Taylor, Anchorage business owner and talk-show host Bernadette Wilson and former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson listen. The forum was held by the Alaska Hospital and Healthcare Association and the organization’s annual conference in Girdwood. Taylor, Wilson and Bronson are Republicans. Kreiss-Tomkins is a Democrat. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
In a candidate forum Thursday, three of the four candidates to be Alaska’s next governor voiced support for a long-debated plan to restructure the Alaska Permanent Fund in order to permanently cap the amount of money that can be spent from it without a statewide vote.
“You’ve got to protect the Permanent Fund. You simply have to,” said Republican candidate and former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, speaking at the Commonwealth North forum.
Bronson referred to the Permanent Fund as “one of the two big engines” driving the state’s future. The other, he said, is developing Alaska’s natural resources.
Created in 1976, the Alaska Permanent Fund has been the No. 1 source of revenue for state services and the annual Permanent Fund dividend since 2018, when legislators and then-Gov. Bill Walker enacted a law that automatically diverts a portion of the now-$88 billion fund to the state treasury annually.
Even in years like this one, when oil prices are high and the state’s oil revenue booms, the annual transfer is worth more than oil and all other taxes combined and accounts for more than half of the state’s general-purpose revenue.
Currently, the Permanent Fund is divided into two parts. There’s the constitutionally protected corpus, which can only be spent via a statewide vote, and the earnings reserve, which collects the investment earnings of the corpus.
Money in the reserve can be spent by a simple majority vote of the Legislature and the assent of the governor.
Currently, only the 2018 law restricts spending from the earnings reserve, and that law is a flimsy limit — it could be overridden at any time by the Legislature and governor.
The trustees of the Alaska Permanent Fund have advocated that the two funds be combined into one, both to prevent overspending and to eliminate the possibility of the earnings reserve being drained, which would cause an instant state fiscal crisis.
“I think this is arguably the single most important question laying in wait for the next governor and the forthcoming Legislature,” said Democratic candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins. “I share Mayor Bronson’s belief that the Permanent Fund is a cornerstone of the state, and it is the single most important reform I want to pass as governor, working with the Legislature.”
Merging the two accounts would require a constitutional amendment. That needs the assent of two-thirds of the state House and two-thirds of the state Senate, plus a majority of voters in a statewide general election.
While serving as a member of the state House, Kreiss-Tomkins proposed such an amendment. His proposal passed through two legislative committees but was never voted upon by the full House or the full Senate.
Other, similar amendments have also failed to reach a vote of the House or Senate for two main reasons.
First, legislators would have to agree on the size of the Permanent Fund spending cap. Over the past eight years, the fund has struggled to earn enough money from its investments to make up for the annual transfer.
But reducing the size of the transfer means less money for services and dividends.
In 2025, state budgeters estimated that reducing the transfer by half a percentage point would open a $380 million gap in the budget. Reducing it by a full percentage point — to a level common in trust funds — would require finding $760 million per year in new revenue or cost cuts.
The second issue is the Permanent Fund dividend. Currently, legislators split the annual transfer from the Permanent Fund on an ad hoc basis, deciding each year how much to spend on dividends and services.
In practice, the Legislature has followed a “surplus dividend” strategy, setting the amount of the dividend based on what’s left over after services are paid for.
As operating costs have risen, the amount of money left for the dividend has shrunk. Some legislators now believe that without a policy change, the dividend is on course to disappear by the end of the decade.
State law mandates that dividends be paid using a specific formula in state law, but legislators have ignored that formula since 2016, and the Alaska Supreme Court upheld the legality of that approach.
Republican candidate Bernadette Wilson has said that she believes the dividend formula creates an obligation to Alaskans, one that should be repaid even if it means breaking the existing spending limit from the Permanent Fund.
“I’m going to fight like hell for that Permanent Fund dividend,” Wilson told Alaska Public Media in August.
She said she feels strongly about the issue because resources in Alaska are collectively owned by the state’s residents.
“It has nothing to do with the amount of a check. It has everything to do with the fact that Alaskans own the rights to those resources. And when you concede on that Permanent Fund dividend, you’re not just conceding on the amount of a check. You are conceding on the very idea that Alaskans no longer own those resources,” she said.
While permanently capping spending from the Permanent Fund does not directly alter the amount of the Permanent Fund dividend, it does eliminate a way to pay for larger dividends. Lawmakers who want larger dividends would have to either find new revenue or cut services in order to make money available for the dividend.
Some legislators have proposed that any revised structure for the Permanent Fund transfer reserve a portion of the transfer for dividends specifically, effectively guaranteeing a minimum payment.
Former Alaska attorney general Treg Taylor, speaking at an event in Kodiak, said he sees the Permanent Fund in the same way as the state’s fisheries — a resource that must be handled carefully in order to stay renewable.
Overfishing, or overspending, could endanger it.
“I think we have to lock up the Permanent Fund,” Taylor said, reiterating his position at this week’s Commonwealth North forum. “We have to protect that corpus. If we do not, there’s so much — I mean, JKT had it right. There’s just too much temptation to raid that. We’ve got to lock it up because that is our future.”
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Jinger Duggar is now podcasting without her husband and opening up more about her life.
Together with Joy, she revealed that she has a learning disability.
Jinger’s dyslexia wasn’t caught and diagnosed as part of her cult-approved homeschooling curriculum.
Instead, it even impacted the way that Jinger engaged with her faith, right down to reading the bible.
Jinger Duggar has dyslexia?
On the second official episode of the Call Your Sister podcast, Jinger and Joy-Anna Duggar discussed growing up.
They explored a few topics, from phases (of course using the “seasons” in-group language) to first crushes (when Jinger was 9, she had a crush on an older man she referred to as a “teacher,” though she acknowledges that he cold have been a teen at the time).
Jinger also disclosed that she has dyslexia, a learning disability that interferes with reading.
Had she attended anything resembling an actual school, it’s likely that this would have been identified in childhood.
Instead, Jinger learned her own workarounds … but it really interfered when it came time for Jinger to read the bible.
When Jinger was around 12 years old, she shared, she sat down to read her religion’s sacred text from cover to cover.
That makes a lot of sense for a Christian (or a non-Christian looking to better understand our heavily culturally Christian society) to do, but Jinger discovered that this was a challenge.
Referring to this plan as part of the “season of life” that she was in at the time, Jinger tried to explain.
“I [was] just determined to read it from start to finish within two months,” she shared.
“And somehow I relied on audio Bibles,” Jinger revealed, “‘cause I have dyslexia.”
‘I know how hard it is for me to read out loud’
“Never been, whatever they say, diagnosed,” Jinger Duggar quickly admitted.
Due to our nation’s healthcare system, many people do not receive a diagnosis that could better explain their lives or open access to accommodations that they need in order to thrive.
“But I know how hard it is for me to read out loud,” she shared.
“Now, reading aloud is different than reading it like looking at it,” Jinger specified, “but it still is hard.”
Jinger acknowledged: “So my comprehension is terrible.”
The primary argument for sending children to actual schools instead of condemning them to homeschooling doesn’t really involve diagnosing things like dyslexia or ADHD or left-handedness or other traits that a teacher might recognize but a parent might not. It’s not even on the Top 5 list.
But it is on the list. And, looking on social media, it doesn’t seem that anyone is surprised that Jinger’s struggles with reading slipped by Michelle.
When your priorities are indoctrination and isolation, entire academic topics can leave the curriculum, and a learning disability or other brain difference can easily go unnoticed — or, worse, blamed on the child.
It’s good that Jinger knows herself well enough as an adult to identify that she has dyslexia.
When kids with dyslexia learn to “work around” their reading difficulties, they often engage in guesswork — learning the shapes and sizes of words instead of phonics. That’s not the same as reading.
Many folks online have pointed out that dyslexia often runs in families. How many other Duggars have undiagnosed dyslexia?
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Unfortunately, the chilling accusations that Brittany Cartwright made against Jax Taylor were only the tip of the iceberg.
She accused the Vanderpump Rules star of violent threats and assault.
In a detailed court filing, Brittany is sharing a broader catalogue of his alleged behavior, and she allegedly has evidence to back up her claims.
Jax claims that she’s trying to sabotage his alleged sobriety, but that doesn’t seem to be her motive.
Brittany Cartwright has harrowing allegations against Jax Taylor
Fair warning: very part of this is upsetting, and includes allegations of violence, violent threats, use of slurs, and more from a former romantic partner.
Recently, Brittany Cartwright secured a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Jax Taylor.
The former couple’s contentious divorce includes ugly custody disputes involving their young child.
RadarOnline reports on the details of Brittany’s allegations, which include Jax allegedly threatening to “gut her like a f–king fish” and to “f–king kill” her.
These threats and more came during an alleged furniture-throwing attack. Brittany shared evidence of what she says were injuries that she sustained during her ex’s tantrum.
In court documents, Brittany accused Jax of “coercive control, financial abuse, emotional and psychological abuse, gaslighting, and even physical violence.”
She also accused him of using child-support and spousal-support to intimidate her following their 2024 split.
In her filing, she says that Jax habitually “confronts me during custody-related interactions.”
As a result, Brittany shared with the court, she feels “so deeply concerned about Cruz being exposed to any escalation or retaliation.” Cruz is the former couple’s 5-year-old son.
Brittany has attempted to get sole custody of their child, but will have to make her case at a future hearing.
Some of the alleged verbal abuse took place in front of their child
According to Brittany Cartwright, Jax Taylor has bombared her with vicious insults. At times, in front of their child. At times, in public.
She says that he has called her “degrading and humiliating” names, including variations of “bitch,” “fat bitch,” “fatty,” and worse things that are unfit to print.
Additionally, he reportedly used the r-slur. That is unconscionable in any context.
Brittany has an alleged recording of incidents of verbal abuse — including a transcript which makes note of when Cruz is crying in the background.
Additionally, she says that Jax broke three of her iPhones, an iPad, and other property. She also accuses him of taking her $70,000 wedding ring.
Brittany and Jax married in 2019. At that time, they had been dating for four years.
In 2024, they broke up. Since then, harrowing allegations like these have been coming out — though never so many at once as in Brittany’s court filings, which of course need to catalogue everything.
Jax says that he is 21 months sober, simultaneously claiming that he takes “full responsibility” while also disputing what Brittany has to say.
(Sometimes, people will claim — truthfully or otherwise — to now be sober, hoping that this gives them a clean slate over past behavior. It does not.)
It sounds like this ugly breakup isn’t going to stop being contentious any time soon.
Jax Taylor Allegedly Threatened to ‘Gut’ & ‘Kill’ Brittany … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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