Taylor Acton
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Taylor Acton
@rtayloracton
🇺🇸🇫🇲🇵🇼 BYU. Real Salt Lake. Cowboys. Mariners. Jazz. Utah Mammoth. ASU. Geelong. Married to the gorgeous @KellieActon. Tweets are my own opinions!






Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…



I have flown United and Delta a half dozen times each in the past 6 months. It is my view that United has passed Delta as the America’s premium airline. And the gap continues to grow. United’s product, aircraft interiors, mobile app, WiFi (Starlink is much better than Viasat) and network are simply better than what Delta has to offer. This was not the case 5 years ago. Scott Kirby took a gamble post-Covid to go big on CapEx spending to turn United into a more premium airline. This meant new interiors on hundreds of aircraft, Starlink WiFi, rapid fleet growth, and a major expansion of their network. Delta chose to play it more conservative and pay off Covid-era debt quickly on their balance sheet. This was a safer (and from a shareholder perspective arguably smarter) decision to take during a time of great uncertainty. This decision, however, shows in a Delta product that is starting to lag behind. (I say this as a lifetime Delta loyalist)


Makena graduated with a 3.87 GPA, despite finishing her senior year reading at a first-grade level. Her attorneys argue that, well-intentioned or not, the district should have withheld her diploma until she completed its vocational program: king5.com/article/news/e…


2025 Revenue Growth: New Balance: +19% Adidas: 13% Lululemon: +9% Puma: -8.1% Under Armour: -9.4% Nike: -10% Jordan Brand -16%




















