Fashion
MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki Became Twitter’s Boyfriend This Week
As he explained the intricacies of the election results this week, seemingly without sleep for days on end, Steve Kornacki became the breakout cable-news star of the 2020 presidential campaign….

He may seem an unlikely heartthrob with his white shirt, striped tie, and standard-issue khakis, looking more like an H&R Block tax preparer than the star of a cable-news network. But as Americans stayed glued to their TVs this week, watching every anxiety-inducing twist and turn of this unprecedented presidential election, MSNBC data expert Steve Kornacki emerged as a national obsession.
Going 24-hour days seemingly without any sleep, Kornacki was a soothingly nerdy presence: identifying obscure but key counties in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin (and explaining why their early vote totals might be misleading) and metaphorically holding the nation’s hand as it went through a collective nervous breakdown.
Never has a command of math seemed so sexy.
“I’m trying to follow the details of each state but keep getting distracted by how hot Steve Kornacki is,” wrote one Twitter admirer. Another was on the edge of meltdown after days of watching Kornacki crunching numbers: “Oh, sweet energetic @SteveKornacki. It’s your time to shine, you perfect sexy king. Take my pain away with your charts and graphs and numbers. I lay my body at the altar of your big board.”
One of the questions that many people had, especially as Tuesday’s results bled into Wednesday with Kornacki onscreen almost the entire time: Does the man ever take a breather? As the MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance tweeted on Wednesday, “How is @SteveKornacki still lucid?” Even Chrissy Teigen weighed in:
The Washington Post put the sleep question to MSNBC for a profile of Kornacki that ran on Thursday. “He has not slept since he was on Morning Joe yesterday,” the spokesperson told the Post via text message late Wednesday morning. But 30 minutes later, the spokesperson updated the paper that Kornacki was finally “taking a break” from the big board.
Entertainment
A$AP Rocky Turned An Entire Manchester City Kit Into His Album Rollout
A$AP Rocky doesn’t do album rollouts quietly, and this one recruited an entire Premier League club to help. Manchester City, PUMA, and Rocky teamed up on a limited apparel run tied to “Don’t Be Dumb,” his 2026 album, timed around his September 5th show at Co-op Live.
The centerpiece is a long-sleeve PUMA King jersey in black and archive gold, with “DON’T BE DUMB” running down the sleeve and AWGE branding worked in throughout. A bold “MANCHESTER” graphic covers the back. Fans could also add limited “A$AP 11” name-and-number printing onto the club’s actual Home, Away, or Third kits, while supplies lasted at retail.
There’s a players-only version too, and it never went up for sale. That one sticks closer to City’s usual sky-blue identity, with its own sleeve detailing and back graphic — the kind of piece that exists purely because a handful of people got lucky.
The whole rollout kicked off with a one-night pop-up on September 4th, when PUMA turned a spot in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a pop-up cafe for the night, mixing football, music, and street style into one room before the wider release hit the stadium store the next morning. Some of those jerseys even came with golden tickets to the concert or that Saturday’s match.
Rocky has called the project true to his own design language, and it’s not even his only club collaboration this cycle — a similar drop with AC Milan landed around the same time. At this point, the line between fashion week and matchday has basically disappeared.
Entertainment
Quavo And Lids Are Going All In On Atlanta With Their New Cap Pack
Quavo has never been shy about his hat obsession, and Lids just gave him another outlet for it. Their new “Atlanta” pack drops September 12th, marking another round in a partnership that’s been running strong since 2019.
The collection is a love letter to the city, spread across three very different caps. One mashes up pinstripes, script lettering, and Braves branding into a single design, working navy, red, white, and light blue into the mix. Another goes the opposite direction entirely — fully iced out in crystal detailing, done up in black and red, with both the Falcons and the Braves showing up in the design. The third strips things back to an old-school “ATL” trucker cap in red, white, and gold, the kind of understated piece that lets the city’s name do the talking.
None of this is new territory for Quavo. He’s talked before about waiting on hat releases as a kid, and that same excitement seems to be what’s kept this partnership going years past most celebrity collabs. His earlier Lids run leaned on one moment — the Braves’ 1995 World Series win — but this pack pulls from the city’s whole sports history instead of just one highlight.
Lids has called Quavo one of the rare voices who can blend music, fashion, and sports without it feeling forced, and this drop backs that up. Given how fast his past releases have moved, Atlanta might want to set an alarm for September 12th.
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