Good morning.

Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 14. Sunrise is 7:13 and sunset is 5:02 for 9 hours 47 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 75.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1958, the Lego company patents a design of its Lego bricks that is still compatible with bricks produced today.
Wisconsin’s gubernatorial primary election is August 11, but the WISGOP race effectively ended Tuesday night:

President Donald Trump has endorsed U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Minocqua, in his bid to be the next governor of Wisconsin.
Trump announced the endorsement Tuesday night, writing on his social media platform Truth Social that Tiffany had his “Complete and Total Endorsement.”
“He will fight to advance Common Sense Values, and put WISCONSIN, AND AMERICA, FIRST,” Trump wrote.
See Anya van Wagtendonk, President Trump endorses Tom Tiffany for Wisconsin governor, Wisconsin Public Radio, January 27, 2026.
The first consequence of Trump’s endorsement of Tiffany is that all the candidates in the WisDems primary have by contrast become a few years younger, a few years quicker in their steps, and no less than 86.7% more appealing than before.
Sometimes, but only for a while:
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