"To be a man, I've learned, is to have excuses made for you." thewhitepages.net/p/we-all-des...

One potentially helpful thread for general interrogation (not directing this just to @anamariecox.com at all) is why this particular performance of white guy truck ad style masculinity is always the go-to, even among folks with progressive gender politics. Why this same type of "fighter" every time?

There's a line on the new 414BigFrank album where he raps I've got the city on my back/like Milwaukee's made of bone!" Pretty good line!

The deepest cut in the Platner story is that everything about it is so predictable. thewhitepages.net/p/we-all-des...

I hate how much I wonder how many women are keeping quiet about *something* because it would ruin their lives/tank their careers to speak up.

This is an explanation, not an excuse or justification, but there are so many white-collar men who - whenever they're interacting with men who code as more grimily masculine - will accept social transgressions, comments, and general shittiness that would never fly otherwise.

When I critiqued Platner (after the NYT story), a number of leftist women in ME reached out, angry w/ me. We had good convos about why they trusted him now. This isn't an "I told you so." I'm truly sad for them (and all Mainers), and the pattern of women having to defend all the messes we men make.

Everything about Graham Platner has, for months now, just made me deeply sad. Just every layer of it, a case study in how we still yet built the kind of movements we all truly deserve.

Every inspiring candidate currently considered “unelectable” will be explained away as being a shoo-in after they win (to discourage others from trying), so the lesson’s clear! Try! And work your tail off for the handful of candidates who truly deserve it!

In light of the Rufo interview, it's time for me to TAP THE SIGN AGAIN thewhitepages.net/p/ezra-klein...

YESSSSS!! “Can you feel it? There’s a vibe shift afoot, and it spans across the American left-liberal coalition. Self-righteous bloviation and performative nihilism are out. Community care and collective joy are in.” Spot on @garrettbucks.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...

One of the things I believe in most deeply is that I want Giannis Antetokounmpo to be happy, so I hope this trade makes him happy! Also I hope that tonight the Bucks draft a gangly 19 year old from the Greek Second Division whose highlight clips appear to have been filmed on a flip phone.

There are two different ways to get around a city in a vehicle that is not owned by you. One of them is private and actively hates you. The other is the city bus, underfunded and maligned, but which only exists to help you. www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...

Speaking as a dual citizen of the Midwest and New York, welcome! A well-timed eye roll fits right in here in NYC. You are on your way to becoming fluent in the local customs! Just wrote a little primer on Midwest-NYC bilingualism this week. 🏀

You all don't understand. As a resident of non New York America, I've spent my entire life cultivating a unique mix of annoyance at/resentment of you all and YOU ALL ARE MAKING IT VERY HARD TO MAINTAIN THAT! Stop being so charming and socialist! I'm supposed to roll my eyes at you!

My socialists, sewer My temperature by the lake, cooler My first bite of the platter, moz sticks Bucks in six

"We do not all need to have fun in the same way, nor to love the same things, but we are ALL equally deserving of being entertained, in public, for free." Spot on @garrettbucks.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...

Garrett knocks it OUT OF THE PARK here.

You deserve to be entertained! In public! For free! thewhitepages.net/p/do-you-bel...

I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE GET TO BE HAPPY IN THE STREETS WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS!!

We are living at a moment of two movements existing side by side-- a dying one, which is built on rage and exclusion, and a growing gone, of neighbors and care and bonds restitched together.

The most effective social movements have always understood that "who deserves entertainment" is just as important as any other "who deserves ______" question.

The real tragedy of media consolidation is that we don’t have investigative reporters for the moments we need them most- like figuring out all the logistics of Hargitay getting a shirt mid-game. How many extra novelty shirts does Taylor Swift carry at all times? Did she steal it from the 3rd Haim??

“I don’t need you to argue why you should be allowed to use AI. I’ll just reply with honesty and love: you’re great, but AI is a loser machine. And I hope you don’t use it, not because you need to prove your morality to me, but because I don’t want you to lose.” thewhitepages.net/p/you-will-n...

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ELECT A SOCIALIST MAYOR!

BASKETBALL!!!

BASKETBALL!

Question from our NBA group chat. Is Mariska Hargitay, who was not previously wearing a matching Haim-Swift pun shirt, somehow now wearing one? Is she a Haim sister now?

Hey guys, I'm offering a new service.

I think we found a winner.

My mayor Muslim. My bagels Jewish. My newsletter: subscribe! Knicks in five.

Basketball!

This is sick and we should do it all the time

Booing despots has got to be a top three crowd activity. Up there with kiss cam and cheering super crazy when the other team misses free throws and you get free Wingstop.

This afternoon, I attended a youth theatre production and in the cast bios in the playbill one of the performers listed, under hobbies, “I recently found some bones so I’ve been pretty busy cleaning those up.”

enjoying my anecdote to the decadence of a professional class that constantly chases novel gustatory experiences

Just gonna leave this here. daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/when-authe...

"Yeah Mike, I got something to say. Now Adams, that guy was a job CREATOR. This new guy they got in there now, what's his name Mambana. Just you watch, the way he's running the city those guys'll just stay in Texas after Game Two. They know which way their bread is buttered."

Man, California elections are wild. 5 million people running in every race. 80% are evil, 15% are, like, mimes or something. Ballots are counted once a fortnight. If you don't read the initiatives correctly you accidentally legalize The Americana at Brand owning your children.

BASKETBALL!

Fox News drops this bombshell report that @francescahongwi.bsky.social is cool as hell

Four Republicans voting against the Iran War is, on one hand, only four Republicans, but in the context of the last year and a half, where we truly lived through a period where it appeared that there would be no real check on Presidential power, that's a big deal, actually.

So, The Free Press has recently started its own reader forum/message board and you know what, may we all be blessed with fans who support us despite all logic, reason and facts to the contrary.

But it has been working! My God!! It's absolutely accomplished what oppositional mass mobilizations should! And yet, every few months, out of nowhere, there's another criticism of it in a major outlet for fully vibes based reasons.

“I picture us a thirteen, and see our hearts in their rawest form— malleable, permeable, breakable.” thewhitepages.net/p/i-have-bee...

“Build community, my friends, because our lives do, in fact, depend on it.” Late to👇 but glad I found it. Give it a read.

Garrett knocks it out of the park.

Strong men keep coming up to me, heroes, with tears in their eyes, saying "please sir, will you write an essay about the bros who went to the baseball game and took off their shirts." thewhitepages.net/p/consider-t...

Silly google, web search isn't the place for AI, footwear is!

Every time a story goes viral about a bigoted decision in a rural or exurban community, know that there are also people in that place (often rad teens) pushing back. www.wdtimes.com/news/local/w...