Here's a great excerpt from @stefanfatsis.bsky.social's superb new book, Unabridged, which, trust me, you want to read.

I just read this great article about Merriam Webster and Dictionary dot com and the state of the modern dictionary and recommend you read it too! Now I’m excited for @stefanfatsis.bsky.social’s book!

The first excerpt/adaptation from my new book, UNABRIDGED, is out, in the @theatlantic.com. Read, share, preorder (the book, that is). www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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As someone who spent many hours listening to Kirk’s show on AM radio, I would say that he made Rush Limbaugh seem like Walter Cronkite by comparison, in terms of rhetorical tone and empirical rigor. The subtext of every show was “You don’t hate the left enough.”

This is an important thread. It seems weirdly disrespectful to try to turn Kirk into something he clearly despised.

William F. Buckley demanded that HIV-positive men be tattooed "in the upper forearm, to protect common-needle users, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals." So feel free to mail him a letter stamped with his sour visage c/o Hell.

DC friends: I’ll be talking tomorrow with baseball-writing titan Jane Leavy about her incredibly fun new manifesto, MAKE ME COMMISSIONER. 7 pm at Wonderland Books in Bethesda. Details: www.wonderlandbooks.com/events/34768...

More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance. Read more here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...

A friend writes (from a bus on the way to a Free DC protest):

THE PAPER was a great excuse to write about my own newspaper days, which sometimes felt like a sitcom. www.theringer.com/2025/09/04/t...

Found these legends at my Sunday softball pickup game at Turtle Park in Washington DC

Taylor Townsend has more experience than any athlete alive fighting for respect and carving out space for herself in a sport that's told her repeatedly that she doesn't belong. Today is just the latest example of why tennis is lucky to have her.

One of the finest sports interviews you will ever watch: “How did you get through the 9th?” “Threw the ball over the plate.” Marlins pitcher Tyler Phillips, speaking to Stephen Strom/Marlins Radio Network

Idaho State's kicker is named TRAJAN SINATRA

🧵🧵🧵 Trump often lies about Chicago, using a great American city as a punching bag to entertain out-of-town racists who are scared of Black and Latino Chicagoans whom they’ve never met. He’s threatening a military occupation. Here’s a thread about Chicago, Trump and crime. 1/

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

See what Pablo finds out then get tix for Squawkin’ Sports Live XIV 9/25 7pm: @sethwickersham.bsky.social @jaybusbee.bsky.social @davidjroth.bsky.social @squawkinsports.bsky.social (mark calendar!) @williamfleitch.bsky.social @stefanfatsis.bsky.social @juliekliegman.com @xbennyboo.bsky.social

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

Wrote for the New York Times about Taylor Townsend. She hasn't had a clothing sponsor for seven years, so she decided to start her own namesake brand. At the US Open, she'll be wearing orcas, all thanks to Samuel L. Jackson www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/s...

Roses are red Fall turns to winter

Defending North American Scrabble champ Mack Meller just made the sick player of TRABEATED to force a deciding Game 5 of the Scrabble Players Championship. Check out the livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/ObGxnQh...

"He can either give us a license... or we’ll smash the fucking window out and drag him out.” That's not just any ICE officer saying that. His name is Matthew Elliston and he now oversees ICE field operations on the East Coast.

Via Nate Jackson: Who does the NFLPA represent? defector.com/who-does-the...

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

A romp, says Kirkus! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: Appearing/signing at Bethesda's Wonderland Books this Monday wonderlandbooks.com/events on a live podcast with the great Torie Clarke chatteronbooks.com, NBA titan David Aldridge and CNN legend Jamie McIntyre. Come all.... wonderlandbooks.com Wonderland Books

Sunday: "The U.S. had nothing to do with the attack on Iran." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... Today: "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran ... Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... He's not a hawk. He's not a dove. He's just a moron.

Today's newsletter is one of the few places where you'll read about Clayton Kershaw defacing his Pride Day cap with a bible verse widely used by homophobes to discredit the LGBTQ+ community. Imagine if it was someone doing that to an American flag cap logo. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Sitka AK (plus a couple hundred more) #nokings

Sitka AK #NoKings

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

My new book now comes with blurbs—for which I’m very grateful—from @bcdreyer.social, @jessesword.com and @byagoda.bsky.social, with more TK. Read them here, where you can also preorder if you’re so inclined: groveatlantic.com/book/unabrid...

Happy book release day to the legend @alansiegella.bsky.social -- and come see us at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social on June 17! www.solidstatebooksdc.com/events/2025/...

My new book now comes with blurbs—for which I’m very grateful—from @bcdreyer.social, @jessesword.com and @byagoda.bsky.social, with more TK. Read them here, where you can also preorder if you’re so inclined: groveatlantic.com/book/unabrid...

On Coco Gauff and her parents, a feel-good story in a sport full of cautionary tales, who were the big winners today at #RolandGarros. www.benrothenberg.com/p/coco-gauff...

Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please." What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!

After the #spellingbee finals, check out this pronouncer’s-eye view in @defector.com? defector.com/confessions-...

So many embarrassingly bad questions at this press conference, starting with the first, which asked Musk about the "slings and arrows" he faced. Really?/1 www.techpolicy.press/transcript-e...

I’m reading it - it’s a goddamn joy - and you should think about pre-ordering it. In LA? Maybe preorder from @vromansbookstore.bsky.social. (Whispers) @stefanfatsis.bsky.social, you’ve definitely already caught it but I found something you might want to change. DM me.

DC friends: I'll be talking with @byslp.bsky.social about his monumental new book about lax at @politicsprose.bsky.social tomorrow 5/20 at 7 pm. Please attend to see how much Scott still resembles his author photo politics-prose.com/sl-price

You should mos[t] def[initely] preorder this book, which is so much fun it's almost too much fun.

I just finished reading @stefanfatsis.bsky.social's majestic, rollicking Unabridged, and it's an absolute delight from front to back. All thumbs up.

We're so excited to share this gorgeous cover of UNABRIDGED by @stefanfatsis.bsky.social, a vibrant journey through the world of Merriam-Webster, dictionaries, and language. Cover art by @davidplunkert.bsky.social Out 10/14!

Here’s the fantastic cover by @davidplunkert.bsky.social of my new book, out in October from @groveatlantic.bsky.social. Preorder now—support independent bookstores! groveatlantic.com/book/unabrid...

Here’s the fantastic cover by @davidplunkert.bsky.social of my new book, out in October from @groveatlantic.bsky.social. Preorder now—support independent bookstores! groveatlantic.com/book/unabrid...

Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Chicago Cardinals merch flying off shelves