Margaret on a truly great pop debut album:

Cue the iconic @edsbs.bsky.social post, sports media executives edition:

“In a dreadful era for journalism jobs, the Post’s bloodbath stands out: last week may have been the biggest one-day wipeout of journalists in a generation.” washingtonian.com/2026/02/09/a...

great story www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

The Steven F. Godfrey Kayfabe Nieman Fellowship

Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club! You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Very excited to read the news of "Choosin' Texas" hitting No. 1 and immediately be greeted by a @marissarmoss.bsky.social piece about What It All Means

my opinion on the Bad Bunny halftime show, and non-English music in general, is that i think a need to “be able to understand the lyrics” displays an embarrassing shallowness of the speaker to appreciate the voice as an instrument & to appreciate music as something other than a lyric delivery system

Jacob Tierney writing Wolf Parade into the DNA of Heated Rivalry struck me as a nostalgic return to Hollywood's post-O.C. era

Wrote about Benito Bowl

Jacob Tierney writing Wolf Parade into the DNA of Heated Rivalry struck me as a nostalgic return to Hollywood's post-O.C. era

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Amazing

Beautiful, chaotic, and indeed a bit harrowing. A perfect soundtrack for the apocalypse.

The new Ratboys joint is easily my favorite album of the year thus far, and I had a great time talking to Julia Steiner about every song on the record.

There's a grim irony to the LA Times breaking this story about Karen Bass' inexcusable alterations to the Palisades fire reports, on the same day as the WaPo cuts. It’s a case study for why cities need healthy newspapers staffed by well-sourced and experienced Metro reporters.

I'm about the same age as the writer and I also liked death cab before they were on the OC lol: Playlist of all of the chapter's playlists: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry. www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...

Shirley Povich writing in 1962, with the most immaculate burn conceivable of the Redskins awful, vile owner George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to insist on an all white roster: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday." RIP WaPo.

Bezos has the resources to make WaPo into the BEST sports outlet and BEST science outlet and BEST place to get trusted news without feeling any sort of negative financial impact but is happy to turn it into Quillette because he’s lost whatever creative spark he had and turned into a vapid dullard

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

So fucking infuriating watching Bezos and his cronies kill the Post. Taking away sports, books, and international reporting so you can write opinions praising Trump is so damn bleak.

Just finished the audible of this. Really excellent overview; lines up with how I remember a lot of it and shades in stuff that seemed peripheral to me at the time. Neat companion to the @lizpelly.bsky.social Spotify book; one tracks explosion of taste the other tracks forces sending taste to 0.

[guests making small talk at the Justin Trudeau & Katy Perry wedding] MARK CARNEY: ... and ultimately, this idea of a hegemon, this Monroe Doctrine-era construct of a benign hemispheral custodian, it comes straight out of Hobbes CHARLI XCX: (nodding) like only the boy can see the tiger

Between this Friko album and the Cardinals album, that 05 blog rock shit you crave is back and better than ever. Note: I would never, ever joke about this.

Wrote about Mandy, Indiana, a harrowing place I intend to visit often

SHEESH

Really into this Friko album that was announced today

the fact that no one is named in this story—no sources or reporters (it's credited to "Athletic NFL Staff"—tells you everything you really need to know aabout it

All the stars are here: Brantley Gilbert, Brice Bradley, Gabby Babby, Bibb Glibsy, Slab Gabbert, Brice Bryce,

Golden glorious Tom Breihan prose

I wrote about Bad Bunny's triumph and the anti-ICE Grammys

I can't think of any song that defined the past year more than Billie Eilish's "Wildflower"

they killed MTV it only exists now in the Grammy telecast commercial breaks

The Dalai Lama won this category but I was ROBBED

Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"

Really vibing with @carlzoilus.bsky.social's take on "Streets Of Minneapolis" carlwilson.substack.com/p/keepin-war...

"I was 13 years old when Donald J. Trump raped me. Ghislaine Maxwell was also present."

Talked to Maynard about starring as Satan in 'Bikini Bandits,' coaching Deftones out of a creative slump, touring Guy Fieri around his vineyard, and a lot of other stuff

GOALIE GOAL GOALIE GOAL GOALIE GOAL

I was excited to go on The Brian Lennon show to talk about the many threads of my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS (plus a little football)

A Nurse Who Served Veterans Was Killed. Where You At, Country Music???

The Bari Weiss plan is for CBS News to employ fewer reporters charged with finding things out and more (right-skewing) commentators charged with telling them what to think. Same playbook Wash Post is using. www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Weird that hiring away a few checked-out Tory alcoholics from British dailies and emphasizing op eds about Why Your Boss Deserves A Tax Cut didn't deliver better results but what can you do? What, at the end of the day, can you do?

By far the most surreal part of that statement is the part where he talks about finding help for his mental issues on Reddit. Can you imagine you’re a normal person venting about being bipolar on Reddit and literally Kanye is on the other end of the computer being like “damn that’s just like me fr”

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

If you're a sportswriter seeking Malcolm Butler this week, you should know that Ringer H'wood Bureau Chief @alansiegella.bsky.social already found him. www.theringer.com/2025/02/05/n...

This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.