THEY SPITTIN' FACTS

I specifically asked the universe for none of this shit THIS season (next year, ok, maybe), yet here we are this morning, in June. Crew is ON IT. www.nola.com/news/weather...

“…the water is more or less the color of a sour apple Jolly Rancher now. It looks like they're brewing Yodas in there. It is so uncannily green & visibly slimy that it feels inevitable that video will soon surface of RFK Jr. splashing around in it with jeans on.” defector.com/promises-mad...

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If you're in New Orleans on 6/8, the Prytania Theater (Uptown) is hosting a 50th anniv screening of "All the President's Men" at 7 PM, hosted by Henry Griffin and featuring a Q&A with some guy who once worked at @washingtonpost. (Spoiler: It's me. Other spoiler: Nixon Resigns.)

I propose a hurricane season named entirely after the Boomers who insist they get to pick their own grandparent names 🙄 This year features a Nana, but let's also have Meemaw, Gigi, Lee Lee, Pop Pop, Moo Moo, Glam Glam, La La ... www.nola.com/news/hurrica...

Clearly he has never seen the Brady Bunch episode where Peter threw himself a party.

If you ever loved Star Wars (and even if you didn’t, or peeled off years ago) then you probably know it’s because Marcia Lucas took her future ex-husband’s draggy pile of footage and edited it into the film that blew everyone’s minds that summer. apple.news/ATZdN2I3qT5a...

is it called america 250 because 250 musical acts have pulled out of it

All the squillion things that can happen on a MacBook track pad, that you would never do, never want to do, and cannot replicate the gesture so you can figure out why it did that. Can it just be a cursor that moves around and clicks/right-clicks?

That’s Benjamin Franklin

Not the obituary I wanted to read today. apnews.com/article/barn...

Pete Buttigieg to CNN just now.. about Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's controversial road trip reality show "I love road trips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded road trip lasting about seven months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different"

The neat new wasp in Louisiana eats giant roaches, so you should welcome it into your house. It lays eggs inside them, which hatch and eat it from within. Hi from New Orleans. I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.

Rex Reed was a fascinating man. In the late 1960s, he became the first entertainment journalist (for the NY Herald Tribune and the NYT) to be allowed to write in a recognizably queer voice for mainstream publications. The best of his on-set reports from back then are among the best ever written. >

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

The New Orleans flood protection board president let the agency's police chief write his own employment contract, which could have paid out up to $910,000 in severance. He didn't run the contract by the agency's lawyer because the attorney was 'not in town that week.'

A bottle of bourbon went missing, causing Patel to “lose his mind,” according to clients of Kurt Siuzdak, who has assisted FBI agents w/legal issues. Multiple agents contacted him after Patel threatened to polygraph & prosecute his staff over the missing bottle. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“We are all Cheryl Hines. Unprepared for the scenario in which we will be forced to run for our lives. Watching the important people be whisked away while we wonder whether we should try to follow them, or duck under a table, or grab the good wine.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Seeing a lot of hand-wringing over nobody (NOBODY!) in Sunday newspaper world getting Saturday's WHCD shooter on the front page. Nobody? Au contraire, mon cher. Behold the benefits of local ownership, local presses.

Incredible reporting by @maurajudkis.bsky.social. Please read through to the end. wapo.st/4u296gY

In the wake of the Michael Jackson biopic success, producers are now planning a John Wayne Gacy movie that focuses only on his career as a clown.

These look really cool.

More of this, less of bombing other countries (From @acyn.bsky.social )

Leopard, meet face. Face, leopard.

whenever people assume I am excited about a movie or show based on something I loved when I was 8 I just think about how weird it would’ve been if my dad got all pumped up about a Howdy Doody movie in 1986

“I hear people talk about this beautiful relationship with Jesus. Mine is not like that. It is a little more questioning and mystery. That is why it is called faith.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

It's really not a good idea to try to be a debate-me bro with the Pope. Especially when you have only been a Catholic since, like, last Tuesday.

Big '80s nostalgia as Saks closes at Canal Place in New Orleans. But also existential questions from shoppers: "Where are we all gonna go as people if we keep buying stuff online? How are we gonna see people or even know if things fit?" www.nola.com/news/busines...

Don’t tell me I have no choice but to adapt to using AI. You don’t know how stubborn I am. My dad is 80 and has never had an email address. That’s the blood in my veins.

“The men and women who lie in Arlington have earned that peace, and they deserve our quiet, humble gratitude, not this monstrous monument to power, war and one man’s ego.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

I'm so Gen X that I don't watch live broadcasts of space things. Thought I was in the clear, yay, they're back, peeked into the NASA feed and now stressssed out over this radio thing. NO THANK YOU.

A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.

Must be weird going to CVS after you just went to the Moon

Louisiana now has nearly 6,500 orphaned wells — more than ever before, and 2,000 more than it had just two years ago. We tracked down four companies that are largely responsible for that spike. They owned almost 1,200 now-orphaned wells. www.nola.com/news/busines...

Robin Williams on Qaddafi.

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

What are you talking about? There's nothing wrong with AI fact-checking!

"The modest church on the cover of Vice President JD Vance’s new memoir unpacking his Catholic faith has a tiny but loyal congregation. What it doesn’t have, members said: any connection to Vance or Catholicism." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

The Advocate news group is seeking a photojournalist in Baton Rouge. Great opportunity for a good photog at a locally owned operation that still does it all (digital, print, real work about real people, made by real people and read by real people). Wanna? workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

Pam Bondi right now.

When Hitler sought to add a grandiose new wing to the Reich Chancellery www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Apparently it’s Hug a Journalist Day, but let’s not get HR involved, ok? You can, however, get a one-year subscription to my new gig for 12 months for $12. Today only (4/2) And I love you, too. subscribe.nola.com/digitalhug?o...

I have been a Diet Pepsi drinker (addict) since July 31, 1990. It's never been an easy life in a Diet Coke world. It's becoming evident that Pepsi is sending it the way of Tab, hard to find. Drink Pepsi Zero instead. Sure, try that with Diet Coke people. Sigh. Why go on living? Honestly.

OK, Gen X. I see you. (They’re 47-50.)

Washington is comprised of good people who do thankless work because they believe in building and maintaining goodness. Thank you to Marilyn and Bill for volunteering at the Kennedy Center. And to Janay Kingsberry for writing about them. wapo.st/4lRlgXc

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Please stop posting these ICE agents without their parents' consent.

Me: Okay, calm down and have a seat, People magazine. Now say it again, this time SLOWLY, because I don't think I heard you right. People magazine (takes deep breath):