Where can I get a Russian-style Napoleon cake in Pittsburgh?

Two words: Book It

Discomfiting detail: Yale is "represented" by McGuire Woods, the same firm that railroaded UVa into a terrible deal by playing both sides.

Susan Collins won the game.

Did Cramblin & Duvet direct the Charlottesville Closet Factory ad?

I highly recommend seeing the new Minions with a four year old and a seven year old.

The power at the movie theater has gone out. Kids restless for their minions. What do theaters do when the power goes out?

My most American trait is my willingness to declare my grievances.

Fuck you clean air

The Body Keeps the Score episode of @ifbookspod.bsky.social is near perfection. But my dudes gotta at least acknowledge that “skeptical”psychologist Elizabeth Loftus is a literal mercenary for sexual abusers.

Disclosure Day was not good.

forget what happens at MSG. this is the New York couple of the week.

Cville: what’s going on for 4 of July? Haven’t been around for the past 4 years and let’s not even talk about 2022.

Book revisions have given me an opportunity to read a bunch of book reviews published by the Tennessean newspaper in the early 1970s. Each Sunday the paper printed AT LEAST five book reviews, each with a byline. This should be part of a historical assessment of the critical culture of the 70s.

Ok I considered it.

4yo: how old was Andy Washington when he died? Me: do you mean George Washington? I don’t know Andy. 4yo: Andy Washington from Harlem Globetrotters. Me: …

New York City’s First Female Chief Lifeguard Tells All www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/b... Literal whistleblower why did they leave that on the table

Tony Mazzocchi was instrumental in reshaping workplace health and safety — a feat made possible by empowering workers themselves to expose hazardous conditions. Recent attacks on OSHA underscore the importance and continued relevance of his work.

Fresh off of endorsing Chris Rufo —by name—and his vision to destroy higher education, Yale is rushing to help the Trump admin resegregate education. An absolute disgrace.

I wrote this after attending a conference in honor of Tony Mazzocchi at Rutgers, which will house the Mazzocchi archives and oral history project: jacobin.com/2026/06/mazz...

Hell yeah

How’s that progressive federalism working today?

Does anyone have an email address for legendary investigative journalist John Crewdson?

This is a take on a patriotic lady!

im all for literary license and stylistic innovation in academic writing, but a chapter should not be 96 pages.

I mean this boy toy was the lead counsel for the church committee.

we do not talk enough about the fact that FAO Schwartz Jr. is a pioneering civil rights/civil liberties lawyer. don't believe me? ask the dishes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi....

Who among us hasn't:

Is “subdue” a thermal processing pun?

Can somebody explain to me the theological or political significance of the phrase “subdue the world”, especially this corner of the world that deals with high temperature thermal processing and heat treating.

Can somebody explain to me the theological or political significance of the phrase “subdue the world”, especially this corner of the world that deals with high temperature thermal processing and heat treating.

hell yeah. let's not erase history. leave it up as a shrine to all the other Epstein-loving Harvard affiliates.

last night I accidentally watched CNN with my boomer mom and it was just 10 minutes of Mike Pence going unchallenged while losing his thick-necked dignity.

he makes a good point, especially if we really rev up those new plutonium-fueled nuclear reactors.

I’m listening to The Lumumba Plot, which is excellent. The actor-narrator has decided to only do accents for the African characters, which is… a choice?

Fred Harris' The New Populism (1972) is a little gem.

Anyone have any info about the Amtrak line between Philly and dc right now? Inexplicable rebooking and delays.

This is incompatible with democracy:

Yes the problem with the plutonium fueled fantasies of the 70s was the lack of profit motive and the over regulation.

Glad John McPhee lived long enough for The Curve of Binding Energy to become relevant again.

Charlottesville: what’s with this dominion net metering promotion? Had anyone signed up? Do terms change quickly? Has the feel of a scam but what do I know.

Have any of you freaks ever bought a Medunjess stone resin bathtub? What is it like?

I will not.

I like that this picture of Altman makes it look like has grown a fleshy protuberance on his cheek

Someone needs to do a Raymond Williams-style Keywords study of this era: weaponization, war-fighters, lethality, biological male, cortisols, peptides, kinetic. Would be grimly fun to crowd source.

The worst thing about editing is that it works.

A masterclass in arms-length passive voice from Jamba Juice Wagner Davis. "According to Instructure, the data was returned" --aka Instructure paid the hackers. But good news! "Instructure received assurances that the data will not be further shared." I also love assurances from hackers!

WHY CANT I UNSUBSCRIBE? THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I CLICK THE LINK.

we all know oh oh oh Ozempic🎶🎶🎶 but has anyone heard Zepward bound? 🎶🎶🎶

I think it came for NPR