The Empire of Japan has converted to Islam!

The people crave feudalism

The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America Miserable. “With fewer places to relax and socialize, and steeper prices for entry, having fun is quantifiably harder than it used to be.” [bloomberg.com]

Support MLS and USL - we have lots of great soccer right here in your local community. Go @sportingkc.com !

This feels like a perfect topic for Adam Cole and Joss Fong’s Howtown to cover

I love living in Kansas City, but Missouri makes it tough each day. Reading to our young kids is essential for their development. There are currently 169,000 Missouri kids in the program, which sent out half a million books in the first three months of the year. Most won’t get new books.

Tenderly Tracking My Husband. “Knowing when to step in and tell a loved one with [Alzheimer’s] that they can no longer do something because it’s too risky is a game of chance we caregivers hate to play.” Lovely & heartbreaking. [nytimes.com]

The KCATA approved its contract with the city of KCMO on Thursday, solidifying devastating cuts to essential bus routes. This transit funding “death spiral” is all too familiar to us as bus riders. How can we prevent this going forward? 🧵⤵️

His Holiness Pope Louis XIV, I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person. I wish you glory by Allah

"This is not who we are" should always be understood as an aspirational statement that carries forward the legacy of countless Americans who fought and died to make it as true as possible, to create the space for you and I to take up the rallying cry.

Italy is baseball country now L’Italia è paese di baseball adesso

The future of energy is being decided now. "The US is basically aligning itself as the last big petrostate. We're going to go down with the fossil fuel ship, and China is aligning itself as the first electrostate." [kottke.org]

It is still absolutely bonkers to me that we pay to maintain these parts of the city where one must travel through other municipalities or go for a swim to reach them. Letting Lee's Summit or Raytown take them would be better for all parties.

This is the logical endpoint of all anti-gentrification talk. you end up with moving bans or intra-national “blood and soil” arguments.

Paris: a city without a history of famous transformations.

If James Talarico is liberal wish-fulfillment of a devout Christian but left, Platner is left wish-fulfillment of a populist but who has army tattoos and looks like he’s had a hangover within the past couple months.

Why is he always in just jeans??

Even in car-centered KC, whenever they close the streets to vehicles, it becomes PACKED with pedestrians. the people crave walkability, we love to shop!

Real patriots ride the train.

🇮🇹⚾️🍝

Every day we stray further from God

“We watched Kansas pursue a nearly identical experiment a decade ago and the result was years of fiscal crisis and painful cuts to schools and core services,” Lucas said. “Missouri should not repeat that mistake.”

How an electric bike can protect your money as another oil shock hits. The argument for fossil fuels is ending, but so too is the argument for relying on cars for journeys of under five miles. Here's some numbers to convince: www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/how...

a lot of discussion about how "cosmopolitan" urban dwellers are, but a really underdiscussed trend is the homogenization of culture across *rural* areas of the USA - replacement of once-distinct regional cultures with generic "redneck" accent and culture, regional religions with evanglicalism etc

Happy Pokemon Day to all who celebrate!

i’ve often thought civilization peaked in 2006, but maybe it was right there for this brief moment

this is pretty much Halberstam’s thesis in The Best and the Brightest

Last SKC player to have lifted a trophy for the team has now departed. Have to think it’s going to be a looooong time before we lift any more

Winter City chaston.beehiiv.com/p/winter-city

meanwhile Sporting KC has zero players 😭

it supports this idea of like, that we should be able to intuit a person's moral badness from their fiction. which I do not agree with.

"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."

every one of these emails has spelling and punctuation so insane, no one could ever mimic it if they tried.

Cinema Paradiso (1988) 🫂

Reading Sally Rooney’s Normal People and realizing that I am far closer in age to Lorraine (Connell’s mom) then Connell or Marianne

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

Jesus would like some words if that is your take away from the Gospels and not the thing he talks about a million times which is to “give away all your wealth and help the poor” (unfortunately, not very popular)

better than I thought we had a chance of getting tbh

Italians ftw - una volta piú

My Favorite Reads from 2025 chaston.beehiiv.com/p/my-favorit...

In Oladokun we trust

A recap of our 2026 MLS SuperDraft 📝 skcsoccer.co/4aobJU3

Opening for my pitch to KC city council on why they should build my very ill-advised San Antonio River Walk style bar scene along the Missouri River

was about to google “ragu tank near me” until i saw The Onion tag 😔

<Going back in time to show off to a Ukrainian peasant what we’ve done with Carol of the Bells> Ukrainian peasant: jesus christ this sucks

when you’ve got to deliver the mail and defeat the Kaiser but can only wear one outfit

this is the moment i realized exactly how incredible public schools in america could be if we spent money on educating humans the same way we spend money on educating computers

Happy Dewey Decimal System Day! Shown here, the Westport Branch has an informative display that you can use to navigate the system and find the books you are looking for. If you are unfamiliar or need a refresh, the Dewey Decimal System organizes books by subject, giving each one a number. 😊