still feels very strange to get emails from some well-coiffed PR guy about adam friedland podcasts

what!

been really latching onto an accidentally poetic phrase spoken by so many athletes in interviews: “be able to be”

haaland just a big chill dude

this is mafia language

A killer recording (via @rmhayes.bsky.social) of one of the SML-XL performances at Big Ears this past spring — Jeff Parker and Mikel Patrick Avery along for the ride. 🚀

he really got tired of julius

people care way too much about this!

i think it's funny to see the DSA as an equivalent to the astroturfed billionaire organized tea party and MAGA pushes. people are so steeped in the cynical operations of the right they can no longer recognize organic movements

[guy who has been wrong about everything, when something good happens]: this is it. the end. the cracking of our final democratic pillar.

“Moderate” is not a statement about your beliefs, but about your position in relation to others. In a world of runaway authoritarianism that means being dragged rightward like a tin can on a string behind a car

in addition to every other problem here, mamdani spends the vast majority of his time in the public eye speaking about hyper-local new york city governance issues. the idea that he is preoccupied with israel at all times is based on nothing other than the fact that he is muslim

a party is what its voters choose to make it, not what the people at the top say it is

We have not done enough to punish the people who called the cops on protestors and likely sicced ICE on student leaders

i like peterson's vibe. he's chill

just remembered that ESPN hired shams mostly so that he would stop ruining their draft broadcast

why did a bunch of people just follow me

hey @mayorofchicago.bsky.social what the fuck is this horrible bullshit

You can draw a through line between Standing Rock, Stop Cop City, the Palestine encampment student protests, and the results of the Prairieland case. And then still have Dems asking why there aren't more protests...

it’s a waste to spend one word defending “legit uses of AI” when we all know this is what the whole point of the movement is, to further alienate everyone from each other and themselves so that we can all be prey to capital and fascism.

my thoughts on da big trade:

i think that the boston media mafia propaganda got too big and ended up contaminating their front office’s brains

not ready at all for a wimbledon/world cup overlap

the celtics really fucked up lol

i think giannis is completely healthy, btw. he's never had a major injury, and usually just plays himself into the ground in like february and march, getting something minor but serious enough to hamper him when it really matters. if riley and spo can reform this about him, well,

Got a hot take: it was a good idea to trade for Giannis

this is the scariest man in football

my thought when i saw this hasn't faded: i think a lot of older movie people who know better have pretended that this movie is significantly more competent than it is because they don't wanna look like principal skinner

these messi/mbappe/haaland days are nuts

regarding the new Shabason & Krgovich record: they've done it again, and they absolutely *can* keep getting away with it!

Messi, asked which of his World Cup goals was his favorite: “I don’t know. I don’t remember. I’m tired.”

messi is good

my theory is that transplant discourse is heating up because everyone knows that a lot of the knicks-related nyc homerism is unbearably small-town and wack but can't admit it so they're taking out the psychic pain of being revealed as provincials on transplants

Did Kamala Harris's silence on Gaza cost her the White House? Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election

📻️ Catch senior reporter @danhinkel.bsky.social on WVON this morning at 10:30 a.m. discussing his reporting on about an Illinois court ruling and bill that could affect wrongfully convicted people seeking certificates of innocence. Listen at wvon.com or 1960AM on your radio dial.

i played pickleball today. it is easier than tennis

Happy Father’s Day! www.nytimes.com/athletic/737...

video review is fascist, a tool of the colonizer

@shams please do some trades now man

one might say that social media is a "reflecting pool" of one another and that the winning barons of the day have "filled it with algae"

He’s deep in his bag

He hasn’t tweeted today what happened

the end of Disclosure Day is pretty much an inkblot and a lot of the overzealous critiques people have for the movie are actually just critiques of their own personal projections onto it

Ralph Ellison's "Juneteenth," pub'd in 1999, is a truncated version of the opus he worked on for decades and never finished. Put together by his longtime friend, with Ellison's notes, it does things with the novel so explosive that it has—since I read it last year—made other books hard to read.

Thanks to @chgo-bulls.bsky.social for having me on to talk about my Caleb Wilson feature. I think I got a lot of good intel on him.

Wow: according to the New York Times, President Trump has given yet another no-bid government contract to Lawrence Limburger

This kind of enforcement seems like something a city and police department would avoid if they truly wanted to protect vulnerable immigrants

reminds me of stacey king, again; he called kurt thomas "Big Sexy" and it was wonderful