This is a delight. defector.com/i-will-never...

Oh my God they announced it like when John Lennon got shot during Monday Night Football

I will ride or die forever and pull up in a street fight any day for Representative Thomas

If you still haven't watched the very good BBC TV adaptation of Lord of The Flies do it just to behold the magnificent performance of David McKenna as Piggy. This was his answer, in casting, as to who he'd want to be stranded on a desert island with.

One ran a funeral home in a small town, the other ran a hardware store in the same small town

i don't think they should be able to call themselves "pod save america" anymore. like it's been going for nine years now and the country's just gotten worse. just call it "I Know Barack Obama"

You won’t find a better or safer environment for effeminate gay boys to freely be themselves than a community where trans kids are affirmed.

Not me, sadly, but that same year I did win Get the Knack at a Teen Club dance, the only good thing that ever happened to me at a Teen Club dance

Starmer is a great example to Democrats--you'd better as hell stand for something and fight when you win in 28 or the fascist victory in the 30 midterms and 32 general will make Trump look like Gandhi

It took Putin and Orban years to do what they’re doing.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

I am, by nature, not a completist, so the closest are probably Bill James and Kafka

Wow! Phinney Books devoted their entire window display to my Virginia Faulkner biography and some of the books from the Recovered Books series that I edit for @bhousepress.bsky.social. @tomnissley.bsky.social, you are a superstar!

It's no exaggeration to say that this, the news that stinkbug eggs look exactly like a hape of creamy pints, is one of the most impactful things that's ever happened in the history of Irish posting. A dazzling event. A nuclear level revelation.

To those of you who have read and enjoyed any of my three books, the reason they wound up in your hands is that in 2004, Ann Godoff, the editing and publishing giant who founded Penguin Press, took a chance on me. She died yesterday at 76. I owe her more than I can say. She changed my life. >

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball

I'll tell you why Newsom is going to lose: he plays the other side's game. You never play your opponent's game. He'll always beat you. You make him play yours.

Come hear Brad talk about his new book and his lifelong passion (which we share!) for old books!

Here's the problem, though. If you stand up to tanks in the streets, everyone will agree you're a Brave Hero. But if you stand up to the small things -- stopping the train before it really gets started -- you will be coded as *annoying*, as uptight, as moralistic, as uncool.

BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

I don't think I will ever not be thrown by Tom Paine's resemblance to Harry Shearer. I can only hope he had his voice too.

The current Court majority is a classic captured court. The Justices pick the outcome they want, and work backwards from there, inventing and disregarding legal theories on the fly in the process.

Thank you, Mark! (Lovely illustrations by @nornissley.bsky.social )

Writing can be frustrating and exhausting, and sometimes it can feel like flying. Being able to articulate what I mean in words all the time has made me smarter and happier too. Writing a lot is deeply important and will change your life. Even if you think it sucks! It probably does at first!

I feel bad when I read people who say they hate writing, especially to the extent they’d let an LLM do it. Writing was the path to making me feel human and the emotional journey of doing it all the time fills me full of purpose. I refuse to believe I’m the only person who feels like this!

Since I use this place as my news & culture feed I've kind of forgotten that I can also be a person here too, and do what a person does: promotes their own work! I just made a book with my sister (the talented @nornissley.bsky.social ): The Phinney by Post Book, with my words and her pictures.

Today marks 26 years since the final Peanuts Sunday comic strip, seen here, appeared in newspapers on February 13, 2000.⁠

Vince Guaraldi in 1967. This is what greets you when you land on his Wikipedia page, and it's a photograph that I'm going to return to frequently, in order that I may stare at in awe.

this is the booker tail. I will be growing it for the length of the booker judging period, at which point it will be ceremonially cut, by jarvis cocker or the queen.

first good ad of the night

An excellent thread on AI and American segregation, which reminds me of my one visit to New Orleans in the early '90s, when, fresh from grad-school immersion in Plessy v. Ferguson, I stumbled across the un-celebrated tomb of Homer Plessy in an above-ground cemetery. [short thread]

This is just a guess, but maybe the rise in dramatic prose from district court judges is partly due to a growing belief among those judges that it's pointless to try to persuade SCOTUS and they must therefore focus on other potential audiences.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

The hometown newspaper that I read as a teenager through Watergate and Vietnam and made me crave the life of a reporter is now being butchered by a billionaire who had $75 million to bribe and flatter a president and his wife but nothing to save journalism, an bulwark of the republic itself. Got it.

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

What I’m seeing here is that Epstein is a nexus point for the “intellectual” cabal that shores up the race science justifying our current immigration and anti-DEI policies (Huberman), as well the tone policing moderates (Brooks) that hamstrings oppositions. Oh and their billionaire benefactors.

I'm guessing "several" might, in this case, mean "six"

There's an entire parallel industry of movies based on Colleen Hoover novels. Every trailer includes a scene with a closeup of sparklers in a backyard. The music is sad, then inspirational. In between are promos for Amazon Prime

Holy mackerel, this is incredibly good: the clarity of analysis about a vast body of work (the “New Yorker story”) and about literary fiction in general

“Doctors won’t tell you this,” Kennedy said as he dropped to the floor… theonion.com/rfk-jr-demon...

remember when Noem was trying to get this job and she stood on stage with him for 45 minutes while he swayed back and forth to show tunes during a campaign rally

forwarding for two reasons: 1) Downfall remixes never get old; 2) the Bari Weiss joke

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant. a face that says well, on we go

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... impressively reported and deeply embarrassing

I got an email from a lobbying organization that purports to represents businesspeople like me, urging me to register a "CON" comment on the bill. I used their link to register "PRO."

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways