One night of rooting for the Giants and I feel like Scrooge kneeling at his grave begging for his life back

My boy has to go in for a dental cleaning tomorrow. Please send him good vibes for the scary anesthesia! Dream suggestions welcome.

I used to say conservatives are all just 14-year-olds who never grew out of it but the last year or so has definitely lowered the bar

Why does The Ringer's portrait of Aaron Rodgers make him look like a gnome in a human-sized helm?

My gf got a circular ad for Menard’s in her email which includes this bizarre product that’s certainly unsafe. The photo looks like a guy giving himself a lobotomy.

HANG IT IN THE ALLBRIGHT KNOX

interesting that Nate references “main character” as a term but still doesn’t seem to understand the concept of a website where people go to have fun

in college I would always look forward to reading the Cornell Review because it was, reliably, the stupidest fucking thing I’d read all month

I think Belichick will be remembered as a nerd who infiltrated a meatheads’ sport, but by the time the nerds caught up to him he had fallen victim into his own arrogance and failed to adjust to his new reality. It’s a classic American story.

Andrew Carnegie built libraries and our modern Robber Barons are like “what if we made books that drove you insane?”

Patrick Henry was like the only one calling out Madison’s bullshit and even he still owned slaves

Stumbled upon this old Wordpress from the director of the Lord of the Rings behind the scenes documentaries and it's very endearing. Like this comment that expresses confidence in the upcoming behind the scenes docs for The Hobbit.

I respect Jamelle Bouie’s belief that he can influence a corrupt institution from within but there’s no excuse for Will Shortz

Red Ring of Death #1,690, “One Nation, Under Shawn,” circa 2012. Released in the week before the 2012 Presidential election, this strip was Shawn’s last ditch effort to revitalize his crumbling bid for the Presidency. An incredible bit of history!

I finished @greenwell.bsky.social’s amazing book on private equity, Bad Company (on audiobook! from my public library!), and came away with both a reinforced hatred of private equity and a renewed faith in human-centric solutions and solidarity to get us through.

As Sam Altman continues to encroach on my sense of security, I have probably thought more about this piece by @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social than anything else I’ve read this year. flaminghydra.com/sam-altman-a...

I look at this every few weeks and chuckle at it, it is one of my favorite creations

I was just there a couple weeks ago and took a moment to really appreciate the speech. Incredible piece of writing.

Networking feels like one of the last remaining categories of consumer products where all the things are simply available for sale and designed to solve specific problems.

Successfully set up a MoCA network in my two-bedroom apartment with spotty WiFi and I feel like I could solve any problem on earth now

I recently heard an activist recall how the Red Scare interrupted a lot of political awakenings, to where many older black people are still afraid to talk openly about what once filled them with enthusiasm.

Chicago: I’d recommend stopping by the South Side Community Art Center in Bronzeville to check out their art sale this weekend sscartcenter.org/event/black-...

This is literally going to be the funniest show on television, possibly in decades. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

He also had this to say in 1998:

Talked to a few Chicagoans about bailing on Spotify

“For Ellison, movies have been a lifelong interest. He recounted his days growing up when he, his mother and sister would go to the cinema or pick from their extensive home library of video cassette tapes.” Not mentioned in the article, but that sister is Annapurna Pictures founder Megan Ellison.

yeah

It seems fair to start placing Bernie in a historical context, but that March 2020 Bernie rally in Grant Park was the last time I and many of my friends felt like we had any agency in the course of federal politics. That must count for something.

Every story I’ve heard about a friend successfully buying a house in the last two years involves the seller specifically motivated to sell to a human being.

Highlight of seeing Wicked on stage was the two older drunk ladies next to me who were really excited to learn what happens in the next movie

I would prefer not to invest my retirement money in the thing that makes it less likely for me to have a job

It feels like “brainstorming with ChatGPT” is simply a shortcut to reading.

I’ve been concerned that my alma mater will be the next university to capitulate to the Trump DOJ. Sure looks like they’re laying the groundwork!

Bills fans (including me) spent like half the day in an anxiety spiral trawling their problematic rookie's Instagram Stories for clues about whether he tore his ACL instead of just waiting until the mid-afternoon for news. Football's back, baby!

Young men who believe they are exceptional are doomed. This kid’s real interests were in art and archaeology, but his talent (he believed) was in engineering, so he funneled his ambition toward the sociopaths who represent engineering “success.” We failed him. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

“My favorite author? Gotta be Vonnegut.” “Me too! What’s your favorite? Cat’s Cradle?” “The Gods of Greenwich.” “Huh?” “But honestly I love everything from Norb.” “What the fuck”

When the current DOGE regime lies about its accomplishments, it will adopt jargon as a way to mask its incompetence. Otherwise, when nonprofit orgs use the word “outcomes,” it’s a DEI term that can get a grant killed.

Pretty telling that what these guys consider a novel idea is a subordinate saying “You’ve got something.”

omg omg omg 🥲

Feds just threw tear gas at protesters so they’d clear the road for a US Marshals bus carrying people they arrested at the farm

Good thing we put the most sunburned man alive in charge of the FDA

Walked to River Park and took a moment to enjoy all the kids of immigrant families losing their shit over the fireworks. This is their country, man.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither

Revisiting my @mcsweeneys.net piece from a few years ago. Poor Bridgey.

William Daniels, 98 years old, still with us.

Obviously grim, but I think our culture and politics would be a lot healthier if Americans were able (and/or willing) to travel more just in general.

KEN JENNINGS: This sport, played with a bat, requires players to hit the "ball" to get on "base" LIBRARIAN WITH THREE PHDs: What is curling

Reading the news while feeling miserable from Covid is a new level of challenge I thought I could handle