anyone else notice that Lindsey Buckingham looks like they yassified Beavis

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party

Relegation-threatened Lower League Manager Andy

new yorkers en masse have expressed their enthusiasm for democratic socialism. but these forty men surveyed in the waiting room of the coeur d’alene family court have a different perspective

NPR is calling the Mamdani-backed candidates “far left” which I guess is shorthand for “would like to give healthcare to their constituents somewhat”

NYT headline writers burning the midnight oil to spin against Zohran

Your periodic reminder that the holding in Biden v. Nebraska was that the statutory power to “waive or modify” student loan payments did not entail the power to modify student loan payments

Last of Ayn Rand's lovers dies

The only Keirs I recognize are Dullea and Lady Miss

been furious with Starmer for long enough that this is genuinely coming as a surprise to me, but I'm feeling a bit.......sad this morning? not really about him per se but about the waste of time, I guess, and the end of yet another political failure when Britain really couldn't afford another one

Everyone starts out PM feeling like they're hot shit but it always ends like this God I love parliamentary democracy

everyone's all about the return of the light at the winter solstice but no one gets excited about the return of the dark at the summer solstice

Adored my late father but at this point I choose hiding out on this summer Sunday

JD trying to hold together the group project while the other students are setting off fireworks and huffing glue

You would expect a world-historical narcissist to be able to get a Reflecting Pool right, but alas

I’m kinda proud of the background posters of dog Kurt and cat Tori

Gonna be amazing when she gets shitcanned in her next primary. Complete tool

James Burrows was not a giant in sitcom directing. He was THE giant. The primary director of Cheers and Taxi. The only director (I believe) of Will & Grace. The director whose pilots for Friends, Third Rock, Frasier, and Big Bang Theory got them on the air. The king. RIP. people.com/james-burrow...

Burn down the NYTimes (today for their janky ass draconian app)

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

'Eno', the 2024 generative documentary about Brian Eno directed by Gary Hustwit, is now on the Criterion Channel with a new version screened each Tuesday www.criterionchannel.com/eno

Spines located! Imagine that

I just realized something amazing. After the World Cup, we are going to get ranch dressing in Europe. There’s no way those fans will be able to come home and go cold turkey off it.

This is Debussy erasure and I will not stand for it.

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Abdullah Ibrahim, Eminent South African Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91 His song “Mannenberg” became the unofficial anthem of the country’s fight against apartheid, with Nelson Mandela calling him “our Mozart.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/a...

Periodic reminder that David Souter retired at 70 and enjoyed a respectable retirement

From NCAA national champions to NBA champions. 2016 to 2026.

Last time the Knicks were NBA champions was the year the DOJ charged Fred & Donald Trump with housing discrimination based on race.

Ian Fleming might have made the world’s first trillionaire this evil, but only Philip K. Dick could have made him such a pathetic drug-addled loser, desperate for attention and adulation but incapable of human relationships, and now terrified to go out in public.

Hey Mister don't look down on me For what I believe

Nice to come back to my favorite big band, the 1941 Ellington Orchestra. Ain't nobody hipper and Strayhorn had gone next level

Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder"

The Old Man and Death, by László Mednyánszky, 1895-1900 (flipped)

The only real New Yorker

RIP Gordon Wood, whose “Creation,” p.562, is worth a reread any day, esp. today: “the Federalists fixed the terms for the future discussion of American politics …. and created a distinctly American political theory but only at the cost of eventually impoverishing later American political thought.”

Political genius update

God love Scott Pelley putting Bari on blast

The last couple years on the job market I’d look at positions in red/southern states and think “maybe not, who knows if they’ll be politically captured and faculty won’t be safe”. I thought that was a bit paranoid but it looks like it’s moving closer & closer in that direction

Brian Eno, Drake Hotel, New York City, August 1974 by Linda D. Robbins

Never ask a MAN his salary, a WOMAN her age, or a senior TENURED professor what they think of adjuncts

Sinners in the Hands of a Cheugy God

A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.

There is some irony in a publication called The Economist that refuses to think like one, especially when it comes to the public sector.

In gentrifying Brooklyn, the table saw fills the same ecological niche as a leaf blower elsewhere in the USA

You live in NYC, jackass.

I think the last thing Ms. Rachel’s critics wanted/expected when they hit her with whataboutism around Gaza was that she would become a full on Walter Rodney Marxist.

but he's into LGBTQ Losing Games By The second Quarter