Wait, Lucinda Williams' "Drunken Angel" is about the same person who wrote "Clay Pigeons" (which is so good I originally thought it actually WAS a John Prine song and not a cover). That's a helluva Venn diagram. Where do I start with Blaze Foley, friends? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaze_F...

Just absolutely indistinguishable from a mob protection racket ““If he doesn’t win, we’re gone,” Mr. Trump said as he welcomed Mr. Milei, who he has called his “favorite president,” to the White House. “If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina.”” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/w...

So I know I'm like a million years late on this (I only got a chance to listen to the record yesterday), but is Taylor Swift giving the Pixies a songwriting credit on "Actually Romantic," because that opening chord is absolutely just "Where Is My Mind?," right?

So we’re going to pay for idiotic austerity in two countries and not just one by tanking our own economy partly to fund a bailout, all so a bunch of armchair libertarians can pretend their ideas about economics that would embarrass Friedrich Hayek haven’t made Argentina worse? Deeply embarrassing.

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

"We should be exceedingly clear: There is no crisis in Chicago that requires the National Guard. To the extent that there is civil instability in Chicago it has been caused by Trump’s surge of federal agents into the city and their lawless assault on the citizens of Chicago."

It's been a few decades since I read The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, but I'm pretty sure there was an entire volume about DHS weighing in on Zach Bryan song lyrics. pitchfork.com/news/united-...

Oh FFS. Because what overburdened peer review systems really need is more noise between the reviewers & ACs. Yeah, that's the ticket. aaai.org/aaai-launche... >>

Heard an ad were the voiceover actor was Chris Parnell, and I wonder if whoever put it together knows all millennials will take their product less seriously because we’re subliminally hearing their product being endorsed by Dr. Leo Spaceman from 30 Rock.

I have recurring nightmares about that game, which for the record is not known in this home as the Liván Hernández game, but as the Eric Gregg game.

They're not one of the three candidates that are most likely to actually win the election, but somebody running for mayor in New Orleans quotes Simone Weil in one of the local voter guide interviews!

What elite academic institution is going to be the first to pull a Frankfurt School and actually just leave America over this stuff?

We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.

What elite academic institution is going to be the first to pull a Frankfurt School and actually just leave America over this stuff? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign. "If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

We are subsidizing AI usage.

This. Is. Not. Normal.

At Rilo Kiley in Atlanta, but the Faint opened, so it’s even more like 2005 than it was in DC.

For the record, Chicago SHOULD be hosting World Cup matches, but yeah, this was an . . . own goal. I’ll see myself out.

"I want to encourage a sense of solidarity in my relationships with my authors, and in the ways that we recognize all sorts of disruptions are happening for people right now and how we have to accommodate the work that we do to account for that." newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/alyssa...

Best part of people walking into the abattoir of a Chotiner interview is they clearly think of themselves as erudite people, but by accepting the invitation prove they’re the 2025 version of anybody who got invited to be on the Jerry Springer Show in 1997 and thought “What could go wrong?”

I would pay a probably irresponsible amount of money to do this, and that’s to people I consider my FRIENDS.

At Vampire Weekend last night, the encore, before ending with Wolcott, was basically them becoming a wedding band and taking audience cover requests, whether— and they emphasized this— they knew how to play the song or not.

The Paper managed to smuggle text from Alfred Williams’ 1915 jeremiad against managerial capitalism Life in a railway Factory into the righthand column of a newspaper page that we only see onscreen for like half a second, while a boss is talking.

Incredible box score.

This interview is BRUTAL. Two things: a) Whatever your opinion on small-l liberalism, surely it deserves a more robust defense than whatever this is. b) Stop doing interviews with Isaac Chotiner, people! www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Look, I get giving the Balon D'Or to one of the PSG players, that's how these things work, but let's keep it real: there absolutely were not three players who had better seasons last year than Mohamed Salah.

From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D. had a good six month run, but Bleeds by Wednesday just snatched the crown for my favorite record of the year. It's so so good, y'all. open.spotify.com/track/4sMDb5...

I don't care how basic it is or how horrified it will make @maurajudkis.bsky.social, I just bought Trader Joe's out of pretty much anything that described itself as pumpkin spiced or apple-flavored. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/fo...

that point could end up being the difference between arsenal finishing second with 81 points and second with 82 points

Mario Guevara @bittersouth.bsky.social The only known journalist detained by ICE on US soil sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner. This is Mario Guevara’s harrowing account of what’s happened to him, in detainment, since his arrest on June 14. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...

There are like ten things done by this administration per week that would have been enough to shame Nixon into resigning.

[clock goes under 2 minutes in any football game] a dad, to no one: can’t turn the ball over here

A bag with $50,000 in cash. These guys are utterly shameless.

Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)

Zohran winning the election would be the biggest W either the Mets or Arsenal have gotten in decades.

Does anybody remember that joke article that was dialogue of the call from "Call Your Girlfriend" happening? It had stuff like Robyn in the background saying "Tell her it is the only way her heart will mend!" It feels like McSweeney's but I can't find it there. Anyway, Body Talk still rules.

"Enough is enough. Texas must allow faculty and college students to explore freely the breadth of human knowledge, and administrators must support us in that time-honored quest." – Pauline Strong, President @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #AcademicFreedom #AcademicSky @texasaaup.bsky.social

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

ICE executed a man in the middle of a busy street during morning rush hour last Friday—then they put out an easily disproven account—and it’s hardly registered as a blip.

ICE killed a Chicago area man last week. His name was Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. He wasn't "the worst of the worst." He was a cook. ICE hopes we'll forget about him. We won't.

“'I’m so obsessed with where I’m from,' she told The New Yorker’s Holden Seidlitz at an intimate solo show last month. 'The more I travel, the more obsessed I am with it.'” I'm so excited for this, and not just because I'm from where she's from (well, next town over). pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Some smart publication should reach out to every single person who signed the Harper’s letter and get their comment / explicit no-comment

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

The last decade has been an utter indictment of media elites, they want all privilege of the 4th estate without any of the responsibilities

On the one hand this seems like it might have been mentioned in the Book of Revelation, but on the other hand, I mean, I’m probably going to try it.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

He can't even stick with the pretext they cooked up as to why Kimmel had to go, huh?