Kash Patel today: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want." Really?

@sulliview.bsky.social did what I couldn’t. “The right-wing media— led by Fox News, as always — was immediately spilling out its propaganda with, yes, passionate intensity…. A few hours after the shooting, I watched Fox’s coverage for as long as I could stand it…” open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

My latest, for The Assembly: Raleigh Tries to Break Its 54-Year Baseball Losing Streak www.theassemblync.com/culture/spor...

"Those who disagreed with Kirk ought to be able to deplore what he stood for and also the violence that killed him." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Holy shit -- Markwayne Mullin insists later in the interview again that Obama oversaw actually oversaw the sweetheart deal with Epstein, even after Tapper (accurately) fact-checked him. Yikes.

Among 19 developed countries, the average the government spends annually on public service broadcasting is about $80 per person. In the USA, it's $1.35. Like so much of what Congress is doing (or not doing), this is not about saving money. rollcall.com/2025/07/15/g...

Trump to the President of Liberia: "Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?" English is the official language of Liberia...

COMING SOON TO RALEIGHWOOD 🗣️

Outstanding, crucial reporting here. Trump's bud Bukele seems to be in bed with MS-13. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

#RepDetroit www.mlb.com/news/mlb-pow...

Ernst is up for reelection next year. Campagin slogan: "Well we all are going to die. Vote Ernst."

#ETTD 🤣🤣🤣 #LetsGoCanes

Like Jeremy, I also loved the Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout (and their barleywine, when I could find it). The only thing about this brewery's demise that doesn't suck is @ncrabbithole.com's beautiful elegy. open.substack.com/pub/jeremyma...

Griffin concedes defeat in NC Supreme Court election open.substack.com/pub/anderson...

A hero of mine. #RIP pitchfork.com/news/pere-ub...

The American Age Is Over open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This is what we have come to. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Fox now mentioning the Signal scandal. For about 60 seconds.

just add the judge on Signal

Is every day "opposite day" now? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

" ... forces loyal to Musk’s junta have established him as the all-but undisputed unelected head of government..." Garrett Graff imagines "how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

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No. No. A thousand times no. www.si.com/nfl/giants/n...

Dinesh D'Souza admitting his film "2000 Mules" had a "flaw" is like saying the Titanic had a "mild flotational hinderance"

No. No. A thousand times no. www.si.com/mlb/rob-manf...

Yep. No point in ever reviewing a play if you don't overturn that call. Great throw, great catch.

Oh. Great. A deep study of what *really* caused the inflation, coming a week and a half *after* the election. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Oklahoma is ranked 49 out of 50 in education. But hey, nice Bibles.

“What happened in that exchange between Pat McAfee and ‘Do your own research’ Aaron Rodgers is kind of the entire story of our age, of our information environment right now,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGu3...

After a non-binary teen’s death, GOP lawmakers were asked why they obsessed over the lives of LGBTQ people. State Sen. Tom Woods gave the worst possible answer: he wanted to “keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma because we are a Christian state.” www.friendlyatheist.com/p/after-non-...

My awesome friend and former co-conspirator in revolutionary sports journalism, John Moore @MooreTheatre, one of the people who really do make the world better — in The New York Times Arts Desk magazine’s 2024 Arts Desk 100. Congratulations, brother.