Taylor Momsen doing “Rusty Cage” with Soundgarden… I was clearly not familiar with her game.

What’s more impressive to the NYT’s political numbers guy: winning a VA gubernatorial race by 2 points with 3.3.M turnout, or winning a VA gubernatorial race by 14 points with 3.4M turnout? The answer may surprise you…

Just to be clear, this was the *only* thing on the CA ballot. There was no reason to return your ballot except to vote on this.

I attended my first Dodger game as a little kid in the first night of the LA riots. It’s genuinely astonishing how normal it’s become since then to see video of cops openly clubbing people, on camera, in situations where no crimes are being committed and they’re in no personal danger whatsoever.

parents 8 years from now: yoshinobu yamamoto you go to your room this instant!

Yamamoto for mayor.

America’s game.

Between the last two Waxahatchee records, the Plains album, and her songs on this one, Katie Crutchfield is probably America’s greatest songwriter at the moment.

If I’m ever named publisher of the NYT due to some hilarious probate court mix-up, one of my Day One policies will be an automatic additional round of edits for any article that mentions an Ivy League university, to be conducted by myself.

One of the great joys of marrying into a very large, close-knit family was having an ever-expanding group of people start referring to me as “tío.”

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Pleased to report the Del Toro Frankenstein is real good shit.

I used to date a girl from San Jose, whose mom had a consulting business specifically dedicated to training tech guys and startup founders on how to not be off-putting to their employees and colleagues. It was a great idea — the hard part was convincing these guys that they needed it.

Oh that’s so crazy that kids love the thing that kids have loved for a hundred years.

internet crashes under the sheer weight of all 4 billion men on earth posting ”same” “same brother“ “hell yeah” “he’s me for real”

What a timely reminder that it’s good to be reasonably skeptical of candidates for higher office — even the initially charming, outsidery ones — and that the best time to scrutinize them is before they’ve won a primary, and definitely before they’re serving a six-year term.

“Days after posting a video of himself dropping excrement on Americans from a fighter jet while wearing a crown, President Trump began the unannounced demolition of the White House” would be a 100% accurate lede for a news story, and I’m not sure why anyone would pass up a chance to write that.

the media has made a huge deal about Neutrality and Not Editorializing and it all falls apart when you realize they are too afraid to publish a factual description of the video Trump posted

Ezra Klein was still citing the nearly-decade-old “basket of deplorables” comment as an example of irresponsibly divisive political rhetoric as recently as last month.

shohei ohtani must have other important plans this evening to get to

The most famous movie about Rolling Stone includes a scene where a reporter remotely files a cover story using an early version of email. It takes place in the 1970s.

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

I only saw D’Angelo once, pre-“Black Messiah,” opening up for Mary J. Blige at the very start of his 2010s comeback. It was something else. Made a flailing attempt to describe it at the time.

Speechless at this D’Angelo news. A once-in-a-generation musical genius. If you’re not familiar with his work and wondering where to start, the answer is: anywhere. Pick a song at random. He didn’t have a single miss.

A month ago I went to the Nescafé store to buy my stupid coffee pods. As soon as you walk in they make you scan a QR code to download their app so you can take a number for service. There was literally one other customer there, and neither of us could get the app to download, so we both just left.

the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.

“Icon” is overused, but … Icon.

Times headline writers literally do not believe headlines are for saying what the news is; headlines are for showing that the paper is reserving judgment about events and not getting carried away

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

Favorite email from an editor: “I really enjoyed reading your draft! Here’s a new version that might be a little safer for public consumption…”

Genuine question: When Trump describes the bombed out hellscapes of Portland and Chicago, has any reporter followed up to ask him specifically what images he has seen and where he saw them?

This is a truly excellent, thorough summary of today’s news and the various larger forces that made such an unfortunate thing possible, but “a cop’s heart and a tadpole’s brain” kinda says it all.

Thinking back to all the people who spoke eloquently about the noble mission of OpenAI researchers in bringing AGI to humanity as those researchers sold $6.6B in stock and released AI slop TikTok this week. Life comes at you fast.

decentralized platforms! federation! user input! i’m here because i suffer from a cluster of character defects that force me to say stupid stuff all day long i’m not here because i know what any of that is lmao

Paramount is about to pay $150 million for this

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

I have sung the “you’re the birthday / you’re the birthday / you’re the birthday boy…or girl” song to both of my children on every single one of their birthdays.

“Trad cath” is, weirdly, code for “unfamiliar with Catholicism”

How this alone didn’t sink his candidacy is mind-boggling.

I don’t even know what to say about this dude any more.

From my extremely limited encounters with Kaleb Horton, I did not get the impression that he was a person who cared much about things like winning awards for his writing. But honestly what’s even the point of giving awards for writing if you don’t give them to pieces like this?

It is hard to put into words how this past week basically erased a decade’s worth of work to promote of acceptance of #ActuallyAutistic people and accommodate autism. But somehow Trump did more to promote fear and lies around autism than any other president. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This may have been the most insane and incoherent four days of his presidency. Tylenol, the U.N., I hate my opponents, other countries are going to hell, this escalator's broken, I'm mad at a TV comedian, I like Ukraine now. It really feels as if some minimal tether to reality has snapped.

Chotiner: You've written a lot about the band Weezer over the years. Me: That's right. Chotiner: And The Blue Album is their best work as you've said. Me: 100%. Always has been. Chotiner: In 1996 in a letter to your high school girlfriend you wrote... Me: Can we go off the record real quick?

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Again, as the father of two kids with autism, it’s hard to describe how it feels to watch the president of the United States say he’s got an “answer for autism” and then spew nonsensical horseshit for half an hour. “Insulting” doesn’t quite cover it.

When I was writing a book about the Pharcyde, one of them mentioned that Toni Basil used to hook them up with gigs as backing dancers for hip-hop videos when they were teenagers. Me: Wait…you guys knew Toni Basil. “Yeah, of course. Toni’s a g.”

As the father of two kids with autism, it’s hard to really describe what it feels like to hear the president tease what ought to be life-changing news for my family like it’s a sweeps-week promo — all while knowing that it’s almost certainly bullshit, and possibly a prelude to something terrible.