I will not apologize for putting band stories on espn dot com

The buzzer went off again

I am so grateful for every week I get to work in this terrible profession and I also feel constant heartburn about what a mess it is. Strong statement from the News Guild on the absurd firings at Conde: www.nyguild.org/post/stateme...

Wrote a little cricket essay for the next issue of @thebeliever.net. Sub so you don't miss it!

Condé Nast's actions are in direct violation of our contracts and of labor law. Solidarity with our unjustly fired colleagues across the company. This is not over.

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

Literally quoting Mario Cuomo

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

need 50 of these

Son of an old-school East Texas ball coach who was raised the Lobo Way, the tall tales of Haynes King explain his rise to being the toughest sumbitch out there. Story with the great @adavidhalejoint.bsky.social www.espn.com/college-foot...

Even by the standards of a Chotiner'ing, this was brutal to read.

this would piss me off so much if I was the brain surgeon www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The problem of tech people not understanding why normal people do things is longstanding, but in this case: people who read long business stories do it *because* they want the stuff the company might not want to tell you. The audience for anything else is just the subject’s friends and employees

Woof. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The contrarian got the job by convincing the third-richest man in the world, a key supporter of the sitting president, that she shared his worldview

This is simply not true and has never been true! People—pretty understandably—hate being told they’re wrong, or full of shit, or being harmed or ostracized for their words and actions. There’s nothing new or partisan or principled about this, it’s just contested social mores.

The Park Slope Dad Band has been playing for at least three hours at the block party on my street. I dig it but it is a little on the nose that they've now played "Creep" twice.

I am aware that a lot of super rich people have a majority of their cash in assets that aren’t liquid, but in terms of a super rich guy with cash in your pocket and in the bank that u can just use, I just don’t understand what you do if you make more than, say, five million dollars a year

An ode to the last Iron Skillet, which gave us real spite, a Game of the Century, Dan Jenkins, suffered through lean years and was just getting good! (And whose trophy secretly broke and was replaced by a Lodge skillet from a hardware store right before the 2018 game.) www.espn.com/college-foot...

Oh, you know the ones.

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This will probably look silly in 10 years but it’s hard to imagine what it would look like for two people to be better than this at tennis

Apropos of nothing, I wrote about the historic endurance of Browns fans. #DawgPound www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

ah yes "shit-kicking anti-establishment" is what i think of when someone gets bought by the son of one of the world's richest men bsky.app/profile/jayr...

Don’t threaten me with a good time

What will it mean for culture when the live television band, something that has been an American institution for 70 years, goes extinct?

Wrote a story for @newyorker.com on house bands and why live music is cool

In the 80s, a fact checker found that an unedited issue of The New Yorker contained 1,000 errors. (This figure itself wouldn’t survive a fact-check, but never mind.) Zach Helfand delves into the history of the vaunted department.

Nobody knows whether or not Arch Manning will live up to the hype this season. "He ain't even pissed a drop yet," Grandpa Archie told @dwil.bsky.social. But: people are still stealing his photo off the wall of an Austin burger joint. Everybody's already watching.

Watching fiction spread about a great American city where countless people live normal lives feeling safe every day isn't new, but the military occupation of the city on those grounds is a fresh take on it

Contains: The secret of what happened to Eric Dickerson’s gold Trans Am

the really fun part: @dwil.bsky.social's draft mentioned his dad, Bill Wilson, who ran a TX car dealership and loaned out modest cars to Texas A&M assistants. Bill passed away a few years ago, but Dave speaks of him often and he was a real character. Here's a classic 70s ad for Bill's dealership...

Great @dwil.bsky.social feature on the long-standing connection between car dealers and college football programs. Quick thread on how we had a little fun with the art ... www.espn.com/college-foot...

One of the more offensive aspects of the potato-chip-bribe story is that someone would think a journalist’s integrity costs like $200.

there’s a phenomenon in politics where on certain issues the general public is genuinely deluded about reality, and if you don’t buy into that delusion the political media will accuse *you* of being out of touch

In an alternative world, @paolouggetti.bsky.social takes us over to Tennessee, home of Rory McIlroy. "Johnson City is quite a bit like Ireland in just the terrain, just rolling hills and cattle," Aaron O'Callaghan said. www.espn.com/golf/story/_...

Man, it’s tough to see a great champion struggle like this. To express my sympathy, I will now play a brief solo on this trombone that I happen to have handy

Come on

I'm being pandered to and I love it

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out that’s not what “magical realism” is

I had the same reaction. Mamdani is such a threat in their view that they had to essentially reverse their non-endorsement policy. If Cuomo was cruising to victory, I doubt this piece would be written.

Lol NBC putting all the +4s on the board