I find it exhausting to watch elite cyclocross. If you understand how hard they are pushing watts, it's hard to ignore the suffering involved.

The carnage caused by FAA cutbacks cast a spotlight on the massive public subsidies required to have air travel function in the US. People think spending money on bike lanes and rail is socialism while TRILLIONS have been spent to prop up the airline industry and to build and maintain roadways.

Richest nation in human history

I was very very fortunate to spend my day yesterday making content and memories with one of the best human beings in pro cycling. Photo by the incomparable Joe Pugliese

"I unequivocally reject identity politics" i scream, right before selecting my five gallon cowboy hat for my Fox Business interview.

This is just so beautiful and I think anyone who has a problem with this should be flushed out of power in the America most of us want.

As someone who has lived considerable stretches in LA and San Diego, I am bemused by the extremely heated discourse about whether a community within Chicago city limits can be called a suburb. But on the bright side, I learned that this qualifies as a massive insult in at least one city.

Just remember that even if people insist on writing dumb things about Dick Cheney, you don't have to read them or talk about them.

Someone should immediately start selling ALOOF WIFE t shirts because there is major money to be made there.

In a era of AI slop, social-optimized highlights and poorly edited news summaries of big sporting events, it's wonderful to read a longform piece of sports reporting about a special moment like last night's game 7. In another era this was common; now, sadly rare. www.joeposnanski.com/p/the-greate...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

As if the World Series game 7 drama wasn’t stressful enough.

Incredible podium performances in the women's field at the NYC Marathon, destroying the course record. A reminder of what elite women can do if they can compete with equal TV time, prize money, and opportunities. That is probably the number one way to uplift women in sports.

My #1 NYC Marathon memory—one year I led a Runner's World video at the start about how runners can avoid tying granny knots and then got a seat on a bus with Bloomberg that got a police escort from the Verrazano to Tavern on the Green in like 19 minutes. Only truly effective NYC drive of my life.

Just imagine if Clayton Kershaw wound up winning game 7 with the final pitch of his professional career.

It would be fitting if this game ends at 2:01 am ET on the one night a year where it is 2:01 am twice.

This game is like Space Mountain—a roller coaster in total darkness.

Maybe they should just play best of 9

Holy shit

I am not very emotionally involved in who wins the series but I am definitely emotionally involved in the series.

I am begging Hollywood to make this a movie.

One thing that’s painful to absorb is how Trump and his proxies have told tens of thousands of easily verifiable lies and that there have been no consequences—not from big US media or Democrats or sane Republicans—and no impactful public outcry.

I often wonder how folks who feel like trans people using a certain bathroom stall is one of the great issues of our time contextualize that position with the never-ending onslaught of powerful cis men committing actual sexual violence and all the institutions that constantly try to protect them.

Anybody who publicly complains about people getting public assistance to eat is just instantly telling the entire world that they are a heartless asshole.

They don't think they need to pretend it's not class warfare and they also think their money will overrule the public will.

We wanted to understand what a Zohran Mamdani administration would mean for New York. So we talked to a Kentucky woman who once tied for 5th place in a swim race with a transgender woman and got really mad that she didn't get to hold the trophy.

Riley Gaines trying to post up on AOC.

"What, you don't want a mess of freeway ramps vomited out over Westchester?" If you liked my story you'll *love* the @nickandert.bsky.social deep dive into the disaster that is the LAX-pressway (and thanks for the very kind shoutout!)

I guess we'll soon see, but it seems to me that intentionally destroying the fragile economic well being of low-information voters who helped put Republican lawmakers in office will likely have consequences.

One problem that Americans need to contemplate is how the present surge of Christian Nationalism isn't very Christian.

America, where tens of millions of people can't fathom that if someone works at Walmart or McDonalds and still needs food stamps and can't afford health insurance without subsidies, the problem is government-sanctioned corporate greed.

I did not realize until 5 minutes ago that the White House movie theater was demolished last week.

Little FYI to new outlets amplifying comically absurd claim that Reagan tariff ads are "fake" and deserving retribution.

I am looking forward to America's Nuremberg trials when sanity and democracy are restored. There simply can't be amnesty for the shit that is happening now.

Wow they just played that Reagan tariff ad during the World Series! Very nicely done.

One of the big reasons people who both love and hate Mamdani are fixated on him is that everyone can see there's something honest and heartfelt about him. Most politicians in both parties lack a dependable moral compass and are in some fundamental way full of shit or driven by political calculus.

Random thought that popped into my head on morning commute. Sure, Pogacar's tufts of hair poking out of his helmet vents are as cute as hell, but given how much time he spends riding in sunny weather, how is he not sunburning the shit out of his scalp?

The nation's most prestigious newspaper has devolved into a skit.

Looking for an uplifting read? Check out this story I wrote that just went live. It's about 9 women—many of them breast cancer survivors—who ride together in the Boston area. Middle aged women are often an invisible demo in road riding culture but these gals rule! www.bicycling.com/culture/a680...

When I hear the word "ballroom," I think of hotels in the Catskills or staid corporate conferences in cookie cutter Marriotts and places that stuffy old rich people have black-tie events and eat prime rib. There is nothing cool or modern or young about a ballroom.

Can he knock down the East Wing? Can he rename the Gulf of Mexico? Can he send troops to US cities that don't want them? Can he accept a huge jet or make crypto deals? Can he bury the Epstein files? Can he unilaterally set tariffs? Can we count on Congress or the courts or the media to do something?

Stories like this—which are shockingly common—are always in my mind when I read news stories about hysteria about e-bikes. It is like getting hysterical about pretend threats trans people pose in bathrooms as thousands of cis men commit actual sex crimes.

"Calderon, who was driving a gold 2006 Mercedes E-Class, was found about a half a mile away from the scene after she stopped. She was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run, gross vehicular manslaughter, felony DUI and possession of narcotics." www.foxla.com/news/hunting...

Interesting how the left-center white people justifying a Nazi tattoo and the left-center white people hysterical about Mamdani are the same left-center white people.

> @newyorker.com

I think MAGA folks are just built different than the rest of us. I have no allegiance to any democrat with a Nazi tattoo or who is in the Epstein files or defrauded the public. The ends don't justify the means. Shitty people deserve consequences.

This story is hilarious. Former pro cyclist Tom Dumoulin did EVERYTHING wrong in his first marathon, stopped twice due to cramps, and still ran 2:29.21. Based on his splits, it seems like he can run a lot faster. (Or, perhaps, consider working on swimming.) velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-tr...

I find it fascinating the way that nearly everyone in the administration has a unique style in how they lie. Mike Johnson, Vance, Kennedy, Trump, Leavett, Bondi, Lutnick, Hegseth, Noem—everyone gets a flair pin for doing it their own way.