One thing I find fascinating 25 years later—that Lance, despite his sociopathic tendencies, was always good at reading people and he knew on a deep level that Sally Jenkins would happily be the stenographer of his lies and even defend him for decades as long as the checks cleared.

Sally is the very rare broken clock that still isn't right once or twice a day.

No gifts for Wout

The spiked 60 Minutes segment is so obviously well reported and fact checked. I don't see how Bari Weiss can survive or even justify her decision, though I guess that rarely matters in 2025. In any case, worth watching to see how pathetic the administration and CBS have become.

I have a love-hate relationship with all those IG and TikTok posts where someone surprises a nice, deserving, needy person with a bunch of money. They always make me cry a bit and I love that someone’s life is being changed for the better. But…

It's always good to note that while basically everything about the economy that impacts 95% of the country is shitty, the stock markets continue to rise, and the wealthiest people and biggest companies continue to profit and thus don't understand the pain everyone is feeling.

What do you expect from the person who took 18 months to write Lance Armstrong's intentionally full-of-shit hagiographic memoir and then never commented that his entire myth was a lie because she made a bunch of money?

Very thoroughly reported story on why Florida is arguably the most dangerous state for bike riders. (One telling factoid: Only 124 citations for drivers violating the state's 3-foot law in 2024.) www.cltampa.com/news/florida...

You know, I bet Lance Armstrong would be super good at boxing.

This basically sums up my feelings about last night.

I haven't really been a fan boxing or other fighting in a pretty long time, but I did enjoy watching the clip of Jake Paul getting dropped five times.

This story—from Lancaster PA—is yet another scary reminder that the police and media can't be trusted to think logically when riders are hit and badly injured by negligent drivers. Warning: Don't play the video in the story if you will be triggered seeing a crash. www.wgal.com/article/penn...

I was served this FB Reel with a comedian making the most cliche jokes about men riding bikes in spandex. Sometimes I can't believe anyone thinks that's funny or clever in 2025. OMG people are wearing tight clothes to do a sport! Hide the children! Let me share some homophobia! What losers!

Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

One thing I never tire of is reading all the comments earnest SRAM-loving dudes leave on the fucksrammemes IG account. One of the purest distillations of something eternally funny in bike culture.

Great Jacob Wasserman article in the LATimes on the Los Angeles airport roadway plan: But no, the headline isn't true. It's not unusual to spend $1.5b to make traffic worse. @jacobwasserman.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

People who ride bikes know that the way that police reports like this come together and then get published by media outlets without anyone asking one logical question is bullshit.

Hellevua story by @pflax1.bsky.social included in 2025 Best Sports Writing. I started running about 10 yrs ago after the passing of my father. It was my needed medicine.

If you pull air-quality data (or childhood asthma rates) comparing the 1970s to now, you'll see tougher fuel economy standards have had a huge positive public health outcome. The chart below (for ozone in SoCal) is similar for carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other nasty stuff.

Yesterday I learned that a kid I coached on a few youth soccer teams died of heart failure a couple months into his freshman year of college. He was 18. I have trouble processing how you could be a parent and cope with that kind of a loss without imploding.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

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It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

LOL I actually agree with this but in my experience if I've stated something like this my mentions are all angry replies from people I consider allies saying this is an immutably bad idea that will 100% hurt cities.

I am historically a "dog person" but have really enjoyed living with cats for the past 10 years. Last night, one of our cats brought an injured finch into the dining room and I'll admit it's still disorienting to know that I'm sharing a home with a couple of serial killers.

If you care about road violence, policing, and media coverage of fatal bike crashes, this case—where attorneys for Flint PD are blaming a (drunk) rider for his own death despite obvious police negligence—is super interesting. www.mlive.com/news/flint/2...

Terrific

Many folks in the advocacy community know that efforts to lower driving speeds save lives...so in most places we're left to grapple with this reality where we know that most people and institutions choose to accept a certain amount of preventable human suffering as unavoidable collateral damage.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Most folks have the good sense that if they see a piece of dogshit on the ground, they don't get down on their hands and knees to smell it. And yet if they see the New York Times runs a fawning profile of Olivia Nuzzi, they lose their minds, settle into the couch and inhale the putrid feculence.

I think whomever realized that this could be a Christmas ornament (and figured out the funding, tooling and logistics) deserves free drinks for life in Los Angeles county.

We’ve had an uptick of coyote attacks in our neighborhood so we’re keeping the cats inside after dark. My pal Feta is annoyed by the new policy and was grumpy for a few hours last night.

The new batch of Epstein emails makes me ponder the folks deeply outraged by trans people who want to do sports because they think it harms women. Decades of hard proof that cis men who abuse their power to harm women in the worst ways are the actual threat can alter this counterfactual obsession.

When you read the barely coherent emails it's easier to understand why rich tech pros like ChatGP.

Rewatching earlier seasons of Stranger Things to prep for season 5. Forgot how beautiful it is. I love how all the young characters are such well developed and acted. Plus, shitloads of awesome bike moments.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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Just as the graft and lawlessness and weaponized bigotry need to face consequences, the repeated capitulation and silence needs to have consequences, too.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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...