I hate how much I love Wonderwall. We used to do our most evil sets of drop spins (500 or more) in drum corps while singing it.

King Charles is being handed a telephone as we speak

keir starmer calling infantino to try and get that red card overturn and it somehow ends with harry kane getting suspended for the rest of the tournament

I bet your cakes taste terrible

“It’s only all in the mind.” I see bro has never been at 7,000 ft lol

“It’s not about tactics.” commentary already off to stupid

Unlikely you'll read about it anywhere outside Israel, because it is not about war crimes and such, but Israel is now facing the very definition of constitutional crisis as Bibi is trying to take over the media and explicitly defying court orders in doing so.

I keep wondering if I should read Ravensong or if I should just remain ignorant. I've read all the other books in the series but I always get nervous for that one because what do you mean you got a whole new boyfriend after knowing who your mate is?

My cat Leroy always relocates to the most dramatically lit spot in the house for her evening snoozes. [the colour bars are from a stained glass piece I made that’s a TV test pattern — it’s sitting in the west-facing window]

Y’all, you donated over $1500 for voting rights just from my books, and I am so, so grateful!! From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU!! 😍💕

The US soccer federation was apparently also engaged in lobbying FIFA to overturn the suspension. So there is no mechanism in the rules to appeal a red card but there is a mechanism outside the rules, which is in keeping with the spirit of FIFA law that the rules are whatever they want them to be.

The Romancing the Vote bidding could continue, if Mike Pence has the courage

People love a large white guy. They can do anything: score a goal, unscrew a cap, be jack reacher, and people will be like Large! Man!

Was no one going to tell me about the signed G.A. Aiken books?! www.32auctions.com/organization...

We're so close y'all!

This really is a vintage World Cup: terrific football, ties - you bet! - and now: a dazzlingly dodgy decision for the hosts. The US now only needs to master 'chants that are not boringly literal' to become a footballing nation.

I hope @voteriders.bsky.social is ready for us, now that we're definitely bringing them over $100k this year!!!

SCOTUS rules 9-0 that Balogun expulsion can be put on hold for a year and 5-4 that Balogun is an American citizen

I'm so proud of myself for seeing over half of these

Put cherries and blueberries in this to try and do a little red, white, and blue and just an epic fail. Everybody looks purple when they're cooked. Still mad delicious. www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/easy...

99.6% of listeners have bought or borrowed a book because of Fated Mates. 74% bought more than 10. 18% bought more than 50. More info: fatedmates.net/ads Support democracy and sell some books!

okay, happy Sunday evening everyone, let’s talk about Conservation Areas: why they exist, what they do, and why I’m really mad at Oxon County Council

Higher education is always interwoven in these stories www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I mean. She might could’ve been right

My biggest Christie heads will have to all agree that this is the finest show they've ever watched before I even consider hitting play on this www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

"Offers between 350,000 and 425,000"

Portentous weather you say...reading about the Zhou dynasty for no reason

Hello friends - enjoy these kickass #4thofJuly fireworks from Portland, ME 🎆🎇 Amaze amaze amaze!

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Just got back from a “Independence Day the movie the party” in which the Bill Pullman president speech was given by a different person every hour

This is a real fair critique

A bottle of water you seek? Just come with me through the Emmett Till funeral exhibit… it’s right on the other side of this photo of his tortured corpse.

A restroom? Yes, Anne, right over here by the letter written by a witness who recounts hearing a female enslaved person wailing as her children were ripped from her arms…

someone needs to write this Netflix series.

The security guard at the door:

I would like to have a conversation with this season's writers because they are doing the absolute most

ID4! ID4! ID4! ID4! ID4!

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Loving this @pbs.org documentary looking at America’s founding through stories of Philadelphia, particularly its Black residents. Featuring my sister, thee Dr. Kelli Racine Barnes!

ME: So yeah, the Post Office ran great for a long time until this one political faction realized having a wildly successful and popular government agency undermined their goal of hollowing out all Federal agencies. Sorry about that. BEN FRANKLIN: Yes, yes. So this service is only for fans, you say?

"Centrists like Demsas and Favreau are constantly looking for ways to both sides the left, which means that they end up being suckers for right-wing framing."

Proud of this one. I only rarely get sunflowers to stand up and show their faces in a vase.

The Power Broker jokes are the best jokes!

A perfect poem for this day "Let America Be America Again" BY LANGSTON HUGHES www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907...

That's a central point of this piece I wrote for the 250th! www.thenation.com/article/soci...

It's that time of year again!

LRB is my subscription that humbles me the most

while many of you are likely yelling “GO CABO VERDE!” or “GO TAYLOR SWIFT!” i’m yelling “GO TIGHTLY-PLOTTED 2007 THRILLER MICHAEL CLAYTON and the rule of law!”