Hmm, I am looking for my buddy Dickie Greenleaf, but when I called at his new place, I found only my hostile acquaintance, Tom. However, as I was leaving just now, the property manager told me Tom was actually Dickie. Strange! I’m going to head back upstairs to ask Tom what she meant

The original Juneteenth Order (see 3)

Given Wilson's heartburn over Antelope Hill's presence at this conference, it's worth having a closer look at his own political goals and beliefs. (I suppose chattel slavery apologists and Third Reich defenders won't always agree.) Via @julieingersoll.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/douglas-wi...

good from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social today—simple truths, well stated www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-dumbes...

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Canadians: extremely nice, until they’re not, at which point good luck.

blocked by another user but not by the FBI

“Dude, we’re just humble book merchants, man,” he said, laughing. “We’re just selling Third Reich literature at a Christian conference is all!” www.thebulwark.com/p/oops-we-in...

Given Wilson's heartburn over Antelope Hill's presence at this conference, it's worth having a closer look at his own political goals and beliefs. (I suppose chattel slavery apologists and Third Reich defenders won't always agree.) Via @julieingersoll.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/douglas-wi...

I've been following this story a bit on the other app, and man. Looking at replies to posts by the folks involved made clear to me that I simply did not comprehend just how bad X's Nazi problem has gotten

This is kind of fantastic: Ribbie lets you watch actual MLB baseball games "rendered pitch by pitch in a cozy 8-bit view while they happen”. [kottke.org]

bit of a scuffed New Orleans vibe today

As others have pointed out, it's not the present-day Iranian flag that FIFA has banned but the pre-revolutionary Iranian flag, which the org says qualifies as political paraphernalia. Still an arguable policy, obviously, but it's important to not to get it twisted: www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

"the opposite of 'man' is 'boy'" is a great line (and a real insight)

Wyndham Lewis's portrait of Rebecca West (1932) www.npg.org.uk/collections/...

Do you think he makes them take SHAPE assessments

I think if you look at comments a lot of Republicans are making it indicates that Vance is being primed for getting thrown under the bus. I'm sure it'll be fine. www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-i...

New: We've been tracking reports of ICE activity across Chicagoland for five weeks. In that time, rapid responders have seen an escalation as feds have abducted dozens, caused at least two car crashes, threatened community members with weapons and flouted state courthouse protections. Read more:

If you are considering buying a copy of Moby-Dick to read this summer, I recommend the Modern Library paperback edition. Intro essay from the great Elizabeth Hardwick aside, the Rockwell Kent illustrations are outstanding—my kids have started listening to me read M-D just so they can look at them:

"MacIntyre has read but not synthesized his influences. . . . [he] wants freedom for those like him who deserve it, and either doesn’t much care or is actively hostile toward anyone else enjoying it."

This kind of racist rhetoric is incompatible with a country that wants to host the World Cup and the Olympics.

My piece for @thebulwark.com on far right podcaster Auron MacIntyre. www.thebulwark.com/p/far-right-...

Can’t believe they hid this secret for years by putting it on every bag

Rick Warren? Well, that's interesting

I've lost count how many times I've thought of this 'The Dark Knight Rises' line over the past decade

Bluesky just rolled out group chat functionality, and I have already been invited into over 200 group chats. All of my fellow group chat members are just out of frame, posting about it, too

as a good friend once put it, Moby-Dick is about the most fun you can have in the English language

as a good friend once put it, Moby-Dick is about the most fun you can have in the English language

For all its problematic connotations I love the World Cup cultural exchange of Europeans learning about tailgating and Americans learning about this.

Read it on a Sunday…

"He has chatted about the Rolexes he’s owned with a watch blogger,1 and the campuses of his church are now spread out widely enough that he charters helicopters and private jets every weekend to preach at each one, including Pursuit’s newest campus in Spokane."

Now watching In a Lonely Place (1950)

Really interesting piece on Russell Johnson by @dombon.bsky.social. www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-m...

I can’t recommend this @dombon.bsky.social piece for @thebulwark.com enough. A disturbing look at a new leading figure on the Christian right. www.thebulwark.com/p/meet-the-m...

i really, truly, find this offensive

summertime is for snails and their delighted minders

eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time

I am constantly amazed by the success of this thing that Sarah, Tim, and JVL have built and am happy to play a small part in it. (I mean, yes, half of those million sign ups were for the movie reviews, but I try to stay humble.) www.wsj.com/business/med...

we’re so desperate for good news we've accepted the scaffolding as our wire mother

What a day for signage news

It can be hard to make friends on the internet

you know you've got a real friend when they magnanimously welcome your essay-length reflections on the virtues of high-rise trousers via DM

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Meet the Millennial Pastor at the Vanguard of the MAGA Culture War

meeting the moment (another hot, humid day): linen trousers with a Hollywood waist

paraphrasing Scalia, that wolf came as a wolf

the ACARS Drama to ACARS Romantic Comedy flightpath