This is such grim stuff. My old paper. It used to win Pulitzers.

Snagged tickets for the Hold Steady at the Empty Bottle in Chicago in the nick of time. What a rush!

The CIA’s World Factbook, a repository of facts on nations that for six decades provided detailed figures on birth and death rates and major exports, relied upon first by government agents and eventually researchers, educators, journalists and more, was shuttered without warning on Wednesday.

1963 Chevrolet Corvette Split-Window Coupe Body Shell Project at No Reserve

While the weight of freezing rain, ice and snow can damage branches, there is another kind of injury to trees that comes with the extreme cold, experts say.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u... 🎁

Caleb Williams had to grate some cheese after beating the Packers 🧀

They finally made Bachelor Chow!

The Kyle Farnsworth-Iowa mystery might have been just been solved 🕵️‍♂️

A New York Times video analysis of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis contradicts the Trump administration’s account. Watch our investigation here.

If you haven’t seen it, I cannot recommend more highly this NYT visual investigation of the Capitol riots. Six months and many journalists were involved. An incredibly comprehensive view of what happened.

My friends are in the Times! Reporter Victor Mather and photographer Vincent Alban (neither of whom I see on this platform) did a great job capturing what makes these adventures so much fun. [Gift link]

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/w...

THE FACT THAT ONE OF THE POP-TARTS CHOSE TO LIVE MAKES THE WHOLE THING WORSE SOMEHOW

CW: straw-goat carnage

This is great www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Friends tell me that John Noble Wilford has died. A giant of American journalism and a genius of science writing across many disciplines, John wrote the most famous lede in the history of journalism: “ Men have landed and walked on the moon.” Godspeed, Noble John. www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/s...

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

oh, alas, i've been informed that there was another velvet underground of paducah, kentucky, and this was almost certainly them.

When they play football at Wrigley Field

I (a Cubs fan) once gave a very close friend (a Cardinals fan) Cubs tickets for his birthday. You don’t get many opportunities to gently troll a pope …

The weirdest vegetable has to be romanesco cauliflower right?

The new Spiritual Cramp is the album I was most looking forward to this year and it is not disappointing

Listen, there are loads of reasons to be pessimistic about NYC and flooding. Our aim with this piece, which we've been working on for months, was to lay out the possible solutions as they are, without being naive. I hope we've done that. Please read and share this gift link and lmk what you think.

For the fans of apple season: macouns are showing up and your window for this variety is narrow! Get moving before they turn to mush!

This 1996 Ford Bronco XLT shows 128k miles, and it's listed now on BaT! https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1996-ford-bronco-239/

Legend. May her memory be a blessing.

🏈 BAL 40 - 41 BUF FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1092nd unique final score in NFL history.

Go Bills

"MOZZARELLA STICKS FOR EVERYBODY!" 🤣 Cubs broadcasters Boog Sciambi and Jim Deshaies said they would buy mozzarella sticks for an entire bar in Iowa if the Cubs turned a 6-4-3 double play. That is exactly what happened. 😭

Headlines Used to Have One Sentence. Not Anymore.

The automobile. The World Wide Web. And these cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023...

From @theathletic.bsky.social: This baseball card is so rare that it sold for $250,100 in 2023. This is the story of how card No. 106 came into existence.

What athlete’s expression will stay with you the rest of your life? youtu.be/DO4h-fH_vu8?...

On the same flight as Muhammad Ali. Like two rows back.

I get, and share, the concerns about using AI in this way. But this was also a very cool experiment to fill in the gaps on Smile. Does it help that it was so lovingly and painstakingly done? youtu.be/n7W_2JS12CY?...

There aren’t many perfect albums but Pet Sounds is one and Smile would have been. RIP www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Neutral Milk Hotel, before Superchunk. Soul Coughing, before They Might Be Giants. The National, before Yo La Tengo. Luscious Jackson, before REM.

Here’s the trophy.

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Across the world, we’ve seen democracy in retreat,” writes A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times. “This anti-press playbook is now being used here in this country — and it could not come at a more difficult time for the American press.”

This has got to be tremendous for the Cubs’ chances, yeah?

Pollen dot com right now

Christmas lights off the house before April: ✅ (they’ve been turned off since New Year’s at least)

This is not normal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

Go Bills! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/n...