That we’re still doing this 10 years in is most maddening because letting one half-cool millennial cook his ass onstage would have ended it all.

I’ve been staring at this third paragraph for 2 days. Absolutely nuts. You can have Kawhi from the Clippers if you assume risk of penalties for things THE CLIPPERS ALLEGEDLY DID WITH KAWHI! It’s like OJ selling you the mansion as long as you’re willing to sign a “stab responsibility waiver.”

TV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.

Looking for new book recs that are either sci-fi or Cold War spy stuff. I’m a millennial dad. Not fighting it.

a long, accurate thought below good reading for everyone in tv, better reading for everyone not in tv

The only way this World Cup will be different for the US is if the American Soccer Discourse doesn't excuse them / coddle them / forgive them, and instead expects greatness.

Acting like this USMNT implosion is because of Trump, or even the current political climate, is an embarrisingly neophyte sports take. Going out in the Round of 16 in maddening fashion wondering why this Golden Generation has imploded... baby that's been American Soccer for a long long time.

The NEXT Democrat with a Nazi tattoo is actually gonna be good, though

“Isn’t it crazy Trump helped Balogun when he hates birthright citizenship—“ No! Because he is dumb and bad! What are you, twelve? Did you just get to Earth?

ABC News trying to give David Muir heat stroke is the most interesting TV storyline of today.

Balogun can still play against Belgium if Gianni Infantino has the courage to do what’s right

Wild to get home from a long day and see clip after clip of Jonathan Karl getting dog walked on his own show by Mamdani

If we still have real big-J sports journalists out there, the first question for Mat Ishbia should be, “Is an employee smashing in their girlfriend’s face something you overlook in all your companies, or do you just make that cutout for basketball players?”

Suns can blow up the team however they want, but no man who hits women should ever put on an NBA jersey again. A move that reveals Ishbia has no moral character, and one that should make everyone in his personal life question their trust in him.

Sorry to be an absolute psycho but who signed off on the briefcases being ordered 2 *then* 1 left to right in the Howie Mandel monologue scene in Studio 60?

guys we just cannot be taking four minutes to decide if fans can celebrate a goal, you have to figure this out

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

The vote blue no matter who folks really woke up today screaming, “But we didn’t mean THAT blue!”

Come with me, and imagine a world where a political party is “a group of elected officials representing the will of a block of voters” instead of “a group of entrenched power brokers who want loyalty now and will figure out beliefs and values later.” lol this lil cope-tweeting goofball

Darializa Avila Chevalier wins the Democratic primary for New York’s 13th congressional district, @nbcnews.com projects. She defeats Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the current chair of the Hispanic Caucus. An earthquake in NYC politics.

It’s our time.

Once again, a group of execs who had never made something (variety talk) tried to “reinvent” a low-effort union-busting version (video podcasts) and it didn’t work. You can’t transform what you don’t understand. And you can’t make hits if you don’t understand what hits with your audience.

Genius.

Good!

Juneteenth is most effective as a national holiday when it comforts the afflicted, afflicts the comfortable, and reminds racists the boot is coming for their neck.

NYC Resident Question Of the Week: How would you logistically extend the parade route?

ISO a single person who thinks the mandated hydration breaks are a good idea. FIFA employees exempt

getting my kid a good spot at the Knicks parade is gonna be enough work to count as this year's Christmas present

You know @kassieiwinski.bsky.social is a true Thunder fan because she STILL wants the league to review that Wemby closeout flagrant. All-Star Level Hater (and I love that about her)

The Jalen M. Brunson And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts

I’m not a real New Yorker (my kids are) but I am a “did Covid in Manhattan” New Yorker so ads like these wreck me.

the supreme court gave wemby absolute immunity

If we're breaking down why he's bad television... Lalas retired before these players were born. He retired *ten years* before Shaq! And sure, there are cranky old heads on sports desks (McEnroe, Smoltz) -- but those guys *actually played for titles.* Their careers mattered. Alexi barely had one.

There IS a club and you ain’t in it

See you tomorrow morning, DCM!

Sometimes life gives you a natural tongue twister, like: My salmon ceasar salad is slightly sandy.

This is the hurdle Dems will face. The media is going to frame pro-democracy institutional reforms as "radical stuff," when the historically accurate reality is that we reformed our leg/exec/judicial institutions <constantly> from 1776 to ~1950. We've only decided they were cast in amber since then.

SPORTS. ARE. GOOD.

“the president was loudly booed in the countrys most populous city we traveled to this small town in south dakota to find out why”

Only sitting President to cost his team a Finals game.

I was in LA for election day and just to speak to this swing of late breaking votes: every friend I interacted with in LA -- obviously an incredibly high Raman Voter percentage -- said out loud "Oh right, I have to go vote today!" because they had not done it yet.

Actually true since Access Hollywood. The press decides, all the time, who is no longer a viable candidate or figure in 🇺🇸 politics & simply stops covering them as viable. They chose not to do that in 2015-16 & have continued not to do that for a decade, most shamefully after this & a coup attempt.

A message on CBS News from WGAE President Tom Fontana

ESPN is using AI to animate historic NBA Finals moments *THAT EXIST ON VIDEO* truly this is a solution in search of a problem.

love this 😍 remember when he tried to kill you and your staff on january 6

One of the loudest ways American history rhymes is that when you step toward equality, the power brokers of The South will take their ball and go home.

It needs to be said: the only way someone does "TV-level production at a fraction of TV budgets" is by exploiting labor.

Wemby, did those monks teach you how to shoot threes? Because YIKES.

It's almost a year old and the cast has changed, so feels like a great time to share a packet sketch from last year about the baby Hitler quandary. [Starts here, the rest is in the next threaded post -- I don't make the Bluesky upload rules]

Sure, buying my own Mister Softee machine would mean I had to eat through a neighborhood’s supply of ice cream before it went bad, but I’m still waiting to hear a downside.