We’re looking for an actor/VO artist of Bangladeshi descent for one of my podcasts. If that’s you, or you know someone, please hit me up!

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Well said by Adam Gopnik in the @newyorker.com. Assuming the Big Beautiful Ballroom even gets built, I look forward to the day it gets torn down.

This is a very compelling take.

I love Pasadena. I love L.A. I love this country. #nokings

Sherman Oaks says #NoKings

This thread warmed my cynical little GenX heart. 👻

So is the NFL currently experiencing parity? Or mediocrity? Or both? Feels like every team right now is one concussed cornerback away from completely unraveling.

JB Pritzker's forceful, defiant response to Trump's threat to jail him confirms the points I tried to make in the piece and thread below about the role of conflict and attention in the public battle over Trump's authoritarian takeover:

One of the podcasts I work on is nominated for a Signal Award for Best Writing, which is lovely since I take a lot of pride in how good our writers are. And hey, you can vote for us! If we lose to Outlaw Ocean I wont be mad but it’d be pretty neat to win. vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

Stunned to hear that we recently lost Kaleb Horton, one of the most talented writers I’ve ever had the privilege to work with. He was tuned to a different frequency, picking up voices from a version of California that darker and way more interesting than the sunshine and celebrities version.

Am I the only one watching this game who forgot until the third quarter that Cooper Kupp is now a Seahawk?

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Post of the day 🦅

they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.

The full 12 minutes of @govpritzker.illinois.gov speech today, which was superb. (Via Nicole Wallace / @msnbc.com segment.) www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

💯 I am not Newsom’s biggest fan but when the choice is between him and fascism I’ll take Newsom all day long.

Since most of the recent news about my employers Wondery has been about layoffs, I thought I’d take this opportunity to let everyone know that: a) I’m still here, and b) I still have a new podcast to promote! And yes, it looks like we get to keep making it. So I’m feeling very fortunate.

We said goodbye to Gabi today, our Halloween kitty. She was the loudest cat I’ve ever lived with. She never met a finger she wouldn’t bite. In her senior years, she developed hyperthyroidism and a taste for people food, which she could root out of any sealed container with ruthless efficiency.

Me three months ago:

This is moving. Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through. What could have been…

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

I’m not great with the whole self-promotion thing so I’ll just say I got to work with a lot of insanely talented people on this new podcast about the climate crisis and if you’re nice person who cares about the planet you maybe might wanna check it out.

The phrase “morally indefensible” springs to mind.

FREE ANTHONY ORENDORFF PRESS CONFERENCE TOMORROW, Sat, June 21 @ 10 am - Anthony’s lawyers, family, & community members are hosting a presser outside Van Nuys jail LAPD arrested a local photojournalist during an immigration raid. This needs to be a bigger story. Please share!

Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

Stay classy, San Diego. #NoKings

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

I’m just going to get this out now, since I know it’s coming, and I can just link to it. DO NOT FETISHIZE NON-VIOLENCE. It is a PRACTICE and a DISCIPLINE. The people who employed it successfully trained RIGOROUSLY. It’s not just a decision, because it goes against basic human instincts. 1/x

I’m not sure how to express how intensely personal these raids feel as an Angeleno. Whatever stereotypes you have in your head about La-La-Land, immigrants are the lifeblood of this city. It’s an assault on what we love about this place.

NYT: “The episode was recorded by someone who was sitting in Mr. Nadler’s office. In the video, an officer with the Federal Protective Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is shown demanding access to a private area inside the office.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n...

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

This day keeps getting better.

The survival podcast I work on will soon be available in book form. In case anyone’s looking to sharpen their wilderness and natural disaster skills. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-sur...

Can someone check and make sure Google Search is doing OK?

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Sadly evergreen.

Just arrived in Nashville in the middle of a tornado warning, and shout out to the singer in the hotel lobby doing a cover of “Ain’t No Sunshine.”

I’m a coastal elite on my first visit to the Deep South. Ask me anything.

Pretty sure any deodorant could be whole body deodorant.

So Trump and his cronies are definitely shorting the U.S. economy, right?

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

I wonder if people’s response early on to Hitler was “You know what would fix all this? Taxing that dude more.”

Is anyone else doing these 12:53pm Wednesday moments of silence? On the one hand it feels like an empty gesture but on the other… maybe a good way to signal to each other who are allies are. choosedemocracy.us/minute-of-us...

So happy for Saquon. No one deserves a Super Bowl ring more than him. Still wish a) he’d had more big plays, and b) it had been a closer game. But I’ll take it! #flyeaglesfly 🦅

BIRDS BY A MILLION

Kendrick is about to do to Drake at halftime what the Eagles did to the Chiefs in the first half.