I don’t really get why the editor of the NYT obit of Tom Stoppard let the writer keep his snobby “if you like that sort of thing” tone in there when talking about Shakespeare In Love. It’s fine if the writer thinks that even if I disagree, but that tone doesn’t belong in an obituary, imo

Introduce yourself with five concerts you have seen multiple times: Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band Pink Martini Neko Case Paul Simon Rolling Stones

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

I’m certainly not the first person to recommend Sophie Elmhirst’s “A Marriage at Sea” nor will I be the last. But this book is so damn good - it exceeds all the hype and even better, it got me out of a reading slump and I read it in two days. Now on my list of “unputdownable” books.

Like, I get they don’t care if poor people die. But setting aside, you know, basic humanity, and looking at things strategically, how is SAYING that and fighting to let people die a good look for them politically?

“wait what did will smith just do” — the other person in the room, all across America, for the second time in history

Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball

If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE

-Davis (8th inning): this has been a great game; you couldn’t ask for more drama -Rojas HR -Yamamoto in relief -HBP to load bases, 1 out -close force at home -outfield collision Davis (10th inning): Now an eagle is fighting a panther in left center

BlueSky filling with baseball tweets means it's a really good game

Search “Christ” by latest. Hilarious.

<slaps roof of the 2025 MLB playoffs> This bad boy can fit so many extra innings in it

Finally a ballgame. Excited for the next nine innings!

Los Angeles, CA - As hundreds of Dodgers fans watch the game in Echo Park, a vehicle containing LAPD horses drives by to raucous boos from the fans.

An Air Canada flight right now

Will Klein in a "Rapinoe/Kaepernick 2020" shirt

I LOVE THE DODGERS!!!!

Can we give some props to Dieter Ruhle, who has been absolutely stellar on that organ throughout this entire game?

When you type “longest” into Google right now this is what you get

they say there was a time before the Game, once.

10 years ago tonight

Jesus. 26 athletes stranded. This is basically the plot of "Alive."

Whoever is writing the little blurbs in the Fox Sports App is getting sick of working.

I know they’re playing in Los Angeles and it is not 1am there but throwing a ball over 100 mph seems like the kind of thing you should only be able to do during business hours, or with special approval from the mayor

hideo nomo is at the game and i think i just saw him walking towards the bullpen

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A diseased population is easier to control

I started watching the original CSI for the first time a while back to scratch the procedural itch. It’s good but the most fun part has been seeing all the appearances by very young people who are now extremely famous. For example: Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber (different episodes.)

On this date in 1939, the USSR invaded Poland in cooperation with its ally, Nazi Germany. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/timot...

Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.

A salute to Robert Redford who used his all-American looks to get us to examine all of America -- good, bad and ugly www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

My collaboration with Ivan Ehlers for the @latimes.com

Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...

I grew up right next to Carmel but that’s not the only reason I found this story by @haileybranson.bsky.social so fun and fascinating! Definitely a great weekend read.

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

I'm sure I'm not the only GenXer who is tearing up at this. If you were there when it began, then you know why.

As @gregpak.net has noted, unless there was a specific clause in all the contracts that allows for this, they can't go back and retroactively amend contracts without the author's consent. This is a class action suit waiting to happen.

Our sources are telling us it is in fact marco rubio 🤔

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

A lot of older adults forced a war on universities because that’s where their kids realized their parents were evil.

Real discussion: CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me? CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

Please read this essay by Alaa Alqaisi in Gaza. Please send money to Gaza. Please scream at the politicians who are making this possible and never let them forget. arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, most remembered for playing Theo Huxtable on ‘The Cosby Show,’ passed away Sunday. But his legacy spans much more than one character. I wrote about how I’ll remember him best. www.theringer.com/2025/07/21/t...

The enigma that is current model Jon Stewart continues to perplex me: After a very strong analysis of what’s so troublesome about CBS’s decision to kill Late Show, Stewart then conducted the softest of softball interviews with the newly MAGA-coded owner of the LAT. Asked not a single tough question

This is poetically stupid

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇

A story about Stephen Colbert I’ve never shared before. Years ago I was hospitalized for a month. One of toughest things I ever had to do. Confined, monitored, my health a mystery with no solution, cycling through roommates & their families who needed miracles, or would go off to surgery & vanish…

The death toll from the Trump Administration’s foreign aid cuts could total more than the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust, Ukrainians killed in the Holodomor, and Cambodians killed in the genocide by the Khmer Rouge, combined. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...