Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League.

Jellybean Johnson...sigh. RIP to one of the leading lights of the Minneapolis sound.

!!!!!!!! God, I love this part of WCQ the MOST.

If Kimmel had done this riff with Charlie Kirk, he'd still be off the air.

"My heart's full of love and all kinds of peace. But I think even I could punch a Nazi in the face." www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n03...

IOW, the US government has stopped making cents.

cc: @rilokileyofficial.bsky.social

Starting his speech with a Debs quote? He's actually trying to make a Fox anchor's head explode now.

1. You lie and actively make the world a worse place with every word you utter, and the six-figure substack will be gravy on your staff position at a legacy outlet 2. You try to do good journalism and spend your life wondering what it's like to have health insurance hmm, maybe needs a 3rd choice

Working From a British Pub Before a Concert Playlist Update: "Babies," Pulp.

Local news brings us closer to each other, even as the powerful work to tear us apart. This beautiful piece about Gael the sidewalk astronomer, who is losing his TPS (but would prefer us to focus on the stars) by @samdelgado.bsky.social @51st.news really exemplifies that. 51st.news/mount-pleasa...

Coffee Shop Playlist Update: "Miracles," Insane Clown Posse. The baristas are dressed up as juggalos. I love Halloween.

Happy "Tom's Crossing" Day to all who observe! bookshop.org/p/books/tom-...

It's always amusing to me that he did so badly in Atlantic City. His entire m.o. is the same as a casino owner: optimize all space for maximum revenue. The only difference now is he has nothing to sell, but he sees open space as "how can we use this?" rather than "this could be an oasis."

My first (and, to date, only) staff writer job was covering high school sports in 2001-03 -- long before Zoom, etc. -- in the DC suburbs. It was a remote job. My office was wherever my iBook clamshell sat. This makes no damn sense whatsoever.

If the taxes I pay on my writing are used to bail out an industry founded on stealing and then replacing my writing, I swear to god, I am going to do so much angry writing

RIP D'Angelo, the greatest singer since Marvin departed. Who took the grit & attitude of hip-hop & alchemized it into angelic voodoo. He condensed the human condition - sex, suffering, addiction, love, oppression - into pure transcendence. A comet emitting blinding light & soul.

nononononononono....D'Angelo's gone. :(

One of the best to ever do it.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

A wonderful eulogy about a wonderful writer. The despair is heavy right now.

Can Tylenol sue? I feel like Tylenol can sue. (Anything else I would say about that press conference would get my internet rights revoked.)

tfw i come on here to tell everyone i have a new, obscure soccer history deep dive coming soon

Trust me: End Times Karaoke. There are so many good songs about the end of the world. Get your crew together on Rapture Day and go sing them. You'll feel better in your community. In 2012, I think I did "Until the End of the World" by U2. But there are plenty others.

EVERY DAY is a good day for "September," but one is first among equals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

That last sentence. !! People put their careers in the hands of billionaires -- it would be nice to see those billionaires recognize that and act in their employees' best interest.

Always remember: If you hate "cancel culture" then you hate corporations. They're the ones that decide who to hire and fire, not a hashtag or a petition.

Sending so much love out to Orem, where -- before we get all political -- a murderer is on the loose.

This...has to have been heavily AI-assisted, right? (Not the Defector piece, natch, but the WaPo "editorial.")

I really don't want a system where everyday citizens can't go through the courts when the media screws up and defames. And I don't want regular citizens to have to pay if they lose that case. And yet...Donald Trump should have to pay a GREAT deal of money to the WSJ for this frivolous lawsuit.

How dare they, first. How fucking dare they, second. Third, how dare they drop this on a Monday when my emotional support lawyers @strictscrutiny.bsky.social won't have an episode about this for a WEEK.

Look, he would have been a bad SC justice, for sure, but ... this seems excessive.

"Sydney Sweeney's jeans now are running the Department of Homeland Security." Unhinged and perfect.

You can give me all the reasons you’d like for why people can’t/wont mask. They’re mostly dumb, but sure. There is not one single reason why every classroom in America isn’t running HEPA air filters.

“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:

Let her cook, Hollywood.

I went in to a theater to watch "Eddington," and I leave to find out that Drunk Fox News Karen is now the Senate-confirmed DC US Attorney. Satire could never.

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

@stevengoff.bsky.social From a long-time fan: congratulations, and thank you for everything you've done for soccer in both DC and around the country. Your voice will be missed -- until the next chapter arrives, I'm sure.

Very important point from one of the best in the online reporting world.

Absolutely the fuck not. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Hudson Hawk," but the crime is killing Epstein while singing "Wannabe."

Club World Cup halftime show gets a D- from me. Hosting it in the rafters means zero crowd energy, the mics were too low in the mix, and there was zero connective tissue between the performances. Felt like, "look at how much money we can spend on bringing in these artists for three minutes each!"

Donald Trump at the CWC Final, Michael Buffer doing his "let's get ready to rumble" schtick as an intro...I think I liked it better when more Americans didn't like soccer.

The Mamdani Columbia story is an example of a microgenre where ethnic communities have had complex internal conversations about identity for generations and white people pratfall into them to go "what the fuck, why are you trying to trick me"

The best 4th of July song ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSTd...

When you’re going to sleep at night, do you ever wish you would wake up in a world where the United States fully followed through on Reconstruction? I think about it a lot.

Infinite Butthole

All the best to her and a reminder that Michael Weatherly, who harassed her, was caught on camera doing so and was enthusiastically defended by CBS (who put Dushku through the wringer), is headlining an NCIS spinoff.