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.

Thirty-one years ago, Celeste met Jesse on a train, and together they set a standard for travel and romance that I've been chasing since. Thanks, assholes.

Me: Lisa Lobsinger got a raw deal, because she had to follow Feist, Emily Haines, and Amy Millan in Broken Social Scene, and she's a different type of singer than any of them. The fans should have given her more of a chance The soldier unlawfully quartered in my house: uh

Love you, Charm City. <3

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

The Waterdance. Looking your way, WPGC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywku...

This gig would have made a freelancer's day. Instead, it was outsourced to AI, botched, then printed. But the Sun-Times knows there's never any consequences for things like this, so it was still worth saving the $500 ($300?) that it would have cost to employ a human. www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

Update: Journalism has been purchased by a hedge fund which announced multiple amputations

"A remarkable recovery by Journalism," say Tirico, and ....lolsob

If Austria wins and Vienna hosts next year...I think I have to try to go to Eurovision? Who wants to pay me for a story?

Coffeeshop Playlist Update: "Overjoyed," Victory. The genius of Stevie Wonder, who turns 75 today -- even if it's not his version of a song, it still feels like him. Happy happy birthday to the greatest.

SUCH a great writeup of a song I now have to add to my 2025 playlist.

Thank god.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

Ah man, Jill Sobule. :( My first night out after moving to LA was seeing The Paul F. Tompkins Show at Largo, and she was the musical guest. She seemed like such a sweet, smart, and VERY funny person. She played this song, one of my favorite unrequited love tracks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm3e...

Early frontrunner for this year's photography Pulitzer? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

IF any Canadian immigration officials are browsing: I can name most of the members of Broken Social Scene without looking them up, I own most Guy Maddin films on DVD/Blu-Ray and Dwayne De Rosario is one of my favorite DC United alumni.

Sports: Even if my Avs crash out of the playoffs in the first round...watching Landy get his first goal in more than two years was worth it. <3 <3 <3

#Couchella finale: Post Malone. It's not for me. But the energy is sound. And I thought for a second that this song he just started was gonna be a cover of "Blaze of Glory," and I'd be down for that. So now I've got something to root for?