International travelers here for the World Cup have gotten a real taste of America— Buc-ee’s, ubiquitous ice cubes, regional BBQ variations, and the way that Trump inserts himself into every good thing and makes it worse.

The person who placed the largest wager in the match on a FIFA-owned platform built in partnership with Draft Kings/Aramco should announce the decision right before kickoff with a gladiator-style thumb.

when he’s right, he’s right

Pochettino looks like he quit investment banking to manage a small vineyard and now embraces an untucked lifestyle.

I've been condemned to spend part of my early evening in Nightmare Alley (where the 101 meets the 405) with time to kill. Where's the best Mexican bar to watch the Mexico match in that cursed land?

Haaland like like Spiderman if the radioactive spider were an iceberg.

This is an extraordinary essay about one of the greatest American artworks.

anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers

Greenwater Berets

Reflecting Pool is Brat

Should’ve hired Clearwater Services, IMO

Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo

boston peeps! start your july 4th celebrations early at our live show next week! ticket info below ⬇️

Richard Jefferson is basically Copilot announcing basketball: an unhelpful overview of the proceedings and 45% too many words.

its another great day to eat food, urinate, breathe with mouth and nose, and strut around on this planet

Cool that Elon Musk could buy 9 Warner Brothers.

Here's the latest episode of The Memory Palace which, despite this dude's whole deal suggests, is, I'm told a "fun one." play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

If you’re in line to dunk on Spencer Pratt: STAY IN LINE.

I’m excited about this both because Nithya has extremely effective as my council person, driven, pragmatic, creative, and because Spencer Pratt is as appealing and as dumb as a bunch of wasps stuffed into a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

BOVINO (Lifting sieg heil salute) Live the moment! CUE - “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”

Huh, so weird. The Post's editorial board suggested just yesterday that putting data centers in the middle of neighborhoods was the perfect solution for Detroit. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Just for the record, I solemnly swear that there has never been, nor ever will be, even a single AI-generated word, phrase (or structural concept or thematic concept or anything else that constitutes anything that any human being ever thought of as writing) used in the writing of The Memory Palace.

Aligns with a recent epiphany about how old people have to spend a lot of their lives sitting around thinking, “dudes, we did this already. Let’s worry about things worth worrying about.”

I think the ultimate downfall of Tumpism will winding up being that, when he could’ve bought people with bread, he always chose circuses.

ATTN PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAMMING DIRECTORS. Which is most of my audience, I know. We made a one-hour special from @thisdaypod.com all about America 250. How we got here, advice for marking 250 + a chat with Ken Burns. Available on the @prx.org exchange now for free! exchange.prx.org/pieces/61996...

Here’s the latest episode of The Memory Palace. dovetail-cdn.prxu.org/usw2/3/1d8e3...

RIP Rob Base. All I ever thought, when I would go to friends' kids' Bar and Bat Mitzvah's and the DJ would play Don't Stop Believin' to get the parents on the floor, as though they were born in 1968 and not 1974, was how all they needed to do was play It Takes Two instead.

Literally, what triumph?

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

it is so wild to admit in stories like these that you had $80 million dollars in podcast revenue and were laying people off left and right.

Jules Et Grogu

I’ve got some unfortunate news Sir

Yes, but how will I impulse-buy a risky investment vehicle at a Shell station like it’s a sleeve of Golden Oreos?

About 14: stay, off, peristalsis, gloaming, brackish, honeysuckle, dinner, poptimism, threnode, fluffernutter, clamber, hep, levelheaded, ball.

The Master and Margarita and Grogu.

Beware the Apple Eater

🎶🎵Love my lawn/but it’s the season of the ticks

Oh, I think a lot of Americans are babied plenty.

Big if true

Marblehead (where I grew up) deserves the attention it’s getting from this extremely cool dude but it is unfortunately not alone in “meeting” 3A requirements in a way where no housing will actually be built. If you’re in MA, channel this moment’s energy into changing the law. #Chowder #Nomar

Upper West Side! Just signed a bunch of books at the Barnes & Noble for your reading pleasure/gift-giving convenience.

At its best, Dog Day Afternoon on Broadway was like the Waterworld show at Universal Studios.

(“Mo Bamba”) Joe Randa

Quietly, this is my best work.

(“Taxes” - GEESE) Christian Encarnacion-Strand

Here's the latest episode of The Memory Palace. dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...

This is preposterous. It’s obviously (“You’re Unbelievable”) ……Pete Incaviglia OHHHH!

“God Bless America”/John Candelaria

Not cherries.