I'm definitely not watching a speech by an addled dimwit who presided over the beginning of an epidemic that nearly killed him, passed massive tax give away to the rich and repeatedly blamed everything on his predecessor tell me that the ONLY reason he lost an election SIX YEARS ago was fraud.

I know it’s my Arsenal bias, but why not bring on Saka after the goal? He’s a better defender than Rogers who was moved to the left anyway. Too many center backs and not enough players defending at the top of the box where the danger came from.

The GOP should just put a magic 8 ball out to answer questions at confirmation hearings at this point.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com I am begging you to re-consider your editorial policies. Too many of your articles are so long and almost gleefully abstruse as to be nearly unreadable and frequently unpersuasive. If your goal is to persuade us that we need a new Reconstruction, hone your rhetoric.

Sigh: just because some Americans proclaimed it to be so, 'Murica was not actually independent until 3 Sept 1783 when the Treaty of Paris was signed

Also, "semiquincentennial" is way too optimistic and less accurate than "250th anniversary" My 50th birthday was not my semicentennial. That's just dumb.

The U.S. celebrates independence on the wrong day. It should be celebrated on September 3, the date that the Treaty of Paris was signed. If the colonists had lost the war, the Declaration of Independence would be a footnote, and the U.S. would be Canada.

I truly believe that the normalization of nighttime bookstores would change the world.

This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.

Along with John J. Cafaro, I need photos of Curtis E. Wood, the CEO of the "woman owned" company that resurfaced the reflecting pool for $14 million.

petition to stop calling it the "MOU" and label it "Trump's Iran Deal," until it becomes an actual treaty or whatever it's going to be.

I stopped into two bookstores on the UWS today and neither had a display of LGBTQIA+ books for Pride. It's still June, right? What is going on?

What a contrast, in so many ways: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fmj...

Mike Brown appreciation thread. I will never give credit to James Dolan for anything except hiring Mike Brown, and I’m not even sure how much that was him and how much was Leon Rose. In the future when books are written about this Knicks season, I hope that Brown gets the attention he

I don’t want to hear anything about whatever Trump is doing for his birthday until tomorrow when we have some sense of how many people paid to watch his violence party.

Three years ago, when I turned 53 and realized that the Knicks hadn't won the championship in 50 years, I considered that it was a real possibility that they would never win it again in my lifetime. Thank you Coach Brown, Jalen, Josh, KAT, OG, Mikal, Deuce, Mitchell, Jose, Landry, and the rest.

Don't let it get lost in the joy that Mike Brown utterly out-coached Mitch Johnson over five games. That the Knicks could go 4-26 in the first half and still pull out a win, with KAT only scoring 2 points is incredible.

Any story about Musk becoming a trillionaire that doesn't start and end with this being evidence of the failure of capitalism is not worth reading. A system where markets efficiently allocated resources to where they are most desired would not allow for this.

Behind every historic come-from-29-points-down win is an equally historic lost-a-29-point-lead collapse.

Has anyone else noticed distinctly muted/missing pride displays at bookstores this year? Or is that just in NYC?

Musk seems to mistake an increasing number of people wishing that he would die for people wishing all white people would. Nope, Elon, it’s just you.

My take on the Knicks game: Bad refereeing stole it from the Knicks. Wemby should have been ejected in the first for violent conduct. Castle’s block on Brunson, also flagrant. Brunson’s closeout, not flagrant. Knicks in the penalty for 8 minutes in the 4th and Spurs get 10 free throws? Bullshit.

This "who is a New Yorker" discourse is getting out of hand. Today my daughter (who was born in New York City and never lived anywhere else) asked me (who was born in New York City and lived here for 48/55 years) what makes a New Yorker. I said that anyone who moves here intending to stay (not

The fact that Trump is coming to New York to fuck up the Knicks game not only shows how detached from reality he is, it also shows that no one around him has the ability to point out what a terrible idea this is. Nothing good will come of this for him. Nothing.

Maybe one of the best things about knowing some history is that it provides ready answers to the question: “but how can we live without this [new technology].” Sometimes, as with vaccines and clean water, the answer is “we can’t,” but not always.

All these macho troglodytes need to take their misogyny to a place like this and get offline:

If Trump comes to a game at MSG and the Knicks lose the championship, he will be blamed more than OJ for the Knicks losing in '94. And if he shows up and they win, he will try to take credit and none will be given to him.

James Dolan could go a long way towards rehabilitating his NYC reputation by banning Trump from any Knicks games. He probably won’t and he should share in the opprobrium that Trump will rightly receive at MSG.

We need more art classes in schools to make visible the combination of dedication, time, and talent that is required to become proficient at pretty much anything of value.

Has anyone studied whether it is more efficient and effective to modify behavior rather than adding personnel to solve a problem? If my house is messy, I can work to develop habits to keep it clean, or I can hire someone to clean it. Which strategy works better? One is certainly cheaper.

I'm pretty far from being a "decline of western civilization" guy, but remember when rich people patronized Michelangelo and Bernini? Now they throw their money at Bari Weiss.

I propose that we begin using the term "bossism" to describe the form of rule that most closely resembles the relationship of a boss, particularly a CEO, to workers, because that seems the best way to link Trump, Musk/Thiel et al, and the Ellisons into a single conceptual framework.

82-0 is the basketball game for our times: aftermath.site/82-0-free-bask...

After watching this sickening farce of an administration approve one incompetent, venal, toady after another, I don't EVER want to hear a Republican talk about meritocracy again. These cretins are proof that hard work and expertise are meaningless compared to sucking up to power.

I've written an essay in today's FT Weekend about why - and how - people are shaking off the feeling of being "frozen" in front of a "tusnami", and beginning to fight for the future they want. as.ft.com/r/cfa87609-8... (some free clicks here!)

Knicks fans, we should be talking more about Mark Jackson New York native St. John's legend Rookie of the Year 10,334 assists (7th all time)

A.i. is the ultimate creation and reflection of the corporation. A fictional person endowed with questionable personhood, legally immortal and immunized from liability for its actions. And existing almost exclusively to create profits for owners.

the new Liverpool jerseys look like pajamas

Maybe this can help explain why Americans feel the economy is so bad:

Taps sign:

Here’s a little challenge: Write your own epitaph. I’ll start. “Well, he was right about one thing at least.”

I’ve come to the conclusion that a.i. boosting technoverlords and those desperately clinging to the unraveling threads of their coattails are just not very smart, as evidenced by their confident assertions that cheating on everything makes them geniuses.

The "Legal Tax Loophole" used by billionaires is how Jeff Bezos saves billions on taxes every single year…

Remember when regulation used to include total bans, rather than just fines or the opportunity to bring a lawsuit? It took 20 years to fully implement, but a federal ban is why we don't have lead in our gasoline anymore. We should bring back the concept of saying, "no, you can't do that."

If you have time, please watch this documentary about Watergate and how congressional oversight is supposed to work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tINC...

Donald Trump is the perfect combination of Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregard and Mike Teavee. It's like he was put together in a demonic Roald Dahl factory to torment the rest of us.

I taught U.S, history and government for something like 20 years and I studied presidential power in law school and I don't have the capacity to fully explain what is so awful about this $1.7 billion weaponization settlement or what can be done about it. It's impeachable, but will people understand?

It really is amazing because he essentially is just a carnival barker

People like Elon have a singular talent; convincing others that he is brilliant and intelligent. Can we please stop praising him and people like him?