I wasn’t prepared.

no, i haven't forgotten salon's role in this travesty

It's been 20 years since Rolling Stone published Kennedy's "Evidence of Harm."

Kevue is a very big company.

Imus never had the ratings or public profile of stern but there’s a case to be made for him being the most influential media figure of the last 50 years

Uncanceling Hulu lmao

Kris "Kristofferson said that more than a dozen women had at one time or another claimed to be the Barbara McKee. But there was only one, her identity an open secret in Nashville. . . . "But she had no desire to cash in on it, to seek attention. Like her fictional alter ego, she slipped away."

Lotta things you might not know! I, for instance, didn't know that Kristofferson's “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose” was inspired by the final scene of Fellini’s 𝘓𝘢 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘢 after Zampanò had abandoned Gelsomina while she was sleeping... (via @anitaleirfall.bsky.social)

The one thing I've learned in the 19 years I've written professionally about film is: Muthafuckas DON'T READ. They see a headline or read one paragraph before they write me screaming. Everything I write IS A TRAP. I know how far you got before you started bitching, which makes you look stupid. READ!

it’s not the *worst* part i guess but can you guys imagine how much it’s pained me not to post about this

'The words for which the song is best known—“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose”—were inspired by the final scene of Federico Fellini’s La Strada. Anthony Quinn’s Zampanò has abandoned Giulietta Masina’s Gelsomina as she slept.' - @leepvogel.bsky.social slate.com/culture/2025...

This is an outstanding story

I’ll cop to not being too upset about Reid because she’s such a bigot

This is a great story, even if (like me) you’re not a particular fan of the song, or Kristofferson, or Joplin. Just really good writing.

We all need a respite from the nightmares of the day. I’m not that kind of doctor, but I prescribe that this should be yours. Give yourself the gift of reading a delightful bit of prose this morning.

this is so, so good

Interesting! slate.com/culture/2025...

Here’s Bobbie McKee during her senior year in high school.

You have brought such joy to a, once young girl, raised in JJ’s hometown and just a stone’s throw from the helicopter pads where Kris flew out of. Amazing! Amazing! What a story.

One more thing: Even if you don’t read the story, you should absolutely watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKz9...

Just realized this photo also contains (or Sully's head is just blocking) @robertloerzel.bsky.social, @lyz.bsky.social, @elongreen.bsky.social, @nocartridge.bsky.social, @jcrutchmer.bsky.social, @nicolechung.bsky.social, @rickpaulas.bsky.social and @sabs.bsky.social. buy their books

By the wonderful @elongreen.bsky.social -- an incredible article about an incredible story about an incredible song. slate.com/culture/2025...

This is such a gorgeous piece of writing. By @elongreen.bsky.social slate.com/culture/2025...

“Now every time someone sings the song, they don’t get the words right,” Kristofferson groused to a journalist years later. “But God knows, that was a great record.”

Any the perfect Saturday story? The story of the woman who inspired Janis Joplin’s signature song, then slipped away. slate.com/culture/2025...

This is gorgeous.

your great read of the day, courtesy of @elongreen.bsky.social (who wrote it)

"There’s something rather glorious about a song inspired by a mundane, unrequited workplace crush (or so it would have been seen as, at the time) being so beautiful." - @elongreen.bsky.social @slate.com #songwriting #Kristofferson #BobbyMcGee #BarbaraMcKee #inspiration slate.com/culture/2025...

“Now every time someone sings the song, they don’t get the words right, but God knows, that was a great record.” @elongreen.bsky.social on Kris Kristofferson’s songwriting, Janis Joplin’s (re-)interpretation, and the woman who inspired Bobby McGee.

If you love the song “Me and Bobby McGee” you absolutely must read @elongreen.bsky.social on the life of the woman who inspired the song.

I’ve been working on this for a while. (I tried to find Bobbie more than a decade ago and failed.) Please do give it a read.

that's what i keep saying but i think the fact that Vance basically went from "Hillbilly Elegy" to MAGA champion has people convinced he doesn't actually hold to postliberalism

A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges that Character AI and Google are liable for the death by suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Colorado, Juliana Peralta This is the third wrongful death claim against a popular AI app for a teen's death by suicide this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“Altman has said on multiple occasions that artists should be compensated if an AI system creates something in their style. [..] Wood, the OpenAI spokesperson, declined to comment on whether the company has made progress on such a program.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Rural healthcare is even more fucked because who do you think serves these areas?

i contain multitudes

weird mix

Trump kept telling them 1+1=2 and farmers kept telling themselves naaaaaaaah

Jesus Christ.

You can only blame information environments so much when the guy is just keeping promises he made very loudly, in public. A supremely foolish, selfish electorate.

Adding 10% to the original, so 37%

turns out, yes, very ready

Nice day to share my favorite poem. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

this is why editors are so important

Yes and: Teamsters ≠ all unions. It's a big union that has a LOT of differences within its membership, and certainly with the rest of the American labor movement.

that he’s hunting for votes on Staten Island is wild

listen, if this is what it takes for the left to stop treating labor like it’s a movement of saints, and not real people with the capacity to do harm out of irrational self-interest, then good.

in case you’re deep enough in the weeds to wonder if the appeal is still funded by the tides foundation… no, it’s not.