In all seriousness: Every single thing that makes abolishing ICE seem like a mainstream position is good and worth pushing for. The top vote-getter for a city’s snowplow names is Abolish ICE? It’s silly, but it ain’t nothing.
I have always loved this clip of my favorite artist in any medium. The spin he does in imitation of the ball spinning around the rim and in is pure superfluous style, pure oneness with his art, pure joyful play. He's Charlie Parker in tiny shorts.
Lest we forget! Keep them alive. Say their names!
Silverio Villegas Gonzáles
Alex Pretti
Renee Good
Keith Porter
Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
Heber Sanchez Domínguez
Victor Manuel Diaz
Parady La
Geraldo Lunas Campos
Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres
STOP ICE ‼️
"Wherever there's a cop beating a guy,
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries,
Where there's a fight against the blood
and hatred in the air,
Look for me, mom, I'll be fully aroused." - Greg Bovino
Kelly Leak on a motorcycle in Breaking Training
"I'm a weird guy. Hated Bad News Bears, LOVED Breaking Training" - Paul Rudd, on the Conan Needs a Friend podcast, 12/28/25
He was joking, of course, but it was nice to hear him mention that object of my warped affection.
Mac from Always Sunny playing basketball
Maybe this guy too?
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If you want to get a sense of what Wilbur Wood meant to a kid in the 70s, don’t miss this blog post.
Color headshot of Wilbur Wood, circa 1976, in a navy blue Chicago White Sox cap. (Photo: SABR-Rucker Archive)
RIP Wilbur Wood, 84, a Chicago White Sox workhorse in the 1970s and arguably the best left-handed knuckleballer in major league history. Read his SABR bio: sabr.org/bioproj/pers...
Thinking it over, I would like him to die peacefully, in his sleep, on camera, during a press conference.
The ICE agents literally are accessories to murder.
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
Still thinking on Keith, Donna, Brent, Vince, Hornsby, Constanten, but one final no-brainer:
Bill Walton=Bill Walton
A weird one:
Pigpen=Cousy (showmen leading the way early
Billy K and Mickey = KC Jones/DJ (tempo, guts)
Weir= Hondo (tireless, the glue)
Lesh=Russ (SF big men inventing how to lead from the back line)
Garcia=Bird (artists of selfless beauty)
Highly niche post from a Weir-grieving #Celtics fan: the Dead and their counterparts in green . . .
(thread)
Middle aged white lady carrying a blue poster board sign with the words SEE YOU AT NUREMBERG FUCKERS
Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it
Steve Kerr on the murder of Renee Good:
"It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."
Starting today and lasting until New Year's Day, Barnes & Noble is offering a 25% discount on preorders of "Moses and the Doctor." Offer includes the audiobook and ebook. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/moses-and-...
Archie and Meathead say goodbye
Rewatched the end of "The Stivics Go West" today (free on Tubi). Meathead made me cry when I saw the episode as a 10-year-old, and he did it again today. RIP to a mensch.
Thank you! Can't wait to see what you'll do next. (I also loved your Giannis book.)
Just finished reading Dream by @mirinfader.bsky.social. I thought I was going to be reading an enjoyable sports book, and I was right, but it was also a deeply inspiring story about transformation and how to live a good, meaningful life.
I also lament it, at least in retrospect. Teenage Vermonter me may have sighed in relief when Clint Richardson or whoever showed up in the starting lineup in Toney's absence
@chadfinn.bsky.social would be able to confirm this, but I believe the Celtics' trade for Dennis Johnson was made specifically to give the Celtics someone who might keep Toney from going berserk on them every time
Will buy and read this one immediately, as it hits 3 of my immediate-read principles: 1. I'll read anything by [insert author] (formed in this case upon reading the brilliant Our Team); 2. I'll read anything about the basketball of my youth; 3. Andrew Toney assayed within
Another new episode, another cause for celebration. Nothing is helping me understand the world I live in and love and loathe more than Hickey's deep, beautifully digressive, revelatory exploration of rock.
Screenshot of penultimate moment of 2025, showing Dodgers infielders playing very deep for the double play
I'm a reviser, with words, with memories, with reality. In my mind since the game I didn't want to end ended, Alejandro Kirk drops down a stunning, game-tying bunt. It could have worked! I've seen it work! Muggsy Allenson did it! Continue ridiculous game!
