I don't go as far back as Tommy but as someone for whom the 7-59 Bobcats were dearly beloved (I watched almost every game, despite everything), this was a fun read.
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I don't go as far back as Tommy but as someone for whom the 7-59 Bobcats were dearly beloved (I watched almost every game, despite everything), this was a fun read.
One of the worst matches I've watched in my entire life turning into one of the best days for Arsenal in a very long time, lovely.
If you'd like to get a sense of the current state of the party that has held literally every statewide office in Texas since 1994:
"We keep patrolling neighborhoods, running supplies, offering rides, stocking pantries, gathering with each other, showing each other that every moment of fear or anger or grief can come with others ready to feel those things too. They have no answer for these things."
There is no end to the disdain I have for men like this. The most pitiful, entitled, incurious people.
I am grateful that the last year of Mamdani is as real a political reality as the palpable weight, despair, and vacuity that defines most of our politics at the moment.
This great little anecdote is right out of a Grace Paley short story.
Bill Callahan's new record is strong. Great piece about it here:
I don’t know what else to say, but this is not something we can accept.
That all being said, I’ve been thinking all day about how my two-year-old says “pampakes” instead of “pancakes,” and that the parents of every one of those 100+ children killed in the bombing of the elementary school in Iran had a “pampakes" for their precious children.
My hope is that the experience of parenting opens up my world rather than constricts it, gives me a keener sense of vulnerability and need, of love and care. That’s my goal, at least. And I know that being a parent will indeed shape how I see the world in profound ways for the rest of my life.
I’m always wary of bringing my perspective as a parent into interpreting major events—such framing often elevates the experience of being a parent over other types of experience (“you can’t understand this if you don’t have kids of your own”), tends to be self-centered and very reductive, etc.
Life-changing. Congrats!!
This made me emotional because so few people give a shit about what happens to regular Iranians in all this, particularly not the people who will directly create new widows, orphans and refugees one second and deny this country has any responsibility for them the next
I am really glad to see Aaron Parsley's "Where the River Took Us" from @texasmonthly.bsky.social on this list for a National Magazine Award, maybe the single most heartrending, harrowing piece of narrative journalism I've ever read. When you're at a place to read it, I can't recommend it enough.
This one is truly pathetic. The amount of planning/effort ICE underwent to take this poor student, whose platform meant it would very quickly provoke outrage, to then release her mere hours later after pressure from the socialist mayor of New York? These are weak, stupid grunts, and they are losing.
Wendell Berry (very nearly).
the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.
“What on first reading all those years ago was near-complete incomprehension balanced by awe at individual lines is now more like looking at a map of a place I’ve never been, but about which I’ve read a lot. I know these poems, even as there remains much that is obscure.”
This was a lovely read.
I haven't read the new George Saunders yet but thought I'd share this story, which makes me cry every time I listen to it and is, beyond the great books, the main reason why I will always have a great deal of admiration for him.
My god, the fear and suffering this man must have endured, inflicted upon him by the country in which he sought refuge. Truly no words for this horror.
Hello from Texas, where a teacher friend of mine just shared an email from school administrators informing him that the Ten Commandments will soon be placed, "displayed in a conspicuous place," in his classroom.
Hell of a kicker here, @edburmila.bsky.social. This is a great review of a book that sounds deeply embarrassing to all involved (including anyone who buys a copy and reads it).
Marveling again at the fact that John Prine closed out his final album with “Boundless Love” > “God Only Knows” > “When I Get to Heaven.” He was completely one of one.
Marveling again at the fact that John Prine was *71* when he put out “The Tree of Forgiveness.”
“When we insist on a single mode of engagement, we’re not identifying who can think and who cannot. We’re identifying who happens to think in the particular way our systems recognize.”
This is such a great piece.
👀 New Hernan Diaz: "...a futuristic thriller in which a young orphan survives by stealing electricity from the grid and selling it on the black market."
"The reward is watching your city. . . organize in hyperlocal networks of compassion, in acephalous fashion, not because someone told you to, but because tens of thousands of people across a metro region simultaneously and instinctively felt the urge to help their neighbors get by."
This essay:
That moment when you're reading a news report (in this case a Reuters story on what's happening right now in Mexico), and then get to the obligatory quote from a social media post by Trump. Somehow I still have the capacity to be caught off guard by the sludge in the middle of Serious Journalism.
