“Cricket was shot for yapping uncontrollably, bungling the mission, and killing innocent bystanders. Noem’s misdeeds are very similar, but she will be treated more mercifully.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This is extremely Providence (complimentary) www.providencejournal.com/story/news/g...
Lovely appreciation by Kevin Merida www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Pull over and watch the second half of Arizona-Texas Tech
If you're in D.C. a week from tomorrow, there's an event at Politics & Prose honoring the history of Book World. I think the tone will likely be less funerary than you might imagine. I know my comments will be. politics-prose.com/tribute-book...
Cabin Boy (1994)
Michigan native @jonathanbchait.bsky.social explains the full history of the Detroit-Windsor bridge saga -- and how Trump's threat to block the bridge opening reflects his warped economic worldview www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
People … do donate to churches? (I am bickering with one of the participants)
Baseball is turn-based for the batter but real-time for the runner (after reaching first)
Bill Self should be national coach of the year
Tina Brown rightly puts Fred Ryan's name in the mix of what went wrong; the N.Y. Times has omitted him in recent coverage. open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...
Peggy Noonan: “if you know you’ve got this fabulous island of broken toys, professional journalists working for a reputable news organization, you’ve got a real chance of learning what’s true”
www.wsj.com/opinion/a-la...
A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."
More than Walrus Man?
Squid Head’s not laughing. I’m laughing.
Definitely worth noting since it wasn't announced in that way.
The Post killing its Books section (one of the best around) is so fucking bleak
I'm going to frame this
i once bought a new blazer for a schitts creek panel, and when i walked into the green room, catherine o'hara complimented me on it, and also noted that i had forgotten to cut all the threads off the vents.
and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"
Blocked
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
“Limited Edition”
Robert F. Worth on what he saw at the Arab Spring, and what he saw in Minnesota (gift link):
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
F1 receiving a Best Picture nomination over Weapons is one of the more egregious Academy Award errors
