Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

The last two nights of Philadelphia sports fandom: The Flyers/Sixers just won a road playoff game against an archrival. Great! Oh the Phillies are still on? Wonder how that's going? . . . Yeesh.

The quietly brilliant Michele Alboreto is fading into F1 history. He deserves more respect On the 25th anniversary of Michele Alboreto's death, Matt Bishop makes a case for the former Ferrari F1 driver and Le Mans winner as one of racing's most unjustly forgotten talents

Can it be 25 years since Michele Alboreto died testing an Audi Le Mans car at Lausitzring? Almost, yes: the tragedy occurred on 25 April 2001. In my new @motor-sport.bsky.social column I explain why he was a much better #F1 driver than many people realise.
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There will be no 25th Amendment. If Trump were declared mentally ill then the entire GOP would have to be too. The press would have to admit they were duped for years by a madman.

Our system is built on delusion and narcissism.

How Cultured Are You? Take Our Quiz. (Gift Article) Test your knowledge, before or after reading T’s Culture issue.

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Boots on the Groundhog Day

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

Asif Kapadia to direct 70 Up, last chapter of influential ITV documentary series Film-maker says it is ‘incredible honour’ to pick up baton from Michael Apted who died in 2021

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I had forgotten until I was reminded a minute or two ago what inspires Lucille Bluth's "Good for her."

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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

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Sid Krofft, 96, a Creator of Trippy Kids’ Shows Like ‘H.R. Pufnstuf,’ Dies

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Asha Bhosle, Longtime Voice of Indian Cinema, Dies at 92

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We have never looked more feckless and ridiculous to the entire world.

“I never wanted them to forget Babe Ruth. I just wanted them to remember Henry Aaron.” 7️⃣1️⃣5️⃣

Guess it’s a “drink whiskey and chain smoke” night, huh

Just trying to find the bright side

Billie Holiday : Fine and mellow (1957) YouTube video by StephanieCozy

It's Billie Holliday's birthday, so I figured why not? Oh, it's The Sound of Jazz special from 1957, so everyone else on the stage is a name as well. youtu.be/YKqxG09wlIA?...

Jake Gyllenhaal, a white man with brown hair and eyes, staring wide eyed and blankly into space. He is sitting at the wheel of a dark car at night with his lips pressed together. He looks extremely disturbed and disassociated

Anyone else having trouble focusing today thanks to the global crisis and the looming threat of nuclear annihilation?

Just me? Surely not.

Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver

God this poem is haunting me again.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.

This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

Saltwater Everyone who terrifies you is 65 percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and that you are down to your last 2 per cent, but nothing is infinite, not even loss. You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day, you are going to find yourself again. By Finn Butler

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CBS’s excuse for why it killed the investigation into CECOT was that it wasn’t original and news-distinctive enough.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

NBA expansion and relocation: A chaotic start to possibly Las Vegas and Seattle (again) (Gift Article) Adding two more franchises may seem straight-forward, but that hasn't always been the case for the league.

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If I was a POW/MIA and saw that David Carradine was driving the rescue bus, I'd wait for the next one. Although that would mean that I was a mythical as a unicorn, created because Reaganites needed constant supplies of this sort of gruel.

You just can't beat "Gathering Crowds", the classic closing theme song to "This Week In #Baseball"! (April 1987) #MLB #TWIB #SaturdayMorning

Eh, I grew up Catholic, it's not like we make a fuss about Good Friday or anything, I'm sure no one will be upset.

Oscar's Pen I knew him by the quickness of his hand, laughter outrunning ink, lines turning before they were thought. He held me lightly then, as if we conspired Now I am taken up with care, turned in the light, as though I might confess what has left him. I answer as ever, darkly, without hesitation, but he no longer risks me. No sudden wit, no reckless turn, only words that arrive already judged. Once, he trusted what we might become, a flourish, a wound, a delight. Now he sets me down before the ink can betray him.

This #vss365 is written from the perspective of the pen of Oscar Wilde

It’s hard to feel any sense of relief when someone from the Trump administration is fired because the replacement likely will be worse.

This is going great.