so so good. the audiobooks rea by gerard doyle are alos exceptionally good. i love his reading and listening to Slow Horses because he was narrartor. then the show, then relistening...

as a chelsea fan, there is little to love. i look at our super geniuses and theen i look at spurs and think "thats us soon enough." billionaires ruin everything.

i like clery for his tactical analyses; few are as good, none are better. this was not what he normally does. i really appreicated it. he was right.

but i include trump in Bush's legacy. what made trump possible was the iraq war, specifically how it ripped apart the republican colition. yes i know there was racial backlash to obama, but what made trump look brave was emperor's new clothing the neocons. bush destroyed his party & trump invaded

that was malpractice. appointing tudor. picking the kid. pulling the kid. everyone involved should be shamed.

never coming back. dont need to come back. dont miss them. fuck off.

Rep Jason Crow on Trump sending troops to Iran: When rulers like Donald Trump beat their war drums and pound their chests in Washington DC
and talk about sending troops on the ground or into combat, he's not talking about his kids"

meanwhile, west virginia has been kind of amazing.

US on track to host shittiest world cup. No nigeria?! is wrong

that is of course the correct way

ive been following you since 2002 (with a short break between 2012 and 2024) and I too remember such things and wonder what it means to remember when it doesn't matter. anyway, I still find your voice comforting in the way still knowing where north is without using a map app is.

Thanks.

Can you give us some context on who lamb is please? Or a link to the article? I don’t doubt your reporting. I want to understand it.

Did you?

But… that is accurate.

it took multiple viewings of the series before I felt what you were up to with Ziggy. Before I got that my dislike of him was about me not how the character was played. Who did I root for on the show and more importantly why? By the end of the third watch i has Nothing but respect for Ziggy’s Arc

Smaug would’ve been the real choice. Jesus these guys can’t even read Tolkien wrong correctly.

Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.

Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.

But… you said bait. Not trolling. And anyway trolling is just one kind of fishing- but still uses bait.

the point of bait is to betaken, not be unseen

Deadlines are just infinite balls to chase and bring back. Journalists are simple creatures.

Wow did you misunderstand him! Of course they’re related. Hierarchically. The ONLY way things can be organized is in a hieararchy and the best is on top and then it goes down and down to the dumb bottom and the stuff on top is good and the stuff on bottom is bad and I’m on top or I’m sad.

((Waves hands at everything everywhere)) do your own work. We’ve done ours.

May his memory be a blessing. The first time I watched the wire I hated Ziggy and hated how he was played. With each rewatch I see how wrong I was. It was such a fearless performance. It was so so raw and uncomfortable and beautiful and vulnerable. I had to grow up to love it.

Ink drawing of the late James Ransone as Ziggy Sobatka in The Wire.

I hated Ziggy and the way Ziggy was played. On my first watch. Each watch of the series I saw more how much I missed. How it was about me. What a fearless performance.

well one argument i favor of having this conversation, and having it now, is how tremendously entertaining it is for me #ktbffh #upthechels

And/Or it’s just one more step
In the mainstreaming of right wing anti semites.

the most unworkable & out of touch is the idea that unions will fund some third-party system. please. We have less than 10% of the workforce. Our duty is to represent our members and organize new ones. We operate politically in a 2 party system and cannot afford to have everyone hate us. Why us?!