'Celo, with mustache and mullet, looking resplendent in the denim kit
Three weeks until The Long Game is out.
Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722130...
Second art preview by @danleydon.bsky.social: Marcelo Balboa, Icon in Denim.
A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, hooded, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge.
“They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”
send them to The Hague
Really good piece breaking down what's really happening with World Cup tickets—they're (mostly) selling briskly, but where there are exceptions they're mostly because FIFA seriously overpriced tickets, as it did for the US opener www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...
This story is excellent and I've thought about it a lot since I first read it, but beyond the wild vileness of the Dolanworld types the thing that has stuck with me is Dolan demanding not to see K-9 units due to his "disdain for dogs." It's not that he doesn't like them. He doesn't respect them.
the Becerra surge and the DNC $0 are two stories that together really tell the story of the Democratic Party
its brand is in the mud and its capacity is limited, and also party aligned validators and various para party groups still have huge capacity to move votes within primaries
"Travel bans, ICE fears, and astronomical costs are ruining the tournament before it begins—not that Trump or Gianni Infantino care." (@alexshephard.bsky.social) newrepublic.com/article/2092...
NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles.
theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...
"I am under no pressure to make a deal that WILL happen VERY QUICKLY"
"This saga represents the dark side of analytics’ ascension into the sports mainstream. You can’t grow in both prosperity and relevance without the vultures catching onto your scent." defector.com/the-decline-...
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
Tom McCarthy on Ingeborg Bachmann tomorrow (6:30pm) at the Austrian Cultural Forum in NYC (11 E. 52 St.)
@nottinghilleds.bsky.social published McCarthy's book on Bachmann, The Threshold and the Ledger, and we are doing his next novel, They Rhyl Poster.
Trump's plan for a presidential library, a monstrosity in Miami, combines many of the worst aspects of his imperial presidency all in one project:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
it's a good thing to do!
really funny to go so hard over this when the third most famous photograph of you as FBI Director is (drunkenly) chugging a beer
Giorgi Mamardashvili out for two weeks... dawg look at my third string keeper i'm going to the Conference League
is it a chilling example of surveillance capitalism and the exploitative practices of Story Corps? or is it... nothing like that whatsoever! this site is so funny to me because its whole appeal is you *can* still post links but no one actually clicks them
honestly i bet a headcheese after seeing an oompah band would hit hard as fuck
i find that as an icebreaker it's MOSTLY pretty useful but if the person i am talking to is 100 percent stonefaced serious about all things then they pretty much instantly lose all respect for me... which can make a good interview!
Prego pasta sauce is terrible but they are not secretly conspiring to save their business by stealing your grandma's stories about going to see the Big Bopper
I sort of have a version of this now (my phone case is a picture of Al Pacino holding up his Shrek phone case)... honestly subjects might be more impressed if I busted out the Prego mic
seeing a ton of criticism about this but the second paragraph of the article notes that it is a publicity stunt and that fewer than 100 will be made. only slightly further down: "there is no cloud connection, no Wi-Fi, and no artificial intelligence features whatsoever"
“For Trump and his administration, the World Cup is an opportunity not so much to launder his unsavory reputation as to embrace it: to take center stage as a global strongman. For Infantino and FIFA, it is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rake in a fortune…”
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
thank you!!!
Maybe I'm the idiot here, but I'm quite sure Mamdani is advocating for a return to ambitious pro-worker, pro-regulation New Deal policies (yes, technically only 94 years old) and not a return to racist compromises with Dixiecrat political bosses and building internment camps for Japanese-Americans.
What does the United States want from the 2026 World Cup? Less than two months before the tournament begins, it's a question that is increasingly unclear as political, geopolitical, and economic chaos dominate the news. My latest column: newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Cannot recommend the show and the book Destiny of the republic enough. Garfield was the only president who didn't want the job but tried. A story of corruption, reform and American delusions of deserving greatness
a plague on both your houses
having a lot of 18/19 and 21/22 PTSD watching this game