looks like a washington wizards game

Ricky! Bianca!

I'm probably projecting, but I sometimes think you can see the effect of social media in people's faces, like it's carved out this sense of bitter humourlessness and removed any trace of joy from their expressions.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

absolutely infuriated at having to see or hear anything having to do with the harry potter shit again. wallowed through a damn decade of that stupid british people crap. harry potter themed pub crawls and adults talking about "their comfort series" and here we are right back. we live in hell

My 3yo was reading The Free Press when he turned to me, gravely, and asked: "Daddy, why won't the media show support for the nice orange man's war with Iran?" And when I told him, "they want to, but they've been silenced by the woke mob at Oberlin and Brown," he started crying.

Thomas Friedman: Dehumanisation par excellence amid a genocide It is hardly surprising that these days, America’s leading columnist is working hard to dehumanise the Middle East.

If anyone needs a refresher course on Tom Friedman, here's a good place to start.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Newsom referring to Thomas Friedman chummily by his first name is another flashing red light.

I will check that out and over-interpret every element for maximum dramedy effect.

Well, this looks like a valuable use of a viewer's time.

(Or would be if we heard a high piercing whirring sound before Kirn is levitated into an alien spacecraft.)

Another bad Matt. (Taibbi, Yglesias, Walsh...)

Shapiro is near the front of the 2012 field. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

There are also a plethora of Matts.

Sounds as if Taibbi is implicitly conceding that the quickie divorce from Walter Kirn and the rebound marriage to Michael Tracey isn't popular with longterm viewers but he's too cool to care.

My take on the Oscars broadcast is that it all seemed rather...perfunctory.

Also, all those interviews with Conan O'Brien about the pressures of being the Oscar host and there he was doing his usual self-deprecating marionette shtick. (And that pre-taped coda was a misfire embarrassment.)

Sounds like the Coalition of the Unwilling outnumbers the Coalition of the Willing about 12-0.

It's a down market move for Taibbi and Racket News but maybe down market are the only moves they can make.

Cancel culture took out so many father figures that only those who larp as old men are left.

If the sight of Taibbi feeding a slice of pizza into his mouth in the teaser doesn't deter you, nothing will. The title of the new episode is "Conspiretardation," which is too crass and stupid even to be offended by. I wonder what Walter Kirn thinks of this as he whittles away on the front porch.

When Matt Taibbi lost his podcast partner & soul bro Walter Kirn in a surly divorce, a vacant spot opened. Diving deep into the grifter dumpster, he has dredged up Michael Tracey to make podcast magic. Yes, the grubby beardo who once claimed a 78 year old Maxine Waters went Cobra Kai on him.

Final copies of THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU by Nancy Lemann

Final copies of THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU by Nancy Lemann

Finished copies of our first major reissue project: THE RITZ OF THE BAYOU by Nancy Lemann!

New Orleans Book fest, attendees and pre-orders get it first! For everyone else, available wherever books are sold on April 7th.

Order yours: www.hubcity.org/ritzofthebayou

This sorta shit is truly the ownership and leadership of the NYT behaving at their most disgusting and morally bankrupt

Is Nellie Bowles The Worst Writer In America? | Defector It is not difficult to find praise for Nellie Bowles, who writes a weekly column for The Free Press, a website owned by her wife, Bari Weiss. “If you don’t read ⁦Nellie Bowles every Friday, you are…

Is Nellie Bowles the worst writer in America?

"I want to deliver this eulogy to the President while he's still standing and breathing, just barely."

Mouth open, gulping air.

Trump looks as if he's having a hard time breathing.

Markwayne Mullin looks and sounds like some backwoods ding-dong that Raylan Givens has to throw in his car trunk on JUSTIFIED

A mischievous imp asked if maybe I should give The New Yorker 100th anniversary doc a try instead, but I was already warned off of that one--by New Yorker people no less, speaking in hushed tones at secure locations.

THE HOLDOVERS went over and above the genre, otherwise...

Carell: "I'm not Rooster."
Student: "This is college. You can be the Rooster you want."

--dialogue that makes you want to crawl under the sofa