I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.

Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.

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Oasis Returns to the Stage After 16 Years With Hugs and Hits

It has been a bad couple of days for the Times, but I still appreciate how the reporter covering the Oasis reunion ended his piece with the word “blur.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/a...

This NYT graphic is so pointless. A third-grader’s sketch of a plane (zoom!) and a bomb (boom!) plus… “precise navigation”

There’s a great interview with Nick Park about Wallace And Gromit in last month’s Empire, and this bit in particular stood out. It sums up what artists have been trying to say about AI. The mistakes and the learning aren’t things to be bypassed, but a vital part of the process 🤟

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Saw this on X...doesn't speak to success but sounds like we'll know today

Nice, haven’t seen this!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy on Letterman YouTube video by Tommy M

Increasingly aghast as I scroll not to be seeing the Yeah Yeah Yeahs playing Down Boy youtu.be/zsgRCRlf77U?...

So which DNC chair candidate is the least dick-shooty? I assume Wikler given the good work he’s done in WI, but also I don’t know these other dudes save O’Malley, who occupies 1/16th of a neuron alongside John Edwards

I was recently shopping for -pillows- of all things and was floored by the quality of the discussion on r/BuyItforLife. If you are buying a pillow for life you are quite simply not fucking around

“You will be visited by three spirits”

The three spirits:

Pet peeve du jour: The “École Normale Supérieure” needs to pick a lane. You can’t be both at once

The year—not yet abandoned but a living husk, a lesson

John Ashbery

Hi Tanya! I’d love to be added to one one of the edibuddies starter packs — thanks for sharing these resources!

I would like to pose some hypothetical questions to the insurrection-deniers: Is there anything Trump could have done that *would* have unambiguously constituted insurrection — anything that you’d acknowledge *does* require disqualifying him? 1/

I can see why AOJ was particularly alert to jokes of this kind

Michael Keaton was the perfect choice for the English dub.

Is it any wonder that sales of print magazines began their long decline right at the moment that the Flaming Lips started a nationwide mania for blowing your nose in them?