I have just left a Nets game that has left me no option but to begin my own war against basketball
11.03.2026 02:36
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I have just left a Nets game that has left me no option but to begin my own war against basketball
I just left a Nets game that made me question my belief in “basketball”
Bam Adebayo scores 83 during Oscars week, more like Bamnet….Bam-Net…. Bam!net (swishing sound)
at a Nets game that I do not think could be reasonably defined as “basketball”
sadly not the first US president to try to apply the “That’s Not Fair!” Doctrine
The general approval rating of Draft Kings and Fan Duel among normal people is probably pretty negative, but in a sort of obvious way. Some of us participate in it. Almost all of us find its ubiquity in sports annoying. Most nof us see it as a net negative but just accepting that fact is enough to sort of not investigate any further, the way people can kind of say "politicians are corrupt" and then not follow their local races or propositions.
fo his week’s My Time Back, i wrote about @dannyfunt.bsky.social ‘s Everybody Loses, why i think it’s the most important sports book this decade, my own gambling addiction, and why i’m glad it was an illegal bookie who got their hooks in me mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/everybody-...
Liverpool - Galatasaray is a strong argument that the best Champions League knockout games are between teams that “aren’t very good”
kind of goes without saying but the punctuation in Cormac McCarthy is not a mistake
We hit our goal (!) but we're still raising money so we can pay more writers and illustrators and print a longer (150+ pages!) issue www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...
(yes, there will be a round that involves the Nobel Prize in Literature)
If you're free tomorrow evening, I'm hosting World Cup trivia with @goldengoalmag.bsky.social at Chilo's! RSVP (not required!) here partiful.com/e/oTGQ2Bkmaa...?
his time as mayor could very easily be defined by a cycle of far right provocations and counterprotests and, yes, extremist violence. it's a deliberate choice to omit the fact that the far right is very much aware of this. Mamdani's public statements about this attack reflect he is too
One thing this piece bizarrely doesn't consider is that one reason why Mamdani is being so "careful" is that, as a high profile progressive Muslim politician, he and the city he leads are now a target for the far right
Paul Shaffer
next year will mark my 15th year on the tommaso beat. to the best of my knowledge he has not had a job during that entire period. my man is unemployed even by Italian standards
come on bro
George Templeton Strong was in most ways a man typical of his time, place, and situation. Then the Civil War began. His diaries, newly published by Library of America, present a sobering object lesson for today’s reader.
Third Way and other "moderate" Democratic groups and elites constantly bash progressive politicians and ideas. But moderate Democratic VOTERS really like raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, Medicare-for-all, and Bernie Sanders. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
a lot of people confuse economic leaders using TV appearances to try to reach people in the administration with those people revealing what they actually think about stuff
not really the time for this particular discussion, but for the record, this is a stupid idea www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
My class was scheduled to read Thomas Schelling this month in our course on Nuclear Weapons and World Politics. It turned out to be a current affairs course. Here's part 1 of my series on reading Schelling in this crisis.
open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
"We’ve collapsed the distance between profit and loss, between winning and losing, and we’re well on our way to eliminating the distinction between dollars and lives." newrepublic.com/article/2073...
i did the michael jordan “no no no” meme but also said it was “like the opposite of mein kampf” which probably doesn’t mean anything but has left me wondering what the opposite of mein kampf is
what I* was reading, had a second glass of wine arguing with some guy about Mamdani (I am far away with New York) but he was relieved by my answer and seemed to only think it was Mein Kampf because it’s quite big which is still concerning, albeit considerably less so
relieved! thankfully but also… lol
was sitting at a nice restaurant bar by myself and the bartender asked me what U was reading. I told him it was a book about the American Indian Movement (Matthiessen’s In The Spirit of Crazy Horse) and he said “Oh!! …I thought it was Mein Kampf”
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
that’s a Warwick guy if I ever saw one
Huckabee is playing a Rickenbacker now??!
