extremely similar players as well as fandoms imo! and both make strong cases that the thing that made them great (the ability to seemingly will themselves to greatness) is in fact a massive personality flaw
I had a blast! Thanks so much for having us
!! say more (DM maybe?)
I have! I really like it
Went on @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social and Daniel Alarcón's indispensable and fun new World Cup podcast with @salazar.bsky.social to talk about @goldengoalmag.bsky.social and why we're still excited about the 2026 World Cup in spite of, you know, everything open.spotify.com/episode/0kaB...
captures a very in-plain-sight difference between 2017 and now: people mostly aren't really doing Cletus Safaris anymore. to understand Trump 2.0 they're going to places that offer caviar bumps.
Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
If you live in Brooklyn check out Safer Grand Army, we're trying to make streets safer and the entrance to Prospect Park more monumental, as Olmsted and Vaux intended. www.instagram.com/safergrandar...
For our April issue, I wrote about the World Cup, which is already a mess newrepublic.com/article/2072...
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...
