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I'd be singing the praises of What to Carry, What to Burn even if @blairbraverman.bsky.social wasn't a friend & fellow traveler. It's thrilling, moving, surprising--and of interest to me as a writer, a study in adaptation, knitting sources together into a new tale. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

What to Carry, What to BurnTrue Crime Podcast · Edge-of-your-seat survival stories, as told by adventurer and dogsledder Blair Braverman. How did Ada Blackjack endure a brutal Arctic winter alone? Why did one shipwreck crew wor...podcasts.apple.com

Late to reading this -- quite good by @wtevs.bsky.social. www.basketballfeelings.com/p/women-as-m...

Women as mirrors, men as absolutesThere isn't more drama in the WNBA, there is just more scrutiny of and for women.www.basketballfeelings.com

industry is absolutely reviled and its turning to its closers, kyrsten sinema and eric adams

She was a fucking moron and obvious fraud when she started doing “poll modeling” for 2018 and it’s only gone downhill since then.

New title! New cover! Coming next year, inshallah... www.simonandschuster.com/books/Make-T...

I suspect this is not about saving his job as much as golden parachuting, and lol good luck Gianni.

I think maybe if Gianni Infantino had simply made a few more appearances at World Cup games looking dour and serious in a fancy box wearing a suit he could’ve pulled this plan off

"Infantino decided that no one can lay a glove on him because he—not FIFA—owns the World Cup. He is behaving like a king, even more so than usual."

Hopefully UEFA can throw around its weight and replace Infantino with a reformer like France great and former UEFA head Michel Platini

this is so insane lol newrepublic.com/article/2137...

The Trump administration sued Yale for its admissions policies (alleging too much diversity). Yale is negotiating with DOJ, whereas Harvard fought Trump. The former dean of Yale Law School thinks he knows the real reason why. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Harvard Fought Trump’s Abuses. Yale May Fold. I Think I Know Why.Seeking to set a new course for the conservative movement, J.D. Vance in 2021 declared war on institutions of American higher education.slate.com

"This idea of a human merger with machines has been a motif in Musk’s intellectual life, which has remained in many ways (and with many terrible results) that of an arrogant and cloistered adolescent boy." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Space Oddity | Mark O’ConnellQuinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.www.nybooks.com

you probably cannot expand the revenue generating opportunities of a Spain-Portugal-Morocco World Cup if two of the host countries don't host

"Are they fearful of the socialists’ plans to ensure all Americans have health care and stop genocide, or are they not horrified by what Trump has done. Here’s what scares me: that Allen and VandeHei would say “yes” to both," writes @alexshephard.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2136...

The New Red Scare Is Here—and It’s Dumber Than EverThese Beltway pundits desperately want us to believe that there’s an equivalent of Trumpism on the left.newrepublic.com

At the top there's also a short update about our future plans for the magazine (which you can now purchase for just $15!) goldengoalmag.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...

Goodbye to the 2026 World CupThe Golden Goal team pays tribute to the latest installment of the world’s greatest sporting eventgoldengoalmag.substack.com

For the final Golden Goal newsletter (for now!), I wrote about why this World Cup was all about America for me goldengoalmag.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...

Goodbye to the 2026 World CupThe Golden Goal team pays tribute to the latest installment of the world’s greatest sporting eventgoldengoalmag.substack.com

You can pry the em-dashes from my cold, dead hands

for this week’s (final!) My Time Back i wrote about Leigh Claire La Berge’s Fake Work. i also wrote about ending the newsletter. hope you read this one mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/fake-work?...

such is the speed of corrupt idiocy at fifa, that a satirical piece published four hours ago about the corrupt idiocy at fifa, had become obsolete an hour later when it came out that the corrupt idiots at fifa had decided to put the World Cup up for sale

Who dares ridicule Gianni Infantino as the World Cup boss creates global peace? Not me: is it you? | Marina HydeIf you thought he was just a shady rule-dodging reprobate, the Fifa boss’s latest 15-page Instagram rant might make you think again, says Guardian columnist Marina Hydewww.theguardian.com

FIFA explores raising outside corruption fund www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

FIFA Explores Outside Investment With $20 Billion VehicleFootball’s global governing body is working with JPMorgan Chase & Co. on plans to raise as much as $4.2 billion from external investors, with Joshua Kushner’s Thrive among the potential backers, a...www.bloomberg.com