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I'm not claiming this as a big win for Democrats. But a confirmation is something Trump wanted and to find himself backed into a place where he's given Democrats a giant gift to campaign on--he'd rather die than give up his sweet tax deal--feels like a blunder.

The thing I wish that more Democrats and threatened universities and vilified news organizations understood better about Trump is this: He never has a second move. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Incredible stuff from Avalon Nursery.

It was just a day-block. Penalty box for a bad-faith response.

I wish someone would do it for me!

I absolutely love both the dumb and the snobbish rage reactions to this whenever he does it. As well as the faux-knowing "He has someone do this for him." You are, as the expression goes, telling on yourselves. Some good books here. Happy reading!

Just 1 more Odyssey thing: For the curious, here's the LRB podcast with Emily Wilson, which I found interesting. There's a British tradition of being savage in print and less so in person. This is EW with a still-critical but more easygoing (and of course erudite) take. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Honestly laughing out loud that 88-year-old shit-stirring Olympian Joyce Carol Oates looked up in the sky, saw the Batsignal, and headed to her laptop. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

They were in different roles--but yes, it would have been!

(It was.)

Remembering the time I went to the Boy George musical Taboo and they announced that Boy George, who was in it, was out that day. The audience moaned. The show started, the great Raúl Esparza came out, looked at the crowd, and ad-libbed in character, "Oh shaddup, it's better when he's not in it." >

I would have written more but I was having trouble focusing.

I Have One Eye and It's In the Center of My Head. Here's What Christopher Nolan Gets Wrong About People Like Me.

[Eats meal, vomits spectacularly all over table, clears throat]: On the other hand, it's important to remember that this is technically food, and food is important

"All this" being the thousands of preceding words in which she calls it nutritionless, offensive junk food that she would be ashamed to have written a word of. This is not what I would call a high-credibility pivot!

Can someone please come get me, my eyes rolled too far back and I can't see now

I think CNN missed a bet by not having Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper co-anchor coverage of Lindsey Graham's funeral.

VO: He's a peaceful man. He doesn't have a lot of rules. He starts every day with plums for breakfast. You don't want to see him if they go missing. You don't want to know what happened to the last guy who did that. NO FORGIVENESS. [The Rock: "You want something sweet and cold? TASTE THIS!"]

"To some observers, something seemed off" does not seem to me to be an adequate threshold for a long news story. But if it is, I would like to apply to be an "observer" to whom something seems "off," because I have a long list. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/n...

I found this oddly comforting after a day spent rewriting. From Michael Cunningham's new memoir Unsayable: A Life in Writing: "Writers always get things at least a little bit wrong. Or, more accurately, writers' sense of getting things right seldom feels entirely right to anyone but us."