@bobthellamarider.bsky.social
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Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section.
This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry.
www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...
This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry.
www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...
Death of a Sports Section
The Washington Post sports department was dismantled before its leaders gave it a chance to change
www.theringer.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section.
This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry.
www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...
This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry.
www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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January 24, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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fantastic piece from my colleague @polgreen.bsky.social that gets at something i have been thinking about. what, exactly, is the administration's strategic goal in minnesota? what does "victory" look like for trump and miller?
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:41 PM
fantastic piece from my colleague @polgreen.bsky.social that gets at something i have been thinking about. what, exactly, is the administration's strategic goal in minnesota? what does "victory" look like for trump and miller?
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this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’
The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.
www.wsaz.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
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There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.
Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This
If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.
www.theatlantic.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:27 AM
There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.
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Somebody should do a podcast or something
January 12, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Somebody should do a podcast or something
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Israelis and Palestinians are totally intertwined. This, perhaps counterintuitively, is what has emerged from the past two years of horror as an irrefutable fact. I wrote about this after a reporting trip. newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...
January 8, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Israelis and Palestinians are totally intertwined. This, perhaps counterintuitively, is what has emerged from the past two years of horror as an irrefutable fact. I wrote about this after a reporting trip. newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...
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"This was not the first time I’d interviewed a displaced, dispossessed person who was tacitly asking me to recognize their humanity. It never got easier." from @lisang.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...
While Israel’s Construction Industry Falters, Apartments Are Springing up Around Ramallah
Revoking the permits of 160,000 Palestinian workers has meant chaos for building projects and has all but destroyed the economy of the West Bank — though for some, it is a desirable place to own prope...
newlinesmag.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:53 PM
"This was not the first time I’d interviewed a displaced, dispossessed person who was tacitly asking me to recognize their humanity. It never got easier." from @lisang.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...
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Not sure how to summarize this one. Wrote about the podcaster-occupied government invading for content, how the algorithmic internet is governed by the logic of reaction videos, and how it has contributed to a very nihilistic illiterate politics and culture of performance for imagined audiences
Everything Reacting to Everything, All at Once
Why the Trump administration is posting messages like “THIS IS OUR HEMISPHERE” after the attack on Venezuela
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Not sure how to summarize this one. Wrote about the podcaster-occupied government invading for content, how the algorithmic internet is governed by the logic of reaction videos, and how it has contributed to a very nihilistic illiterate politics and culture of performance for imagined audiences
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I wrote the last ever piece published on Grantland.
December 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I wrote the last ever piece published on Grantland.
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Damn.
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
December 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Damn.
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In theory, I want to give you more detail about my column, but I'm also struggling to find anything more concise than: We Live in Hell.
America’s Holiday in Epstein Purgatory
It’s beginning to look a lot like … extremely disturbing PDFs.
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
In theory, I want to give you more detail about my column, but I'm also struggling to find anything more concise than: We Live in Hell.
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Same way I found out about Epstein
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Same way I found out about Epstein
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new subscriber @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social -- we talk about the whole situation with Xabi Alonso and Real Madrid and some statistical indicators they're playing differently since the Clasico
plus an opportunity to talk Man City, the best bad team in the world www.patreon.com/posts/real-m...
plus an opportunity to talk Man City, the best bad team in the world www.patreon.com/posts/real-m...
Real Madrid, Xabi Alonso, Manchester City | The Double Pivot Podcast
Get more from The Double Pivot Podcast on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
new subscriber @doublepivotpodcast.bsky.social -- we talk about the whole situation with Xabi Alonso and Real Madrid and some statistical indicators they're playing differently since the Clasico
plus an opportunity to talk Man City, the best bad team in the world www.patreon.com/posts/real-m...
plus an opportunity to talk Man City, the best bad team in the world www.patreon.com/posts/real-m...
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Drake Maye is 26th in pressure-to-sack rate, but he's still sixth in EPA per play under pressure with the sixth-highest explosive pass rate.
He's third in EPA per play with the second-highest explosive pass rate from a clean pocket.
It's take him down or get gashed on defense.
He's third in EPA per play with the second-highest explosive pass rate from a clean pocket.
It's take him down or get gashed on defense.
December 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Drake Maye is 26th in pressure-to-sack rate, but he's still sixth in EPA per play under pressure with the sixth-highest explosive pass rate.
He's third in EPA per play with the second-highest explosive pass rate from a clean pocket.
It's take him down or get gashed on defense.
He's third in EPA per play with the second-highest explosive pass rate from a clean pocket.
It's take him down or get gashed on defense.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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BBC staff apparently aren't allowed to quote the line so I'll do it for them:
Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
The important bit about this story - in reality the only important bit because nothing here is new - is that it delivers to an audience previously unaware of it a truth about the BBC's relationship to power: craven. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
BBC staff apparently aren't allowed to quote the line so I'll do it for them:
Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
@thepressbox.bsky.social
I don't know if this fully counts as a strained pun "headline" but I thought "Watch Potty" was pretty good nonetheless
I don't know if this fully counts as a strained pun "headline" but I thought "Watch Potty" was pretty good nonetheless
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
@thepressbox.bsky.social
I don't know if this fully counts as a strained pun "headline" but I thought "Watch Potty" was pretty good nonetheless
I don't know if this fully counts as a strained pun "headline" but I thought "Watch Potty" was pretty good nonetheless
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
@thepressbox.bsky.social we've got a media piss test with an AI twist: "... the AI narrative is 'Uber for X' on hallucinogenic steroids"
"...with the casino-ification of the economy, the breakdown of a meaningful regulatory apparatus to rein in all of the above—well, it has all come just in time to give novice investors a vehicle to sink their savings into the vague promise of superintelligence."
www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...
www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
@thepressbox.bsky.social we've got a media piss test with an AI twist: "... the AI narrative is 'Uber for X' on hallucinogenic steroids"
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If asked I would serve.
Stats Grantland, the people are clamoring for this
October 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
If asked I would serve.
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This post is extremely Bill Simmons coded and I guess you can take the boy out of Grantland (and the Grantland out of the ESPN and the entire written media industry off the face of the earth at that) but you can’t yada yada yada.
September 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This post is extremely Bill Simmons coded and I guess you can take the boy out of Grantland (and the Grantland out of the ESPN and the entire written media industry off the face of the earth at that) but you can’t yada yada yada.