Watching the match with a group of gays and one of them just asked "if we win, do we host the next one?" 😭😭😭😭😭

A “lonely death,” as if he died after a long battle with cancer or was perhaps swept away by the see or lost under the rubble of an earthquake. Muhammed was killed by Israeli soldiers who set an attack dog on him and then left him alone to bleed to death.

Biden writing that statement.

Donald Trump is the oldest nominee for President in American history.

This exceptional short story by Eva Wiseman is my favourite bit from the new Fence Issue 20. Funny, moving and scary in equal measure, I'm delighted it's now online for you all to read.

Never even liked tennis anyway.

I love my black job 🖤

We've got JK Rowling, Donald Trump & toxic vigilante groups on opposite sides of this painful story. So it's a relief to read Barney Ronay as he writes thoughtfully and carefully about Lin Yu-ting, Imane Khelif and some hugely complex and difficult issues theguardian.com/sport/article/…

Brilliant - supporters in Castries, St Lucia watching Julien Alfred win their first ever Olympic medal as she won the 100m #OlympicGames

Olympic 100m race analysis. Noah Lyles was last at 30 meters and did not lead at any point until the final steps. But he was leading when it counted.

When you’re a fascist but your pants are having a Brat summer regardless

Saying "I enjoyed smoking very much, and I do love tobacco - the smell of it, lighting cigarettes on fire, smoking them" in your announcement that you have emphysema is very cool.

Musk’s daughter has him nailed

Brilliant - and at times brutal - piece on the psychology of coming fourth in the Olympics and how you handle it (or don't) ... by Elle Hunt theguardian.com/sport/article/…

There’s hard times … and then there’s the last seven years of Christopher David Owens’s life - which he’s turned into an amazing new album theguardian.com/music/article/…

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