“[T]he loss of the right to not conform makes it harder for this country to continue as a multiracial, multiethnic, multifaith democracy. And perhaps that is the point. nytimes.com/2022/07/06/opi…

More evidence of having to conform in what is meant to be pluralism in this country.

Why does Beto O'Rourke have a shot in November? Independents have completely turned on Gov. Greg Abbott, according to the latest The Texas Politics Project results. 55% of independents disapprove of how Abbott is doing In 2018, that number was 39%

Watched The Bear. Now do wine, and center all the stories of the wine world with a cast of characters at a wine retail shop.

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something I will miss if this place goes under is watching totally oblivious people wandering into blood feuds they know nothing about. like when they tweet "ugh, I hate tying shoes. why aren't slip ons more popular?" & end up shoelace twitter's main character of the day.

Thank you 💀 damned sinker 💀 slate.com/technology/202…

Congratulations Dusty Baker. Over 50 years in baseball. He has his ring.

Hell of a season Philadelphia Phillies and congrats to Houston. #RingTheBell

I don't know why people are giving up Twitter, this is some of the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life.

So far, every Musk comment/policy has been directly related to his own personal experience on Twitter and little else.

“The only seats where the Republicans are making gains right now is when the seats were drawn to give them gains.” Thank you Steve Kornacki for making it plain.

Insofar as elections actually reflect the national mood, there's a clear rejection of the legitimacy of the DOBBS decision -- and by extension the anti-democratic nature of the Court as an institution.

I took a pilgrimage to Houston, the only big city in the U.S. where organic patterns of urban growth are more or less allowed to take place. It ain't always pretty, but it is fascinating. Other cities have a lot to learn from its successes and failures. benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/learning-fro…

I think Lyndon Baines Johnson would agree that Austin is definitely the whiniest city in Texas.

The inside of a cello looks like a place where something whimsically unspeakable happened in a Guillermo del Toro movie

A few days ago a friend sent me a text: “This Chinese weather balloon is so Donald Barthelme.” So, this morning I reread his short story The Balloon. My friend was right. We are living the future postmodernists devised many decades ago. We are nothing but metafictional creatures.

Don’t come here often but brava Nicolle Wallace for bringing Sue Gordon on the program. So smart. So needed. 🙏🏼