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He doesn’t even run Amazon anymore, he hasn’t been the CEO there for a while. Unclear what irrelevant side project companies he’s doing this all for really

Will Lewis’s background is British tabloid media, which isn’t actually “journalism”. He’s just a deeply incompetent hack, I think that’s all there is to it.

Lot of alarms were raised when he was first hired. There’s no real path or plan to anything going on.

I actually think about this sometimes. Epstein just wasn’t someone I ever read about or came across for most of my life. Was 2019 and that court case process when I started paying attention, then all the documentaries and Julie K Brown’s great Miami Herald reporting takes off.

‘Natchez’: Histories Clash in a Complex Look at the City

I first saw NATCHEZ on something of a whim last August when I was up in Middlebury, VT to speak on a panel about journalism at the film festival there, and I have thought about it an awful lot since then. It's starting its theatrical run, and worth your attention.
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Bluesky is just terrible for this stuff. Old Twitter when it was more left dominated wasn’t this bad

The Champions League group phase has merits but it’s bloated. This is how to fix it The 'Swiss-style' format produced last-day drama but still feels bloated - a compromise is needed

The old Champions League group stage was a bit dull. The new one is too mad to understand what's happening. How about a compromise?
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It wasn’t possible to block anybody because of Senate Republicans.

Senate Republicans had the MAJORITY. Senate Dems did not have the power to block appointments, stop lying and understand how arithmetic works

Yup, the alternative to Rubio was Tucker Carlson. Rubio is the best you’d get with any Republican President. Likewise, multiple Senate Republicans voted to confirm Blinken.

Klobuchar is an excellent candidate who’s always outperformed other dems in the cycles she’s ran in

So literally all of them are cancelled forever over that? Including Bernie and Warren?

And as I say, it’s better Rubio is in the room than Tucker Carlson. We’ve seen that in reporting on policy making decisions around Ukraine, Rubio influencing Trump for the better in that area.

You’re completely correct but bluesky isn’t gonna be the audience to grasp this point sadly

Oh please. All 99 senators voted to confirm Rubio, because the alternative would have been Tucker Carlson or Steve Bannon. Rubio was a qualified candidate and the best you’d get with any Republican White House.

His history of being pro Ukraine in the senate has also influenced the WH for the better

The autoplay video thing being turned on by default is terrible, option in settings to turn it off here

“We want generational change!”

Pete Buttigieg: Hi

“No no not like that!!”

Interesting how this all went down on Threads, the one platform I’ve never touched or really get what the point of it is relative to bluesky or x.

lol yes, as someone who follows both politics and soccer, having twitter/bluesky feeds combining both at times - leads to an over saturation of the same reference.

We don’t appreciate enough sometimes how far modern streaming and technology has made sports so much better and easier to consume. In the old days, people struggled to find certain games on tv depending on where they lived

Think it’s a legal thing so they don’t get sued if someone slips over because of the rain or something

Someone help me out. Why is it Ben’s last episode for a while?

Try “Line of Duty” for British stuff that was popular a few years ago during its run if you haven’t.

Joe Root.

Joe Root is now the second highest runscorer in Tests thanks to another flawless century.

He is the Peter Pan of cricket who just gets better and better.

He is now closing on Sachin Tendulkar - surpass him and the record will surely be his forever.

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The Red Sox are 16-9 since the Devers trade. Are they a better team now than they were before dealing one of the best hitters in baseball? "I do know we're a different team." A look at what's gone into the Sox surge, and what does - and doesn't - relate to Devers: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/s...

I remember this year rewatching the 2013 AFC Championship Game between the Patriots and Ravens. Was striking just how much more physical even that was lol, compared to now.

Ironically this women’s final is actually a rare moment where both the men and women’s finals at the same Grand Slam are between the top 2 seeds in both.

But would recommend watching YouTube docs about stories like Raducanu US Open 2021 if you haven’t.

One thing that’s different about women’s tennis compared to the men is the higher variance and underdog surges in the women’s game. Men’s tennis traditionally dominated by “the Big 3”. Now Sinner and Alcarez.

Whereas women’s side, you get insane stories like Emma Raducanu US Open 2021.

There’s a divide in every sport between the men’s version and women’s version. Historic gap between the NBA and WNBA, between men and women’s soccer.

But I would say tennis actually does the best sport of “equalising” the two and giving parity to both. Grand Slams and ATP tournies center both.

Wasn’t counting 20th century, true about Clara. Shame they just don’t have companions carry over, wish Yaz had stayed

Oh yeah, true

It’s genuinely a great matchup. Knicks would have been too easy for OKC. People who only care about the big market aspect of these things should probably stop watching basketball. The actual game is what matters.

PSG’s historic moment should provoke serious questions over football’s future Paris Saint-Germain 5-0 Inter Milan: Luis Enrique’s team were excellent but their record-breaking victory was unsettling and exposed the two sides of sport

Qatar win the European Cup. An absurd sentence, but a farce of a match, that was an exhibition of superior power - in multiple senses

The record scoreline symbolised the scale of football's issues

You can be happy for Luis Enrique and concerned for this

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