Nina Jo Smith

And in between, whole sections bleeped out. 😂

Shohei Ohtani. In English. Ready to get another ring next year. 💙🥎

Kiké is a party that ends in a mic drop. 🎤 🥎

MVP! Yoshinobu Yamamoto. “You know what? Losing isn’t an option” in English. “Arigato Los Angeles.”

Ice-T drove the trophy into the stadium in a pristine royal blue lowrider. 🙌💙⚾️

A profile view of Yoshinobu Yamamoto with the quote "Losing isn't an option" attributed to him.

If you love baseball like I do, then you know you just witnessed the greatest World Series of our lifetimes.

Hats off to a phenomenal series, Toronto. You all were spectacular.

And now...

¡Vamos, Doyers!

I LOVE LA.

Where was some of the best journalism in the country coming from? Oh, yeah. Can’t have that.

Teen Vogue has shown that you can do courageous, accountability political journalism *and* get huge engagement while doing so. And they've just decided to throw that all away. This is an unbelievably grim day for journalism.

Telemundo Noon News today is entirely the Dodgers celebration. 💙

If this whole escapade doesn’t precipitate a new season of L’art du crime, we’ll, that’s just a crime.

😂

Couldn’t they please stop obsessing about people’s reproductive organs and activities for like one second?

Somehow that seems very French.

The entire article. Wow.

Donna Jean Godchaux in a plaid shirt flexing her arm in front of a door with a sign reading "LADIES". Photo by Peter Simon.

RIP Donna

Prolly gonna send out a music newsletter later today or tomorrow. You could sign up at ninajosmith.net

"Work Until You Die" Is Not a Retirement Plan For Judith Heumann, and countless people with disabilities, “work until you die” was the only option. It’s past time to change that.

Relatedly, recommend this piece by Rebecca Cokley. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

She's 93 and still job searching despite 14 broken arms and other injuries. She can't afford not to work. America's oldest workers keep clocking in — many despite health issues and disabilities. And some can't afford to retire. We talked to nearly 200.

It's expensive to be disabled. Those costs can keep people working past the point where it's in their best interest, including for aging adults. www.businessinsider.com/older-americ...

Masha, everybody.

Donna Jean Godchaux's Long, Strange Trip

In 2014, Donna Jean Godchaux looked back at her life in music with Rolling Stone.

"I have many regrets, of course, like you do about decisions you make in life,” she said. “You can’t make up for what isn’t there anymore, but you can continue on a journey that takes you somewhere."

". hard to know where to start, because every day this White House offers up a fresh batch of lawlessness & recklessness & mean-spiritedness & just plain craziness,” Obama said, ..the crowd wondering perhaps why Chuck Schumer & the rest of them can’t do plain talk like this."

yes; we are wondering.

Election after election we (BW especially) watch y‘all move the goalposts to justify shitting on the only viable party that won’t strip away our rights. From access to the voting booth to employment to maternal healthcare y’all continually play in our faces every election year. It’s a brand.

What a game. 😂

Isn’t it just?

Nicely done, Mom. Hello, kitty.

I spent the evening figuring out what was causing the hum in my amp and it didn’t cost me anything but time. Sweaty but big proud over here.

❤️❤️❤️

Amén.

Ayup. Did I already say that? Very well, I’ll say it again.

Ya know. 🙌