Josh Landon

Mackinac

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

It’s time for soft secession How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

"since California was admitted to the Union as part of the Compromise of 1850, there have been more than 220 proposals for it to divide or secede" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

College football, like the US itself, is one of those things I like more the less I read about what’s going on in it.

If you’re mad about what’s happening in this country but not willing to find and amplify stories of resistance and abuse—let alone going into the street to help—doing literally nothing would be more productive than this kind of nihilistic posturing.

This is genuinely the biggest story in the country and everyone is talking about it, from journalists to all non-Jeffries/Schumer politicians.

It must feel good to post like this but it’s really not a very helpful framing.

There’s an essay to be written about how maga patriotism is just shitty fandom. Anyone who follows sports knows fans like this, it’s always the ref’s fault, the other team doesn’t exist, there’s some plot/player/coach holding the team back otherwise they’d always win easy bsky.app/profile/atru...

Being sent to jail after getting stabbed does feel like a Trump EO that the Supreme Court would rubber stamp.

Lots to dislike about B10 debt-fueled growth and expansion, but I honestly think I could accept it if it didn’t move
so many league games to Pacific Time (e.g. MSU playing at 11pm on a Saturday @ USC in Sept)

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

I’m ok with the shutdown, but it’s probably not great that I consider myself a reasonably politically informed person and couldn’t actually tell you what the goal, let alone endgame, is for Schumer.

Playoff baseball somehow even more stressful on the radio.

Have done a complete 180 on Federalism over the last 9 months. All
it took was for all 3 branches of Federal
Govt to collapse at once.

It feels both that nothing is shocking, but it’s still important to go through the motions of acting like it is because otherwise where are we left.

On the one hand it's the Ryder Cup and who cares, on the other, I'd love to get through a single 24 hour stretch where I'm not embarrassed by an act of American boorishness.

The warm, rich, unmixed applause when Trump showed up at the Ryder Cup on Friday tells you everything you need to know about the fanbase on hand.

Ep 3363: Ryder Cup Retained, Shane Saves The Day, US Fans Go Below The Belt - 29/09/25

Great Second Captains this week about the hideous behavior from American fans at the Ryder Cup.

It got to the point that I was, genuinely, rooting for Europe as the Americans attempted their Sunday comeback.

open.spotify.com/episode/0JWg...

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

40-40 is a scorigami. congrats everybody

I love these USA Ryder Cup uniforms. Never has a team looked so good while getting their asses kicked so thoroughly.

Others that come close:

George Harrison/If Not for You

Yo La Tengo/4th Time Around

Andrew Bird/Oh Sister

And I do really love many of the Baez covers, though they almost don’t count.

Lay Lady Lay

I kind of agree, but it’s fun to think of counter-examples.

Them’s cover of “Baby Blue” is amazing, but still can’t top the original.

Here’s a weird one, but I actually prefer this Gospel cover of Lay Lady Lay to Dylan’s version: open.spotify.com/track/52VW2d...

It *is* too long, but I love it anyway (or maybe because of it)

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One piece: Greatest series of all time.

VAR: Everything that’s gone wrong in the 21st Century

1989 Pistons: Michigan’s greatest sports team

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. One Piece
2. V.A.R.
3. The 1989 Detroit Pistons

I’d have a better shot at guessing the weather from an almanac than I would the Apple Weather app.

When I was in academic publishing you’d sometimes see two colons (subtitle + date range), followed by the name of the series in parentheses