Ben Sailer

If you're like most people, you're reading this and saying, "But Ben, I already subscribe to @unwinnable.com, the best publication on earth for finding pop culture criticism that cowards like [REDACTED] won't touch!"

I hear you, and I have a suggestion: buy. another. subscription.

Checked the website and it ... literally just does your homework for you.

This startup is committed to making your kids stupid.

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TIGHT I'll check this out, thanks!

Looking for new death metal recommendations. Who's gonna tell me what I should be checking out?

I'm pretty sure it's all three members of the classic rock band America.

I think my wife and I met with him when we were engaged and he was a skeezeball

If someone can't demonstrate enough understanding of where rock music came from to know how rock and hip-hop's roots are intertwined, then we don't need to know what they think about who belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

we can stop listening to these people any time we're ready.

A ton of popup ads.

You wouldn't know it, but somewhere under here, there's an article on Punknews.org that I was trying to read. Bums me out that a site that used to be so important is now ... whatever this is:

incredible foresight.

Are there any good Tweetdeck-esque desktop Bluesky clients that people recommend? I'm on a Mac.

"Where's all the good writing about games?"

It's right here, ready for you to take a look!

If you only read one passively scathing article about the sad state of modern sports video games, and Madden in particular, make it the one I wrote.

These people cannot imagine being such a part of a community that the bicycle shop mourns you. It's as alien to them as a language they don't speak.

"In an unsigned statement emailed to WIRED, ICE stressed that the filing was solely for information and planning purposes."

I'm not sure that makes this any less unsettling.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

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More of this, please.

this poor little fellow

that there is even one parent in this country who finds this acceptable is a severe indictment of the entire country

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

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This is a really solid, thoughtful piece.

"At the end of the day, it's bigger than me. The things that are going through makes people uncomfortable, imagine how (Palestinians) feel?" he said. "That's the biggest thing. I have no affiliation, no connection, to these people - other than the fact that I am a human being. If you have a heart and you're a human being, and you see what's going on in this world, you check yourself real quick. "I'm sitting here crying about football when there's people dying every single day." Al-Shaair is the Texans' 2025 Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee.

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game

www.usatoday.com/story/sports...