Chris Almeida

Woof.

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The contrarian got the job by convincing the third-richest man in the world, a key supporter of the sitting president, that she shared his worldview

This is simply not true and has never been true! People—pretty understandably—hate being told they’re wrong, or full of shit, or being harmed or ostracized for their words and actions. There’s nothing new or partisan or principled about this, it’s just contested social mores.

The Park Slope Dad Band has been playing for at least three hours at the block party on my street. I dig it but it is a little on the nose that they've now played "Creep" twice.

I am aware that a lot of super rich people have a majority of their cash in assets that aren’t liquid, but in terms of a super rich guy with cash in your pocket and in the bank that u can just use, I just don’t understand what you do if you make more than, say, five million dollars a year

No it was actually about the Star Wars movies!

Well well well

'Bragging rights for all eternity': An ode to the Iron Skillet rivalry Looking back at the history of the SMU-TCU grudge match before its 104th, and potentially final, edition.

An ode to the last Iron Skillet, which gave us real spite, a Game of the Century, Dan Jenkins, suffered through lean years and was just getting good! (And whose trophy secretly broke and was replaced by a Lodge skillet from a hardware store right before the 2018 game.)
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Oh, you know the ones.

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics

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Both have the del potro pace on the forehand. So much lateral speed that basically no ball is surely out of play. Alcaraz was (relatively) weak on the serve but now he just hits his spots. Maybe they could improve as returners but besides that idk

This will probably look silly in 10 years but it’s hard to imagine what it would look like for two people to be better than this at tennis

Cleveland Browns fans know how to keep the faith The Dawg Pound has witnessed 30 years of futility. Will the team's bid for the burbs test the loyal fanbase?

Apropos of nothing, I wrote about the historic endurance of Browns fans.

#DawgPound

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I'm working on it

ah yes "shit-kicking anti-establishment" is what i think of when someone gets bought by the son of one of the world's richest men

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Don’t threaten me with a good time

The End of the Late-Night Band Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer.

What will it mean for culture when the live television band, something that has been an American institution for 70 years, goes extinct?

The End of the Late-Night Band Talk shows have long brought musicians into our living rooms, giving them steady gigs and creating occasional musical magic. But maybe not for much longer.

Wrote a story for @newyorker.com on house bands and why live music is cool

The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.

In the 80s, a fact checker found that an unedited issue of The New Yorker contained 1,000 errors. (This figure itself wouldn’t survive a fact-check, but never mind.) Zach Helfand delves into the history of the vaunted department.

The five stories that explain why Arch Manning was built for this moment How did the Texas quarterback learn to handle the pressure he's facing as the most famous college football player in the country?

Nobody knows whether or not Arch Manning will live up to the hype this season.

"He ain't even pissed a drop yet," Grandpa Archie told @dwil.bsky.social.

But: people are still stealing his photo off the wall of an Austin burger joint. Everybody's already watching.

Watching fiction spread about a great American city where countless people live normal lives feeling safe every day isn't new, but the military occupation of the city on those grounds is a fresh take on it

Contains: The secret of what happened to Eric Dickerson’s gold Trans Am

Bill Wilson ad

the really fun part: @dwil.bsky.social's draft mentioned his dad, Bill Wilson, who ran a TX car dealership and loaned out modest cars to Texas A&M assistants. Bill passed away a few years ago, but Dave speaks of him often and he was a real character. Here's a classic 70s ad for Bill's dealership...

'We are what we drive': How car dealers became college football's power brokers More college football players are driving sports cars than ever before. But the connection between dealers and programs goes back decades.

Great @dwil.bsky.social feature on the long-standing connection between car dealers and college football programs.

Quick thread on how we had a little fun with the art ...

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One of the more offensive aspects of the potato-chip-bribe story is that someone would think a journalist’s integrity costs like $200.

there’s a phenomenon in politics where on certain issues the general public is genuinely deluded about reality, and if you don’t buy into that delusion the political media will accuse *you* of being out of touch

Some things never change

Before he was the best golfer of his generation, Rory McIlroy was an East Tennessee State commit Fred Warren was one of the first college coaches to recruit heavily from Europe. And he nearly snagged a young McIlroy.

In an alternative world, @paolouggetti.bsky.social takes us over to Tennessee, home of Rory McIlroy.

"Johnson City is quite a bit like Ireland in just the terrain, just rolling hills and cattle," Aaron O'Callaghan said.

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Man, it’s tough to see a great champion struggle like this. To express my sympathy, I will now play a brief solo on this trombone that I happen to have handy

Come on