"The modern Mets were similarly for the people but hardly of them, the product of an elite cabal motivated by both self-interest and a sense of civic duty toward bereft Dodgers and Giants fans who couldn’t transfer their allegiance to the long-hated Yankees."
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Drop everything and enjoy this one.
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“There is no recourse to the DOJ, itself transformed into an instrument of executive criminality..but also..antitrust, abuse of power & profiteering from office. To take an absurdly brazen example the president has laid claim to $1.776bn in sham settlement with IRS”
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)
Christian Donlan on the centuries-old audit of a Cambridge library
Laura Miller on Harriet Clark’s The Hill, a novel inspired by Clark’s childhood as the daughter of a woman imprisoned for her activities with the Weather Underground
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“Trump’s constant reference to the idea that the world has nothing better to do but sit around and laugh at America is not incompatible with American exceptionalism—it is a kind of backhanded compliment to it.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
no one’s doing better basketball writing right now than jonathan lethem!!! totally delightful. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
“The stock phrases of parental regret—‘We tried our best!’—are often exculpatory. When applied to a technology that might radically transform the human experience, they are simply unconscionable.” —Meghan O’Gieblyn on raising AI
“Mets fans take a special pride in our anguish, in large part because we might have gone down an easier path. ‘I could have been happy. Could have been a Yankees fan.’” —Andrew Katzenstein
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“You can’t repair the past, or the world, but OG Anunoby (who is famous among players and sportswriters for his quiet) could at that moment repair the immediate present, the shot two inches short.” —Jonathan Lethem on the Knicks’ stunning Game 4
Just over twenty years ago, in April 2006, British media gave generous space to film and photographs of a sled hauled over a vast expanse of snow by a
With about four months still to go until the midterm elections, the Trump administration remains largely unchecked by Congress in its exercises and abuses
Game 4 Game 3 Game 2 Game 1 Game Zero Game 4: Peace That Passeth Understanding Maxim report: the Knicks won the third quarter of the basketball game, by
In an article for Wired in 1999, William Gibson idly mentions a coffee shop in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. It sounds like a typical Turkish cafe, except for
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A new history of the Mets tries to turn the pain of losing into the struggle of class politics.
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Metaphors of parenting have defined our understanding of AI, but lately the parent-child relationship between creator and machine is becoming reversed.
Game 4 Game 3 Game 2 Game 1 Game Zero Game 4: Peace That Passeth Understanding Maxim report: the Knicks won the third quarter of the basketball game, by
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Harriet Clark’s debut novel is a fable-like story of growing up in the fallout of a family’s radical dreams.
