Tom Howard

It takes a lot for something to break through and feel worse in quality and magnitude than other things now, but I agree this is worse.

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

Oh so he thought the glasses were the problem

Vicarious liability may be the thing that finally reins them in

Everyone is dunking on these people for not understanding how insurance works, but we should be dunking on them for knowing exactly how it works and being unprincipled goons

Easily the saddest tennis news of the season for me. I revered Sampras. Loved his style and his game. And the fact that this is the one thing he comes out of his hole to promote is so incredibly disheartening.

This is a law school student’s answer on a cold call when asked how you’d defend your client’s conduct. Then there’d be a pause and everyone would laugh, including the student.

I love this post so much. There are no NYC transplants. It’s a great city because it invites everyone, puts everyone through the ringer, and makes you give a shit about everyone else here.

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

Say what you want about Zverev as a human being, but you have to admit his tennis is also ugly.

I love the AO 2025 nod. She talked so much after that win about going all-in and not wanting to regret anything, and I’d be so happy if she found that again here

Those are stormtroopers

Love Tiafoe and love Fils, happy for Fils. He’s been through a lot.

Also looks an awful lot like this guy

I can think of good AI use cases. But if even an ethical AI would rely right now on massive data centers and energy expenditures to be functional at all, even to run dumb things like Chat, then there are no actual good use cases for it. We can figure out other ways to do the cool things.

I cannot recommend enough that you read this article. It gets better and better.

"It comes as President Trump pressures the agency to increase logging and to thin forests to prevent wildfires." Ah, so it's about preservation then www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...

I'm sure it's just preference

Sitting on the porch with my wife listening to baseball on the radio like it’s 1950. Just waved away some bugs and said, all right, all right like they were pesky kids I was sending away.

Losing John Crowley feels so deeply personal. One of those favorites among writers, I think, the writer we don’t even think to emulate because he was doing something different, playing a different instrument. Many great novels but Love & Sleep destroyed me. I’m still inside that book.

this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

One endearing thing I do in my notes for potential novels is to write "This would just be a short novel," and it's so transparent that I'm trying to convince myself it's no big deal, just knock it out, don't overthink it. I appreciate this little kindness to myself.

Just thinking about how emotional and happy my wife and I were when we drove two hours to get our first COVID shot. We felt like we’d won the lottery. My wife got a Fauci bobblehead for her desk after that.

15 million regrets seems like a lot

This is brilliant but I'd also add it's not just your uncle voting to strip you of your civil rights, it's your uncle voting to strip anyone of their civil rights, and not getting why you care because that's not why he voted like that, and anyway your civil rights are probably safe for now.

It's even worse with the British spelling honestly

What we all strive for as writers, to point to our best work and describe it as "technically mine"

This wasn’t all Mamdani but one of the cool revelations this summer has been how much a mayor can do to make the city actively better, not just tackle the same old problems and deal with emergencies.

“I have no idea how to get around this”

Just happy to realize we still have the Muppets

An all-Muppets Super Bowl halftime show would be amazing.

Really feel like Spain scored too early

This should rightfully be an 8-7 game

Love a defense optional World Cup match

This makes it harder to root against England. But not impossible.

Watching France Morocco and my hot take is that it’s fine that the US may never win a World Cup. We don’t need to win at everything. It’s not a tragedy, it’s good that we get this regular reminder that the rest of the world is pretty good at things too.

Still thinking about the Coco Muchova match hours later. Happy for Muchova, who deserves a final and played beautifully, even if I'm always rooting for Coco. And as awful as that Coco miss at 9-8 was, she played with so much heart to get back into the match, and that was incredible to watch.

First the clip of Haaland high-fiving kids like they’re his best friends. Now this. I’m somehow a Norway and a Haaland guy all of a sudden. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This made me laugh out loud because I wasn’t expecting half the goals in the montage to be fired in off other players’ faces.

The Men’s World Cup has been nice but really looking forward to the actual World Cup next year.

This Gauff v Brazil match is fun to watch

We're getting all the Gauff today, looks like

indeed

Feel like the World Cup lesson here is not to ever let up on the gas.