Robert McCarthy

Rest in peace, Wendell Berry

I wrote about the sad Trump Country Fair thing and the very specific and hilariously shitty vision of America that it expresses. The war on metaphor continues apace. defector.com/dead-country...

'the pope is an American because the Vatican is out to get me' is terrific because it's both a thing an insane person would think and also probably true.

If you don’t stand behind Team USA, feel free to laugh in front of them: defector.com/good-riddanc...

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

I wrote about The Florsheim Affair, and what kind of man wears the ill-fitting dress shoes his weird boss gave him to work. defector.com/report-presi...

lmaooooo, Toto

Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.

remember: one day you will feel this happy for real

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

sorry west coast, i hope things work out for you too but i already stayed up for 18 innings of baseball this month and that's all i've got in me

Enjoying an unhurried and delightful meal at The Table Of Success. My waiters keep bringing me off-menu amuse bouches "from the chef." Ah here comes another crudo. Sublime.

True fact: There is no publicly displayed portrait or likeness on campus of LSU's first president. And let the record show he was undefeated against Georgia and South Carolina

I saw Vladimir Guerrero 𝙅𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙧 walking with the Queen…

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

Morning walk

the rightwing loves to be like “this is the moment we become the nazi party”

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

ME: two of my most hated enemies are going to drag each other down YOU: right, the Trump-Musk thing ME: the what

Roses are red Orchids are white

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE

It's cool, and feels amazing, to realize that we're going to have a recession because the president thinks that kids have too many dolls now. It's obviously very stupid, but feeling like you should/do have the right to discipline other people's kids is also a core conservative value.

Me five minutes after drafting Dillon Gabriel: Alright, yeah, that's my bad

can’t really be overstated how important it was that in an era where almost every single institution we have is being dragged towards fascism, one little old man devoted his life to shoving the world’s oldest institution towards more charity, grace and inclusivism.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Honestly this is like hearing that Stephen Miller got arrested for fucking a corpse. I’m like “huh, yeah, okay, that makes sense.”

Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering theonion.com/trump-c...

Somehow writing this cured (some of) my newsphobia. Regaining my strength a bit. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Holy hell, the kicker on this NYer article about the Irish potato famine www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Lawrence Wright follows the spiritual journey of the women condemned to Texas’s death row—and the nuns who minister to them.

If Pope Francis dies we need an even woker pope to replace him. I’m talkin’ women priests. Trans nuns. A Swiss Guard that brutally enforces DEI. Excommunicating JD Vance. It should make the Unitarians look like Opus Dei.

i had a long chat with @edzitron.com about media coverage of AI and why it feels like we all must be losing our minds slate.com/technology/2...

MLK: "Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all of these.”

The Resurrection, by Benvenuto di Giovanni, 1491, 📸 by @julianmbright

i'm going to ban flag planting in college sports to celebrate a win first the other team must a.) send a settler b.) build a granary c.) monument d.) begin construction on wonder

Via our parent company @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social CEO @brycetetraeder.bsky.social: theonion.com/heres-why-i-...

Losing to the Braves is so embarrassing. Getting four-hit while surrounded by He Gets Us signage in the middle of a fancy mall. All the home fans leave and get into the cleanest trucks imaginable and drive 61 miles further away from Atlanta.

happy stylish but illegal ikea monkey day to those who celebrate

Doritos Locos Tacos have lasted almost 3x longer than the Confederacy.