Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Parker Molloy on why the panic about trans women in sports is not actually about fairness or protecting women & girls (in the similar way Gamergate was not about “ethics in games journalism”).
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights to Everyone Else? “These documents…were written by rich white men for the benefit of rich white men, and this country has never for a day recovered from their failure.”
The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning. “The true Constitution is not a document. It’s more of a gut feeling. It is a shimmering legal gas that settles wherever conservatives need it most…”
Colossal
• Cranbrook Academy of Art
The art institution is accepting applications from June 22 through August 15 for artists and designers considering graduate study.
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Rebecca Solnit: What Is the United States of America Now? “The United States of America is a truck that has driven into a ditch. The United States of America is a program that has been hacked.” But also: “It is the country that gave the world jazz…”
Report from a cruise full of celebrity impersonators. “A woman sat a toddler down beside us, while another, larger toddler tugged at her capris. At this point, every child was starting to look like Wallace Shawn.”
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Roberto José Andrade Franco | ESPN | June 30, 2026 | 5,652 words
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
The artist wanders along deer paths on Block Island, which sits a few miles off the coast of Rhode Island.
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Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"A dispatch from the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where the drinks were good, and the nature documentaries were, for the most part, sad."
Longreads
• Kanya Kanchana
What a bloody annoying bitch!
I found this quite entertaining, although it was a little slow to start and it’s really trying hart to be shocking. And I actually found this slightly more funny than terrifying. But it’s a good mix. And the acting was really good!
Loved the ending, which is like the reverse of Romeo and Juliet or something.
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Beverly Gage is a Pulitzer Prize award winner and a professor of history at Yale University.
Her new book This Land Is Your Land: A Road Trip Through U.S History is a travelogue that takes us on the road into America's past as she travels to visit 13 key locations that she says define the country’s successes and challenges.
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Citation Needed
• Molly White
The White House insists there’s no conflict of interest as Trump reports $1.4 billion in income from an industry he’s deregulated.
Erling Haaland “brings the intensity of a raiding party to the sport”. And: “Haaland can call to mind a shark circling dark waters.”
My Family Has Been Here Since 1621. That Is Not What Makes Me American. “We are a nation of immigrants that has watched as immigrants arrive, assimilate and begin pulling the ladder up behind them.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/01/valve-on-subsidizing-hardware
