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Hey Mum! Remember a couple of months before you died, when you told me the Freemasons had installed Pope Francis? And that he was in cahoots with Obama, who was the Antichrist? You waved your iPad at me, with the YouTube page open that laid it all out. And I said, kind of te...

The Mets and the Yankees -- who both sit at the top of their respective divisions -- will meet for a subway series this week. Gary Cohen, Mets announcer, previews the games, and talks about what it's like calling games for the Mets, currently one of the best teams in baseball.

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Catch up with the summer cultural calendar with this pledge-drive miniseries. Today, Ryan Kailath, WNYC/Gothamist arts and culture reporter, talks about some of the art on view this summer in local museums, galleries and public spaces.

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Jonathan Capehart, associate editor at The Washington Post, co-host of the morning edition of The Weekend on MSNBC, contributor, PBS NewsHour and author of Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home (Grand Central Publishing, 2025), talks about his personal new book, which includes stories from his upbringing and his early career at WNYC, plus the latest national political news.

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Brian Boucher, contributor for Artnet News and journalist covering the New York art world, talks about how arts organizations are reacting to the Trump administration starting to cut their grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Update: Matthew Johnson was executed via lethal injection Tuesday night in Huntsville. In his final statement from the gurney, he apologized to Nancy Harris’ family members, who were there to witness the execution. “I please ask for your forgiveness. I never meant to hurt her,” he reportedly said. “I pray that she’s the first person […]

The post Texas Set to Execute Fourth Person of the Year on Tuesday appeared first on The Texas Observer.

New #PsychedelicPornCrumpets album, Carpe Diem, Moonman, has come out.

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One thing I've been waiting to hear about Trump's $400 million jet. We don't need the money.

- - - A quarterly column from Carrie Brownstein, who is better at dispensing advice than taking it - - - Q: About a year ago, my friend asked me to start sharing my real-time location with her. At first, the layer of forced transparency made me anxious. What if I want to re...

Illustrations by Katie Gorman. - - - What a glorious life I lead as the boon companion to a great hero! I am a noble steed, ready to leap into action at any moment should my hero call me. Tally-ho! Today, the hero left me standing on the edge of a cliff as he glided off wit...

This is the 90th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Watts Martin and his blog, coyotetracks.org To follow this series subscribe to the newsletter. A new interview will land in your in...

On Thursday, the Trump administration’s effort to limit birthright citizenship ended up in front of the Supreme Court. Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times, discusses the White House’s unusual legal strategy for defending its plan, and what it mig...

President Donald Trump has been growing angry over the criticism of his decision to accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar. He snapped at a reporter who questioned him about it, and erupted over it on Truth Social. Now The Atlantic rep...

Joe and Alex discuss the new revelations about President Biden's decision to run - but what's the really scary thing looking forward no one is talking about? Plus - do Democrats have an age problem? What does Joe think the solution is? And yeah, we talk about the plane - and why $300m from a random previously-broke Chinese company is a MUCH bigger deal, leading Joe to coin a new nickname for Trump...
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Sycophantic, monomaniac, cooking with gasoline: might they be wrong?

Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe 2025 is a community event on June 5th in Basel, Switzerland, encouraging contributions to the WordPress project for all skill levels.

An obsession with “white genocide” in X’s chatbot is only the latest example of platforms using artificial intelligence against their users

A really beautiful interview.

For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first part of a two-episode look at the song “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, and the intertwining careers of Joe Boyd, Sandy Denny, and Richard Thompson. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a twenty-seven-minute bonus episode available, on “Baby It’s You” by Smith.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

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How early computer users created the longest lasting formatting style, out of spare characters.