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Author (The Castle on Sunset, Paul Newman: A Life, Dolce Vita Confidential, &ct). Film guy. Soccer nut. Burner. Poet. Portlander. Board member @opipdx. Dad. Grouch. Oh, and: I'M NOT THE SHAWN WHO MADE THAT MOVIE/SHOW!!!! https://shawnlevy.com
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guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever

As in Portland from, roughly, '15-'21, so it is now in LA and, soon enough, elsewhere: Protests are noisy, lippy, sometimes outrageous, but always peaceful and safe; LEO, whatever the flavor, shows up, and things become tense, then hostile, then outright violent. Who are the thugs, exactly?

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

Deplorable conditions for players, fans, even for the almighty TV. Nobody should be playing in this heat. #rctid #mls #tinpotleague

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

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Yet this is life.

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it, and it shows

If only SNL were still in season and Marcello Hernandez could have a go at this melonfarmer.....

Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him

One of the things that makes me most proud about being from the Five Towns.

May I present the mascot for the Halifax Oyster Festival, Pearl

Andy is a treasured friend and, in decades of professional and personal acquaintance, as true as the day is long -- which is saying something in June (and, for that matter, in publishing). I stand with him and @backlisted.bsky.social and am so sorry that all this has come to pass. Onward, pallie! 👊❤️

“WHO YOU CALLING A BUNCH OF PANSIES?!?”

NEW: The Washington Post obtained the reduction in force plan that Kari Lake sent to Congress. If these layoffs are carried out in the coming weeks, only *80 people* will work at U.S. Agency for Global Media, which houses Voice of America — down from 1,300 in March.

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

I learned to my chagrin that the Early Kickoff podcast, which offers about 10-12 minutes of soccer/footy news each weekday, is going silent as of today. Does anybody know of a similar headline-ish soccer/footy pod of similar length? Not an hour of chat, but 10-20 mins of top news items?

You know who I'd like to smack in the face? The Next Available Representative....

The man in question turns 95 years old today, but this item will be born on July 1.

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

This bullshit #ucl #InterPSG

I honestly can't think of a TV series that has made me happy/empathy-cry as regularly as "Welcome to Wrexham," and that despite my often knowing what's going to happen, sports-wise. Just a brilliant show and story. 🥲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚽️🐉

I've watched Friday, and I've watched Friday the 13th. I can't track down the eleven movies in between but some seriously weird shit must have happened.

propaganda + censorship + denial of access to govt information + WH harassment + lawsuits ag media + targeting law firms + assault on higher ed + weaponization of social media ———————— most speech repressive govt in american history

"You have memories to look back on today."

A mite late, but love it: “I listened. I did a scene with a girl, and she did most of the talking, so I listened. Come to find out, that’s what you’re supposed to do when you act is listen.” -- Joe Don Baker on how he got admitted to the Actors Studio at the height of its late-'50s fame and glory.

"SELL THE HOUSE. "SELL THE CAR. "SELL THE KIDS. "FIND SOMEONE ELSE. "FORGET IT. "I'M NEVER COMING BACK. "FORGET IT." JFC

I know how protracted the process of writing and publishing a book can be and how news events catch us all by surprise, but I still can't shake the mental image I have of Jake Tapper going around the wards at a Shriners' hospital and mocking kids for being bad at kickball.

“Sesame Street” has found itself a new home. Netflix announced that the decades-old public educational television program will premiere its 56th season on the global streaming giant, along with 90 hours of previous episodes.

Attention #rctid #baonpdx folks

As I said on MSNBC, in 1960 white evangelical christians accused JFK that he would put the Pope over our Constitution. Today we have a new Pope who supports our Constitution more than our current President. And the white christians support this anti-constitutional President and attack the Pope.

This photo of O'Hara on the phone is still one of my favorite portraits of a poet at work.

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And so it begins: First bit of "Clint" press. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...