I just don’t think you can honestly worship a man executed by the state and abide the death penalty.

How is it, then, with the whale?

I will be moderating Fayette Alliance's forum with the At-Large Council candidates later this month! There will be a whole lot of new faces on Council next year - including at least one new At-Large member who will represent all of Lexington. Get to know them! fayettealliance.com/at-large-can...

At-Large Candidate Forum - Fayette Alliance

Hear directly from the At-Large council candidates running for election in Lexington-Fayette County who will be on the ballot in November.

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however the election shakes out, a minor lesson of 2026 is that maine is basically an alien planet where everyone is a grumpy old salt retiree at birth and we should consider giving them to canada as an apology and goodwill gesture for what we did to the Expos

10/6/26

Seriously: Hate Digger all you want, but [pauses for flow of hate] movies like Digger are why we need studios. A world in which Digger doesn't get made one in which Sinners and One Battle also don't get made. You miss with Heaven's Gate and you still swung. You miss with Paw Patrol and you >

losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is

The downtown Owensboro riverfront park rocks my world every time I visit. It's just so well done.

The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan

The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan

Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal

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getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

Parkscope Joe@parkscopejoe.bsky.social · last wk.

This is insane.

shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware!

I wish people who want to write articles about how college education isn’t actually that important a part of college education would demonstrate this point by quitting their jobs in college education

Johanna Winant@johannawinant.bsky.social · 2w ago

missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution

insane license plate

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

Deb@sailebed.bsky.social · 2w ago

Update: abcnews.com/US/district-...

Justice for The Chris Gethard Show, which I had to add myself because it doesn't have an autocomplete option.

The only thing you can really hope for from a mass list of this kind, from that type of outlet is most people looking at it and being like, "Yeah, that definitely could be worse," which NYT has achieved each time IMO. But we all get to be happy and mad about some particular point so it's still fun.

Today is my last day at the Lexington Herald-Leader. After more than seven years as a journalist in my home state of Kentucky and more than four on this wonderful team, I'm embarking on a new (and unknown) chapter. But first, I'd like to recap some of my favorite work for @kentucky.com.

Tomorrow the Lexington Herald-Leader will lose a lot of great journalists, including most of the people who have been covering Kentucky politics and state government for us. Here's a too-quick summary of our losses, and yours. ^JC

For those wanting to hear some Heckbent language for themselves:

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Joe Sonka 😐@joesonka.lpm.org · 3w ago

A little treat for audiobook listeners: When Beshear goes into the part where Matt Bevin tells him "I'll knock your fucking head off," he says the full thing... no "f-word" or "bleeps"

you're telling me this filmmaker made a bad movie?????

I couldn't get to ten shows for a sincere ballot so instead decided to make the ballot that my middle school self would have made. I had a real thing for the programming on the USA Network.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

TV lovers, we're releasing a list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century. To create the rankings, we polled more than 500 stars, showrunners and other industry experts. See rankings 100-81 now. nyti.ms/46CpICs

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

It's been a little over a week since McClatchy's mass layoffs. I wrote about what's at stake when communities lose local journalists. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

McClatchy laid me off. The need for local journalism didn’t go with me. - Poynter

I was hired to fill a gap in local news coverage. Seven years later, that gap is widening again.

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like all great cities New York is vibrant and alive and made important precisely because people come to it from everywhere! cities without an ever-flowing wave of new people become moribund and stale

Gremliny Nussboo@emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 3w ago

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

I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed

Cindy aka Mrs. Celtics ☘️@mrsceltics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Polymarket partner LeBron James continuing to promote gambling 🤢

everyone complaining about paywalls, one of the most easily manipulated barriers to knowledge ever created, desperately needs to consider taking some personal responsibility for their poor media habits

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3w ago

Bluesky is the most learned group ever assembled of smart, funny people who will read a headline and then talk for two days about only the headline

One of the great perks of my stint at the H-L was getting to work alongside people whose work I had admired for years before I got to know them. I feel like a got to work with a bunch of celebrities! And of course, Tessa is among that group.

Tessa Duvall@tessaduvall.bsky.social · 3w ago

Adrian is the exact kind of person you want to call a colleague. He's bright, hard-working, a skilled reporter, files clean copy and best of all, he's a real joy to be around. He's kind, funny and genuine. We didn't get to work together nearly long enough, but I admire him so much.

Getting laid off comes with all kinds of unexpected surprises. I am just stunned.

This story - an interview with a woman who lives in one of the 60+ condemned apartments in Cardinal Valley owned by a PA company - went up the morning I got laid off. I forgot to put it here, but I hope you all will read what is most likely my last big story. www.kentucky.com/news/local/a...

‘A total nightmare.’ Inside condemned Lexington apartment owned by troubled landlords

“I played by every rule while a massive corporate landlord broke them all and destroyed my home,” she said of her condemned apartment.

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