Michael J. Lewis
@michaeljlewis75.bsky.social
Freelance writer and book ghostwriter. Former full-time newspaper sportswriter. Now stay-at-home Dad to world's 2 best boys. My first book, "A One Way Ticket," with Crawford Ker, is now available! https://bit.ly/4jD64f8
if you ignore deaths due to WWII, Russian population increased during the early 1940s
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoKevin Hassett on Fox News argues that if you exclude the sectors that lost hundreds of thousands of jobs, "you actually had a number that was about plus 100,000" 🙃
You know you've reached a new level of procrastination as a writer when you spend 10 minutes re-arranging the icons on your laptop instead of writing the chapter you're supposed to have been writing all day.
In a normal world, this would be a huge story.
legal cat 🐾@legalcat.bsky.social · 5d agocc: the hague
Gee what a surprise, Pete Hegseth blaming someone else for a problem, not taking responsibility himself. Knock me over with a feather.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d agoOof. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
What the Actual Fuck were they thinking??? This is horrifying.
CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 5d agoOh my god I think I found the video.
I find it *deeply* depressing that guys like Max Miller and Ken Paxton remain viable candidates for federal legislative positions. At *worst*, 45% of people who can and do vote in their respective elections, will vote for them.
Bernie Sanders making a great point on MS Now: Establishment Dems won't go further than tinkering and making minor fixes to health insurance and labor laws, when people want universal healthcare and a living wage. They aren't understanding that the voters want big swings.
More than 170,000 federal student loan borrowers who said they were defrauded by their schools are set to have $11 billion in debt erased, after an appellate court sided with the borrowers and rejected a request from the Education Department for more time to review their claims.
Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
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I’m in Denver and have found baseball nirvana: the National Ballpark Museum, a collection of amazing artifacts from baseball stadium’s of the past. The owner, Bruce Hellerstein, greets visitors at the door. you have to get here one day!
a funeral at a Black church is letting out across the street from my house right now and there are just waves of people saying WE GOT LEBRON and LEBRON'S A SIXER and OH MY GOD and this man doesn't know what he's already done to this town
My Recap of Manchala's Title at Wimbledon 14U Tournament; Eight Questions with Bloomfield Hills Challenger Semifinalist Michael Zheng; Pareja Receives Qualifying Wild Card for WTA 500 in Washington DC: tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com/2026/07/my-r...
Love to live in a country where not only has the government stopped inspecting our food, but they’re also lying about who is making us sick.
Jessica Nix@jessicanix.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: As cyclosporiasis cases jumped, the company linked to the outbreak - Taylor Farms - effectively delayed a recall that mounted in consumer confusion. Gift link for @business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, 27 years ago this week.
Democrats who are skittish about reforming and regulating the Supreme Court need to get with the times. The public sees the Roberts Six for what they are.
Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · 3w agoWaPo/Ipsos poll In their rulings on Trump administration policies, do you think the Supreme Court justices have mainly (decided cases based on the law) or (based on their personal political views)? on the law 25% on their political views 46% no opinion/skipped 29%
They’re going to threaten this stuff, they’ll hamfistedly screw up the implementation, commit seven atrocities, and still lose every election that matters in November. We’re now nearing the “fuck you, do it, see what happens” stage of this confrontation IMO
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoMullin says that election officials in states that don’t cooperate with the Trump administration may face jail time
I honestly don’t know how the announcer doesn’t run out of breath
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 4w agoAnthony Gordon gives England the lead
For the past three years, drug deaths in the U.S. have been falling, while in Arizona, drug deaths are higher than they’ve ever been — nearly twice the national average. It’s the only state where drug deaths are above their post-Covid peak. nyti.ms/4fAECyi
The Epicenter of Drug Deaths in America Is Shifting West
Nationally, overdose deaths are falling. But not in Arizona.
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Ao excited to get this in the mail today! @pamelacolloff.bsky.social is the best prison/crime investigative reporter out there and i devour anything she writes. I hope the book finds a huge audience.
Todd Blanche has learned his lesson about putting the President's co-conspirator in the sex trafficking ring into a club fed and trying to pay over a billion in reward money to J6 rioters. By Susan Collins
Of course after years of bitching about not having to do the time change twice a year, they’re gonna do it, but it’s going to be the wrong way Permanent DST will result in the sun rising at after 8:30 and closer to 9 in some parts…fucking madness for an hour in the evening. It’s cold! Who cares!
Liz@ilisabat.bsky.social · 4w agoTHE OVERWHELMING SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS IS THAT PERMANENT DST IS HIGHLY DAMAGING AND THAT IF WE ADOPT A PERMANENT IT SHOULD BE STANDARD TIME
From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: "Perhaps we underestimated Spain," write our World Cup reporters. "Spain’s hugely impressive victory over France served as a reminder that there’s no team better at passing the ball in world football." nyti.ms/4w3Rz9N
Spain outclasses France to reach World Cup final, was it always the No 1 team?
All you need to know about the World Cup semifinal between France and Spain
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This is an old-school huge serving Wimbledon final, Zverev and Sinner just crushing the ball.
American Jordan Lee is the 2026 Wimbledon boys champion. He defeats Cruz Hewitt of Australia 46, 64, 75
It’s not Haaland’s fault that he is a Viking superhero god figure whose strength is so vast it’s all he can do not to split the world in two
Qualifier Lee Faces Hewitt for Boys Wimbledon Title; Top Seed Sun Reaches Second Straight Slam Final; Antonius and Johnson Advance to Boys Doubles Championship; Manchala Moves On in 14U Event: tenniskalamazoo.blogspot.com/2026/07/qual...
Typically terrific piece by Matt Futterman in The Athletic on the legacy of great Czech women's tennis players, ahead of Saturday's Wimbledon final between Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova: www.nytimes.com/athletic/743...
The inheritance of Czech women’s tennis and two players on their own path at Wimbledon
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