Sally Jenkins
@sallyjenx.bsky.social
Journalist for The Atlantic Monthly, author, generator of highly disposable matter.
The never-ending doofusness of the Bezos Washington Post continues. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...
Adam O’Neal Resigns as Washington Post Opinion Editor
Adam O’Neal inherited a mandate from the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, to shift toward “personal liberties and free markets.”
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Oh. Caitlin Clark with 11 points in the first five minutes of the WNBA All Star Game #Obama www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
A Brief Exchange That Shows the Enormous Difference Between Trump and Obama
This is what a president sounds like.
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As I recall it was crumbled. There was some discussion that it was called "re-rock."
Aoife@aoife-rose.bsky.social · 2w agoDo u have any idea the amount of cocaine 1 has 2 actually ingest be4 it becomes fatal? I do. 1st hand. It's A LOT. Unless u suffer from a heart condition. U sure it was cocaine that u saw? And not fentanyl? They look a lot alike. Unlike heroin, which is a yellow beige in powder form.
Covered him for two seasons and was at that NBA draft. And, with Brian Burwell of NY Daily News, saw the traces of coke in the car he had ridden in back to his dorm the morning he overdosed. Saddest day ever.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2w agoWas browsing the archives and had never realized that @sallyjenx.bsky.social was the beat reporter covering University of Maryland hoops + Len Bias, up until his death 40 years ago. Wow.
Much as Trump tried to stay in the picture and play the ugly American, this #WorldCup was thoroughly continental. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
The World Cup Could Not Be Americanized
Spain’s 1–0 win over Argentina demonstrated all of the ways that this sport is still foreign in the United States.
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Argentina is Rasputin. Gonna have to poison 'em, shoot 'em, stab 'em and wrap 'em in chains and throw em to the bottom of a river to beat em.
Argentina can't connect -- Spain seems so much quicker to every ball.
I swear it looks like Spain has 20 men on the field. There are always three red jerseys around the ball.
The only singing done at the World Cup, aside from anthems, should be done by the fans.
I like the Muppets fine just not a the World Cup's expense.
Velvet Thunder@allaroundswell.bsky.social · 2w agoDon't put that evil on The Muppets
ICE killing people in their cars, bombs in Iran, threats to Canada, but the halftime message is LOVE.
Who exactly decided there needed to be a first ever World Cup halftime show?????
The stadium in East Rutherford looks like a giant industrial fan
With respect to the performers, this was a singularly bad halftime show, and I’ve seen Imagine Dragons.
FIFA final already proving that the US is truly the global leader in tacky nonsense.
A half-time show is an anti-football abomination. Players have gone through their career used to normal break. That rhythm disrupted, in the biggest game of their careers. It's of a piece with absurdly high ticket prices and Balogun controversy - Fifa ushering this through.
The gargantuanness of these World Cup sideshows is unbecoming. Not entertaining. Unwatchable, contrived, idiotic. And does Justin Bieber take something to make sure his voice stays bubble gum and never matures?
Lionel Messi spends most of the game trotting "like a dachshund." As you await the #WorldCup final, here is a piece in which I try to get at the outsized greatness of the smallest man on the field. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
What Lionel Messi Sees
The World Cup’s all-time leading goal scorer is always paying attention.
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It's not coming home. But the next best thing would be Tommy Fleetwood winning at Royal Birkdale.
Now that's making me blush. But thank you.
Virginia Scharff@vscharff.bsky.social · 3w agoReminded me of John McPhee writing about Bill Bradley.
Gawgia -- dirt, bugs, and a mistaken notion that it's home to a better city than Charleston.
jesse@jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 3w agoName the U.S. state you loathe the most, I don't care what the reason is unless it's like weird or bigoted
Ohh so wrong! The American Serengeti. Badlands, canyons, grasslands. Place has soul. I drove across it and was mesmerized.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 3w agoSouth Dakota. Why do we need another Dakota, America already has enough. Also it houses the fugliest "monument" that may have ever existed, just on aesthetic grounds it is unacceptable
He knows the rules. It was the furthest thing from careless.
Covered bridge fan@longrovebridge.bsky.social · 3w agoSomewhere between careless and intentional. Gotta know the rules.
