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David Covucci @davidcovucci.bsky.social · 10h

Dabo Swinney, Shane Beamer, and Scott Satterfield all get comped country club memberships. FOIAball got their initiation fees and invoices.

Plus, we obtained actual NIL data from the CSC.

This week's FREE newsletter is literally jam-packed with scoops.

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Head coaches get country club memberships—here's what it costs

Initiation fees and invoices for Dabo Swinney and more. Plus, NIL GO numbers.

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Nancy Kathryn Walecki @nancywalecki.bsky.social · 6h

L.A. announced that it has arrested a suspected arsonist for January's Palisades Fire. But that's changed little for residents, and it hasn't changed how much I miss my loved one who died in the fire. My latest for @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

L.A. Might Finally Know Who Started the Palisades Fire

But it still doesn’t feel like closure.

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“Sam,” and in some cases, “Samuel” @insideoutside15.bsky.social · 7h

Put Eric Adams on Inside The NBA

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 13h

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

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IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

lol oh no I wonder how many times that happened

Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

lol hi Fred

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect I’ve been meaning to pick one up

A white cooler bag labeled with “human organ for transplant” in red letters, 35% off for Prime Day

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah in this case I do thing the em-dash IS a tell. No way this guy knows how to use them or even make one

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, as a concept…it has legs

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

If they don’t then I will demand my money back

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

From less expensive and further away seats I’m going to try to embody the lived experience of someone who pays $700 each for two third-row seats in a Broadway theater without the first inkling of what the play is about

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

I’m seeing Godot on Friday and now the entire time I’m gonna be imagining this guy waiting for the show tunes to start

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

lol he shoulda taken a job as a position coach somewhere that he could have his boat and just coached em up

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

He could have just retired to hang out with his girlfriend but somehow he got himself into a fiasco that has put “maybe it really was all Tom Brady and he was never that good” on the board in a serious way. Hustling backwards!

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta innovate!

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah he should have at least gone to somewhere weird to do this! That would have been interesting at least.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Are you saying that being an NFL knower doesn’t automatically make you even better at understanding college football than college football people?

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Looool

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

The thread has a lotta good details but you didn’t have to be a genius to know that this guy would not have a lot of patience with teenagers or with the very strange bureaucracy of college football, and then he got rid of the people who knew how to do CFB and hired a bunch of NFL washouts!

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Who could have seen this coming except pretty much everyone who knows anything about college football

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

Realizing that this is likely because I am from a place without any significant named valleys and I wore out a VHS of Clueless as a child, in which they talk a lot about “the valley”

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

San Fernando

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d

a fortunate quirk is that doing food and medical support for impoverished children, foreign and domestic, *also* is about the biggest bang it is possible to get for our buck.

so you can analyze aid on a moral basis or a realpolitik basis and you get the same answer: we should do it

Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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