Josh Landon
@joshlandon.bsky.social
Wide-ranging interests that stretch all the way from 1970 to 1974. Education + Publishing + Nonprofits + MSU 🟢⚪️ + all things Detroit
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“Was heavily engaged with the University of Missouri football and basketball teams” is the new funniest I’ve ever seen on LinkedIn
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“Was heavily engaged with the University of Missouri football and basketball teams” is the new funniest I’ve ever seen on LinkedIn
I think Adams did about 15 mins of actual work for the city across four years.
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City is treating his last weeks in office as something of a farewell tour, visiting foreign countries, defending his legacy and expressing his grievances. “My lack of success didn’t start because of the indictment,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/n...
December 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I think Adams did about 15 mins of actual work for the city across four years.
Eventually we’ll get a 2026 World Cup story that doesn’t make my skin crawl.
Sporting officials in Egypt and Iran, two countries where homosexuality is severely punished, protested after being drawn to play the “Pride Match” in Seattle during next year’s World Cup.
Egypt and Iran protest being drawn to play in World Cup ‘Pride Match’
Seattle’s plan for the June 26 game to be a “Pride Match” was made before the World Cup draw. Egypt said the move may “provoke cultural and religious sensitivities.”
wapo.st
December 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Eventually we’ll get a 2026 World Cup story that doesn’t make my skin crawl.
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lmao they put the World Cup in America and now it's got commercial breaks.
News: Every 2026 World Cup match will feature two "hydration breaks," no matter the weather.
Each half will pause for exactly three minutes midway through.
It's a player welfare measure. It also has sporting & commercial implications.
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Each half will pause for exactly three minutes midway through.
It's a player welfare measure. It also has sporting & commercial implications.
More @theathleticfc.bsky.social:
2026 World Cup to feature three-minute hydration breaks in every half throughout tournament
Every game will pause for three minutes in the middle of each half, which will essentially split the match into quarters.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
lmao they put the World Cup in America and now it's got commercial breaks.
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Beautiful sentence. God bless America.
December 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Beautiful sentence. God bless America.
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He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
USA Group D World Cup opponents:
- Paraguay
- Australia
- Türkiye or Romania or Slovakia or Kosovo
A good group—not overly difficult, but also not so boring that the matches aren't compelling.
- Paraguay
- Australia
- Türkiye or Romania or Slovakia or Kosovo
A good group—not overly difficult, but also not so boring that the matches aren't compelling.
December 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
USA Group D World Cup opponents:
- Paraguay
- Australia
- Türkiye or Romania or Slovakia or Kosovo
A good group—not overly difficult, but also not so boring that the matches aren't compelling.
- Paraguay
- Australia
- Türkiye or Romania or Slovakia or Kosovo
A good group—not overly difficult, but also not so boring that the matches aren't compelling.
Obviously to get through the day you have to let most of this stuff wash over you—but my god, this is so lame.
The eyes of the soccer world turn to the U.S. capital as nations learn the identity of their group stage opponents for the 2026 World Cup.
Many headlines from this draw will likely be dominated by President Donald Trump, who will receive FIFA’s inaugural peace prize award.
Many headlines from this draw will likely be dominated by President Donald Trump, who will receive FIFA’s inaugural peace prize award.
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Obviously to get through the day you have to let most of this stuff wash over you—but my god, this is so lame.
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
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Ok, fine, I'm going to say what we're all thinking:
Van Morrison's Hard Nose the Highway is underrated. In fact, it may even be his 6th best album.
Van Morrison's Hard Nose the Highway is underrated. In fact, it may even be his 6th best album.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Ok, fine, I'm going to say what we're all thinking:
Van Morrison's Hard Nose the Highway is underrated. In fact, it may even be his 6th best album.
Van Morrison's Hard Nose the Highway is underrated. In fact, it may even be his 6th best album.
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given how checked out he is there's a real temptation in the second term to ascribe a lot of the most extreme remigration stuff to the various ghouls propping up this administration but he really is as vile and racist as they come
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
given how checked out he is there's a real temptation in the second term to ascribe a lot of the most extreme remigration stuff to the various ghouls propping up this administration but he really is as vile and racist as they come
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it's the goddamn christmas adventurers club
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
it's the goddamn christmas adventurers club
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Right. This is normally a prelude to imminent war. But no one knows if the us president is serious or had a bad breakfast or is making an insane joke or had a stroke or whatever.
This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.
Might be kicking off.
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Right. This is normally a prelude to imminent war. But no one knows if the us president is serious or had a bad breakfast or is making an insane joke or had a stroke or whatever.
Having a show as good as The Golazo Show would probably require the Premier League to maintain a more consistent weekend schedule. In other words: a win win!
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Having a show as good as The Golazo Show would probably require the Premier League to maintain a more consistent weekend schedule. In other words: a win win!
My needs are simple: A 3 1/2 hour adaptation of Dan Simmons’ Hyperion directed by Christopher Nolan.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
My needs are simple: A 3 1/2 hour adaptation of Dan Simmons’ Hyperion directed by Christopher Nolan.
On the short list of greatest fall songs and very possibly at the top.
Astral Weeks - 1999 Remaster
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November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
On the short list of greatest fall songs and very possibly at the top.
Well saved indeed 🫡
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Well saved indeed 🫡
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If You Run Into an Asshole in the Morning, You Ran Into an Asshole. If You Run into Assholes All Day, You're the Asshole, Charlie Brown!
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
If You Run Into an Asshole in the Morning, You Ran Into an Asshole. If You Run into Assholes All Day, You're the Asshole, Charlie Brown!
Watch out
You might get what you're after
Cool babies
Strange but not a stranger
I'm an ordinary guy
Burning down the house
You might get what you're after
Cool babies
Strange but not a stranger
I'm an ordinary guy
Burning down the house
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Watch out
You might get what you're after
Cool babies
Strange but not a stranger
I'm an ordinary guy
Burning down the house
You might get what you're after
Cool babies
Strange but not a stranger
I'm an ordinary guy
Burning down the house
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it's so funny to watch the far right White House press pool try to bait Trump to say something nasty about Mamdani and every time he's just like "nah this guy rocks"
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
it's so funny to watch the far right White House press pool try to bait Trump to say something nasty about Mamdani and every time he's just like "nah this guy rocks"
“A muddled mogul risks suboptimal cognition.”
Folks, I don’t know how it’s possible, but it gets funnier.
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
“A muddled mogul risks suboptimal cognition.”
As the would-be fascist takeover seems to be winding down—undone by Trump’s dwindling political capital and his admin’s incompetence—we owe a show of respect to the subway sandwich thrower, who made the whole thing feel deeply unserious to the American public from the jump.
JUST IN: Border Patrol is preparing to end its immigration enforcement operation in Charlotte, nearly a week after the agency first deployed agents to the state’s most populated city, two officials at DHS tell NBC News.
Border Patrol preparing to leave Charlotte, plans to mobilize in New Orleans next
Border Patrol agents arrested more than 250 people in Charlotte this week and, according to reports, could begin operations in Louisiana and Mississippi as soon as next week.
nbcnews.to
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
As the would-be fascist takeover seems to be winding down—undone by Trump’s dwindling political capital and his admin’s incompetence—we owe a show of respect to the subway sandwich thrower, who made the whole thing feel deeply unserious to the American public from the jump.
It keeps reminding me of this old Achewood panel.
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
It keeps reminding me of this old Achewood panel.