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In an effort to show more transparency the NBA has announced that officials in tonight’s NY-Indiana matchup will be wearing knicks uniforms.

@LewisPugh Horrifying, and we continue to whistle past the graveyard

Below are the two most important metrics of our time. Top: the decline of biodiversity between 1970-2018. Below: global temperatures between 1850-2022.

@LewisPugh @GWR You must have a few of these!

Look what came in the mail this afternoon! Thank you Guinness World Records 🏊‍♂️🏆📚

@ChancellorTV Will #tedcruz be spoken of one day with near universal condemnation, like, say, Joe McCarthy?

Ted Cruz pulled off what I thought was impossible- getting booed at a championship parade.

@Orondemcclain1 Really moving and important essay in The Philadelphia Inquirer today. “We talk more about murders than survivors” whose lives are forever changed.

No one dreams to become a victim of gun violence but victims dream to be able to become a survivor of gun violence think about that 🤷🏾‍♂️

@NurseChicknNerd @patriottakes Overqualified, it seems.

Marjorie Taylor Greene believes generating electricity from “wind turbines and solar panels” will result in the loss of air conditioning and home appliances. Greene: “I like the lights on. I want to stay up later at night. I don’t want to have to go to bed when the sun sets.”

@ProjectLincoln He got confused during the national anthem about whether it was to the left or right and decided to split the difference.

They’ll never find the nuclear codes in here.

@davidfrum While I take your point, and far be it from me to defend an orange-haired treasonous dirtbag, but we don't actually know that that's true.

We also used to have a 230 year tradition of presidents of the United States not paying hush money to porn actresses.

Stunning to see the image shot yesterday juxtaposed with the one I shot in 2007. Even with the different lighting you can see the dramatic change in the landscape and the rapid, precarious retreat (disappearance?) of the glacier.

Tapas, as I argue in this piece, is Spain's most exported, and misrepresented, culinary idea. Paella is a distant if respectable second. @WSJ

I got older, and the world got warmer. I swam at Nigard Glacier 15 years ago. Just look at it today.

Read Rushdie's books, listen to what he says. Which is bigger, his brain or his heart? It's long overdue that Rushdie get the Nobel for Literature. He deserves it on the merits of the work, and the Nobel has precedent to use the prizes to make statements #NobelPrizeforRushdieNow

@JamesFallows Outstanding book, Breaking the News, some of it even more pertinent today than 25 years ago.

@LewisPugh So beautiful there! I love Iceland.

Iceland has a never-ending supply of magnificent training spots. Yesterday I swam in the Hjálparfoss waterfall. Pure heaven!

@LewisPughFDN @LewisPugh @UNDPClimate @lizwathuti @UNBiodiversity @renaudmeyer @UNEP_Russian @cooksipgo @ClimateOutreach @COP26 @tveitdal Horrifying, and yet what's also dismaying and infuriating is that most of the rest of the state of Oregon will still vote for the party that refuses to acknowledge humanity's role in the unfolding disaster.

Portland residents fill a ‘cooling center’ to escape temperatures exceeding 40°C. The Climate Emergency is no joke. 📷: Nathan Howard

@Uber_Support I just ordered a ride posted as a $12 fare. When I clicked confirm it charged $30 to my credit card. Please advise.

@PhilaStreets @PhillyMayor Have y’all looked at the mission statement, the part abt keeping streets clean? Filthadelphia isn’t a compliment, if you’re wondering. Clean up your act, and our streets.

@EmilySaladino Don't worry, it's very charming live and in person. But yeah, I know what you mean. Mine is not finishing my own sentences and not letting others finish theirs.

For me, the worst part of writing is transcription, and the worst part of transcription is how much I laugh at my own jokes

@seanhannity @realJeffreyLord whsv.com/2020/07/21/fox…

@realJeffreyLord "A short memo to future governors of New York - if you have a problem with your cell phone, don’t look for it in a woman’s blouse" thejeffreylord.com/report-randy-a…

@ArtOfTheBribe That's fantastic!

I'm happy to share that the Russian translation of my book, The Art of the Bribe: Corruption under Stalin (Yale UP 2016), was published in Moscow last week by Rosspen publishing house. It's based on over ten years of research in former Soviet archives. rosspen.su/iskusstvo-vzya…