Alex Shephard
@alex_shephard
staff writer @newrepublic. cohost @mrdifficultpod. founded @fullstopmag with my friends. [email protected]
lol. Love the caddie casually dropping the ball on to the rough (presumably he had it in the fescue) and Trump just playing it. So good
Trump working hard to bring down grocery prices
dumping the Hoover MLK files to distract from Epstein is something else
Statement from the King Family on the Release of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassination Files: “We recognize that the release of documents concerning the assassination of our father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has long been a subject of interest, captivating public…
This billion dollars effectively put in Trump's bank account would pay for like a quarter of all the federal employees they've laid off
How much will it cost US taxpayers to retrofit the "free" Air Force One donated by Qatar? The Trump administration won't say. But attention is focused on a mysterious $934 million transfer from a Pentagon account. @SangerNYT @EricSchmittNYT nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/…
Ok look joking about the bribes means we gotta go nuclear here. I need a reporter to go on camera and ask Eric Adams who started the crown heights riots so we can just put an end to his whole deal.
I hear my opponents have travel plans…
RIP Chuck Mangione, god of the only two places that matter: Rochester and Arlen, Texas
He calls Mario “the deuteragonist of Donkey Kong” in Vineland. Pynchon knows ball.
Pynchon is 100 percent a gamer! There are multiple references to Nintendo in Vineland, he writes about Kojima in Bleeding Edge. He's probably playing Death Stranded 2 right now
Gotta say the end of my PTA book from 2020 is looking pretty prophetic
Earth Rider by Joe Biden coming fall 2027
Exclusive: Former President Joe Biden has sold his presidential memoir to the Hachette Book Group for an advance in the range of $10 million, according to people familiar with the matter on.wsj.com/452Tf6W
that Time list is fit for the pit. doesn’t even name-check the short-lived Tom Scharpling and friends Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young podcast where Tom asks “which one of these guys do you think has done coke off a horse?”—the funniest line in the history of a debased medium.
It's pretty funny that all of these Epstein obsessed guys who joined the administration were all seemingly unaware of the very well documented fact that Donald Trump was one of his closest friends for over a decade
"FBI Director Kash Patel has privately told other government officials that Trump’s name appeared in the files." wsj.com/politics/justi…
A lot of people say we don't make things in this country and they are right. But for the first time since the introduction of Gatorade Frost in 1997, there are several new Gatorade flavors, all of which are outstanding
Just days ago a Palestinian footballer was killed while trying to get aid. Now, the Palestine Football Association confirms another: Ismail Abu Dan, of Al-Tuffah Club, killed the same way: waiting for food in Gaza. 10 footballers killed in July alone. A dark month for football.
One of the Palestinians killed today near an aid distribution point north of Rafah was Mahmoud Abu Muammar, a young footballer. 9 footballers have been killed in Gaza since the start of July. 446 in Gaza and the West Bank since Oct 2023. It took 4 days for FIFA to ban Russia.
two really stupid guys telling each other scary stories before bedtime
Weird then to turn and say I should stop acting like I care about NYC. If anybody is doing acting it ain’t me
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Here's the latest trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another," in theaters September 26.
Listening to this gets me so hyped for life. x.com/realhoopermovi…
put this on my tombstone
Ratel, the two of us need look no more: On Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s stealth buddy comedy CLOUD, for @newrepublic newrepublic.com/article/198033…
This goes MUCH deeper than the Bloodhound Gang, it started when Chubby Checker programed human beings to "Do the Twist" and then "Let's Twist Again"
Still traumatized by the bloodhound gang over twenty years later