| | | Trump's Big Tech lawsuit is going nowhere. Here's why. | | If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser. | | | | |  | | |  | | | | Trump's Latest Scam Has More Than a Few Deficiencies | | | | There is no way on god's information superhighway that Facebook—or Twitter, or Google, whom El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago also is suing—is a "state actor." And the way you know this is that the complaint itself justifies that bit of lunacy by leaving the temporal plane entirely. He's claiming that, when Facebook took action against the kind of slander and dangerous misinformation that is his only reason for being at this point, it did so to ward off legislative action in that area. Because of this, the suit argues, Congress made Facebook a state actor when it bounced the former president*. (Some people angry that Major League Baseball moved its All Star Game out of Atlanta after that state's legislature passed its new voter suppression laws tried this argument out less than a month ago.) The other way you know it is that the king grifter behind it already is dunning the rubes for more money. (So, I would note, is the Republican National Committee.) Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | The Full Telfar x Converse Collaboration Just Dropped | | | | Hot on the heels of last week's now-sold-out collaborative duffel bag—a bag with a Telfar logo on it selling out; quelle surprise!—Converse and Telfar are back at it again today, this time dropping a full collection of slides, sneakers, tees, tanks, and more that are available at both Telfar's website and Converse's. For sneaker fans, desiger Telfar Clemens's takes on a Converse classic are likely the stars of the show. The Pro Leather in black gets a slip-on treatment, while the same core style in white and beige is transformed into a Mary Jane. Were you anticipating a Mary Jane becoming a highly sought-after summer footwear style for guys? I wasn't either, but here we are. That's the magic of Telfar. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | The Complicated Future of the Handshake | | | | Vaccines have been administered and restrictions are being lifted. As the Summer of Butter 2021 hits its smooth, tasty stride most of us are ready — hell we might even be yearning— for human touch outside our immediate circles. Parents will be hugged. Random people on the subway shall be lightly brushed against. First dates in over a year are going to, uh... use your imagination. But what should you do when someone you barely know — a new colleague, a business associate — wants to shake hands? Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | The Running Shorts So Good I Want to Wear Them Even When I'm Not Working Out | | | | "'I reached a point during the pandemic when I realized I was doing laundry up to three times a week, but I was only washing the same workout clothes over and over," writes Matt Miller. "Since I wasn't going anywhere, the only stuff I really used with any regularity were my running shirts and shorts. Some days the only time I left the house was to run. I have a pretty good wardrobe of athletic clothes, but I kept finding myself only wanting to wear my favorite pair of shorts—and some days I'd wear them even when not working out. Those are the Surge shorts from Lululemon. They look like a very nice pair of athleisure shorts, but they function like gear for a serious runner. Most importantly, they're the most comfortable shorts I own, period." Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Anyone Who Wonders How We Got Here Is a Liar or a Fool | | | | Eric Boehlert's not-to-be-missed-subscribe-now-ya-bastids Press Run newsletter on Wednesday went long on an element of the Nikole Hannah-Jones story that had eluded Charles P. Pierce. Critical to the backlash against Hannah-Jones' appointment at the University of North Carolina was a wealthy donor named Walter Hussman, who has given the university enough cay-sh to get the journalism school there named after him. This is bad enough but, as Boehlert points out, Hussman was intimately connected to the fundamental seedbed of all the multi-megaton crazy currently detonating all across the landscape — the conservative campaign to delegitimize President Bill Clinton, which culminated in the Great Penis Hunt of 1998 and the first presidential impeachment since the one they dropped on Andy Johnson. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Kurt Vonnegut's Trip to See the Guru | | | | In the late Sixties, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was at the height of his influence, advising stars like the Beatles and Mia Farrow on Transcendental Meditation. Here, sardonic as ever, the novelist disrobes the figure. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |
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