Louis Bien
I'm here now.
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- NCAA men's bball final in 2015. the refs swallowing the whistle whenever Grayson Allen touched the ball. I was sick to my stomach for a solid two weeks.
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- Pleasure to edit this piece. Frankie does so much great reporting and research and weaving it all together to illustrate a league in danger of taking a bad turn.
- Reposted by Louis Bienthis is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
- Reposted by Louis BienThe trouble here is that Cuomo is a bully, not a fighter, and he’s already sniffing Trump’s butt and rolling over and showing his belly
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- Reposted by Louis BienMy latest newsletter takes a deep dive into Alex Cooper and her continued affiliation with Barstool Sports, and why that makes a partnership with the NWSL especially ill-advised for a league attempting to re-brand after multiple sexual and workplace abuse scandals.
- Reposted by Louis BienGood morning: Extra Points is HIRING We're looking for a new part-time editor, which may become more than that I can't type. My brain is breaking. I could use some help www.extrapointsmb.com/p/we-re-hiri...
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- that was a ridiculous finish by Mads
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- finally ketchup on hot dogs will be recognized as a sin
- Going to sleep with the Nuggets down 30. Excited to wake up to one of greatest comebacks of all time.
- Hell yeah pope hot board
- Reposted by Louis BienWe should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for the president to ignore the Supreme Court. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...
- what a great game that I watched exactly 3 seconds of go knicks
- Reposted by Louis BienI am really proud of the work I did over my 3+ years at Polygon and over a decade at Vox Media, and grateful for the people I got to do it with. I'm going to share some of my very favorites in this thread.
- Why was Ausur Thompson off the court
- Reposted by Louis BienWe are devastated and outraged about today's layoffs, the sale of Polygon, and the loss of staff across Polygon and NY Mag. We stand with our colleagues at @polygon.com com and @nymagunion.bsky.social in solidarity.
- Reposted by Louis Bienpolygon was the best thing this company ever founded. its greatness fully the result of so many incredible people sharing passion and creativity and giving a genuine shit about the people consuming their work. like most brands they were under appreciated by those undeserving of their amazing work
- [Vox executive pulls out printout during layoffs meeting] "See, I don't even know who this is"
- the long term reward for every good and wonderful website is to get cashed out and bought by FuckFace, Inc.
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- Reposted by Louis BienWhat happened with Polygon today is so fucked. Vox Media has made some atrocious decisions in my six years here but this is really something else. And to do this in the middle of us bargaining a new union contract, where they scold us for asking for better protections, is just unconscionable.
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- my team (too quietly) whipped ass this spring
- Reposted by Louis Bien“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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- Reposted by Louis Bien(TAKE MACHINE STARTING UP) What Shedeur Sanders sliding tells us (TAKE MACHINE HITS THIRD GEAR) about America’s fraught relationship (TAKE MACHINE GETS LOUDER) with fathers and masculinity (TAKE MACHINE SPEWING SMOKE) by Ross Douthat
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- Reposted by Louis BienMADISON, Wis. – Yesterday, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and other publications reported that Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan apparently attempted to protect a defendant from ICE agents trying to detain that defendant. (1/6)
- that seems really fucking bad
- so he can admire all of Tyleik Williams
- totally cool with reaching for a player when part of the reasoning is JUST LOOK HOW BIG HE IS
- how to be a good interviewer: 1) shut up and let the person finish out their thought 2) say "can you explain that?"
- highly distracted by that great finish by Anthony McCrossan calling Puck Pieterse "Puck Pizza" the whole time
- Flèche looks gd miserable
- Reposted by Louis BienIt's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
- One more time: Did some old school blogging today for @lidltrek.bsky.social, about hope vs belief, and why you really just need the former: racing.trekbikes.com/stories/lidl...
- Blogged about cycling like it was @sbnation.bsky.social circa 2019. Extremely fun to do for an extremely good rider: racing.trekbikes.com/stories/lidl...
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- lfg Skjelly!!!
- Oh fuck yeah
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- had to double check my donation because this gap closed like $500 after I made my donation. But anyway, LFG BADGERS
- Donating in honor of staying mad forever EDSBSCharityBowl.com @newap-georgia.bsky.social #CharitibundiBowl
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- Reposted by Louis Bienlet’s look back at what has happened so far Cory Booker giving a 25 hour speech: everyone loved it, raised his profile Van Hollen flies to El Salvador and meets Abrego Garcia: everyone loved it, raised his profile Schumer publicly caved: everyone hated that just a general note to Dems
- Mads punctures the second I turn on Paris-Roubaix. Cool cool cool
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- Reposted by Louis BienHe's going to drop all of these tariffs in a couple months, and then he's going to declare victory and trumpet the fact that the DOW went up 1000 points, and I literally fucking beg the media not to just print that as news without context both in headlines and column inches
- Reposted by Louis BienI still think about this tweet sometimes
- Well it’s been fun
- “It’s difficult to overstate how existential the tariffs are for the bicycle industry. Imports account for 97% of the bikes purchased in the United States, of which 87% come from China, making it ‘one of the most import-dependent industries in the U.S.’” heatmap.news/economy/trum...
- tried to introduce my baby to Modest Mouse today. 7-week-olds are not into sad, discordant indie post-punk/folk/rock I learned. maybe at 8 weeks.
- Reposted by Louis BienHere, have a nightmare Bucky Badger, as a treat.
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- All in all, a great day for Wisconsin
- I bet it's gonna be amazing, but I haven't been in the headspace to play games where "moontears will flow for one and one alone" since 2015
- "The moontears will flow for one and one alone when The Duskbloods, a brand-new multiplayer game by FromSoftware, is coming exclusively to Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026" www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKH...
