Senior Writer at The Ringer 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 occasional podcast host (22 Goals, Truthless) 🦉 whippet fancier https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337https://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lolhttps://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mktev2d7uk2tThe president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2026 00:23 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktev2d7uk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mkpztq7bbc2kI wrote about the assassination attempt https://www.theringer.com/2026/04/30/national-affairs/donald-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner-conspiracy-theories30 Apr 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpztq7bbc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mkqforhjmk2rRe-upping this for anyone who cares about (lowers sunglasses dramatically) The Future Of Independent Journalism [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqforhjmk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mkqcou2q6s2rIf your brain timeline after learning about the White House Correspondents' Dinner assassination attempt was anything like mine, I have just the article for you [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqcou2q6s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mkpztq7bbc2kI wrote about the assassination attempt https://www.theringer.com/2026/04/30/national-affairs/donald-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner-conspiracy-theories30 Apr 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpztq7bbc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mkpslz5csk2kFriends! 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I have a tale to tell.30 Apr 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpslz5csk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mkphxpqugk2kI long to be The Man in Black, wearing dark colors for all world's poor, but instead I am The Man in Beige, wearing pale neutrals for all the world's poor and also because of dog hair30 Apr 2026 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkphxpqugk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mkg5skcf5c23Is she under the impression that she was beloved on Bluesky before [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkg5skcf5c23https://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mkefawfzec23Like James Bond before him, he's mixed up shaken with stirred [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 01:20 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkefawfzec23https://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mkedco2as223Casually shoplifting four lemons on my way to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, happy, confident, certain I'll never run afoul of the discourse26 Apr 2026 00:45 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkedco2as223https://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mkbh7khync2zCan we be clear about what we mean by "booms," because "burns through finance capital at a scale and speed with the potential to crash the economy while casting about in search of a still undiscovered business model" is not quite how I use the word [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Apr 2026 21:17 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkbh7khync2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mk6qi7jass26I wrote about The Onion and Infowars https://www.theringer.com/2026/04/23/media/the-onion-infowars-alex-jones-ben-collins23 Apr 2026 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6qi7jass26https://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mk6qi7jass26I wrote about The Onion and Infowars https://www.theringer.com/2026/04/23/media/the-onion-infowars-alex-jones-ben-collins23 Apr 2026 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6qi7jass26https://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mk4rdygpgs26My greatest accomplishment is that I watch basketball constantly yet still have only the dimmest understanding of moderate to severe ulcerative colitis23 Apr 2026 00:35 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4rdygpgs26https://bsky.app/profile/brianphillips.lol/post/3mk3xdozp222mA friend just sent me a report saying Kazuo Ishiguro had died, and it turned out to be fake news, and I have never felt more like Jimmy Stewart at the end of It's a Wonderful Life22 Apr 2026 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:6ef3aqehy5yatvmythdnk45v/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3xdozp222m