Ken Weinstein

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

Cup of tea, cup of tea / Some for Paul and some for me / The world is cold and lonely / Have some tea

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

When I want the perfect beverage for this Beatles documentary / I brew myself a steaming cup of tea / While I watch McCartney improvise the melody to Let it Be / I wonder how he did it and sip my tea

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

@WIRED Look Who’s Tripping Too

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

Love this Charlie Watts anecdote from Frank Conroy (context is he was writing a magazine piece on Stones, nobody at the house, starts playing on the piano…)

[Claire McNear @clairemcnear]

Last week Mike Richards wrote that lawsuits from The Price Is Right didn’t “reflect the reality of who I am.”
I went looking for who he is, talking to current and former colleagues and listening to a podcast he hosted at Price. What I found was troubling. https://t.co/A8AEsPHCMA

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

I have seen 30-year-old videos of ultimate frisbee games filmed with a single camcorder that showed the action more clearly than the multimillion-dollar production of this home run derby

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

6 months ago today I wore this blue suit as I cleaned the Capitol after the insurrection, now I just donated it to the Smithsonian. Jan6 must never be forgotten. While some try to erase history, I will fight to tell the story so it never happens again. Here is one story…(THREAD)

[Defector @DefectorMedia]

The "caning" of Charles Sumner was not a damn "caning!" It was just a frickin’ psycho trying to kill a guy, and happening to use a cane as the murder weapon! https://t.co/uWOFoKb46E

[Molly Olmstead @MollyOlmstead]

Blake Bailey, acclaimed Philip Roth biographer, was once an eighth grade teacher. He made his students feel intelligent and interesting. He formed a deep emotional bond with them. And he exploited it.

Those former students shared their stories with us:

https://t.co/YFELLPjed2

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

@JonathanW77 I do not acknowledge the legitimacy of any extra-inning game in which innings start with a runner on 2nd, so I am not sure what you’re talking about

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

I’ll say this for the 2021 Red Sox: they are making baseball look hard, which it is. I, too, would bounce half my throws from third to first! And watch a third-strike fastball down the middle knowing my best shot was a missed call! So relatable!

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

I guess it makes sense I would enjoy the 1993-ish feeling since fandom peaks around age 12 — Carlos Quintana, Sherman Douglas, Hugh Millen would all be at home on these teams

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

Enjoyed yesterday’s radio broadcast of Red Sox getting clobbered so much that I’m realizing I take perverse comfort in Boston sports being something to complain about rather than something to get inspired by

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

@bendadams That was Movie Basketball in the same way Rocky fights are Movie Boxing so it is a perfect argument for the “profit off our names and likenesses” case

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

On the other hand, UCLA and Gonzaga made basketball look hard in the perfect way. Wow.

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

Will take this opportunity to say that Beverly Cleary’s memoirs (A Girl from Yamhill and My Own Two Feet) are extremely good and wildly under-read by adults, especially if you have a kid going through a Ramona or Henry Huggins phase. RIP.

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

@RottenInDenmark Literally walked by him today, masked up and chatting with neighbors on the sidewalk. On other days have seen him out gardening and pulling trash barrels in and out. Always a friendly nod and hello. My kid gets a huge kick out of knowing who he is.

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

@rerbelding It is a marvelous book that I only heard of from Leaving Orbit! No idea why it isn’t better known.

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

@bendadams @rerbelding @annasproul Leaving Orbit by Margaret Dean, Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins (the Michael Collins who was the best astronaut on Apollo 11, or at least the best writer)

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

Incidentally, with regard to the last election where both major party candidates were born before Biden, I sometimes see Michael Dukakis taking walks in my neighborhood and he looks great

[Ken Weinstein @kweinst]

Youngest senator in 1972, now takes office older (today) than B. Clinton, G.W. Bush, Gore, Kerry, Obama, Romney, H. Clinton, and Trump

[ABC News @ABC]

FROM THE ARCHIVE: @ABC News' Bob Clark profiled Joe Biden in 1972, when he was just old enough to serve as a U.S. senator. https://t.co/5QIiuPhAWz