The Rob Crowe

urban bird on a wire

[The Rob Crowe @robcrowe00]

The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts https://t.co/p1zBtZlH5n via @YouTubeMusic

[Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait]

The Iran hawks go through the stages of grief https://t.co/zh911e8hR9

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Trump still cannot face the defeat that's been inflicted on America because of him.

https://t.co/huKZfvTg6y

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

I wrote that Hegseth is an unserious cornball, but remember, Trump is the least manly president ever to set foot in the Oval Office:

https://t.co/M5hUsFptY2

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

So proud of my big brother, @CraigMalRob!

And a huge congrats to the Class of 2026! We know how hard you worked to make it to graduation day, and can't wait to see what you achieve in the months and years ahead. 🎓🎉

[The Obama Foundation @ObamaFoundation]

Bo and Sunny had no idea they were living at the most famous address in the world. They just wanted scratches behind their ears, a patch of sun to lie in, and some wide open spaces to run. That energy is alive at the Obama Presidential Center.

Recently, @MichelleObama reflected on her family’s life in the White House. In this new video, she explains how part of the Life in the White House exhibit at the Museum featuring Bo and Sunny—-a playful comic strip called "Our Life in the White House"—was designed so every child, including those who can't see, can experience the joy those two brought to the White House.

"The fur is rendered in different textures, so a child can run their fingers across it and feel the comfort Bo and Sunny gave to us," Mrs. Obama said. "It's a reminder that home is being with the people—and pups—we love, no matter the setting."

The Obama Presidential Center opens on June 19 in Chicago's Jackson Park.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I wouldn’t be where I am today without the love and support that @MichelleObama has poured into me over the years. Her story — from her South Side roots to the White House and beyond — is a central part of the Obama Presidential Center.

[The Rob Crowe @robcrowe00]

@daniel_dsj2110 She is a cuck. Her bitchy comments are about as daring and equally non-sequitarian. And bullshit media platforms her because of who she says she hates despite fully indebted to postmodernism for whatevah glamour she HAD.

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

Not a secret although seldom said in the press. Exceptions include this deep deconstruction of his failure as a businessman and looming bankruptcies in the summer of 1990.

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Conan O'Brien used his Harvard University commencement speech to argue that humility and the human connection matter far more than any diploma.

"I always recognize the enormous role of luck in my life. Refusing to see how luck has played a role in anyone's success is simply ignorant. Many people are happy to mistake a lucky poker hand for their own brilliance, and fighting that human instinct has kept me sane.

"I honestly believe that community, spontaneity, and a real commitment to humility has helped me build a rich life that means much more to me than any diploma. And believe me, I'm not saying the goal is to renounce accomplishments, but rather to metabolize them. If you carry your victories lightly, other qualities –- kindness, originality, courage, humor, and humanity –- have room to emerge.

"Maybe the greatest lessons I've learned along these lines have been through my 24 travel shows. I have degraded myself in Cuba, Ghana, Korea, Armenia, half of Europe, Argentina, Thailand, Mexico, and Greenland, where I visited a real estate office and tried to buy the country. When I travel to another land, every quality I have discussed -- community, adaptation, and a sincerely humble approach -- are all necessary. When you don't speak the language, no one truly cares where you went to college, and you have no choice but to make friends.

"It's on these travels that I learned a great lesson: let yourself be bad at things. I have been a bad dancer in every country I have visited. But the people laugh because it turns out everyone everywhere is related to at least one terrible dancer. For me, humility on these trips can easily lead to humiliation, which is also a useful tool.

"Three weeks ago, I visited Amsterdam, dressed up as Van Gogh, and forced my way into the Van Gogh Museum, where I started loudly demanding a cut of the merchandising because I made no money during my lifetime. Guards forcibly ejected me. I was roundly mocked by patrons for my pathetic display. But I did see a lot of smiles. And not one person said, now that's a Harvard grad.

"In Tokyo, I met with a teacher of Japanese etiquette who volunteered I wasn't her type. And when I asked her why, she just said, 'face.' In Ghana, after accepting a royal invitation, I was kicked out of the Ashanti Palace by the Queen Mother, because her favorite soap opera was starting.

"I understand that I am preaching modesty and connection at a time when this is not in style. We are living through a period of extreme narcissism. Our current leadership in Washington believes that empathy is a weakness and that our nation stands supreme and alone. Add to that, everyone here today has a phone in their pocket that is algorithmically programmed to celebrate you and you alone by making you the protein-maxing hero of your own special journey.

"Much has been written about how isolated and siloed we've become, but for me, the antidote is quite simple. By de-emphasizing what makes us special — in your case, a prized degree — we can really find one another, not as an exercise in virtue, but as a path towards greater laughter, love, and real growth."

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

The next time this admin lectures our European allies for falling short of our shared free speech values, I’d like them to explain this crap. https://t.co/y7iCPfsW7f

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

If Paula Jones was 1) a completely crazy person who couldn't even remember when she was assaulted and 2) whose lawsuit against Clinton was only enabled by a GOP legislature passing a temporary law to obviate the statute of limitations just to get Clinton and 3) her lawyers were funded by a GOP megadonor billionaire with some serious ethical issues -- there would have been wall-to-wall news coverage of the obvious injustice.

[The Rob Crowe @robcrowe00]

People are still here.

[Hannah Krieg @hannahkrieg]

Viewer just sent me a pic of Mark Zuckerberg's yacht at Lake Union. This would be an obnoxious display of wealth any day but stings extra following 1400 Meta layoffs in King County yesterday. Perhaps greed is the problem.

[Hbomberguy @Hbomberguy]

The next time I go a year without releasing a video it's because I attempted this and managed to die trying

[The Rob Crowe @robcrowe00]

@CathyYoung63 You believed because your picture is what they use instead of a definition of gullible in multiple, multilingual dictionaries. Folks like you are rubes except it is a good grift, the benighted right commentariat, bullshitting since Wexbrook Pegler.

[The Rob Crowe @robcrowe00]

@mattyglesias Fuck Matt, negativity about tech is hardly a big featured of modern democrats--still. Tax and regulate the Robber Barons threatening to take all our toys away, yes. And where might those fucking lounges be? They ain't in Colleges of Engineering or Business? Which dive dip into su

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

I'd never seen this -- MAD Magazine, 1991. Really good.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

It wasn't a secret, even then, who he was

[The Rob Crowe @robcrowe00]

The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts https://t.co/p1zBtZlH5n via @YouTubeMusic