If young, 90s Bill Simmons spent less time listening to Pearl Jam, he’d know the cardinal sin of crack sales: never get high on your own supply. The number one sports podcaster, pulled to the mountaintop of sports media by the labor of Tom Brady, Kevin Garnett and David Ortiz (I promise you we wouldn’t […]
As voters grow desperate for fighters, Hakeem Jeffries had a sneaky, secret Meeting with Jared Kushner, Trump’s unofficial Ambassador of Corruption. Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according […]
Every morning, I roll over, grab the warm bottle of “Unwell” sitting on my nightstand—chug the oxygen out the plastic, eyes rolled back, bliss, euphoria—over, now that Alex Cooper is no longer producing her sweet, delicious Call Her Daddy juice. Cooper’s Unwell Beverage Co., which she launched in partnership with Nestlé SA in 2025, is […]
This is a special peek of the Deadseriousness newsletter Let’s Get This Dread, in which I, Lester Lee, send exclusive funny, not boring Algorithm slop. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. To my beloved Lindsey, You dedicated your life in service of the greater good, ensuring the lovely citizens of […]
Modern politics is a series of body blows dressed like Democracy. Graham Platner should never have been here. We shouldn’t have known who this guy was. There’s a Graham Platner black out drunk at every dive bar, lying to whoever gets trapped in a conversation with them. Never once have I met one of those […]
In 2023, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem opened a hotline, allowing snitches to call in whenever they catch a whiff of drag shows near South Dakota colleges—along with an open letter, writing: “On campuses across the country, students have been taught the importance of diversity and equity and given access to ‘safe spaces’ instead of […]
Malcolm X. Nelson Mandela. Don Lemon. Our three greatest civil rights activists, all imprisoned by The Man at the height of their powers. One, pushed the country to pass voting rights for African Americans. The other, pushed South Africa to end its Apartheid. The last, a jaded prick, caught in the middle of a political […]
Look, the holidays can be bruuutal; forcing many of us into rooms with people we simply do not get along with. Financial troubles create anxieties and inadequacies, self-hate, the whole thing. No matter how upset you get over the holidays, here at Deadseriousness, I just want to make something known. And it’s a small thing, […]
Donald Trump is bad. We don’t need to run through the list of his flaws, I try to keep these articles under 100,000 words. But his attempt to cancel Jimmy Kimmel’s TV show because Kimmel wasn’t being nice to him, a thing a president was almost allowed to do while we all just go to […]
It’s never been more lucrative for losers. In a post-pandemic world, millions dead, markets collapsed, brains radicalized—losers are having a gold rush. A loser, to me, is someone who—instead of getting a job or a degree or getting up early and thugging it out for a paycheck, truly working hard to improve their financial situations—they […]
This is a special peek of the Deadseriousness newsletter Let’s Get This Dread, in which I, Lester Lee, weigh in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. It could feel embarrassing to ask your friends for life advice. Many adult friendships are surface-level— especially between men. A brief update […]
This is a special peek of the Deadseriousness newsletter Let’s Get This Dread, in which I, Lester Lee, weigh in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. All of my life, like, literally from the moment I was born, winking at the nurse cutting the umbilical cord, to today, […]
Stephen A. Smith’s newest turn into shallow, performative political commentary—on his podcast, I can’t imagine anyone spending their free time watching—proves this has-been, clinging on to his remaining years of fame, will do anything for a dollar. Well, anything except do his job. Last year’s ESPN NBA Finals coverage displayed, for all eyes to see, […]
This is an edition of the newsletter Let’s Get This Dread, in which the columnist weighs in on hot topics in culture. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Next month, NYC will have a new king of rats. Who can follow in the footsteps of the great Mike Bloomberg, one of the wealthiest […]
I don’t live in NYC. Fortunately, I’m close enough to have spent the last 4 years within the news cyclone of Mayor Eric Adams—who recently announced the end of his re-election campaign. Zohran Mamdani was dominating the zeitgeist—hitting Eric Adams with body shots as Eric Adams was out late, doing body shots off Latina bartenders, […]
You never want to celebrate the loss of another human life. We only get one opportunity on this planet Earth . We are so fortunate to have our cells formed and developed into living, breathing organisms. Every life on this Earth is sacred—just as any loss of life is a tragedy. HOWEVER… OREM, Utah (AP) […]
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