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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolutely nailed it, Senator, go Cards. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Grierson & Leitch @griersonleitch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To celebrate our 500th episode, we each picked the 10 best films to come out since the podcast began. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4jpI... We couldn't have gotten to this milestone without you. Thanks for listening. Here's to another 500!

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is the first clip of Trump I've made it all the way through in months.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every time Apple updates operating system, I know I'm going to have to add 45 minutes to my workday turning off all the AI stuff I didn't ask for and do not want. (And there's still stuff you can't get rid of no matter how hard you try.) Why I can't just say, "I've already paid you. So no, please."

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For @washingtonpost.com, I wrote about how what Colin Kaepernick's protest, 10 years later, ended up having the exact opposite effect it was supposed to. (Gift Link.) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | Colin Kaepernick set an example. Nobody wants to follow it.

A decade after his protest, the price he paid for speaking out has scared off other athletes.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Roger Simon was a proud alum of the University of Illinois and regularly came back to visit with Daily Illini students. I was honored to get to spend a very memorable late night talking shop and cracking jokes with him in the mid-'90s. He was outstanding. RIP. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/10/r...

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Roger Simon, a leading political writer including for the Tribune, dies at 78

Along with being a long-time columnist for the Sun-Times, he was White House correspondent for the Tribune and pioneered political writing at Politico.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Over at my (always free) newsletter, we have been having readers and writers delve into what makes their state great. I think Stephen Stetson's treatise on Alabama is pretty wonderful. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-6-i...

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Volume 6, Issue 40.5: The States Project: Alabama

Bury me under the black gum tree.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For @theathletic.com, I wrote about how instant replay has just become one more thing that exists solely to make us angry. www.nytimes.com/athletic/757...

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Michigan call shows replay can't take away an essential part of sports: Feeling aggrieved

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For @theathletic.com, I wrote about how instant replay has just become one more thing that exists solely to make us angry. www.nytimes.com/athletic/757...

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Michigan call shows replay can't take away an essential part of sports: Feeling aggrieved

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some of us talk about it WAYYYYYYY too much.

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Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Great @williamfleitch.bsky.social column on why Andy Rooney was great & why doing what he did was nowhere as easy as he made it look. He was a fantastic writer and essayist Being a TV personality bothered him enormously That's why he'll be difficult to replace www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | CBS wants a new Andy Rooney. It should study the original first.

The secret to the commentator’s success wasn’t likability — it was trust, earned the hard way.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In order to simultaneously appease Gen Alpha and the algorithm, I decided to indulge in some aura farming and write about Andy Rooney for @washingtonpost.com. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | CBS wants a new Andy Rooney. It should study the original first.

The secret to the commentator’s success wasn’t likability — it was trust, earned the hard way.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We gave regularly to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which has been gifting free books to millions of children for more than 30 years. Just one of the amazing things she was a part of, and something palpably touched our, and many other, lives. You can still donate. donate.imaginationlibrary.com

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Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton dying feels as inexplicable and impossible as it felt when David Bowie died, or Prince died. Surely moreso.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I write a lot (obviously) for a whole bunch of different publications and editors and the idea I can just write whatever I want however I want and they have no say over it is not only absurd it is in fact SOMETHING A WRITER SHOULDN'T WANT. I mean, it wasn't like this at Deadspin and I ran the place.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I also don't know how to say this in a way that isn't snotty, so I'll just say what he said: If you are worried about "sounding like AI," you've already lost.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

For my (always free) weekly newsletter, I wrote about Catherine Russell, the hardest-working woman on (and off) Broadway. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-6-i...

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Volume 6, Issue 34: One Battle After Another

" Time doesn't exist yet it controls us anyway."

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

For my (always free) weekly newsletter, I wrote about Catherine Russell, the hardest-working woman on (and off) Broadway. williamfleitch.substack.com/p/volume-6-i...

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Volume 6, Issue 34: One Battle After Another

" Time doesn't exist yet it controls us anyway."

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Extra Hot Great @extrahotgreat.com · 22/07/2026

It's #EHG 624 with Will Leitch! #TheHawk, #TheFiveStarWeekend, #BreakingBad, #HighPotential, a #SportsNight Canon pitch, and more! Out on all podcast platforms now! extrahotgreat.com/eh...

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 20/07/2026

The World Cup final between Spain and Argentina on Sunday wasn’t a classic, but the World Cup writ large was — and one America desperately needed, Will Leitch writes.

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Spain-Argentina Wasn’t a Classic, But This World Cup Was

The World Cup final between Spain and Argentina on Sunday wasn’t a classic, but the World Cup writ large was — and one America desperately needed, Will Leitch writes.

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J.E. Skeets @jeskeets.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Belgium pressed the U.S. team from the opening seconds, and the response was not increased aggression but undeniable fear: The U.S. looked spooked. It was as if it felt the weight of the soccer world's anger all at once." ✍️ @williamfleitch.bsky.social bit.ly/3RnodEb

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The U.S. Team Crumbled Under the Weight of the Soccer World

A bruising loss to Belgium and a controversial Trump intervention threaten to overshadow the USMNT’s captivating World Cup run.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Fourth, everyone, and happy fifth anniversary to the proudest moment of my career.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Let's go USMNT but also seriously I AM FROM BOSNIA TAKE ME TO AMERICA THIS SONG WILL NEVER EVER EVER EVER LEAVE MY BRAIN IT IS MURDER THIS SONG www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmX0...

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Dubioza Kolektiv - I Am from Bosnia - Take Me to America (Official video)

YouTube video by Dubioza kolektiv

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

On this Father's Day, I am explaining the story of Prince's solo on "Why My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as all good fathers must someday do.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

You really owe it to your self to read his Trump piece too. This piece is almost 30 years old, and also about five minutes. Trump Solo www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...

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Searching for Trump’s Soul

Donald Trump’s modus operandi has a sharp focus: never budge from the premise that the universe revolves around you, and, above all, stay in character.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I’ve reached the “son of a guy I had on my keeper fantasy league team for six years scored a goal in the World Cup” stage of my life.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Alexi Lalas remains the avatar for the difference between what Gen-X could have been and what it turned out to be.

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 19/06/2026

This is huge. For months, I have been working to stop the construction of a massive 10,000-person ICE facility in Social Circle, Georgia. We just learned DHS is cancelling it. The power of the people is always more powerful than the people in power.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This was a very, very cool thing to get to see in person.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The nice folks at @nytimes.com asked me to watch UFC Freedom 250 and write about it, so I did. It made me want to kick someone in the chest. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...

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Opinion | American Dignity, Down for the Count

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I have ALREADY bought so much stuff.

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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Seriously, Zlatan is gonna spill Lalas blood by the end of this tournament. Maybe by the end of this week.

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