For the complaining about how the OKC Thunder foul on every play, New York Knicks guard Landry Shamet does foul on every play. He puts both arms in the chest of whomever he's guarding and I'm baffled why the referees have given him immunity from handchecking.

so the US Navy fired on and sank a vessel returning home from a joint exercise that the US Navy also participated in ... is that skating kinda close to the line of perfidy? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...

The entire anti-trans care grift is built in treating the usual way medicine works as if it's a scandal. Therapists figure out if a kid is trans the same way they figure out if they're depressed. They ask questions, maybe using a formal scale to quantify how kids compare to similar kids.

So Iran and America have something in common.

SCOTUS has denied cert. in Thaler v. Perlmutter. That means that outputs generated by AI will continue to be ineligible for copyright protection under US law. This is welcome news for musicians!

When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

That's right. Worse than Pointless www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

date: can you take off your work gloves Jim Henson: they have names

It's a constant in the Peanuts comic strip that Snoopy's purple prose racks up rejection after rejection, but I feel like a diligent literary agent could sell even a terrible novel written by a dog, if only for novelty's sake. Now, a SECOND book...

Are there any stats on: 1) the number of behind the back passes in NHL games that result in turnovers, and, 2) the number of no-look behind the back passes that result in turnovers. Watching the NHL, it seems like more often that not, if try a clever pass behind you, it fails.

Here's the playlist for my @chirpradio.org show this morning. Thanks to everyone who tuned in! I'm back on next Saturday, 9-Noon (CST). habloennui.blogspot.com/2026/02/febr...

On The Offsprings debut album, which came out in 1989, there’s a song called Teheran. During Desert Storm they switched it to having the exact same words but now it’s Baghdad, then it went back to Teheran, then back to Baghdad, and I guess we’re back to Teheran again

I'm back on @chirpradio.org this morning, 9-Noon (CST), and I'll have the latest from Gorillaz, The Womack Sisters, Voxtrot, Lala Lala, Heavenly, Ava Max, Mitski, underscores, and cootie catcher. Tune in at 107.1 FM or chirpradio.org.

underscores details her upcoming third album, U, a collection of songs inspired by transience and liminal spaces.

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

I have no problem with the Flagrant 2 on Dort, and think they don't call enough Flagrant 2s. I don't know if the "too close to the knee reason" is what'd I'd say. I think it was just such an obvious intentional bullshit play that Dort didn't deserve to stay in the game.

A few music things: The new Jill Scott album is amazing. Eleven years since her last album, and she sounds as good (if not better) than ever. Meanwhile, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis pick up where their first LP left off. And cootie catcher is soooo cute. Like the new LP a lot.

i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services

In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

so fun fact: recently during the fraud investigations being redone by this season’s feds, MN’s rate of medicaid/medicare fraud was well below the national average nationally, it’s ≈ 6% each year; in minnesota it’s like ≈ 2.5% we know this is vindictive at this point

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

So the coach of the Showtime Lakers gets a statue and gets to watch the Garbage Time Lakers get trounced by the Celtics.

BEDARD WOULD HAVE SCORED ON THAT BREAKAWAY (posting for every Blackhawks fan).

Oh my god!!! What Fear song -- Let's Have a War? New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones? Have a Beer with Fear?

5 authors I've read at least 5 books by: Alasdair Gray Boris Akunin David Mitchell Paul Collins James Ellroy

Here's the playlist for my @chirpradio.org radio show this morning. Thanks to everyone who tuned in! I'm back on next Saturday, 9-Noon (CST). habloennui.blogspot.com/2026/02/febr...

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

I'm back on @chirpradio.org this Saturday morning, 9-Noon (CST), w/the latest from Colin Blunstone, Labi Siffre, Dominique Fils-Aimé, Mei Semones, i-dle, Comateens, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, PONY, and 1000 Rabbits. Tune in at 107.1 FM or chirpradio.org.

Jaxson Hayes should be ejected and suspended for a significant number of games. What he just did to John Collins is one of the dirtiest plays I've seen in a long time. #NBA #Clippers #Lakers

I agree with the sentiments expressed in this thread.

@truthoughts.bsky.social I pre-ordered the new Moonchild album that releases digitally today via Bandcamp. While the album is available on Spotify, the digital files have yet to be made available to Bandcamp users. Will they be sent today to those of us who paid for them?

It had been 11 years since Jill Scott released an album. Her latest, To Whom This May Concern, shows zero signs of rust, and might be the best album I have heard so far this year.

Okay my read: since the court struck down the tariffs as unlawful from the start, it's refund time. Jurisdiction will be US Court of International Trade, they'll have to unpack it. But there should be refunds coming. Looks like a complete repudiation of IEEPA-based tariffs and total loss for Trump.

I presume Jeaninie Pirro is getting ready to empanel grand juries to indict each one of the six-member majority on this ruling.

BREAKING NEWS from #RolandMartinUnfiltered: House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied a request from Democrats and the family of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. For him to lie-in-state at the US Capitol

I wonder if the Chicago Bears can adapt former coach Marc Trestman's victory parade plan to downtown Hammond.

This really is a great picture:

Well, Stratton has decide to lose the prudish voters while hoping to win the angry ones.

I understand why they do 3-on-3 overtime in the earlier rounds, but the Olympic gold medal finals should not be decided by 3-on-3.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

Normally, when venues list upcoming shows, the listed date/time tickets go on sale is for when they go on sale to the general public. For some reason, @thaliahallchicago.bsky.social listed today as the sale date for the Hemlocke Springs show on 5/30, but it's an artist pre-sale.

@theathletic.com Has any thought been given to allowing readers to have more control over what shows up in their feed? I can pick teams, sports/topics, and writers, but still end up with a bunch of F1 and fantasy sports stuff on the home page that I simply don't care about.

Disliking Bryan Ferry would be like deliberately spilling ketchup on a clean white tablecloth

This is the best thing I saw on Valentine's Day.

And he won! Devin Booker went cold on the final rack after a great final round by Dame. (Kon Knueppel had a great first round, and not-so-good final round. But he'll be in a lot more of these).

While watching the 3-point contest, I'm listening to one of the best tribute albums I've ever heard: Naive Melodies on BBE Records. It's a bunch of African and R & B artists doing Talking Heads songs, and everyone brings their A game.