Y’all, please nominate—it’s so very helpful to everyone: the authors, the jury, the foundation, and to readers

Today's Trump video has a very similar aesthetic to one from November flagged by commentators as likely AI-generated www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcj...

she has a project

Why yes, my daughter did get married in a cave.

NEWS: Trump told me in a phone call Sunday morning he plans new talks with Iranian regime: "They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them." GIFT LINK: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Shoutout to the Delta ground crew dude doing pushups by the luggage conveyor outside my airplane window.

Important RI question

LIVE NOW: @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @atabatabai.bsky.social, Troy Edwards, and @sranderson.bsky.social are discussing the U.S. strikes on Iran, the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's response, and what may happen. Watch their conversation: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Jenny Holzer, Untitled ("In a Dream..."), from The Survival Series, 1983–85

This Black History Month sucked, can we get an extension 😭

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

alright girls who’s up late watching connor storrie on SNL instead of the horrors of the world!!!!!!!!

I can't believe @crazyopticalillusions.net is finally on Bluesky and nobody told me!

Apple is adding video support to its podcasting apps — that’s great. But the way it’s doing so might jeopardize the openness that’s kept podcasting from getting enshittified like every other form of media. It’s not too late for them to fix this. anildash.com/2026/02/28/a...

only took 48 hours until I exchanged a “go birds” in Mexico City

It’s a good evening to read a novel.

NEW: X Is *drowning* in disinformation following US and Israel’s attack on Iran. WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

FYI, that's a Whoop fitness tracker that Susie Wiles is wearing

I have, to be clear, no love for the Iranian government. But the US’s allies are pulling their punches, mentioning Iran’s violations by name and the US’s violations in generalities about the situation. This is not what an even application of international law looks like.

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger. www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

Follow Anjali's expert live-posting of the emergency UN Security Council meeting here (you can also watch the live video at webtv.un.org/en)

I realize that we are in a war right now and there are far more serious things going on in the world but this is the funniest school email I’ve received in my decade+ of parenting and I can’t stop laughing

Afternoon

I had the pleasure of serving on a panel with Diya last summer, when I came to appreciate the amazing + invaluable *breadth* of her experience — from Powerhouse + the High Line to Creative Time + the Dept of Cultural Affairs' 🌟 Public Artists in Residence program. She sees art as a *civic asset* 🥳

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

If there is one thing to admire about south Florida, its the gas station tacos. allthethingsieat.com/eating-at-ch...

Nobly gracing the table

The UK has the rotating presidency of the Security Council today & will preside over this meeting. Tomorrow, the US assumes the rotating presidency. Another aside: Russia held the presidency in Feb ‘22 & was presiding over an emergency meeting literally during the start of its invasion of Ukraine

What could be wrong with the government explicitly disfavoring institutions based on their core political speech? "These institutions meet the following criteria: ... minimal public expressions in opposition of the Department."

Happy Friday, everyone! What a way to end the week. We added a few donations that rolled in after the buzzer and the updated total we got from the folks at the Marsha P. Johnson Fund, which officially brings us over $25,000 raised. We're in awe of you all. BLUESKY STILL HAS THE JUICE

A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

!! Attention SLINGS & ARROWS fans!

New “Congress Two Beers In” podcast- @joshhuder.bsky.social , @mattglassman312.bsky.social and I talk appropriations, the SAVE Act, and tariffs. Chadha critique ahead… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We met a dog named Cowboy at the cafe, lovely beast, made me feel better all day.

If you've been watching Love Is Blind for years and feeling like it's become more and more blatantly MAGA-coded—with increasingly misogynist men, you're not alone. Had to blog it out. www.wired.com/story/love-i...

every mystery of the sloppy joe revealed! i debunk its connection to ernest hemingway! we discuss the loosemeat sandwiches of iowa! the fashion movement around "sloppy joe" sweaters ca. 1940! the french concept of "nostalgia for the mud"! buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Hell Gate reporter @jessyedwards.bsky.social wanted to go sledding today for the very first time, but she doesn't own a sled. Would the kids of New York City help her to live her dream?

Far from being deterred by the 5th circuit, federal judges in Texas appear to be ordering the release of more ICE detainees than before on due process/constitutional grounds. Here is Judge Jason Pulliam, a Trump appointee, joining their ranks. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge is threatening to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt if they continue defying court orders in immigration cases. "One way or another, ICE will comply." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I am catsitting this majestic man. His name is Bruce and he is 20 (about 97 human years). 🥲

I *definitely* picked the right seat on the plane 😍😍😍

Just saw a guy leaning out of his open third story front window to shave. NYC is back baby!

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

buck has to get his teeth cleaned today, poor boy.

Rafael’s detention was unlawful. He complied with the law. He showed up for his appointment. He has served New Yorkers with integrity and dedication. We will continue to press for accountability and pursue every legal avenue available to secure Rafael’s release.

The judiciary’s shameful failure to act for 3 years, during which clerks were vulnerable to mistreatment, evidences willful ignorance + obstruction of justice, I argue in @abovethelaw.com abt Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby’s abusive workplace. @thelap.bsky.social abovethelaw.com/2026/02/mary...

Still closed 🙁