Tonight’s show: Mother Russia @ Signature Theatre

"It’s not that our Jewish siblings don’t just feel unsafe, as though this is some failure of psychological strength on their part. They are, in fact, not safe. They are clearly not safe. Not here in the United States. Not in Israel. Not anywhere."

Big if true.

WTF www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...

That’s only partly why. It was mainly because most Americans thought Clinton was doing a good job as president and that the country was on the right track.

Posting on social media is weird. I post many things that very few people besides myself - perhaps even zero - find interesting. I guess lots of us do this. For most of us, whether or not anyone acknowledges any particular post is a crapshoot. Yet we still do it. Why? Because humans like community.

From Wikipedia: List of television series revivals en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

This is a terrific interview and now I want to rewatch Munich.

Jayden Hoffman spent more than 4 months customizing this computer keyboard, replacing the letter keys with hand-painted logos (McDonald’s arch for M, Avengers for A, Xbox logo for X, Google for G, etc.) [youtube.com]

Just wanted to note that I've finally been reading War and Peace! I started at the beginning of the month and I'm just over a third of the way through. I went with the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, which has its fans and its critics. I'm not having any problems with it.

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Really annoyed I got the CN Tower question wrong in Learned League after seeing “Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie” this past weekend.

why are any of you watching the State of the Union when you could be walking into a screening of Nirvanna: The Band The Show The Movie right now like I am

How hard is it for people to not post Twitter/X screenshots here?

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I follow my local bookstore here on Bluesky and the account always skeets in the first person, and I'm v. confused

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

There have always been horrifically anti-trans groups and individuals. Few have done more, though, to launder their hate into “respectable” conversations than Jess Singal. No publications have done more to help that along than The Atlantic and The New York Times.

this is one of my strongest “historic“ memories because my dad would always drop me off at gymnastics and then go get a copy of the Sunday Times to read and he came in holding it over his head like a fight card and said “NIXON‘S DEAD” to a room full of confused 7 yr olds in neon leotards

This guy gets it.

Definitely been on a roller coaster of feelings about the U.S. men's hockey team in the last 24 hours

There's a lot to chew on in this exploration of Heated Rivalry, its author, the female fandom around it, the history of slash fiction, drag queens, and also how gay men feel about all this. I learned things. (article by E. Alex Jung) www.vulture.com/article/heat...

My brother and my 13-year-old nephew are super into ice hockey (my nephew plays goalie) and last night my brother texted me a 2022 video of my nephew getting to meet Jack Hughes. All teeth intact.

Snow panorama in NYC

This is great: "Press Photographers Posing as the Rehnquist Court, November 1986." "Public Information Officer Toni House (back row, on left) poses with eight press photographers in place of the Justices for a test shot prior to the portrait session." www.supremecourt.gov/visiting/exh...

I've long disliked the weird use of "humbled" to mean its exact opposite, "proud," but this is one of the worst I've seen.

I'm not usually a sports guy, but here's a list of all the NHL players who played for different countries in the 2026 Olympics. Must be weird to be on the same NHL team but be playing against each other during the Olympics. www.nhl.com/news/nhl-pla...

Today’s show: Night Side Songs

Whoa, this was a wild one for me. Wordle 1,709 6/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Every Jewish mom texting her family group chat this morning some variation of “Did you know Jack Hughes is half Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah?!”

I was led to believe that a hockey victory involves a player pointing to his boyfriend in the stands who then comes out onto the ice and they kiss. When does that part happen?

J’accuse!

Today’s movie: EPIC: Elvis Presley in Concert: The IMAX Experience boxd.it/df0tl7

Burnout Paradise uses the chorus of this oldie-but-goodie several times, and after listening to it on YouTube this morning it's been stuck in my head all day, and probably the only way I can it out of there is to share it with you all youtu.be/S_3vZYOYNYU?...

Sorry but I wholeheartedly love snow. Of course, I don’t have to shovel it or drive.

it's-a me, mario. i got-a big-a family. i got-a

That’s MY state 🎉 Introducing the FUCK ICE Act.

I clicked on this article for the intriguing headline but did not expect the Muppets wedding cake topper. Vows: A Shofar Player Wasn’t High on Her Dating Wish List www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/s...

Seeing this tonight on the recommendation of @austinburns.bsky.social boxd.it/def8Db

Her last name isn’t “Coney Barrett.” It’s not like Leaf Coneybear.

I got 42.68/50. dialed.gg?c=GKQRFP

In theory, we know this is true. But "struck down" doesn't quite capture it. These tariffs were obviously and transparently illegal. They were knowingly illegal. It is a stain on the Court that something so obviously illegal was allowed to stand for a year. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...

Loop is an award-winning animated short featuring a society where people live a perfectly looping existence, all in rhythm. Then one day... [kottke.org]

In elementary school, after lunch on rainy days we'd have to watch movies in the auditorium, and this was definitely one of them. moviemom.com/do-you-remem...

The tariffs are a top story in other countries: here's Le Monde. This apparently translates to "Customs duties: the Supreme Court's major slap in the face to Donald Trump"

These are always fun to read

Tonight’s show: Burnout Paradise, at the Astor Place Theatre. No idea what to expect from this.

Sometimes when walking through midtown Manhattan, I wish I could time-travel back to midcentury and see what it was like around here. A plus: nobody walking around distracted by smartphones! A minus: there'd be *so* many people smoking. I mean, this sign was in Times Square from 1941-1966.

This is such a great thread.