Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

In case anyone is curious, this was the original Springsteen list from 2016: www.casualhoya.com/2016/8/16/12...

Hard to imagine anything more predictable than the Steelers blowing this game.

Or maybe instead shut down the machines, which no one except the oligarchs needs or wants? A 1 Percent Solution to the Looming A.I. Job Apocalypse www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...

Today we kick off “The Bridge” with “Running on Ice,” a song I like better than most do. Really captures the overwhelming stress of daily life very well. #BillyJoelSongRankings

The Steelers should be able to beat the Browns tomorrow. I also have have a feeling they are in for an epic bed shitting. It feels like they've lost like their last five trips to Cleveland. Bad weather. No Metcalf. Browns fired up for Garrett's sack record. Bad vibes.

There are multiple people watching the Ravens-Packers game on their phone at the bar because it's only streaming on Peacock. Enshittification on all fronts.

We close out the Tracks 2 collection with “Perfect World” and this is one of the better ones in this collection. I’ll publish an updated ranking of Springsteen songs this week. Spoiler alert: not many from this collection crack the top 200. #SpringsteenSongsUpdatedRankings

We close out “Innocent Man” with the very good “Keeping the Faith.” I distinctly remember this one when it was in rotation on the radio and I still enjoy it. #BillyJoelSongRankings

Political books almost never have good titles. ("Six Crises" and "In the Arena" are not bad titles, I think.) I can't remember when I last saw a title that was so clearly the product of a committee, though.

This is Kyiv this morning. Russia yet again demonstrates its aspirations for peace by bombing apartment buildings and civilian infrastructure.

An Oklahoma man who was doing target practice with a recently purchased handgun in his backyard on Christmas Day is accused of shooting and killing a woman seated on a front porch blocks away as she held a child in her arms, authorities said. https://cnn.it/3MSDxGk

‘Carol of the Bells’ Once Filled the Air Here. Now It’s Only Bombs. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/w...

Think your life is going by too fast? Just run on a treadmill and I promise time will stand still.

(Stranger Things characters see limited window for escape) You know, this would be a good point for a 20 minute dialogue about our feelings

This is Kristina Solovyova. Russian terrorists killed her in Zhytomyr striking residential buildings with drones on December 23. She was only 4🕯

“You Lifted Me Up” is ok. Nothing special. #SpringsteenSongsUpdatedRankings

“Leave a Tender Moment Alone” is a really good one about knowing the right time and place for everything. It reveals a level of emotional intelligence rarely seen in popular music. #BillyJoelSongRankings

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

Pope at Christmas Urbi et Orbi: “If all of us would stop accusing others and instead acknowledge our own faults, asking God for forgiveness, and if we would truly enter into the suffering of others and stand in solidarity with the weak and the oppressed, then the world would change.”

Kyiv is celebrating Christmas. Residents of the capital gathered for caroling on St. Michael’s Square. I’m genuinely so happy that at least part of our country can gather like this - all thanks to the people defending us this Christmas.

Pope Leo at Christmas Day Mass: “The Word has pitched his fragile tent among us. How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold; and of those of so many other refugees and displaced persons on every continent? www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Pope Leo at Christmas Eve Mass: “While a distorted economy leads to treating people as commodities, God makes Himself like us, revealing the infinite dignity of every person. While man wants to become God to dominate over others, God wants to become man to free us from every slavery.”

Uncle Billy infuriates me every year.

Pope Leo on Christmas Eve: “On earth, there is no room for God if there is no room for the human person. To refuse one is to refuse the other.”

I would prefer any immigrant with a face tattoo in my apartment overnight to Stephen Miller in my apartment for five minutes, so

I like “Cutting Knife.” It’s a different sound and darker mood than other love songs from him. We are close to the end of this journey and this is one of the better new entries. #SpringsteenSongsUpdatedRankings

“Christie Lee” is a pretty good B side for a great album. I imagine it’s one that’s hard to play for him now but alas. #BillyJoelSongRankings

This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

“If I Could Only Be Your Lover” is just fine as a love song but we weren’t missing a lot if it never saw the light of day. #SpringsteenSongsUpdatedRankings

It’s no shame to “Careless Talk” that it’s one of the weaker ones on a great album. It retreads a familiar theme of Billy bristling at critics. This one is fine but not great. #BillyJoelSongRankings

Cancel your Paramount plus subscription today it’s the one thing they’re afraid of and it will harm their attempt to buy WB / CNN

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

“Rain in the River” seemed to be the attempt to find a hit in this collection and it just didn’t land for me. #SpringsteenSongsUpdatedRankings

“Uptown Girl” is probably the best known song on this classic album, and deservedly so. For every guy from the wrong side of the tracks with a chip on his shoulder, it was a melodic pray for the future. #BillyJoelSongRankings

Vance is a truly awful person who knows nothing about Christianity.

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

I truly believe J.D. Vance wouldn’t know Christianity if it turned the other cheek after he slapped it in the face again.

It's not possible for my empire to have problems. My courtiers are always nervously smiling and telling me everything is great

Who is smuggling in death from south of the border? The gun maniacs in the United States. As U.S. Guns Pour Into Canada, the Bodies Pile Up www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/w...

Twitter is just a libel factory that occasionally does social media now.

If nothing else, yesterday’s debacle made me seriously reevaluate plans for the first quarter of the year. Life is too hard and too busy to make trips that, while nice for seeing friends, inevitably result in sports misery.

If you wanted to lose your last few loyal fans, you’d perform as abysmally as Georgetown did tonight.

Annnnd unsubscribed

Olivia Nuzzi, Karine Jean-Pierre and Eric Trump Have All Written the Same Book www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

Sometimes I marvel at what a daily miracle the New York Times is.

So proud of the Europeans for standing up for Ukraine. It’s sad that our treacherous government has abandoned them.