here's as good a sign as any that the snow here tonight is Basically Nothing

WOW WOW WOW

the hockey is good

the hockey is good

i see the los angeles angels are already in midseason form

we aim to please

congrats to whoever put a gun to jeff probst’s head and made him cut this spot to promote paramount ads manager, i watched it three times www.linkedin.com/posts/unskip...

absolutely tremendous content on r/virginia

Oh, how we missed this. The first homer of spring is a 441' Salvy smash! 💥

always a local angle

i first read this as "fernet" and thought "why is that company interested in bond markets"

BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"MLS is back," the soccer gods said with menace

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger will deliver Democratic response to Trump's State of the Union address.

so what is everybody up to this weekend

look, if you're going to do political wishcasting, at least know the constitutional residency requirements for the presidency and vice-presidency beforehand. [this is from a newsletter today from the magazine MONOCLE.]

so what is everybody up to this weekend

huh. this is interesting

mackenzie scott has the chance to do something very funny

Trump would like the government he leads to pay him billions www.npr.org/2026/02/18/n...

Nevada moves to block prediction market Kalshi after 9th Circuit ruling clears way Control board lawyers say the company’s sports contracts are unlicensed wagering, which harms the public and poses an existential threat to the gaming industry. @thenvindy.com thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...

what a wild story

well, this will be something

Jesse Jackson's 1988 letter to the "Deaf President Now" protesters at Gallaudet University. "The problem is not that the students do not hear. The problem is that the hearing world does not listen." gallaudet.edu/museum/histo...

Finally: The perfect shirt to wear to World Cup matches at New York New Jersey Stadium this summer

ah, man. nobody like him

Eligible voters of the United States! The @npr.org voter registration guide has been updated to help get you ready for the 2026 primary elections. You can find deadlines and the links you need to register and check your registration status at npr.org/vote

very insightful read from @jameshorncastle.bsky.social

femke kok is so fast, man

saw a couple having a valentine's day dinner where one half just kept putting prompts into the chatgpt app and would then show her partner the images it created he was not impressed

excellent @shannonbond.bsky.social story here ->

With the win, Stolz joins Eric Heiden as the only skaters to take gold in both the 500 and 1,000 at the same Olympics. n.pr/4txTmTL

so what is everybody up to this weekend?

This is your regular reminder that in the year 2000, Paul Rudd, with frosted tips, appeared in the Hong Kong film GEN-Y COPS as a bad guy (kinda). In the movie, he does martial arts, fights a robot, and, most shocking of all, does an entire scene in Cantonese.

congrats @davidgura.bsky.social !

BREAKING: The EPA revokes scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger the public health, removing a key basis for the climate change fight.

trying to convince my NPR coworkers to do luge relays as a team-building exercise

'they had both cinnamon and chocolate, which possums like, and they were on sale.'

so what is everybody up to this weekend?

nooooooooo

tremendous

love when there is an unbalanced pair in a speedskating competition so there's just a single dude zooming down the oval

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

minor, silly quibble: if you're a comms person for a media outlet pitching me to have your reporter on based on a big story they just did, send an unlocked version of the story, not a paywalled one how am i supposed to figure out if it's worth covering if i don't already subscribe to your outlet?

Good job, Liz Lemley

minor, silly quibble: if you're a comms person for a media outlet pitching me to have your reporter on based on a big story they just did, send an unlocked version of the story, not a paywalled one how am i supposed to figure out if it's worth covering if i don't already subscribe to your outlet?

Federal judge acknowledges ‘abusive workplace’ in court order www.npr.org/2026/02/10/n...