David Levy

A family opened a town’s first bookstore. A bathroom bill is driving them away. The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota. They sold it and moved after a new law would’ve required their daughter to use a boy’s bathroom.

The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota.

But after the state passed a measure preventing transgender young people like their daughter from using girls’ bathrooms, they sold it and moved away.

Bad!

Extremely.

The audiobook was offered for $1.99 through a discount site, so my completist tendencies got the better of me.

I read Elphie, the prequel to Wicked. AMA.

This 1911 book shows that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption was a thing long before the internet... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age #InternationalCatDay

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

NEW: Since giving NYT hacked info from a Nazi and sending a swastika push alert, Substack's extremism is in the spotlight again. An investigation finds Substack is a haven for newsletters dedicated to white supremacy—with the co-founders' blessing.

A collab between @katz.theracket.news and me:

Screenshot from Wikipedia, with the heading “In literature and history,” reading: Seth Peterson, a boatman, fisherman, and friend of Daniel Webster, described the 19th century orator and statesman (per biographer George Curtis) as having greatly enjoyed scrawed cod: He loved codfish best—he liked to have them scrawed—to have them split open, corned a little over night, and broiled for breakfast. I've fixed him more than a thousand. "Scrod" has been used as a facetious past participle of the word "screw," slang for having sexual intercourse, since at least the 1960s, in jokes like "I got scrod in Boston."

In Rhode Island, exploring my New England heritage.

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

I’m sorry.

Israel has so cooked some American Jews’ brains. I just read a FB post from a rabbi on Tisha B’Av that can only be described as “pro-hatred.”

More than a dozen states sue to protect gender-affirming care from federal investigations A new lawsuit argues that the Trump administration is pursuing a backdoor strategy to restrict gender-affirming care nationally, while skirting state laws.

🚨 Breaking: A group of state attorneys general, led by New York, has filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of mounting an unconstitutional pressure campaign against gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

It’s not an all-time great, but it is a lot of fun.

#LastFourWatched #FilmSky

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!!! I had not put it together that this is you! So glad to reconnect on BlueSky!

Any reference to “damsel tied to the tracks like a silent movie” gets this still

a man in a plaid jacket is holding a blue puppet Alt: a man in a plaid jacket is holding a blue puppet bagpipe

It’s an old-fashioned vaudeville show! With less offensive material but also so, so many teeth. Get Pecos Bill to squeeze us and we might be able to hit the high note in Danny Boy. With our very special guest star, Taylor Cole! www.muppeturgy.com/episodes/wal...

Watch out, they’re going to quote this as a Warning Buoy.

I don't think you can do it with the Sox in a theatre outside of MA because, and I say this as a born-and-bred Masshole, the Sox aren't sympathetic.

It seems silly to take a classic musical set in Washington, DC, stage a major revival of it in Washington, DC, and reset it so that it no longer takes place in Washington, DC.

It seems silly to do this version in DC just to erase the DC setting.

The new production of Damn Yankees at Arena Stage is going to be set "against the backdrop of the early 2000s Yankees dynasty." Who will be the Senators in this version? Feels a little early for it to be the Nationals.

Democrats made it free to file your taxes. Now Republicans are blocking it – right after helping billionaires dodge more taxes.

This is a gift to Intuit and H&R Block. It's clear who they work for – not you.

I assume that's one of those "special effects not finalized for the trailer" sort of situations.

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Classics BLUE MOON | Official Trailer (2025)

please let this be good

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Pete Buttigieg weighs in on ‘fairness’ of transgender kids playing girls’ sports He said he rejected blanket policies about trans participation in sports.

He blames this moral panic on “politicians in Washington trying to use this as a political pawn,” which is exactly right, but then says that transphobic parents have legitimate concerns about “fairness in sports.” That’s just not true, and Dems must stop validating this fascist campaign.

I was talking with a teenager recently who is not a transphobe but said he didn’t think it was fair for trans women to play women’s sports . I said that I didn’t think it was fair that people who are taller than me get to play basketball and he paused for a moment and then said, ok you’re right.

I thought this was about Young Sheldon and got nervous.

Enthusiastic participants at the 2023 Sleep Out.

What began as one night under the stars has become one of Broadway’s most powerful traditions. Over 1,000 industry professionals have joined #SleepOut: Stage + Screen to support young people overcoming homelessness. @covenanthouse.bsky.social
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