Jonathan Spector
@jspector.bsky.social
Professional procrastinator, amateur playwright. Dad. Husband. Reader. Northern Californian.
Tony Award-winning author of Eureka Day.
Tony Award-winning author of Eureka Day.
Some real covfefe energy on this app tonight.
August 30, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Some real covfefe energy on this app tonight.
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Eureka Day playwright, @jspector.bsky.social, in the Kenneth Cole Ready Flex Tux and Futurepod Leather Lace-Up Oxford on @thetonyawards.bsky.social red carpet before his win for Best Revival of a Play.
📷: Dimitrios Kambouris/ Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions
📷: Dimitrios Kambouris/ Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions
June 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Eureka Day playwright, @jspector.bsky.social, in the Kenneth Cole Ready Flex Tux and Futurepod Leather Lace-Up Oxford on @thetonyawards.bsky.social red carpet before his win for Best Revival of a Play.
📷: Dimitrios Kambouris/ Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions
📷: Dimitrios Kambouris/ Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions
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May 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Remarkably, this is the same person four years ago and now.
Interestingly, the literal meaning of the Latin term habeas corpus is “you should have the body.”
Interestingly, the literal meaning of the Latin term habeas corpus is “you should have the body.”
May 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Remarkably, this is the same person four years ago and now.
Interestingly, the literal meaning of the Latin term habeas corpus is “you should have the body.”
Interestingly, the literal meaning of the Latin term habeas corpus is “you should have the body.”
Heartbroken.
And as evidenced by my depressing quotes in this story…feeling pretty grim about the future of our Bay Area theater ecosystem.
And as evidenced by my depressing quotes in this story…feeling pretty grim about the future of our Bay Area theater ecosystem.
Sadness. Just sadness. The kind that hits you in waves. The initial shock. The multiplying implications. The looking through old show photos to tally one fabulous production after another. On Aurora Theatre Company's decision to suspend its season in 2025-26: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
Another Bay Area theater is ‘suspending’ as industry’s free fall continues
For 33 years, Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre Company has been renowned for language-forward theater performed by exceptional Bay Area actors in an up-close venue.
www.sfchronicle.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Heartbroken.
And as evidenced by my depressing quotes in this story…feeling pretty grim about the future of our Bay Area theater ecosystem.
And as evidenced by my depressing quotes in this story…feeling pretty grim about the future of our Bay Area theater ecosystem.
The sequel to the Scopes Monkey trial just dropped.
Y’all — OKLAHOMA is going to require their schools to lie to their kids that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.
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May 2, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The sequel to the Scopes Monkey trial just dropped.
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Eureka Day
May 29 – June 28, 2026 at The Huntington Theatre
Written by Jonathan Spector
Directed by Margot Bordelon
May 29 – June 28, 2026 at The Huntington Theatre
Written by Jonathan Spector
Directed by Margot Bordelon
April 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Eureka Day
May 29 – June 28, 2026 at The Huntington Theatre
Written by Jonathan Spector
Directed by Margot Bordelon
May 29 – June 28, 2026 at The Huntington Theatre
Written by Jonathan Spector
Directed by Margot Bordelon
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It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
April 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
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Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
April 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
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that Schumer believes Republicans will have a change of heart when things get really bad shows he is incapable of understanding how bad they are right now
A lot of delusion happening in that Schumer NYT interview, but this gets to the heart of it: he believes his Republican colleagues will come around and everything will be ok. Absolutely delusional.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/m...
March 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
that Schumer believes Republicans will have a change of heart when things get really bad shows he is incapable of understanding how bad they are right now
This is bone-chilling.
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This is bone-chilling.
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One thing you really see every day is the different risk appetites between MAGA-era Republicans and Democrats. Basically compulsive, reckless, dangerous constant risk-seeking, versus almost comical levels of risk-aversion.
March 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
One thing you really see every day is the different risk appetites between MAGA-era Republicans and Democrats. Basically compulsive, reckless, dangerous constant risk-seeking, versus almost comical levels of risk-aversion.
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Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.
A federal judge in NY has blocked any effort by the Trump administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil – whose arrest and imminent deportation Trump celebrated on Turth Social today — until further proceedings play out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Those who know me know I was highly critical of what I saw as some of the rhetorical excesses of the campus protests. Khalil and I wld probably get into a spat immediately. It's all the more important for people who believe as I do to say clearly, the protections of the law are for everyone.
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It feels like a metric of something, and not a good one, that at a moment like this virtually no one in the Oscar telecast has said anything remotely political
March 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It feels like a metric of something, and not a good one, that at a moment like this virtually no one in the Oscar telecast has said anything remotely political
Probably fitting that Trump quoted Napoleon last week, as his wanton destruction of alliances and our government will likely be looked back on by historians as an instance of catastrophic "F*ck Around and Find Out" to rival Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
March 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Probably fitting that Trump quoted Napoleon last week, as his wanton destruction of alliances and our government will likely be looked back on by historians as an instance of catastrophic "F*ck Around and Find Out" to rival Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
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Trump and “voters” nominally are the easiest targets for blame and yet to me, I will never not be the most mad at Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats for attempting to “move on” or “do a unity” instead of doing the hard but critical work of securing our government and preventing authoritarianism.
February 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Trump and “voters” nominally are the easiest targets for blame and yet to me, I will never not be the most mad at Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats for attempting to “move on” or “do a unity” instead of doing the hard but critical work of securing our government and preventing authoritarianism.
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One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.
February 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.
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Friends in NYC, today is the LAST DAY to register as a Democrat online so you can vote in the June primary against Eric Adams! Please do it now!
Direct link to the NYC voter registration portal! Register as a DEMOCRAT to vote in the June primary and kick Eric Adams out of office!
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February 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Friends in NYC, today is the LAST DAY to register as a Democrat online so you can vote in the June primary against Eric Adams! Please do it now!
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The shortest summary of what we’re witnessing is that the right lost a decades-long ideological battle over the proper size of government, and then, instead of moving on, decided to impose their will criminally.
February 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The shortest summary of what we’re witnessing is that the right lost a decades-long ideological battle over the proper size of government, and then, instead of moving on, decided to impose their will criminally.
Might be way off base, but I'm starting to think that stewing the brains of 25-30% of a population in a 24/7 far right propaganda network for 20 years isn't the healthiest thing for a democracy.
February 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Might be way off base, but I'm starting to think that stewing the brains of 25-30% of a population in a 24/7 far right propaganda network for 20 years isn't the healthiest thing for a democracy.
Who the f*ck is this for??? The problem isn’t we don’t have laws. The problem is they just ignore them. That won’t be solved with a symbolic vote.
Why isn’t Schumer grinding the senate to a halt????
Why isn’t Schumer grinding the senate to a halt????
Schumer: "Today Leader Jeffries and I are joining together to push legislation to prevent unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department's payment systems and protect Americans across the country ... we call our legislation, 'stop the steal'"
February 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Who the f*ck is this for??? The problem isn’t we don’t have laws. The problem is they just ignore them. That won’t be solved with a symbolic vote.
Why isn’t Schumer grinding the senate to a halt????
Why isn’t Schumer grinding the senate to a halt????
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I think we need to start saying explicitly that we are living through an attempted coup. Everything they are doing is illegal. Every. Single. Fucking. Thing. Doing it anyway is a coup. We still have a chance to make the “attempted” part stick, but the opposition has to fucking do something.
February 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I think we need to start saying explicitly that we are living through an attempted coup. Everything they are doing is illegal. Every. Single. Fucking. Thing. Doing it anyway is a coup. We still have a chance to make the “attempted” part stick, but the opposition has to fucking do something.
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It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.
February 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.