This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

Laughing at the people who seem to think that the halftime show that took place in the sugarcane fields wasn’t political

great timeline synergy

"50 percent of rural Americans disapprove of ICE’s handling of enforcement, while 50 percent approve 75 percent of men aged 18 to 29 disapprove of ICE’s handling of enforcement, while only 25 percent approve"

Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket. Me in today’s “One First”:

They are saying Kid Rock handed his Grammy to lil’ Kyle Rittenhouse during the halftime show. (Not true. Kid Rock has never won a Grammy).

the suggestion that the libertarian movement has always been anti trump is infuriating, but also a sign that people may have a sense of which way the wind is blowing

When he gave the Grammy to that young boy who made everyone think of Liam…even if that wasn’t actually Liam, it was just the perfect way of cutting through all the bullshit. Every kid impacted by this administration’s cruelty is another Liam.

SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.

ICE is torturing legal residents until they agree to deportation

Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade. The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances. Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S. Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.

Haha get her ass @ufw.bsky.social

saw someone call the halftime performance gay and it’s like well there was a heterosexual marriage in it

Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?

So ICE is forging people’s signatures to say that they agreed to be deported and then holding them hostage if their lawyers appeal their cases www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

I don't know why conservatives complain about Bad Bunny singing in Spanish. They never listen to lyrics anyway. They think "Born in the USA" is an upbeat patriotic song. They played "We will rock you" on Trump's rallies to rev up the crowd. Trump jerks off two invisible dicks to YMCA.

going great already lmfaoo

There is a major political organization allied with the president that got so mad a Latino artist was tapped to play at the Super Bowl they made a whole alternative show. We should all take a moment to reflect on that. It is so blatantly racist.

"we fired all of our Black and Brown journalists and media critics and for some reason are writing bad articles about the Bad Bunny halftime show"

i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want

Bad Bunny's historical advisor is an assistant professor at UW-Madison. Hell of a flex for your tenure file.

11 years ago, the Seahawks lost the Super Bowl on an insane goal line interception that opened a vortex to the McDonald’s Nazi hell we’ve lived in since. Tonight, with the Patriots defeat, we usher in the age of Woke 2

"Eliminate presidential immunity" needs to become as common a refrain as "eliminate Citizens United"

"Suspected political message" = in Spanish so the mouth noises scared me

2024 Kinktober🖤

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Just had a Super Bowl halftime where the singer: 1) boasts about the poor place he’s from; 2) boosts the value of agriculture; 3) celebrates small town life; 4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and 5) promotes marriage. And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.

This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values

If the current moment has taught us anything, it is about the uselessness of libertarianism. The image sums it up perfectly. The Gadsden flag was all out during the Obama era. How often do you see it now? Most of the principled libertarians were happy to trad their principles for Trumpism.

One day when I really want to burn it all down, I might write about the affect of this certain type of intellectual who engages with AI/LLMs/whatever like this. I’ve seen it up close and in person. They all have a empty eyed, hyper focused gaze — so far up their own asses they could shit a cough.

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

The NYT fired everyone who knew that sugar cane is kinda important to Puerto Rico. They're dumber than dogshit over there. This is so fucking embarrassing.

That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”

The irony of the Seahawks (a football team with Native American Iconography) beating the “Patriots” in one of the gayest locations in the country (SF Bay Area) with performances by a Latin American Artist (Bad Bunny) and an anti-gov punk rock band (Green Day). It’s like the stars aligned on this one

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

lol

The Champions League final in Germany last year opened with Linkin Park

Reminder they already did this once and this happened. Lol. Lmao.

Last October.

Using Mr. Rogers in a Super Bowl commercial for mortgages should result in prison time

New York has a Muslim mayor; the Patriots are losing the Super Bowl. The Long 9/11 is finally coming to an end.

As a fucking parent TALK TO YOUR FUCKING KIDS THEN. Worried they'll see porn? Talk to them about porn. Worried they'll see gore? Talk to them about gore. Worried they'll get groomed? Talk to them about red flags and cultivate trust with them so they won't feel they have to hide things from you.

machine yearning, and body dysmorphia

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draining session with makoto 1/4

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

adagio

The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.

Well, good thing we didn’t silo off a bunch of important game knowledge in individual discords instead of forums or wikis or gamefaqs for some reason

English speakers like "that was less political than I thought" lol they had ricky martin singing "dont do us like you did hawaii"