Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

just when you think you've got a grasp on the horrors humans have made to use against other humans, you learn about a whole new class of horrors somehow even worse

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

This is what ICE looks like

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Bad Bunny's performance at the Super Bowl may have been his biggest audience yet, but for the people he has represented since his start — his fellow Puerto Ricans — it meant something special. n.pr/4ksBgOJ

BODEGA BADDIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷

SAN DIEGO IS VERY REPUBLICAN this is huge.

Trump threatens to block opening of Detroit-Canada bridge https://aje.news/ykyuvb

"There is something about an artist putting on a good show that dares to say ~this~ is what America is, extending to both north and south, together, making for one world that is welcoming, diverse, and joyous. And who wouldn't rather live in the joy right about now?"

I break down Bad Bunny’s halftime performance, and the real reason MAGA hates him — well, besides the racism www.youtube.com/live/hKIUneQ...

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage. The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts. Follow along!

Remember when Kamala Harris warned us that Donald Trump would set up concentration camps & the Very Serious People™️ all scoffed at her & said that would never happen

As corporations shell out big bucks for Super Bowl commercials, remember that many have said they were forced to raise prices due to inflation. Also remember that profit margins in nearly every sector in the S&P 500 are running near or above 10-year highs. Hello???

13yo: Can you do that? [the head swivel neck thing] Me: No, son, I am not a black woman. 13yo: Can Mommy do it? Wife: [does it]

The political critique about the power crisis on the island! Benito!

That was fucking fantastic

Bad Bunny: God bless America, *all* the Americas. Damn that is going to make MAGA maaaaaaaddddddd.

“We never shared equal justice under the law. What we did perhaps share was an ideal—the…lure of life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness. But that dream was deferred, then mortgaged along w/ our future, & the question now is less whether the dream is dead but who is most to blame for killing it.”

Sarah has been trying to warn us for a decade or more. Joe Biden and Merrick Garland had all of the Epstein files and buried them. The rescue team was in on the plot

The median ticket price for Sunday’s Super Bowl is $7,497. I don’t even want to know what a beer costs. But even if you want to go to a regular-season sporting event, tickets and concession prices will cost you a small fortune. Here’s one thing we can do about it.

This is hell 😪 Full context:

I’m watching Meeting the Man, a British 1970 doc on James Baldwin in Paris on Kanopy rn and lolololWOW what an incredible text! I’ve seen clips from this but never watched it in full.

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

The great Peggy Noonan on the demise of the @washingtonpost.com: "The capital of the most powerful nation on earth appears to be without a vital, fully functioning newspaper to cover it. That isn’t the occasion of jokes, it’s a disaster." www.wsj.com/opinion/a-la...

Portland mayor: "To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. "To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children..." content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORP...

“I know they would do anything, that they would hurt people, that they’ve murdered people... I know that intellectually. But I still did not expect them to gas a chill, friendly protest full of nurses and teachers and children and the elderly.” www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

I wrote about how this week's Starfleet Academy was a love letter to my favorite Star Trek show and its captain, Deep Space Nine's Benjamin Sisko:

Look if I let myself start crying about all the women, especially women of color, that I saw pushed out of physics and astronomy by people who subscribe to sexist and racist views, I truly might never stop The things I saw and heard the grief feels enormous and bottomless

From @theathletic.com: John Biever has photographed every Super Bowl, starting in 1967 when he was 15. Ahead of his retirement, he shared five of his favorite Super Bowl pictures spanning the six decades of his work.

Time for some good reviews. I just finished reading this first rate crime thriller by S.A. Cosby. The whole book is a tense, white-knuckle ride from start to finish. And Cosby delivers a masterclass on how to make your readers be VERY afraid of your villains. Surely a limited series is in the works?

Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go

They're trying to tell us that they always get what they want. That there is nothing so hideous that they won't do it, even if it's kidnap a five year old child and then, when they lose, really try even harder to make him suffer more. Fuck them.

WATCH: @RepJamesComer 🤡 hilariously says “this is a serious investigation” as he refuses to let the Clintons testify in public about Epstein — and won’t even bring in others like Trump, who is mentioned more times in the files than Harry Potter in all 7 books 😕🤷🏼

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

The Washington Post and CBS aren’t intended to succeed. They’re intended to fail and as they fail any sort of power or influence they have over public opinion will demonstrably wane until it disappears. It’ll happen over and over again until there are no impediments for the wealthy.

Washington Post —the paper of the nation's capital — cutting its sports section right before America hosts the World Cup is... just...

The layoffs at the Washington Post have begun, with newsroom leaders telling employees its sports and books sections will be 'eliminated in current forms' and its international coverage will be downsized

One way of measuring a media company's impact is whether judges view it as an authoritative source. Hard to beat the sports section of The Washington Post on that front. The U.S. Supreme Court and other courts have often cited Post sports stories to establish facts. A sad day in journalism.

Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda. Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

The wild part is NH is incredibly unaffordable and we have a worker’s shortage so they’re making a problem worse while not solving the one causing it

This is like laws preventing Germans from giving Jews safe harbor www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/m...

Friends at the Post say they have been asked to sign up for two hour times slots to come pick up their things after getting news of their jobs being gone

Sad day at Washington Post: After decisions which cost thousand of subscribers and led to an exodus of talent, the newspaper is laying off 1/3 of its staff across ALL departments, eliminating its sports department and cutting down foreign coverage. DETAILS: loom.ly/XlcRvuQ

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

It's not, though. To do their best work, amazing reporters need not only stuff like health insurance, but also editors, fact-checkers, IT support, equipment, security and training in hostile environments, lawyers, brilliant colleagues of every stripe... losing that infrastructure is devastating.

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

Wonderful tribute by @jackohman.bsky.social to @anntelnaes.bsky.social exit from WaPo