Tyson Foods' threat to end contracts with NW Arkansas poultry farmers because it simply couldn't afford to comply with judge's order to clean up pollution in Illinois River watershed - a ruling decried by Gov. Sanders & AG Griffin - was empty. It settled. #arpx

Snark and puns are in the air for #ARLegValentines arkansasadvocate.com/2026/02/13/s...

Big news for Arkansas. Reinstating 15 counties for ballot initiatives instead of 50 counties. But it will be appealed.

Nevada is the only state where people can legally purchase sex, and now sex workers at one of the state's oldest brothels are fighting to become the nation's first to be unionized. baynews9.com/fl/tampa/ap-...

My architecture column today. "To show off these structures that are being developed in Chicago, I think it’s a really beautiful art," Chicago Architecture Center Chief Marketing Officer Lauren Bakos said. "And it’s sad that it’s kind of a dying one."

WCCO looks at one day's worth of petitions for release filed by those arrested during ICE surge. Majority with no criminal record. People were picked up on the way to get prescriptions, going to work, and showing up for scheduled immigration check ins. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

1/2 The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity & the GUMPTION of these architects to go this hard for Art Deco on some random high school. Absolutely breathtaking work. Bloom High School Chicago Heights, IL Architects: Royer, Danley & Smith, 1934 Addition: Schmidt, Garden & Erikson, 1956

Disappointed to learn Bad Bunny wore Zara, effectively promoting the brand to millions. Although Zara has made admirable strides to address labor conditions, fast fashion can never be ethical because it depends on rapid production and cheap prices, which results in worker exploitation.

BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple. "It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

A Ukrainian athlete was disqualified from the Winter Olympics in Italy on Thursday because he had planned to wear a helmet commemorating countrymen who were killed in the war with Russia. Officials said that the helmet violated the Games’ ban on political speech. Read more: nyti.ms/4qDNF3T

A new study has shown that miscarriage or induced abortion is NOT a potential risk factor for breast cancer, contrary to continued anti-choice propaganda. Even several abortions or miscarriages does not increase risk. The study used high-quality Finnish registry data.

The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/L9X3k1fQ

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline. I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

Tens of thousands of mothers were flagged to police over flawed drug tests at childbirth. “... The child welfare agency is acting as an agent of the police. There’s no distinction between the two.” Important piece from @themarshallproject.org:

Any COLORADO voters out there? Would love to talk to you about what it's like voting in your state! Also: NEVADA and GEORGIA voters, too!

I’m confused by drive through that asks for tips.

There’s a downed cable line across my driveway and useless AI assistants for Xfinity are like, oh sorry to hear that. Maybe we will come by Friday.

Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: An Alabama House committee Tuesday is scheduled to consider legislation ending the popular election of members of the state’s utility regulatory body, months after Democrats took two seats on the Georgia PSC on messages of affordability.

Oh, give me the budget and I will.

Win a free copy of my book.

ICE seen stalking a school bus to kidnap families during student drop off in the Twin Cities area of MN (2/8/26)

Watching Sinners finally. I am pissed. Damn vampires.

Such an important story: ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the U.S. and the fear of what comes next. @micarosenberg.bsky.social

So I haven’t heard Bad Bunny’s music before …. Because I have Daddy Yankee and other old CDs in my car still. I KNEW it when I heard it tonight!

The guys behind him in the flat hats are Los Pleneros de la Cresta, a teaching ensemble working to keep traditional plena music alive on the island They were an integral part of the residency last summer and are on tour with him this year

Peep the LIGHT BLUE Puerto Rican flag in the window The flag with the light blue triangle represents the Puerto Rican independence movement For many years it was illegal to display on the island (Lots more light blue flags forthcoming in this performance)

I thought Arkansas’ alcohol laws were archaic but I found out this weekend that Arkansas is the ONLY state Costco can’t ship contact lenses to members.

A couple fascinating things I learned reporting this: 1. Much of the plant life on the field was people in costume. 2. The finale required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics. 3. That was a real couple that got married during the Lady Gaga number. So many more details here in the piece. Go read!

Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make. The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression. They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Last year, the administration cancelled the solar for all program that was helping improve the grid and help low-income households in all 50 states and Puerto Rico bsky.app/profile/cost...

Sports reporter with NBC News reporting that the couple in Bad Bunny’s halftime show got married for real

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

DO NOT USE DOGGO TO SELL PAWLICE STATE

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.

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Was thinking this exact thing during the show

Looked at my wife and said “I didn’t understand a word, but yet I understood the whole thing”

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Anyway, the NFL was smart to have him as their halftime performer. People who don't care at all about football tuned in for the show and will leave with positive feelings about the NFL (not that they deserve those, lol).

In case anyone forgot or didn't understand the reference www.wgbh.org/news/2017-10...

The vibe of the Halftime Show

What did the football say?

This is the most beautiful, elaborate, culturally significant set I’ve ever seen at the Super Bowl. Whoever designed this should be paid a million dollars. #SuperBowl #BadBunny

Post colonialism rhetoric for the win.

I can’t handle the sentimental car commercials. I keep expecting something bad to happen, like ICE breaking their window.

how dare you use karaoke for evil