Perfect, no notes: the OpenAI Super Bowl ad costing millions is AI slop. 👇🏻

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the best ever. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud musical tradition. Some background: anildash.com/2021/02/05/h...

Wait is that the ELP version?

Maybe it's just me, but I bet higher salaries and more vacation time would improve worker well-being more than...umm...beekeeping.

This article is going straight to the top of the to-be-read list.

I'm looking forward to digging in to this.

German exports, moving right along...just not to the U.S.

🚨 Excited to share that my first dissertation paper got published in Politics and Religion this week! I examine: Is Christian religiosity linked to nativist attitudes? And does this relationship strengthen when PRR parties are in power?

This looks great. Will read.

I am speechless. "The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

The revelation of a lawyer who represents ICE: "This job sucks." She "also told the court that she had previously submitted her resignation, after handling more than 88 immigration cases in less than a month. She ultimately ended up staying in the role because there was no one to replace her."

Congrats again to the elite Obama administration economists & others who told us that this guy was a "credible Treasury Secretary" and a "renaissance man" because he went to the the right schools & the right cocktail parties.

The Daily Worker in 1941, all in on anti-fascism.

Today, I learned that FDR once described the Schuylkill River as a "stench in the nostrils." Harsh.

I was fortunate to have mentors who believed this and taught it and wrote books pressing the case, and my own analyses (and takes) on democracy and social movements are at their best when I remember their lessons.

I have been feeling this lately. By lately, I mean the last three years or so.

In Maine, masked federal agents stopped a car that contained a baby, and smashed a window. "Glass sprayed over the baby’s car seat." They took the baby's father who was driving, leaving the mother who does not have a driver's license alone in the car with the baby. On video:

About the Canadian separatists leveraging the tension between the US and Canada...."Last week, the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, appeared to support the efforts by the separatists in an interview with the conservative website Real America’s Voice."

Can Matt Taibbi be far behind?

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

Everything DJT touches turns to shit.

"Roughly 25,000 I.R.S. employees, a quarter of the work force, had left under President Trump. Congress was pursuing deep cuts to the I.R.S. budget, just weeks after Republicans passed into law a slew of complex new tax cuts that the agency would be responsible for administering."

It really shouldn't be hard to see this. That it is for so many people is truly discouraging and alarming.

The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.

Nauseating.

Moving on without the US. "The UK and nine other European countries....will build windfarms at sea that directly connect to multiple nations through high-voltage subsea cables, under plans that are expected to provide 100GW of offshore wind power, or enough electricity capacity to power 143m homes."

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.

Hard agree.

"Abolish ICE" is the only sensible position to keep people safe now and have a chance at rebuilding U.S. liberal democracy in the future.

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

In which ICE appropriates Article 3 authority for itself.

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

It's also about convincing you that they impose reality and that they are the final arbiters of truth. Hence the importance of continuing to name reality and truth ourselves, at every single turn, with all that is available to us.

We condemn the removal of the Freedom and Slavery exhibit and firmly reject “federal actions and the systemic efforts to distort the historical record and impose through executive orders and actions a narrow vision of the American past.” Read our statement: https://ow.ly/rNTq50Y2T9v

Back in 2007 Fox News did a segment on how Mr. Rogers, who died in 2003, was "evil" & was the source of many of America's problems. Fun fact: Fred Rogers was a lifelong REPUBLICAN, but he was the sort of old school liberal Republican that Fox News was designed to eliminate. youtu.be/29lmR_357rA?...

When Mr. Rogers died in 2003 Westboro Baptist Church showed up at his funeral to protest against him. Fox News ran that hit piece on Mr. Rogers' supposedly toxic influence in 2007, when Meghan McCain was 23 years old. Eight years later she signed up for a job with them.

Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home! Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.

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The EU making a free trade deal with Mercosur and opening the path to more Chinese electric vehicle sales. Canada buying more cars from Mexico and South Korea while also cutting a deal for Chinese EVs. The world didn't stop because the US threw a tantrum. Mostly just pushed others closer together.

At one point, the pastor says "based on our information, we know the agents have reservations in hotels through the beginning of June."

About the upcoming municipal elections.

About the cosmetics billionaire who encouraged Trump to take over Greenland.

Tbh, if you told me that even a year ago, I don't know how seriously I would have taken it.

The alternative would be monetary policy decided by a person who does not understand trade deficits. So, that really ought to spook everyone. But here we are.

Immigrants like Taher Muse, discussed in the final paragraphs of this article, will be the ones to repair the damage the current administration is doing to the United States.

This is excellent