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Danette Chavez

@danettechavez.bsky.social

Editor-In-Chief @avclub.com. Formerly of Primetimer, Polygon, The Chicago Reader. Secretary, @tvcritics.org

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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

22.02.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6678    πŸ” 3644    πŸ’¬ 292    πŸ“Œ 297

The concept here is to get well-heeled travelers to pressure the government to restore secret police funding

22.02.2026 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 959    πŸ” 258    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 9
The Simpsons in β€œCape Feare.” Homer has driving and wearing a hat

The Simpsons in β€œCape Feare.” Homer has driving and wearing a hat

Buying out a row at the Davis to see Pillion with my friends

22.02.2026 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Most Agonizing Death Fantasies on Charli XCX’s 'Wuthering Heights' Soundtrack, Ranked The album features 12 melodramatic ways to perish because your tortured lover has left you, might leave you, or has you so dick-drunk and trauma-bonded you’re spiritually flatlining.

The album features 12 melodramatic ways to perish because your tortured lover has left you, might leave you, or has you so dick-drunk and trauma-bonded you’re spiritually flatlining.
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20.02.2026 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone needs a hobby: Mine is talking for two hours about how hungry I am without actually doing anything about it

20.02.2026 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real β€œproductivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

20.08.2025 04:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4643    πŸ” 1899    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 440

Gave what I could πŸ™

20.02.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every day there's some new horror. Forcing trans people off their hormones is just absolutely sadistic.

19.02.2026 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1366    πŸ” 371    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 8

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19.02.2026 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Does it really have a reputation for being the most haunted neighborhood in the U.S.?

19.02.2026 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One of my New Year’s resolutions was to ask all my interview subjects about Svengoolie. I’m currently 1 for 1

19.02.2026 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This does not surprise me!

19.02.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is one of the times I can't believe you're not Midwestern

19.02.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

YMMV! I am just weary of these bloated docs

19.02.2026 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The rare HBO documentary L. It's like someone went "What if Pawnee had true crime?"

19.02.2026 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ₯‡πŸ₯‡πŸ₯‡

19.02.2026 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@zhandlen.bsky.social's Quantum Leap recaps will run under the TV Club Classic banner every two weeksβ€”just one of many reasons to subscribe to @avclub.com

18.02.2026 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

β€œI don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days β€œI don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

β€œI don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

17.02.2026 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 12140    πŸ” 7000    πŸ’¬ 325    πŸ“Œ 831

There's an upcoming doc that is so antithetical to Wiseman's work, and it just underscores what a great loss this is

17.02.2026 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Frederick Wiseman understood the subtle architecture of humanity Frederick Wiseman understood the subtle architecture of humanity

We have a lot of great writing on Frederick Wiseman in our archives, and here's @rifewithkatie.bsky.social with another corker:

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β€œI Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.

16.02.2026 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3350    πŸ” 2013    πŸ’¬ 97    πŸ“Œ 121

What they do to immigrants, they will do to us.

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Ofelia Torres, Teen With Cancer Who Fought For Father's Freedom From ICE, Has Died Torres, 16, died Friday. Her father was arrested in October, the day after she returned from more than a month at the hospital for cancer treatments. She shared her family's plight, and her was father...

This young girl was battling stage 4 cancer when ICE agents took her Dad.

Ofelia leveraged social media to fight for her Dad’s release.

To call out the cruelty of ICE.

She won.

A judge ordered him released on compassionate grounds & they spent her last month’s together.

15.02.2026 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1373    πŸ” 501    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 21

call for freelance writers: ELLE’s culture section is open for pitches! i’d love to read your story ideas about tv, film, books, music, and art.

pitch guidelines/FAQ are in the form at the link in my bio (tap the link starting with β€œFREELANCE WRITERS…). please fill out that form with your info!

13.02.2026 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Two people holding hands under a platform heater with a heart above and the phrase 'You light up my life!'

Two people holding hands under a platform heater with a heart above and the phrase 'You light up my life!'

Front view of a CTA train on tracks with, "This valentine is running express to your heart" below.

Front view of a CTA train on tracks with, "This valentine is running express to your heart" below.

Illustration of train doors with a colorful CTA map above and the phrase 'Next stop: my heart' written on top.

Illustration of train doors with a colorful CTA map above and the phrase 'Next stop: my heart' written on top.

Two blue accordion-style seats side by side with the text 'Be my accordion seat partner?' underneath.

Two blue accordion-style seats side by side with the text 'Be my accordion seat partner?' underneath.

send this to ur valentine πŸ’˜

13.02.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 171    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 11

Been watching Gangs Of London S3, I'm ready for the Ṓọpẹ́ Dìrísù supremacy

13.02.2026 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's Berenstain/Berenstein all over again

13.02.2026 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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