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Screenshot of Elon Musk post on Ex: “Elon Musk y X @elonmusk For those unaware, Space has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.”

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

Europe is holding its Epstein creeps accountable. Why can’t we? | Will Bunch Europeans are pushing to hold Jeffrey Epstein's creepy pals, including billionaires like Elon Musk, accountable. The U.S.? Not so much.

From @willbunch.bsky.social:
"Americans watching Britain’s rush to hold a powerful man to account for his unconscionable relationship with modern history’s most notorious sex creep are probably all asking the same thing. Wait, you can do that?"

Footage taken from inside Trump’s Super Bowl party at his Mar-a-Lago golf club showed the president and his guests watching Bad Bunny’s halftime show rather than TPUSA’s night of Jesus Christ, Kid Rock, and country music. trib.al/ivGSXQ3

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Bari Weiss is apparently too busy to notice.

Trump shuts out Democratic governors from traditional White House gatherings | Arkansas Advocate WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump decided to exclude Democratic governors from a traditional annual meeting at the White House and to disinvite several others from a black-tie dinner, according to t...

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Enten: "Trump's base with non-college voters is absolutely collapsing ... he's underwater by 9 points. That's a 23 point switcheroo."

Nods in “I can still conjugate espanol thanks to my 10th grade Spanish teacher Senorita Aldorando”

Evers Monument Never Removed Brochures ‘Not One Second,’ Superintendent Says, Disputing Reports The Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument never stopped giving out brochures, says the monument’s superintendent, Keena Graham.

"I’m saying this as clearly as I can: We have never stopped issuing the brochures,” Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument Superintendent Keena Graham said. “Every visitor—and we’ve had over 60,000 visitors last year—has received a brochure."

How Alabama gives us a never-ending lesson in Black history | Alabama Reflector By pushing their voices off campuses and out of classrooms, leaders remind us that controlling Black Alabamians has always been this state's priority.

My column this week. The anti-DEI hysteria in Alabama in the last several years has given us an inadvertent lesson in Black history: That the foundational principle of Alabama is the control and silencing of Black voices.

Why does the January 6 wargame even exist? A conversation with the creators of Fight for America! about art, politics, and player safety.

And we also interviewed the designs trying to understand why they designed it.

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Red hats, red blood: roleplaying the January 6 insurrection in a Brooklyn warehouse What about America is worth fighting for?

Our 2026 Pledge Drive continues and so here's more of our work, now un-paywalled forever as a gift from our subscribers.

In February last year, we reported on a troubling new war game based on the Jan 6th insurrection.

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Purchasing and converting these warehouse detention camps will cost the U.S. government billions of dollars. So far ICE has purchased at least half a dozen warehouses at a cost of $70-$110 million each. It'll cost billions more to refit them into detention camps, and hire staff.

Image of Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay from 1991, showing row after row of people laying on cots in an airplane hangar.

The closest modern historical parallel is the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay for intercepted Cubans and Haitians during the HW Bush and Clinton administrations, where at maximum capacity roughly 12,000 migrants were detained. But those migrants were never in the physical US.

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Maine shaken by ICE raids as backlash threatens Republican Senate control Workers and unions condemn ICE operation as ‘horrific’ as pressure builds on Susan Collins, facing re-election this year

I spoke with workers about their experiences with ICE in Maine as Senator Collins claimed to have halted the operation as she faces re-election this year
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The Risk of Speaking Spanish in Public Trump’s immigration crackdown has Latinos wondering if they belong in his America.

In group chats, classrooms, churches, and at dinner tables, American-born Latinos are scared of being detained or mistakenly deported, and feel powerless amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez reports.

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

‘Together, We Are America’ Bad Bunny’s critics said his Super Bowl halftime show would be divisive. They were totally wrong.

You can call Bad Bunny's halftime show many things—fun, meaningful, staggeringly detailed, wholesomely hot, surprisingly Gagatastic—but not divisive.

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Actually, lots of people understood Bad Bunny 43 million people in the U.S. speak Spanish, even if there aren't any at the White House.

Trump's utterly predictable complaint about Bad Bunny singing in Spanish was thoughtless culture-war stuff — but also failed to understand how many Americans speak Spanish.
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There's only room for one rapping rocker at the top of Grift Mountain

If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.

it's genuinely kind of funny to imagine trump watching that. like. does he even recognize the concepts being presented, of people having a culture, being proud of it, feeling joy together. how much can he even comprehend that

It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards

With Trump tearing us apart by unleashing ICE on America, it’s easy to forget the magnificent melting pot we are

Thank you, Bad Bunny, for featuring love-not hatred

For reminding us kids like Liam Ramos should be cherished-not arrested

For representing the diversity that truly makes America great

Partial Eclipse of the Sun, daguerrotype, possibly by John Adams Whipple, 1851

Hartmann Schedel. Creation, from 'Chronicle of the World', Nuremberg, 1493.

Image is a meme that riffs on the painting's subject holding a bowl. The text reads: "Super Bowl? Better be a PYREX." The original painting is titled Portrait of a Woman (also known as Lady with a Lapis Lazuli Bowl). It was painted by the Italian artist Guido Reni around 1638-1639.

YouTube video by The Who - Topic Pictures Of Lily (Single Mix / Mono Version)

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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow