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A little sad at how much generational analysis is just “look at these self-starters who know exactly how to work seven jobs to afford a carrot”

I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.

Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.

We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.

This is something significantly bigger and scarier.

in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend"
"Beers on me"

Bunbunbun!

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”

This is why we need to be telling our stories.

Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund

Sally Hazelet Drummond, Hummingbird, 1961
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135099

it's weird to see people complain about Bad Bunny's performance being in Spanish when there have been entire operas in Italian, German and French performed in the US and the top song of the last two years, K-Pop Demon Hunters' "Golden" has lyrics in Korean

Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

For a split second, I thought it was going to go a bit more Hot Tub Time Machine than Karate Kid 😂 But that's okay, I'll take Karate Kid 😂

The version of the Michelob Ultra one I just saw during the skating replay was a shorter edit than the version I saw during the game. The ending fell flat.

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

The line people on power transformer poles was huge: I wonder how many mainland Americans know how fragile and erratic PR’s electrical structure is? Part of the US’s neglect is not ensuring the kind of robust system in the 50 states.

Me too. 😣
I will say I cracked a smile at the Michelob Ultra spot with Kurt Russell, though I have been getting served (har) that one on Peacock, so does it even count?

I went back to the Olympics after halftime. Last year, it felt like community and hanging out again was something we all needed after the election, and that made up for a lot. This year, the halftime show was it. Thank god it was amazing because the ads have been like the clones in Multiplicity.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Even if it wasn’t, that was spectacular the whole way around.

Too tired… you go on without me. I’ll only … hold … you back …

Deep in Olympic replays, I suddenly remembered what day it was.

Philip Johnson Fund

Robert Indiana, Moon, 1960
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136450

Forget ‘Friday Night Lights.’ This Photo Book Captures the True Permian Basin. ‘Boom and Dust’ shows a different side of the oil industry—and looks pretty good on a coffee table.

"Boom and Dust" shows a different side of the oil industry—and looks pretty good on a coffee table. https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/boom-and-dust-photo-book-captures-true-permian-basin/

Don’t miss #FloridaBred WAYNE’S LAW 🦇 running today in the Sam F. Davis S. at #TampaBayDowns! ✨ 🌹

I really meant for this to be the sobbing emoji *sigh* There's nothing funny about my grief over that leftover Yorkshire pudding.

A time zone over. Now I know I have to get up.

What Americans look like.

The rest are immigrants.

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

It's healing to see good things done by people who actually like their jobs (and have pushed through everything to be able to define their jobs as "making things better [not worse]").

This is The Way. 🖤

Now thinking about the post-Christmas leftovers that got pitched 😂

I misread this sign a moment 🫣

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