Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘

Slavery and Sugar Cane Plantations in Puerto Rico | Finding Your Roots | PBS LearningMedia Actor Justina Machado knew of her deep roots in Puerto Rico and discovered her ancestors on almost every line of her family tree worked on sugar plantations. Cutting sugar cane is, by any measure, bru...

Just in case y’all are wondering about the sugar cane fields during the halftime show…

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This is a instant clapback classic

Epstein survivors released an incredible ad during the Super Bowl.

Solid blow-by-blow recap of Bad Bunny's halftime show. Including some English translation and explanations of cultural references.

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

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Striking from Marquette poll:

Majorities of non-college grads and even 50% of rural Americans disapprove of ICE handling of enforcement. Majorities of both oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs/no criminal records.

That's data given to me. 2/

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How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

“Lorin Stein, the disgraced former editor of The Paris Review who resigned after accusations of sexual impropriety, forwarded to Wolff an email from the writer Stephen Elliott, who intended to sue the list’s creator… Epstein promises to ‘help anyway i can.’”

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Woke up today thinking about the not insignificant number of people I interact with who believe that’s it’s fine to imprison a 5 yr old who isn’t a US citizen but are less concerned that 5 yr olds have spent more time in US concentration camps than the sex pests in the Epstein files.

On. The. Ground. 💜

Blech

Amen, sister

Yikes. This is censorship.

“Unbridled compassion” is such a lovely phrase

$22 billion in taxpayer money.

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:

Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

Doubling down on the ape video. At least NYT headline didn’t say “video some claim to be racist” so there’s that.

On this day in 1932, a Czech Jewish girl was born. She was deported to Theresienstadt, with her parents, and on the 4 Apr 1942 and on the 28 Oct 1944 to Auschwitz where they perished. Her sister survived the Shoah. Her name was Eva Liana Kirschnerová

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Bad Bunny wearing tinted dark red glasses with gold frames, hair gelled looking quite handsome! White shirt and tan tie.

His stage name is BAD BUNNY... a bad-ass artist and honey-of-a-Bunny. His given name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio. He is a handsome 31-year-old American citizen. Make no mistake. 1917: The Jones Act grants U.S. citizenship to all Puerto Ricans. I'll be watching... I'm a huge fan!

Breaking: Democrats resoundingly defend red district in Louisiana, denying GOP its first pickup Republicans have yet to flip a single legislative seat since Trump's return

The GOP just had its best chance to finally flip a legislative seat in Trump 2.0. Democrats had other ideas.

Chasity Martinez just won a rural Trump+13 in the Louisiana House in a 24-point landslide—an overperformance of 37 points.

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The System

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during massive job cuts Washington Post chief executive and publisher Will Lewis has resigned just days after the newspaper announced massive layoffs.

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'Immigrants are subsidizing the U.S. government': how the undocumented actually shrank the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 3 decades | Fortune Cato Institute ran the math and found that without immigrants' contributions, the national debt would be a third higher than today's $38 trillion.

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Can I make a point here that I’m very disturbed by the idea of a news outlet throwing a Black woman boss in Mississippi and her staff under a bus without no apparent attempt to interview her first.

The irony is thick and deep here. My colleagues chose a different path. 🙏🏻

Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.

“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.

But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

Go, Dr. Moore. Proud you’re Mississippian.