Sir Rants Alot

This checks off a few more items on Project 2025.

I don't know if this age makes any of it worse, but it certainly doesn't make any of it better. That's 3rd/4th grade.

A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top. The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements: Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below. Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam. Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground. Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched. The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.

The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.

Follow along!

Jonny Greenwood Demands Phantom Thread Score Be Removed from Melania Documentary Jonny Greenwood says Universal Pictures "failed to consult [him] on this third-party use which is a breach of his composer agreement."

Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood Demands 'Phantom Thread' Score Be Removed from Melania Documentary

Greenwood said Universal Pictures “failed to consult [him] on this third-party use which is a breach of his composer agreement.”
consequence.net/2026/02/jonn...

This is AI. There's enough real evidence without spreading AI lies.

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YouTube video by Jeep All-New 2026 Jeep® Cherokee Hybrid | Billy Bass Goes To The River (Big Game Ad)

My favorite #Superbowl ad was one I didn't even see during the game: Jeep's Billy Bass ad:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FimJ...

I didn't have TikTok on my phone when it was Chinese spyware, I'm not going to have it on my phone when it is US spyware

Heck yeah
#LockHimUp

Mamdani Signs New York Executive Order Targeting ICE

"ICE is more than a rogue agency—it is a manifestation of the abuse of power," New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.

In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal

>> Nearly 9 out of 10 immigrants arrested by ICE in Trump's first year back in office did not have violent criminal records, DHS data shows

Everyone making noise about Olympic Skater Ilia Malinin (a white dude) pulling off the first legal backflip in competition as if he is a revolutionary skater needs to remember Surya Bonaly (black girl) completed a backflip in the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics and was penalized for it
I call Bullshit

ICE agents arrest, deport Labrador Retriever during Puppy Bowl

News In Photo:

That's like more than 1,000 times for every felony conviction!

Since December, per Fulton Co suit, DOJ has sued to recover unredacted voter rolls from 24 states + DC. (Don't think I understood the extent of this operation before.)

And yet, day after day after, an incredible number of our academic colleagues, every university, & ~every civil society organization & prominent politician/celebrity/businessperson/public intellectual/etc. continues to stay there, at the Nazi Bar, anyway. It's been incredibly revealing.

Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."

Epstein Files Reveal Prosecutors’ Announcement Dated Before His Death The file dump includes multiple draft statements from federal prosecutors about the sex trafficker’s death, one of them dated the day before Epstein died.

Wait, what?

Epstein Files Reveal Prosecutors’ Announcement Dated Before His Death

The file dump includes multiple draft statements from federal prosecutors about the sex trafficker’s death, one of them dated the day before Epstein died.
www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-file...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

DHS warned its independent watchdog that Noem can kill its investigations, senator says Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth said she fears "repeated tacit threats" could be weakening the DHS inspector general's independence.

Well, Noem does have experience with killing watchdogs:

DHS warned its independent watchdog that Noem can kill its investigations, senator says
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This alone could solve the housing problem.

The owner of the Seahawks IS NOT in the Epstein Files.

Robert Kraft is.

GO SEAHAWKS.

Norm, perhaps you can discover some of the many Musk-adjacent investigations which were shut down when DOGE killed USAID and other agencies- including some possible criminal charges:
bsky.app/profile/robv...

March for Measles apparently

part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

DOJ Deleted an Epstein Prosecution Memo About Possible Co-Conspirators. We Saved It. An 86-page DOJ memo detailing possible Epstein co-conspirators vanished after reporters asked questions. But we saved a copy.

DOJ Deleted an Epstein Prosecution Memo About Possible Co-Conspirators. We Saved It.
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

oh dear.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Just watch.

The olympic audience cheers American athletes.

But the moment JD Vance appears on screen they boo.

The world doesn't hate *America.*

It hates our corrupt, lawless leaders. And the moment we remove them from power, the vibe can shift again.