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A Love Letter From the 50 Yard Line Bad Bunny stood on the biggest stage in American entertainment last night and performed almost entirely in Spanish.

Commentary by Linea Johnson on Bad Bunny’s halftime show

A Love Letter From the 50 Yard Line Bad Bunny stood on the biggest stage in American entertainment last night and performed almost entirely in Spanish.

Commentary by Linea Johnson on Bad Bunny’s halftime show

Bad Bunny gives Super Bowl viewers two choices: crash out or tap in The claim that music sung in Spanish will alienate viewers ignores the fact that many people would rather join the fun than risk being left out of it

…in a political landscape where nativism is dressed up as logic and fear is marketed as patriotism.
#superbowl #badbunny #puertorico

OK, yep for sure greedy oligarch

But can we keep X🤮 out of bluesky please?

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.

“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

Is “Porpose” what you get when you cross a Porpoise and a Life Mission? 🤷🏻‍♂️

ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.”

And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.

When you skip voting, it’s not rebellion. It’s surrender.

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ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

This is what continuing to fund ICE actually looks like.

"...The 23 proposed sites would range in size from 500 to 9,500 beds. If completed as planned, the larger facilities would be some of the biggest detention centers of any kind in the country."

New Springsteen song!
On Apple Music and YouTube
Enjoy and share 🙂

Judiciously.
Simultaneously, let’s all try to practice, model, & teach being imperfect allies

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

Democrats are campaigning as if the 2026 election will be fair. That’s a mistake | Austin Sarat Trump’s remarks and Project 2025’s proposals have made the plan clear. Democrats must focus on stopping it

OK. And next idea?

Fair election, congressional Democrat majority, impeachments, never gonna happen in 2026

We cannot be nostalgic for the United States The United States is no longer a steady ally and a trusted global power — but an unstable volcano ready to erupt.

The paradox of the current moment is that while none of this is normal, it is also not extraordinary. It is the country in which we live, and we are not going back to a previous era. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-c...

Rachel @maddow.bsky.social tells the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history in her new podcast, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order.”

LISTEN to all six episodes now: podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...

America vs. the World — The Atlantic President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.

The US’s influence in the world has derived from treating others as part of a community of democratic nations and strategic partners.
In less than a year, US and Russian oligarchs (via their GOP functionaries) have destroyed it.
OLIGARCHS—WE’RE WATCHING YOU!

US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

Black and white portrait of a woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and looking directly at the camera.

20 January 1878 | A Czech Jewish woman, Adéla Skutecká, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 May 1944. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
🎧 Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO

The White Supremacists in the White House and GOP didn’t even mention MLK yesterday. They are no longer even trying to hide it.

@apnews.com

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Considered. Then realized those are not the accounts the spooks use to vacuum up our social media activity. Instead, I manually vet followers and followings

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And the allies can (inadvertently :-) add travel and banking friction to the oligarchs’ whores lives

☝🏻this.

You have the oligarchs orchestrating, and then you have their functionaries fiddling

Nazi Slogans and White Nationalist Anthems Emanating from the Trump White House.

The Trump administration has launched a social media campaign invoking Nazi and white nationalist slogans, songs, and memes. This should send shockwaves across the Jewish American community.

Read more in @haliesoifer.bsky.social's weekly analysis:

Good for China and Canada, not good for the US.
In fact, China has been making the same trade deal in every region across the globe since Trump’s first “America First” term

Good for China and Canada, not good for the US.
In fact, China has been making the same trade deal in every region across the globe since Trump’s first “America First” term

Trump is just the (now unwitting) MC, the frontman, the clown, distracting us with daily antics and shiny objects. Pay attention to the writers, directors, producers of this (shit) show we’re in. They are who actually needs to be taken down.

OK, but Trump is just the (now unwitting) MC, the frontman, the clown, distracting us with daily antics and shiny objects. Pay attention to the writers, directors, producers of this (shit) show we’re in. They are who actually needs to be taken down.