Luigi de Guzman

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

this is... not happening in Minneapolis or anywhere else, really

Comic strip Panel 1 Edgar Allan Poe: Honey? Who delivered this letter? It smells like French perfume? Panel 2: Poe reading the letter. Letter: Dear Mr. Poe - I love your work! Poe: Hm. Panel 3: Jules Verne writing the letter, lying on his stomach and kicking his feet. Letter: Can you put more balloons in your stories? I think we should be friends! Panel 4: Poe, now writing on his back. Letter: Also, I drew a picture of us! Write me back, love Jules Panel 5: A drawing of Poe and Verne in a balloon. The balloon is labeled, "BROS" Panel 6: Poe looking at the letter suspiciously.

People forget the Kate Beaton comic the "Poe looking suspiciously at a letter" meme comes from is also a devastating read on Jules Verne.

Based Yankee is definitely worse than Damn Yankee and both are inferior to Daddy Yankee

Man it’s like the rest of you don’t like me or something. I’m not even close on the map!

These feel like messages from another planet

Probably the largest cluster on Bluesky

lol what? Apparently I’m at some sort of Lagrange point between “Progressive American Writers & Activists,” “Irreverent Internet Comedians” and… “Comedy writers?!?”

That Ring “search party” ad was unsubtle enough that even my 10yo watched it and was like “are they gonna use this for ICE?”

Paris closing ceremony had Phoenix, a band that sings in English

Thread!

The main thing is that GM is trying to position Cadillac as a “real” luxury brand doing real luxury things like running stupendously expensive race programs where their cars run in places rich people hang out.

It’s cool but also you will not catch a gulf oil sheikh dead in a Cadillac these days

Wherever there sugar, there’s slavery

From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

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...

The meme is now retired. Shoutout Sam Darnold

it's BASEBALL time

Cadillac did get me psyched. They have a good LeMans program so I’m interested to see how they do in F1

Happy for my homeboy @kenjennings.bsky.social I

As a Filipino I feel so many cultural bonds with PR. shared colonial history. Shared love of boxing. Shared passion for crispy pork

It’s past Bob Kraft’s bedtime.

Punter for MVP imo. Nobody affected the game more.

Get the bullpen up

The Champions League final in Germany last year opened with Linkin Park

The punts. THE PUNTS

Donald Trump has turned America into a violent fascist kleptocracy. But the NFL just forced some culturally unfamiliar music upon me. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Even the punts are good

Just when you thought the AI commercials couldn’t get any creepier, they give you Alexa.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Laughing at the people who seem to think that the halftime show that took place in the sugarcane fields wasn’t political