@citizense.bsky.social
this one's personal: governance wonk; rural regional public prof; sf/fantasy/comics/anime nerd; golf otaku; ex-pitcher/point guard/union goon (still HELU/CAHE); newly empty nester; mostly harmless Hawthornist; “radical, hate-mongering hater”
wrote a bit this week about how my take on backlash presidential politics intersects with @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social's "How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism" open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...
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NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
Happy Tom Paine Day! Ain't that America's Revolutionary ideals?
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social:
09.02.2026 12:43 — 👍 626 🔁 312 💬 3 📌 13Predicting a Patriots win: a chef’s kiss ending
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Q: How much is the NFL paying Bad Bunny for the privilege of playing football during and after his concert?
A: In what can only be described as a display of unprecedented magnanimity, Bad Bunny has allowed the NFL to showcase their sport at his concert for free.
When federal agents harass immigrant workers, research shows that it ends up hurting *all* workers, as well the economy.
For the sake of everyone, it’s time for us to organize and defend our immigrant neighbors, writes @sarahlazare.bsky.social.
Fellowship Opportunity!
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University - 2026-2027 Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowships
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Good listen
We unpack Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show : Pop Culture Happy Hour
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If passed, the New York for All Act will protect our communities by blocking ICE from entering non-public areas without a warrant & begins limiting federal access to state databases.
☎️Contact your rep TODAY & urge them to pass #NY4All: win.newmode.net/ny4all
🎨: @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Catching up on the open sewer of gutter racism emitted last night from the President on down through White House apparatchiks like Loomer, Lake, etc, etc, and I have to say it gives off a strong reek of @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s “I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win”.
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Bad Bunny taking a shot glass from an old lady in the bodega
Incredible detail I just noticed
Benito takes a drink from this woman as he sings "un shot de cañita en casa de Toñita"
She is Maria Antonia Cay (aka Toñita), owner of the famous Caribbean Social Club in Brooklyn
A beloved place for the Latino community in NYC
This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
09.02.2026 11:55 — 👍 1594 🔁 368 💬 16 📌 17The people who thought Bad Bunny was divisive are, if anything, more incensed by “we are america,” in their terms it’s the most offensive and outrageous thing he could have said
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The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
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Illegal aliens and Latin hookers twerking at the SuperBowl. Not a single white person or English translation at the Super Bowl. This isn’t White enough for me. Cant even watch a Super Bowl anymore because immigrants have literally ruined everything.
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
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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
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In retrospect, that was a glorious weekend of having running water.
(Apparently that curclicue out under the street that eventually unfroze after 45 minutes of hot water catheterization on F can freeze in <4 hours when it gets this cold overnight! Everything was working just fine at 1:30 am!!)
DAMMMMMMMIT HAHAHAH
09.02.2026 03:36 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0Donald 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.
09.02.2026 02:38 — 👍 2697 🔁 327 💬 31 📌 7Shutting it down for the night. I hope everyone revels in the fact that antifascists are going to win. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.
09.02.2026 02:43 — 👍 1712 🔁 151 💬 9 📌 0The dj on the MIT station just went on a gorgeous tangent about how this semester he’s taking all liberal arts classes, and instead of asking him to reproduce established knowledge (as in most MIT courses) they push him to think about how he thinks.
My Super Bowl MVP.
CORRECTION
It’s a Pick Six hahahahha
That Super Bowl halftime show was beyond incredible, and fun. Here’s the story of how it came together, complete with beautiful photos from @d-jacks.bsky.social.
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I am from Seattle.
I live in Maine.
I am at a bar that by definition is All-In For the Patriots.
Someone just saw my blue & green hair extensions & *recoiled.*
“Cat what the fuck are you doing?”
And Reader, I got to say it. In the right context.
BITCH I AM FROM SEATTLE! #dragrace #superbowl
My hope for tonight is Mack Hollins has a fantastic game while the rest of the team gets blown out of the water 3:49 PM
If we couldn’t have a Bills Super Bowl
09.02.2026 03:10 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make.
The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression.
They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.
Solid blow-by-blow recap of Bad Bunny's halftime show. Including some English translation and explanations of cultural references.
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