Drew Daniel
@drewdaniel.bsky.social
Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
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A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:08 PM
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
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For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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February 9, 2026 at 5:14 PM
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism
bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
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Curious to learn more about Puerto Rico after Bad Bunny's explosive Super Bowl performance? Access "Puerto Rico: A National History," an engaging and surprising history of colonialism, revolt, and the creation of a national identity, on MUSE.
https://bit.ly/4bLOp3i
https://bit.ly/4bLOp3i
February 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Curious to learn more about Puerto Rico after Bad Bunny's explosive Super Bowl performance? Access "Puerto Rico: A National History," an engaging and surprising history of colonialism, revolt, and the creation of a national identity, on MUSE.
https://bit.ly/4bLOp3i
https://bit.ly/4bLOp3i
Delighted at the SPT shoutout and @carlzoilus.bsky.social is always cogent! Check him and his crew below:
Joined the @slate.com Culture Gabfest for the first time in awhile, to talk about musical protest & politics from Springsteen's Minneapolis anthem out - and to endorse new writing & sounds from @drewdaniel.bsky.social. Listen here or on your own pod doohickeys: slate.com/podcasts/cul...
These Songs Kill Fascists
With the release of Bruce Springsteen’s anti-ICE anthem, the Gabfest examines the state of protest music in this new era of authoritarianism.
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February 4, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Delighted at the SPT shoutout and @carlzoilus.bsky.social is always cogent! Check him and his crew below:
Hey! Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) made a video for the last song on my new album by collaging together a bunch of photographs I have taken over the years - check it out:
@drewdaniel.bsky.social es la mitad de Matmos y también The Soft Pink Truth, que lanzaron su nuevo disco el pasado viernes
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The Soft Pink Truth - Underneath II (official music video)
YouTube video by Thrill Jockey Records
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February 3, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Hey! Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) made a video for the last song on my new album by collaging together a bunch of photographs I have taken over the years - check it out:
Hey folks! Years in the making, my new Soft Pink Truth album « Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? » is out today from @thrilljockey.bsky.social ! Super grateful to everyone who helped me make this happen! ⏳⌛️🕯️🙏
January 30, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Hey folks! Years in the making, my new Soft Pink Truth album « Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? » is out today from @thrilljockey.bsky.social ! Super grateful to everyone who helped me make this happen! ⏳⌛️🕯️🙏
very grateful to The Quietus for publishing this essay- on everyday fascism and the promise and problem of “beauty” as an inadequate but therapeutic response to the ugliness of the present - plus there are some thoughts on disco and Patricia Highsmith- this felt like a risk but I’m glad it’s out
January 26, 2026 at 3:45 PM
very grateful to The Quietus for publishing this essay- on everyday fascism and the promise and problem of “beauty” as an inadequate but therapeutic response to the ugliness of the present - plus there are some thoughts on disco and Patricia Highsmith- this felt like a risk but I’m glad it’s out
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Mood in minneapolis right now
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Mood in minneapolis right now
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Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
January 23, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
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The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM
The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.
January 21, 2026 at 11:14 PM
ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.
There’s no turning back now!
January 21, 2026 at 10:39 PM
There’s no turning back now!
HIs notable silence signifies racist aversion but also perhaps an intuitive awareness that King’s legacy is MAGA kryptonite, too strong for him to touch- the civil rights struggle is vivid evidence that the America his base wants to return to was an oppressive era of Jim Crow brutality.
“Trump is the first president not to issue an official proclamation recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since President Reagan made it a holiday.”
January 19, 2026 at 9:35 PM
HIs notable silence signifies racist aversion but also perhaps an intuitive awareness that King’s legacy is MAGA kryptonite, too strong for him to touch- the civil rights struggle is vivid evidence that the America his base wants to return to was an oppressive era of Jim Crow brutality.
Really moved to see my book about suicide integrated into the Lauryn Youder installation discussed in this article. www.frieze.com/article/arti...
The Artists Challenging Taboos to Start a Conversation About Suicide
Niall McCarthy, Hannah Perry and Lauryn Youden use first-hand experiences of loss to critique the systems that can contribute to mental health crises
www.frieze.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Really moved to see my book about suicide integrated into the Lauryn Youder installation discussed in this article. www.frieze.com/article/arti...
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I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
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January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Loving this new book “Tricks” from our living national treasure @dapowell.bsky.social - sad, horny, witty poems that reward rereading
January 17, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Loving this new book “Tricks” from our living national treasure @dapowell.bsky.social - sad, horny, witty poems that reward rereading
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i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.
January 15, 2026 at 7:42 PM
i don't really give a shit if consultants think being anti-ICE is "good messaging" or whatever when people are actively being shot, beat, gassed and jailed.
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the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
January 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
My new solo album comes out on @thrilljockey.bsky.social on January 30th but you can hear the last song on the record today: thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com/track/undern...
Underneath (II), by The Soft Pink Truth
from the album Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?
thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:42 PM
My new solo album comes out on @thrilljockey.bsky.social on January 30th but you can hear the last song on the record today: thesoftpinktruth.bandcamp.com/track/undern...
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One lesson from yesterday:
"In the eyes of the state and its agents, all of the rest of us are walking around with a standing presumption, not just of guilt, but of murderous intent. Anything but total and immediate submission is domestic terrorism."
"In the eyes of the state and its agents, all of the rest of us are walking around with a standing presumption, not just of guilt, but of murderous intent. Anything but total and immediate submission is domestic terrorism."
Nothing constrains these agents except whatever inhibits any individual one of them, personally, from brutalizing and murdering any person who disobeys them.
@albertburneko.bsky.social on the murder in Minneapolis
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@albertburneko.bsky.social on the murder in Minneapolis
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ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector
On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. O...
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January 8, 2026 at 3:51 PM
One lesson from yesterday:
"In the eyes of the state and its agents, all of the rest of us are walking around with a standing presumption, not just of guilt, but of murderous intent. Anything but total and immediate submission is domestic terrorism."
"In the eyes of the state and its agents, all of the rest of us are walking around with a standing presumption, not just of guilt, but of murderous intent. Anything but total and immediate submission is domestic terrorism."
Terrific thread 🧵
What even *is* music? There's a surprisingly little agreement but I wanted to give my students a sense of how to characterize it. Christopher Smalls' _Musicking_ suggests we can't agree because it isn't one thing, it's something people do. But what's distinctive about it vs. ritual, theater, dance?
What makes rituals work? From prayer to sacrifice to public ceremonies they hold a special power to invoke feelings. But exactly what *is* that feeling? Scholars tend to portray it as a primal, indescribable "experience" but in my Ritual, Myth, and Music class we take a different path inside it (1)
January 5, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Terrific thread 🧵
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"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
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This is like an ICE kidnapping but on an international scale.
January 3, 2026 at 1:56 PM
This is like an ICE kidnapping but on an international scale.