EM Simpson
@emsetc.bsky.social
I am not a committee. Defense, pop-culture, Jayhawk propaganda. All opinions my own.
Co-host of Sirens: A Bombshell Production https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sirens-a-bombshell-production/id1195698408
Co-host of Sirens: A Bombshell Production https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sirens-a-bombshell-production/id1195698408
Like selling gravel in Afghanistan
ICE is likely paying a premium to get the deal through quickly. E.g., in Hamburg, PA, the warehouse was purchased in 2024 for $57.5 million and sold to ICE for $87 million.
The real profit will come with the private prison companies and contractors hired to refurbish and staff these facilities.
The real profit will come with the private prison companies and contractors hired to refurbish and staff these facilities.
February 10, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Like selling gravel in Afghanistan
hey I have one of those too!
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 PM
hey I have one of those too!
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This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.
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Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found.
www.nber.org/papers/w34791
www.nber.org/papers/w34791
February 9, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found.
www.nber.org/papers/w34791
www.nber.org/papers/w34791
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Benito Antonio: God bless America
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito Antonio: God bless America
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Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
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I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 5:09 AM
I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
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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
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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
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Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist
grateful to work at a place that always lets me write about how much i love gay women
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Amber Glenn, a queer icon from Texas, is about to make Olympic history
The American figure skater's unapologetic queerness feels more important than ever.
www.chron.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist
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"During In Living Color’s first season, a marketing impresario approached Fox with an idea that would stick it to CBS, the NFL rights holder and Super Bowl carrier that Murdoch had in his sights: a special episode of In Living Color that would air opposite the Super Bowl intermission."
time to remind everybody that the Super Bowl halftime show only exists in this grandiose fashion because a tv show called "In Living Color" stole the ratings from the NFL; the execs notoriously said, "get me Michael Jackson's agent" and thus began all the pomp
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘We stole the Super Bowl audience’: how In Living Color pulled off the greatest heist in US TV history
Turning Point USA is plotting its own half-time broadcast in defiance of Bad Bunny – but one of TV’s Blackest shows already perfected the alt-cast in 1992
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
"During In Living Color’s first season, a marketing impresario approached Fox with an idea that would stick it to CBS, the NFL rights holder and Super Bowl carrier that Murdoch had in his sights: a special episode of In Living Color that would air opposite the Super Bowl intermission."
imagining the german execs at Bosch being like "there is one man who captures our brand..."
February 9, 2026 at 1:43 AM
imagining the german execs at Bosch being like "there is one man who captures our brand..."
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Every Winter Olympics I think of Surya Bonaly. I hope she is thriving.
February 8, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Every Winter Olympics I think of Surya Bonaly. I hope she is thriving.
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One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.
February 9, 2026 at 12:31 AM
One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
holy shit taxpayers paid for that mike tyson ad
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
holy shit taxpayers paid for that mike tyson ad
Acquisition reform...or some new laws of physics
"To overcome Golden Dome ‘affordability’ hurdle, DoD needs acquisition reform, AI: Official"
To overcome Golden Dome 'affordability' hurdle, DoD needs acquisition reform, AI: Official - Breaking Defense
Marcia Holmes, DoD deputy director for Golden Dome, said AI and autonomy will "change how we deploy and use our weapons."
breakingdefense.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Acquisition reform...or some new laws of physics
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It is him! The Superb Owl! Who's coming was foretold!
(at Spectra Aberdeen)
(at Spectra Aberdeen)
February 8, 2026 at 6:17 PM
It is him! The Superb Owl! Who's coming was foretold!
(at Spectra Aberdeen)
(at Spectra Aberdeen)
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Superb Owl Sunday X - A special Sunday event: our tenth-annual photo collection celebrating these magnificent birds of prey. If you have some time before the big game (or are skipping the event entirely), we invite you to have a look. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
February 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Superb Owl Sunday X - A special Sunday event: our tenth-annual photo collection celebrating these magnificent birds of prey. If you have some time before the big game (or are skipping the event entirely), we invite you to have a look. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Lmao what
The Angry Orchard Ex-Change is a limited-time program that invites people to ship their ex’s forgotten belongings to the Angry Orchard Cider House in exchange for cash toward a fresh case of hard cider. on.nbcboston.com/CbPYQKK
Angry Orchard’s Ex-Change lets you trade your ex’s leftover stuff for hard cider
The cider brand is offering cash for your ex’s forgotten belongings this Valentine’s Day.
on.nbcboston.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Lmao what
Watching these Olympic athletes and thinking about how much my body hurts from *sitting* too long
February 8, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Watching these Olympic athletes and thinking about how much my body hurts from *sitting* too long
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Raise a glass! It's Superb Owl Sunday. 🦉
🏺 This owl-fully cute terracotta drinking vessel is over 2,300 years old.
In Ancient Greece, owls represented Athena, goddess of wisdom, an association many still have with owls today. 💡
ℹ️ https://gty.pulse.ly/n56nx9g7r0
🏺 This owl-fully cute terracotta drinking vessel is over 2,300 years old.
In Ancient Greece, owls represented Athena, goddess of wisdom, an association many still have with owls today. 💡
ℹ️ https://gty.pulse.ly/n56nx9g7r0
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Raise a glass! It's Superb Owl Sunday. 🦉
🏺 This owl-fully cute terracotta drinking vessel is over 2,300 years old.
In Ancient Greece, owls represented Athena, goddess of wisdom, an association many still have with owls today. 💡
ℹ️ https://gty.pulse.ly/n56nx9g7r0
🏺 This owl-fully cute terracotta drinking vessel is over 2,300 years old.
In Ancient Greece, owls represented Athena, goddess of wisdom, an association many still have with owls today. 💡
ℹ️ https://gty.pulse.ly/n56nx9g7r0
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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Two figures in Devon, by Willem de Kooning, 1971, 📸 by Win Tam
February 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Two figures in Devon, by Willem de Kooning, 1971, 📸 by Win Tam