Matt
@mfinnigan.bsky.social
Special Detached Operations Synergist, in the Upper Left
ICE must be destroyed
ICE must be destroyed
Either Wally Lamb (author) or Edwin Land (Polaroid founder)
February 12, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Either Wally Lamb (author) or Edwin Land (Polaroid founder)
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This is very powerful and I hope it reaches a lot of people
January 28, 2026 at 2:31 PM
This is very powerful and I hope it reaches a lot of people
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
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I do think it’s interesting that the NFL — an organization that arguably profits off the physical and mental exploitation and abuse of men of color — has two years in a row now hired men of color to do explicitly political halftime shows calling for the liberation of their people
February 9, 2026 at 1:22 PM
I do think it’s interesting that the NFL — an organization that arguably profits off the physical and mental exploitation and abuse of men of color — has two years in a row now hired men of color to do explicitly political halftime shows calling for the liberation of their people
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"[H]e applied one of the greatest lessons you learn as a part of an oppressed group: Joy is resistance. Pride in your heritage is protest. Being unapologetic about it all is radical."
Me on Bad Bunny's beautiful joyous halftime show and why it is legible to everyone, no matter what language(s) you speak
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance Wasn’t What Conservatives Feared. It Was Something Else Entirely.
The Puerto Rican superstar’s halftime show was pure joy.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:47 AM
"[H]e applied one of the greatest lessons you learn as a part of an oppressed group: Joy is resistance. Pride in your heritage is protest. Being unapologetic about it all is radical."
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Just had a Super Bowl halftime where the singer:
1) boasts about the poor place he’s from;
2) boosts the value of agriculture;
3) celebrates small town life;
4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and
5) promotes marriage.
And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.
1) boasts about the poor place he’s from;
2) boosts the value of agriculture;
3) celebrates small town life;
4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and
5) promotes marriage.
And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.
February 9, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Just had a Super Bowl halftime where the singer:
1) boasts about the poor place he’s from;
2) boosts the value of agriculture;
3) celebrates small town life;
4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and
5) promotes marriage.
And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.
1) boasts about the poor place he’s from;
2) boosts the value of agriculture;
3) celebrates small town life;
4) highlights the joy of inter-generational celebrations; and
5) promotes marriage.
And tomorrow, the MAGA movement will attack it.
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Bad Bunny's music is very useful if you want to learn how to say things like "I want to [redacted] your [redacted] in the [redacted]" in Spanish
October 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Bad Bunny's music is very useful if you want to learn how to say things like "I want to [redacted] your [redacted] in the [redacted]" in Spanish
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 AM
It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards
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Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
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Statement on this morning’s ICE Abduction in Rozzie Square.
Please report any ICE sightings to the LUCE hotline at 617-370-5023.
Please report any ICE sightings to the LUCE hotline at 617-370-5023.
February 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Statement on this morning’s ICE Abduction in Rozzie Square.
Please report any ICE sightings to the LUCE hotline at 617-370-5023.
Please report any ICE sightings to the LUCE hotline at 617-370-5023.
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Totally second this. Nothing seems stable right now, but doing something positive helps with the deep anxiety and seeing all the other people wanting to help gives tremendous hope
I just generally think the antidote to dooming and feelings of helplessness is getting involved in any way. It can be as a poll worker, doing ICE watch, running for local office, helping with mutual aid, whatever.
You can get so much accomplished in your town or city if you just get involved.
You can get so much accomplished in your town or city if you just get involved.
anyway i know how many of you hate that i’m so vocal about this and think it makes me a naive shitlib or whatever. but again, i think the best thing you could do for yourself here is to get involved in election administration where you live.
February 5, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Totally second this. Nothing seems stable right now, but doing something positive helps with the deep anxiety and seeing all the other people wanting to help gives tremendous hope
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Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else.
newrepublic.com/post/206088/...
newrepublic.com/post/206088/...
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else.
newrepublic.com/post/206088/...
newrepublic.com/post/206088/...
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Ugh. The main anti-ICE group in Washington which has 44k followers on Facebook and has been going around to communities promoting classes is now promoting this anti-whistle nonsense for "harm reduction" reasons as well.
February 3, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Ugh. The main anti-ICE group in Washington which has 44k followers on Facebook and has been going around to communities promoting classes is now promoting this anti-whistle nonsense for "harm reduction" reasons as well.
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Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.
January 30, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
Either a prop/prosthetic artist had the best day making that thing, or the actor was truly committed.
January 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Either a prop/prosthetic artist had the best day making that thing, or the actor was truly committed.
I don't envy anything else in your head that's keeping company with that.
January 29, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I don't envy anything else in your head that's keeping company with that.
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Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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it is both true that firing bovino doesn’t change a whole lot in terms of policy and also true that they have put a lot of money, time and effort into trying to make him the “never back down, fuck you, we own this place” face of the operation, and unceremoniously kicking him to the curb is a retreat
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 AM
it is both true that firing bovino doesn’t change a whole lot in terms of policy and also true that they have put a lot of money, time and effort into trying to make him the “never back down, fuck you, we own this place” face of the operation, and unceremoniously kicking him to the curb is a retreat
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Bovino says with a resigned sigh, “Being a real boy is not very fun at all, Jiminy.”
*Camera pans to Jiminy Cricket floating face down in a glass of bourbon*
*Camera pans to Jiminy Cricket floating face down in a glass of bourbon*
January 27, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Bovino says with a resigned sigh, “Being a real boy is not very fun at all, Jiminy.”
*Camera pans to Jiminy Cricket floating face down in a glass of bourbon*
*Camera pans to Jiminy Cricket floating face down in a glass of bourbon*