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anamariecox.bsky.social
Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.

Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
"I'm proud to be here to represent Team USA, and to represent our country. But we'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been for everybody. This stuff is happening right, right around where we live" "I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution," Ruohonen continued, "and it allows us to (have) freedom of press, freedom of speech, protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures, and makes it that we have to have probable cause to be pulled over. And what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of grey. It's clear." "I really love what's been happening there now with people coming out, showing the love, the compassion, integrity and respect for others that they don't know, and helping them out," Ruohonen said. "And we love Minnesota for that. "And I want to make it clear that we are out here, we love our country. We're playing for the U.S. We're playing for Team USA. And we're playing for each other, and we're playing for our family and our friends that sacrificed so much to be here today. And that doesn't change anything. "Because what the Olympics means is excellence, respect, friendship, and we all, I think, exemplify that. And we are playing for the people of Minnesota and the people around the country who share those same values. That compassion, that love and that respect."
February 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
This is both sad and hilarious.
Screenshot of an X.com post by Tom Bacon (@TomABacon) criticizing Vance for traveling with a large motorcade, eating American food instead of local cuisine, assuming conversations will be in English, and not bringing translators, concluding he “couldn’t manage a worse diplomat.” Screenshot of an X.com post by Boris Alexander Beissner (@boris_beissner) saying “The expressions on their faces when #Meloni initially speaks only Italian,” followed by hashtags #Vance #Rubio #Olympics2026. Below is a video still of Giorgia Meloni seated in a formal chair wearing a gray suit during an interview. Close-up video still showing a bearded man in a suit and blue tie (JD Vance) smiling tightly or looking uneasy, seemingly reacting during the same conversation or event referenced above.
February 10, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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makenakelly.bsky.social
If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous.

Signal: makenakelly.32

www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees
In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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ariberman.bsky.social
Affidavit for Fulton County FBI raid is out & begins with massive red flag, noting that "criminal investigation originated from referral sent by Kurt Olsen, [Trump's] Director of Election Security & Integrity"

Olsen was leader of 'Stop the Steal' in 2020 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 10, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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charlesgaba.com
On the one hand, glad to see she cares about thousands of children being raped for years by some of the most powerful men in the world.

On the other hand...good god, what exactly did she think this was all about BEFORE yesterday???
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”
February 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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rmayemsinger.bsky.social
Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes.

Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes.

And thousands are CHILDREN.

This will be another of America's greatest shames.
February 10, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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capitolhunters.bsky.social
Sen. Cynthia Lummis keeps a fairly low profile but on Jan 6 she was one of only 8 Senators to vote against certifying electoral votes. And her phone records were then subpoenaed in the Jan 6 investigation for very good reason. It's big for her to break with Trump now.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
February 10, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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lisaguerrero.bsky.social
That’s what’s up.
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Had enough of this shit yet, Michigan?
February 10, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
The Bad Bunny halftime show:

Over 135,000,000 viewers.

The white trash alternative:

6,000,000 viewers*

*But some people who can’t afford cable watched it on YouTube, y’all!
February 10, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
The SAVE act — another GOP effort to convert election lies into policy — would disenfranchise millions of voters. Congress is likely to vote on it this week. Sherrilyn’s article explains the urgency.

And here’s more context from the Bipartisan Policy Center: bipartisanpolicy.org/article/five...
February 10, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
gatorade is owned by pepsico but it's the coca cola of the sports drink market. powerade in turn is owned by coca cola, but it's unquestionably the pepsi of sports drinks. this should be plainly obvious to all
February 9, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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zeets.bsky.social
So ICE is forging people’s signatures to say that they agreed to be deported and then holding them hostage if their lawyers appeal their cases

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
🎯🎯
February 9, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social
Imagine making a huge spectacle out of your alternative halftime show to please your Dear Leader only to find out that he chose to watch the real halftime show instead.
February 9, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social
“Subjecting children to Bad Bunny’s dancing is disgusting!” shouted the man who subjected children to raping.
February 9, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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bstaples.bsky.social
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
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wilwheaton.net
I can't stop thinking about how incredible the Bad Bunny halftime show was, and I haven't even heard him before today.

What an amazing performance, and what a beautiful celebration of love.
February 9, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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seantcollins.com
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
milleryoho.bsky.social Miller @milleryoho.bsky.social · 2d
What a moment.
Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
if only they knew someone who could translate oh well i guess they'll always have to wonder
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
My Anooralya Story, by Emily Kam Kngwarray, 1993, 📸 by @ishikasamant
February 9, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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wired.com
“The All-American Halftime Show," born out of outrage over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance, fell short of the hype. From Kid Rock’s poor lip synching to Erika Kirk being MIA, it was simply dull. www.wired.com/story/turnin...
Turning Point USA’s Halftime Show Was Exactly What You’d Expect
“The All-American Halftime Show," born out of outrage over Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance, fell short of the hype. From Kid Rock’s poor lip synching to Erika Kirk being MIA, it was simply dull.
www.wired.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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rmac.bsky.social
My favorite Super Bowl memory is still when Elon Musk was at the 2023 game in Arizona and panicked about his Eagles tweet getting less engagement than Joe Biden's. He then flew immediately to Twitter's San Francisco office to start emergency meetings to fix the site's algorithm.
February 9, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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ugarles.bsky.social
classic tweet @futurevictim_ the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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owillis.bsky.social
These are the same people who lost their minds about Disney two years ago. They are weird and out of touch.
schooley.bsky.social Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2d
Just in sheer cynical political calculation, rejecting a beautiful depiction of Latin culture by one of the most popular performers in the world right now is an incredible own goal.
February 9, 2026 at 4:49 AM