My first session @sxsw.com is Buzzfeed Founder & CEO Jonah Peretti. @buzzfeed.com is on a mission to make the internet fun again by emphasizing community, culture, and taste.
To start, they're launching two apps - Conjure and Buzzfeed Island.
Well, this is scary. "In December, the conservative Manhattan Institute found that 31 percent of Republicans under 50 identify their own views as racist, and 25 percent say their views are antisemitic."
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"[Ex-ICE instructor] Schwank said that among the classes eliminated were 16 hours of firearms training. He also said that a two-hour class on the rights of protesters was shortened into 10 minutes of discussion during a lecture on 'the concept of seizure.'”
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The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".
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Tonight, I’ll be watching the People’s State of the Union with MoveOn and MeidasTouch — standing up for healthcare, affordability and decency.
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"People have to give birth in their homes in secret, because if they were to go to a hospital to have their baby, masked agents of the state would abduct them....This is lived reality right now. This is the country you live in."
JVL and Tim Miller on what they saw in Minneapolis.
“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.”
NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.
Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”
Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car
I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head
Truth.
I guess we weren't clear when we told the DOJ to release ALL of the Epstein files. So, let's try this again:
Why are folks not asking more questions about this FBI complaint in the Epstein Files?
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Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut
"Coal plants are the single largest source of mercury pollution in the United States, accounting for more than 42 percent of total emissions, according to E.P.A. data." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/c...
This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
Can we please trade-in the current deranged model for this sane and thoughtful one? youtu.be/uI-hgSE5QIw?...
When an immigration agent shot a man in the leg last month in Minnesota, the Trump administration rushed to sell a version of events that demonized the wounded man. It was the latest instance of the U.S. government providing an account of a shooting that later proved questionable or outright wrong.
The administrator of the EPA is expected on Thursday to repeal a scientific finding that requires the federal government to fight global warming. The move is the latest push by the Trump administration to wipe out climate regulations in the U.S.
Listen to "The Daily."
A Ukrainian athlete was disqualified from the Winter Olympics in Italy on Thursday because he had planned to wear a helmet commemorating countrymen who were killed in the war with Russia. Officials said that the helmet violated the Games’ ban on political speech. Read more: nyti.ms/4qDNF3T
From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔
Verge headline: ‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE by Hayden Field Photo illustration depicts a person in a window on a PC, typing at a laptop. Looming in the background are ICE law enforcement agents
“The dissent I’ve seen is like a whisper. It’s a fear-based culture right now.”
Across the industry, workers describe a ‘fear-based culture’ and pressure to ‘fall in line.‘
Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: buff.ly/NArp66x
Who's paying for Trump's tariffs? We are.
"A paper last week from the non-partisan Tax Foundation think-tank found that the tariffs amounted to an average tax increase on US households of $1,000 in 2025 and $1,300 in 2026"
Saw that you can now buy insurance for "unexpected car repairs," and that's a real sign of the times.
NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.
The Grifter in Chief is holding up federal funds to have Penn Station and Dulles Airport named after him. This guy has no shame or concept of what being a functional president looks like.
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Do they seriously think we're that stupid?!?
Demonstrating that Trump believes his cult will believe anything he tells them to believe, the White House announced that the shockingly racist meme posted on Trump's Truth Social account was posted by "a White House staffer."
It was posted in the middle of the night, so which "staffer" is that?
Every day I keep thinking they can't possibly get more despicable and evil, and every day they top their last diabolical deed. #ICE
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More helpful policies of this administration.
In January, Mr. Trump was more explicit. “My goal,” he said, “is to not let any windmill be built.”
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Thank goodness we still have judges who uphold the Constitution!
