Dr. Cara Berg Powers
@clbergpowers.bsky.social
I post about public education, school integration, cultural theory, media literacy, sex ed, parenting, and random thoughts from my ADHD brain. Proud co-editor of uncoveringpossible.com out now from Vernon Press! CFC166871CD4B 24% off
This is another case of it's not just Trump, in that, this is familiar to many who are activists in our own community. We are known and monitored by police and right wing activists and elected folks. Small is all.
When they boxed Elliott and I in and came to my car they literally said to us right away:
“This is your first and final warning we have license plate readers and facial recognition we know who you are”
“This is your first and final warning we have license plate readers and facial recognition we know who you are”
Trump admin is building a list of people to retaliate against for engaging in legal, 1st amendment protected activity.
February 9, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This is another case of it's not just Trump, in that, this is familiar to many who are activists in our own community. We are known and monitored by police and right wing activists and elected folks. Small is all.
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Conservatives when a performer says something like "Be kind to each other"
a woman is holding a book and talking about having a lot of questions .
ALT: a woman is holding a book and talking about having a lot of questions .
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Conservatives when a performer says something like "Be kind to each other"
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If you bet on yellow Gatorade for the dump, congratulations, you need to call 1-800-GAMBLER immediately
February 9, 2026 at 3:14 AM
If you bet on yellow Gatorade for the dump, congratulations, you need to call 1-800-GAMBLER immediately
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Soft launch NOTHING.
Ring has been committed to making mass user driven surveillance palatable since it rolled out those cute ads of people greeting loved ones or returning packages or whatever.
They’ve been affectively priming us to accept surveillance as s fact of life for decades.
Ring has been committed to making mass user driven surveillance palatable since it rolled out those cute ads of people greeting loved ones or returning packages or whatever.
They’ve been affectively priming us to accept surveillance as s fact of life for decades.
the soft launch of mass surveillance.
don’t fall for it.
don’t fall for it.
Here's that Ring #SuperBowl commercial:
February 9, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Soft launch NOTHING.
Ring has been committed to making mass user driven surveillance palatable since it rolled out those cute ads of people greeting loved ones or returning packages or whatever.
They’ve been affectively priming us to accept surveillance as s fact of life for decades.
Ring has been committed to making mass user driven surveillance palatable since it rolled out those cute ads of people greeting loved ones or returning packages or whatever.
They’ve been affectively priming us to accept surveillance as s fact of life for decades.
🧵
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 4:59 AM
🧵
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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
@theferocity.bsky.social @zachstafford.bsky.social one that often gets overlooked for trading on proximity to Black culture before unveiling as a raging white supremacist. When he first came out, traded heavily on proximity to Detroit and Hip Hop/rock mash ups of the time.
Kid Rock appears to forget the lyrics to his song while lip syncing at the Turning Point USA halftime show.
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 AM
@theferocity.bsky.social @zachstafford.bsky.social one that often gets overlooked for trading on proximity to Black culture before unveiling as a raging white supremacist. When he first came out, traded heavily on proximity to Detroit and Hip Hop/rock mash ups of the time.
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There is also the Bad Bunny Syllabus
www.badbunnysyllabus.com
I am here for all of it!! Want to read that dissertation 😍
www.badbunnysyllabus.com
I am here for all of it!! Want to read that dissertation 😍
Home
www.badbunnysyllabus.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:42 AM
There is also the Bad Bunny Syllabus
www.badbunnysyllabus.com
I am here for all of it!! Want to read that dissertation 😍
www.badbunnysyllabus.com
I am here for all of it!! Want to read that dissertation 😍
This was my reaction when I saw the sugar cane opening. I knew we were about to get a deep dive.
Oh. Ok.
February 9, 2026 at 3:18 AM
This was my reaction when I saw the sugar cane opening. I knew we were about to get a deep dive.
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Go birds amirite????
February 9, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Go birds amirite????
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Oh.
Doocy: "The new face of RealFood .gov is Mike Tyson. How did you settle on someone who was most famous for eating Evander Holyfield's ear?"
RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."
RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Oh.
This smile was forced earlier. It is gone now. Pow Pow is not amused.
I'm glad we came over to watch the game with my Dad. This cupcake made him happy even though the pats have been making him sad.
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
This smile was forced earlier. It is gone now. Pow Pow is not amused.
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Anywho, would be nice if there were Latine and Caribbean cultural critics employed by the MSM...
February 9, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Anywho, would be nice if there were Latine and Caribbean cultural critics employed by the MSM...
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Eagle-eyed watchers of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show would have spied Toñita, the queen of Los Sures, AKA Williamsburg.
Read all about Maria Antonia “Toñita” Cay here: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg...
Read all about Maria Antonia “Toñita” Cay here: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg...
Williamsburg Changes, But Toñita Still Reigns - Hell Gate
For 50 years, Maria Antonia "Toñita" Cay has overseen the Caribbean Social Club in Williamsburg. It's now the last Puerto Rican social club in Brooklyn.
hellgatenyc.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Eagle-eyed watchers of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show would have spied Toñita, the queen of Los Sures, AKA Williamsburg.
Read all about Maria Antonia “Toñita” Cay here: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg...
Read all about Maria Antonia “Toñita” Cay here: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg...
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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
I'm glad we came over to watch the game with my Dad. This cupcake made him happy even though the pats have been making him sad.
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 AM
I'm glad we came over to watch the game with my Dad. This cupcake made him happy even though the pats have been making him sad.
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#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 AM
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
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MAGA "Christians" out here having a rage stroke because Bad Bunny displayed the message, "The only thing more powerful than hate is love."
February 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM
MAGA "Christians" out here having a rage stroke because Bad Bunny displayed the message, "The only thing more powerful than hate is love."
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So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 AM
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
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Ring camera search party™️ hits different with slavecatchers in your town
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Ring camera search party™️ hits different with slavecatchers in your town
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Sports reporter with NBC News reporting that the couple in Bad Bunny’s halftime show got married for real
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Sports reporter with NBC News reporting that the couple in Bad Bunny’s halftime show got married for real
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It is deeply disturbing. Not being hyperbolic.
I can’t do this celeb de-aging shit man
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
It is deeply disturbing. Not being hyperbolic.
So many commercials today that didn't stop to think if they should.
a man wearing glasses says you were so preoccupied
Alt: Jurassic Park Goldblum says "you were so preoccupied with whether or not you could that you didn't stop to think if you should."
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
So many commercials today that didn't stop to think if they should.
Like all parents, I have lots of concerns about what we're doing well and what we can do better. However, my kid just yelled, "oh hell no!" About the ring commercial touting that your neighborhood ring cameras can automatically look for lost pets. So we've done something right.
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Like all parents, I have lots of concerns about what we're doing well and what we can do better. However, my kid just yelled, "oh hell no!" About the ring commercial touting that your neighborhood ring cameras can automatically look for lost pets. So we've done something right.