Former President Barack Obama just delivered the kind of subtle, expert-level trolling that makes MAGA world lose its collective mind.

And all he had to do was congratulate a Puerto Rican pop star on the Super Bowl. See the post here.

It all came after Bad Bunny pulled off one of the most politically charged Super Bowl halftime shows in recent memory—and millions of viewers thought they witnessed a direct middle finger to ICE on America’s biggest stage.

The entire 13-minute performance was a defiant celebration of Puerto Rico delivered at the exact moment Trump’s deportation machine was ripping Latino families apart.

The field transformed into Puerto Rico’s sugarcane fields with jíbaros in pavas, viejitos playing dominos, and a piragua stand. Ricky Martin performed “Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii”—Bad Bunny’s rallying cry against neocolonialism—while performers climbed power poles that exploded, symbolizing Puerto Rico’s chronic blackouts.

Photos have surfaced showing Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk at a 2011 dinner hosted by Jeffrey Epstein—years after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor—alongside other tech and media billionaires who apparently saw no problem breaking bread with a convicted sex offender. The gathering reveals what we already knew: the ruling class operates by different rules, where money buys access, silence, and immunity from the social consequences the rest of us would face for associating with predators. See the photo and read the full story here.

Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez just crushed her Republican opponent by 24 points in a Louisiana state House race—in a district Trump won by 13 points last year. That’s a 37-point swing away from Republicans, despite the GOP outspending Martinez 3-to-1. This marks the eighth Republican-held district Democrats have flipped in special elections since Trump took office in January—while Republicans have picked up exactly zero seats. Read the full story.

The FBI investigated Jeffrey Epstein for years, seized videos and financial records, interviewed dozens of victims—and concluded he wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for the elite (SURPRISE). Internal Justice Department records show agents found no evidence implicating powerful men in Epstein’s abuse, couldn’t confirm Virginia Giuffre’s trafficking claims about Prince Andrew and others, and determined the infamous “client list” Pam Bondi claimed was on her desk doesn’t actually exist—something investigators told their bosses two days before she went on Fox News lying about it. Read the full story.

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse bought Super Bowl airtime to demand Attorney General Pam Bondi release the remaining 3 million Epstein files—because OF COURSE Trump’s DOJ is dragging its feet on transparency about his dead pedophile pal. The survivors are holding photos of themselves as teenagers and asking for “the truth,” which shouldn’t be this hard except the files implicate Trump thousands of times, the DOJ already screwed up by exposing victims’ names (while protecting powerful men), and Trump himself said we should just “move on” from the whole thing. Read the full story.

On Thursday we asked, in the Midterms, do you think Democrats will win the House, both the House and Senate, or neither? 94% of you said BOTH. 4% said just the House, 2% said neither.

Here are some stories the algorithms may be keeping out of your feed.

A federal judge just handed North Carolina Republicans exactly what they wanted: permission to kick early voting sites off three major college campuses days before the primary. IF YOU’RE WONDERING whether this is about “parking access” like GOP officials claimed—spoiler alert, it’s not.

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