ICE to Open Second Tennessee Immigrant Detention Center in Lebanon

CoreCivic  West Tennessee Detention Facility in Mason, Tenn. 

by Anita Wadhwani, Tennessee Outlook, February 13, 2026 -  Immigration and Customs Enforcement has purchased a facility in Lebanon, Tenn. to detain immigrants, a spokesperson said. It will be the second immigrant detention facility in Tennessee; CoreCivic operates the West Tennessee Detention Facility in Mason, Tenn. 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has purchased a facility in Lebanon to house detained immigrants, an agency spokesperson said Friday.

No details about the size, scope, purchase price or street address of the facility in Lebanon, about 30 miles east of Nashville, were immediately made available Friday, and news of the purchase took state and local officials by surprise. 

Wilson County Mayor Randall Hutto said he had heard no information about the plans to build a detention center in the county and asked for contact information to reach ICE in order to learn more. The Wilson County Assessor of Property has no record of a final purchase.

State Sen. Mark Pody and state Rep. Clark Boyd, who represent the area, said they were unaware of the plans.

The Lebanon facility will be part of the agency’s now-expanding  network of “well-structured detention facilities meeting our regular detention standards,” the ICE spokesperson said in an email to the Lookout. The facility will be Tennessee’s second detention center for immigrants. A once-shuttered federal prison in Mason, Tenn. was repurposed as the West Tennessee Detention Facility to house detained immigrants last fall. 

The Mason facility, operated by Nashville-based private prison contractor CoreCivic, housed a daily average of 243 men on non-criminal charges, 31 men with criminal charges and one female detainee facing no criminal charges between the facility’s reopening in fall 2025 and Jan. 22, according to rolling data maintained by ICE. The majority of detainees had no previous criminal convictions.

In a nod to the potential size of the Lebanon facility, the ICE spokesperson provided estimates on economic benefits to the surrounding community:

“The Lebanon facility and its construction are expected to bring 7,216 jobs to the area and would contribute $829.5 million to GDP. It’s also projected to bring in more than $167.8 million in tax revenue,” the spokesperson wrote. 

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion to acquire warehouses across the country and turn them into large-scale immigrant detention centers holding tens of thousands of people awaiting deportation or immigration hearings, the Washington Post reported Friday.

Asked Friday about plans to house immigrants in former warehouses in Tennessee, the ICE spokesperson said “these will not be warehouses.”

In addition to the jobs and taxes generated by the facility in Lebanon, the spokesperson said the “economic benefits don’t even take into account that removing criminals from the streets makes communities safe for businesses and customers.” The spokesperson included a series of mug shots of immigrants accused of violent crimes who have been detained in Tennessee. 

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Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way

by Rod Williams, Feb. 14, 2026- I am convinced that Donald Trump intends to steal the midterms.  In an essay I wrote recently, I laid out five ways in which I believe Donald Trump would try to do so. You can read that essay, "It is Happening: Trump Says Republicans Should ‘Take Over’ Voting ‘In At Least 15 Places,’" at this link.

The December issue of The Atlantic, which I am just now getting around to reading, has an article by David A. Graham entitled The Coming Election Mayhem, The article lays out a plausible and detailed plan for how Trump could steal the election. The article was written in Oct. 28, 2025. We are further along the path Graham lays out now than we were when he wrote the article.

The lengthy article is well worth reading and I am reposting portions of it here. It is behind a paywall and one may not access the complete article and I usually try to respect fair use policies so I will not repost the complete article, but If you can access it, it is worth reading.

 While I am almost certain that Trump will try to steal the election, I do not think it is necessarily destined to succeed. Our institutions are still strong, and we are still a nation of laws. For it not to succeed, people need to stand up and not be intimidated. Companies, Universities, local governments, civil society, and journalists need to be bold and fearless in standing up to Trump. There needs to be an army of lawyers ready to take Trump to court and seek injunctions. And, Democrats need to win the midterm by a margin so big that the election is too big to steal.

Midterms almost always favor the party out of power, and Republicans are facing a strong headwind and are likely to lose the midterm unless Democrats screw this up. The worst thing Democrats could do facilitate Trump's plan to steal the election is to nominate woke left-wing nut jobs like they did in the recent Tennessee 7th Congressional election. To win too big to steal, Democrats need to vote in the primaries and nominate candidates who don't repulse normal people. 

Here are portions of the article:

The Coming Election Mayhem

by David A. Graham, The Atlantic, Oct. 28, 2025 - Imagine for a moment that it’s late on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Republicans have kept their majority in the Senate, but too many House races are still uncalled to tell who has won that chamber. Control seems like it will come down to two districts in Maricopa County, Arizona. ICE agents and National Guardsmen have been deployed there since that summer, ostensibly in response to criminal immigrants, though crime has been dropping for several years. The county is almost one-third Hispanic or Latino. Voting-rights advocates say the armed presence has depressed turnout, but nonetheless, the races are close. By that evening, the Republican candidates have small leads, but thousands of mail and provisional ballots remain uncounted.

Donald Trump calls the press into the Oval Office and announces that the GOP has held the House—but he warns that Democrats will try to steal the election, and announces plans to send a legal team to Arizona to root out fraud. He spends the rest of the night posting threats and allegations on Truth Social. In the morning, Republican lawyers file to stop vote counting, arguing that any votes counted after Election Day are illegal under federal law. Attorney General Pam Bondi sends a letter to Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic secretary of state, and the county board of supervisors, instructing them to retain all documents and warning that the Department of Justice may intervene if it suspects anything untoward. On X, FBI Director Kash Patel reposts false rumors about fraud and announces plans to lead a group of agents to Phoenix. Meanwhile, Democratic candidates have pulled ahead in both races by Wednesday afternoon, but the margin is just 143 votes in the Eighth District, with many votes still not tallied.

By now, conservative outlets are running wall-to-wall coverage alleging fraud, offering tales of immigrants being bused to voting locations and accusing Democrats of treason. MAGA has learned its lesson since 2020, and Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell are nowhere near the cameras. Instead, administration officials like Bondi are the face of the allegations on TV. Behind the scenes, Trump is making phone calls. He’s unable to reach any county supervisors, whose lawyers have warned them not to speak with him, but he gets through to the county recorder, a MAGA loyalist elected as part of the backlash to the 2020 election. No one knows quite what is said—the call isn’t taped—but when Trump hangs up, he posts that the county has agreed to hand over control of voting machines to the Department of Homeland Security.

Fontes and the board of supervisors rush to court to block the move, and a judge quickly grants an injunction. But Trump declares a national emergency that he says supersedes the order; helicopters are en route from a Marine air base in Yuma to take control of the voting machines. By the time Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, who is assigned to hear emergency matters from Arizona, issues an order blocking this, Marines have already commandeered ballots and machines. Patel, having just arrived in Phoenix, holds a press conference and announces, without providing evidence, that votes have been tampered with. He proclaims the Republican candidates the winners.

Despite Marines on the street, small but fierce protests erupt in Phoenix and elsewhere; Trump uses them as a pretext to invoke the Insurrection Act and announces “martial law in Democrat-run cities.” Who actually won the election can never be determined—the Marines and Patel have broken the chain of custody, as well as some of the machines themselves—but the state names the two Democrats as winners. House Republicans reject Arizona’s certification and instead seat the GOP candidates. Trump’s allies keep the House in a profoundly illegitimate election rejected by many Americans.

This is just one possible scenario. Is it too pessimistic? Perhaps. But at this stage of the election cycle in 2019, no one expected a crowd of Trump supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. No one expected the president himself to explicitly lend his support to their efforts to “Stop the Steal.” Certainly no one expected that there would be calls to hang the vice president for his refusal to subvert the democratic process. If anything, when it comes to 2026, I worry more about the limits of my imagination than about the hazards of speculation.

..... I. Laying the Groundwork ... II. Changing the Rules ...

III. Election Day ... The administration could try to get around the ban on troops at polling places in a few ways. Cleta Mitchell, a conservative lawyer who was involved in “Stop the Steal” efforts in 2020 and remains influential in the White House, suggested in September that Trump could use emergency powers. “The chief executive is limited in his role with regard to elections, except where there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the United States,” she said on a conservative talk show. “I think maybe the president is thinking that he will exercise some emergency powers to protect the federal elections going forward.” Trump might allege foreign interference in the elections ... One possibility is that he could invoke the Insurrection Act, as he has repeatedly threatened to do, by claiming it is necessary to enforce federal law or protect voters’ constitutional rights. ...

IV. After Election Day ... As soon as the polls close, Trump and other Republicans will try to stop the counting of votes. ... If all of that fails, Republicans could attempt to refuse to seat Democrats who are elected. 

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Sen. Blackburn Demands Probe of Ketanji Brown Jackson for Attending Grammys

by Rod Williams, Feb. 13, 2026- Today, I posted about how Congressman Andy Ogles accused Bad Bunny of broadcasting ‘gay pornography’ and that Ogles was calling for an investigation. Well, Andy apparently is taking notes from Senator Marsha Blackburn. In case you missed it, earlier this month Blackburn demanded a probe of Justice Ketanji Brown for attending the grammys were she was nominated for an award for narrating the audiobook version of her memoir. Her big offence at the Grammys was laughing at some anti-ICE jokes.

Blackburn, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called for an investigation into whether Jackson’s actions comply with the Supreme Court’s Code of Conduct’s stipulation that justices “act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.”

What are wrong with these Republicans? Maybe Ogles really is as stupid and vacuous as he appears and really believes the insane things he does and says, but I think Marsha knows better. With Ogles, I think it may be equal parts that he drank the Kool-Aid, and he is performative and opportunistic. With Marsha, I think she is a lot smarter than Ogles and it is all performative and opportunistic. But maybe I'm wrong. 

You can read more about it here and here. 

Here is the Blackburn press release on the topic:

Blackburn Calls on Chief Justice Roberts to Investigate Justice Jackson for Participating in Partisan & Inflammatory Grammy Awards

Press release, February 5, 2026 - Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) sent a letter to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts urging him to conduct a thorough investigation regarding the ethical questions raised by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s attendance at the Grammy Awards. Below are excerpts from the letter, and the full letter can be found here.

Justice Jackson’s Attendance at Politicized Event Promoting Anti-ICE Rhetoric Undermines Public Confidence in Integrity of the Judiciary

“I write today regarding recent reporting about Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s attendance at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, February 1, and the ethical questions raised by her attendance at such a highly politicized event. For the following reasons, I urge you to conduct a thorough investigation into Justice Jackson’s attendance at this event and whether her presence at such an event complies with the obligation that a Supreme Court justice ‘act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.’ While it is by no means unheard of or unusual for a Supreme Court justice to attend a public function, very rarely—if ever—have justices of our nation’s highest Court been present at an event at which attendees have amplified such far-left rhetoric. Many of the attendees wore lapel pins that read ‘ICE OUT,’ an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) adage. One Grammy winner that evening opened his acceptance speech by stating, ‘Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ‘ICE out,’ which was received with thunderous applause by the crowd. Another award recipient that evening noted in her acceptance speech that ‘No one is illegal on stolen land,’ going on to say that ‘we need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting… And f*** ICE…’ These statements were just two of many polarized, highly charged anti-law enforcement sentiments from that evening. It is important to note that Justice Jackson was present in the audience throughout the event.”

Democrats Spent Years Smearing Republican-Appointed SCOTUS Justices as Corrupt

“Congressional Democrats and the legacy media have spent years smearing Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices as corrupt, partisan, and having engaged in conduct that violates the Court’s Code of Conduct. In one particularly egregious example, Senators Durbin and Whitehouse sent you a letter urging you to ‘take appropriate steps to ensure that Justice Alito will recuse himself in any cases related to the 2020 presidential election and January 6th attack on the Capitol’ simply because Justice Alito’s wife flew a Revolutionary War-era flag outside of their home. Similarly, Senate Democrats spent months claiming—falsely—that Justice Thomas violated the Court’s ethics code because he went on vacation with a long-time friend. These public smear campaigns orchestrated by congressional Democrats and amplified by the mainstream media were baseless and a pathetic attempt to influence the decision-making process of the Court.”

Blackburn Urges Chief Justice Roberts to Investigate Whether Justice Jackson Violated SCOTUS Code of Conduct

“Unlike these meritless claims against Justice Alito and Justice Thomas, there are serious questions regarding Justice Jackson’s participation in such a brazenly political, anti-law enforcement event and her ability to remain an impartial member of the Supreme Court… In addition to its requirement that justices remain impartial, the Court’s Code of Conduct also states that recusal should apply ‘where an unbiased and reasonable person who is aware of all relevant circumstances would doubt that the Justice could fairly discharge his or her duties.’ Following Justice Jackson’s participation in such a partisan and inflammatory event, an investigation into her ability to remain impartial with respect to immigration matters that come before the Court is urgently needed… I urge you to initiate an investigation into Justice Jackson’s attendance at this event and if her participation in any way would require recusal from matters that will come before the Court.”

https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2026/2/blackburn-calls-on-chief-justice-roberts-to-investigate-justice-jackson-for-participating-in-partisan-inflammatory-grammy-awards

   

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Andy Ogles accuses Bad Bunny of broadcasting ‘gay pornography’. Calls for Investigation.

by Rod Williams, Feb. 13, 2026- Does Andy Ogles have nothing better to do than pander to moralistic snowflakes and bigots? He has called for an investigation into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show, suggesting it amounted to broadcasting “gay pornography” during prime time.  Wow! I guess Andy Ogles has never seen any pornography. While you may not have cared for the Bad Bunny performance, it was hardly porn. 

"Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air, " said Ogles.

I don't much care for the croach grabbing myself, but it is kind of common now, and a lot of artists do it. You can hardly make bad taste a federal crime. 

In a Feb. 9 letter to fellow Republican Rep. Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Ogles demanded an inquiry into the NFL and NBCUniversal regarding their "prior knowledge, review, and approval" of the Latin rapper's performance.

Does he think this will accomplish anything? I don't think so, but he knows it will play well with his White fundamentalist Christian bigot constituents. It is simply performative. He is throwing red meat to the base. Also, attacking the people Trump has attacked seems to be an Ogle trait. He is Trump's number one lap dog. It is easier to be a Trump suck-up and pander to the Trump base than to govern. 

Read more about it at this link, or this, or this. 

Here is Ogles press release: 

ICYMI: Ogles Requests Congressional Probe Of NFL NBC Over Vulgar Halftime Show

Press Release, February 10, 2026, WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Andy Ogles (TN-05) is requesting that the Energy and Commerce Committee launch a formal congressional inquiry into the National Football League and NBC immediately for their prior knowledge, deliberate approval, and facilitation of the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show, which featured explicit displays of sexual acts and lyrics on national television that represent a clear violation of FCC guidelines. 

“The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show was pure smut, brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness. Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air. And if that weren't outrageous enough, the performance's lyrics openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities. These flagrant, indecent acts are illegal to be displayed on public airways,” Congressman Ogles said.

“That is why I am requesting that the Energy and Commerce Committee launch a formal congressional inquiry into the National Football League and NBC immediately for their prior knowledge, deliberate approval, and facilitation of this indecent broadcast. American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence,” said Congressman Ogles.

Here is the letter: 

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Trump's Outrage of the Day for Feb. 10, 2026:

 1. FBI cited debunked claims to obtain warrant for Fulton County vote records, documents show. The FBI relied heavily on previously debunked claims of widespread election irregularities in Georgia as it persuaded a federal judge last month to sign off on plans to seize scores of 2020 voting records from the state’s most populous county, court documents unsealed Tuesday show. .. many of the irregularities they raised — including claims of duplicate ballots and missing ballot images — have been previously explained by county officials as the types of routine errors that frequently occur, are typically corrected in the moment, and are not significant enough to sway the outcome of an election. Independent reviews have backed up that conclusion.

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Update: David French in Nashville: "Five Constitutional Amendments to Save America."

Update: Feb 10, 2026- Due to the ice storm that hit Nashville earlier this month, the start of this class had to be rescheduled. It will now begin on Feb. 17th. There is time to enroll. 

by Rod Williams, Feb. 7, 2026- David French is teaching a class in Nashville on the topic of Five Constitutional Amendments to Save America. This is part of David Libscomb's Lifelong Learning program. One does not have to be an alumnus or otherwise associated with David Libscomb to attend this class. The fee for the five-class course is only $80.

I had this on my list to sign up for, but time slipped by me, and I missed the first one. However, I just registered today, so as of now, space is still available. I will be able to watch the missed class on my computer. If interested, I encourage you to sign up now. Follow this link. Click on "Class Offerings," and then click on "Tuesday."

This will be the third time I have taken a course taught by David French. Last year I took one on "Freedom of Speech," and the year before I took one on "The Second American Revolution," dealing with the 14th, 15th, and 16th Amendments. His classes are stimulating, informative, and thought-provoking, and David French is an excellent teacher. 

If you consume much news, you have probably read David French's column in the New York Times or The Atlantic or seen him on podcast such as The Bulwark, The Dispatch or as a member of guest panels on network news programs. Here are excerpts from his Wikipedia bio:

David Austin French (born January 24, 1969) is an American political commentator and former attorney. He is a columnist for The New York Times and a visiting professor of public policy at Lipscomb University. He was formerly senior editor of The Dispatch, a fellow at the National Review Institute, and a staff writer for National Review.

Early life and education : French was born on January 24, 1969, in Opelika, Alabama. His parents were students at nearby Auburn University.[2] He grew up in Georgetown, Kentucky.[3]

French graduated from Lipscomb University in 1991 with a BA, summa cum laude.[4][5] He then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1994 with his JD, cum laude.[6][7][8]

Career: French has served as a senior counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice and the Alliance Defending Freedom,[9] has lectured at Cornell Law School, and spent much of his career working on religious rights issues.[10] He served as president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), now known as the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).[7] French retired from FIRE in 2005, citing plans to serve in the United States Army Reserve as a judge-advocate general officer.[11][12] He left the legal practice in 2015, and became a staff writer for National Review from 2015 to 2019,[13][14] and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.[15]

French has authored several books,[7] including the non-fiction Divided We Fall (2020).[16][17]

French is a former senior editor of The Dispatch,[18] and occasionally a contributing writer for The Atlantic. French is a distinguished visiting professor of public policy at Lipscomb University, his alma mater.[19]

French became a New York Times columnist in January 2023.[18]

In December 2019, French joined The Dispatch's Advisory Opinions biweekly legal podcast as a permanent guest contributor alongside host, Sarah Isgur.[20]

Military service: French is a former major in the United States Army Reserve[27] and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.[7] French was deployed to Iraq in 2007 during the Iraq War, serving in Diyala Governorate as squadron judge-advocate.[28] He was awarded a Bronze Star.[27]

Personal life: French is married to author Nancy French.[36] He and his family live in Franklin, Tennessee.[37] They have three children, including a daughter adopted from Ethiopia.[38]

French was until 2024 a member of the Presbyterian Church in America. Due to conflicts with his church and its members over political issues, and after personal attacks against him and his family, they switched to another church in Nashville.[39]

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George Will Highlights Potential Dangerous Path Ahead

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Feb. 4, 2026- In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, columnist George Will writes about the six paths to a fiscal disaster outlined in our recent paper, “What Would a Fiscal Crisis Look Like?”.

Will discusses each fiscal crisis in turn – financial crisis, inflation crisis, austerity crisis, currency crisis, default crisis, and gradual crisis – and how our rising national debt could set them off. Will pays particular concern to a gradual crisis, which he considers to be the “most probable, and most ominous” because unlike the other major crises, it is not action-forcing. As Will also mentions, it can be difficult to get elected politicians to bear short-term costs to address large, long-term issues.

A gradual crisis would be anesthetizing, rather than an action-forcing, cymbal-crash event that could stimulate recuperative reforms of U.S. political culture. Instead, this culture would become more toxic. Political power would be fought for, and wielded, with the desperate ruthlessness of a zero-sum competition in which one faction’s gains must equal other factions’ losses.

While it is impossible to know if or when a fiscal crisis could occur, policymakers can take steps to lower deficits and put the debt on a downward path by reducing spending, raising revenue, enacting trust fund solutions, finding health care savings, and implementing other pro-growth policies. And in Will’s words, providing this information to policymakers now can hopefully "galvanize congressional action to forestall a darkening fiscal future.”

Read the full piece here and read our full paper, “What Would a Fiscal Crisis Look Like?”.

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Our Progressive Metro Council is no More Committed to Free Speech or Fairness than any MAGA State Legislature.

Why did the Metro Council quietly reject a partnership with Liberty University?

by Megan Podsiedlik, The Pamphleteer, Feb 4, 2026- Last night, the council decided to reject a benignbill that would have created an agreement with the Office of Family Safety to provide fieldwork experience for students enrolled in Liberty University's social work programs. There’s no fiscal note; the arrangement is mutually beneficial. Metro has made similar arrangements with multiple universities in the past, so why reject Liberty?

Liberty University is widely understood to be a conservative institution rooted in evangelical Christian beliefs. Frankly, the rejection felt political. For onlookers paying attention, it’s hard to ignore the implications of the rejection and easy to come to the conclusion that, at the very least, the members were making a statement. 

From performative resolutions to defund police sentiments to blatant favoritism, we’ve seen it all from the most “progressive council in Nashville's history.” A council whose members rejected Morgan Wallen’s permit to put up a neon sign for his bar simply because they don’t like him. And the pettiness isn’t cheap. It costs a pretty penny, as was the case two years ago when the council selectively settled up one lawsuit regarding First Amendment rights and rejected a reasonable settlement for another, all in the name of identity politics—a $1.8 million mistake taxpayers will shoulder.

During last night’s docket, heard alongside a toothless resolution denouncing Elon Musk’s underground transit project in Nashville and other token gestures, the council rejected Liberty University without discussion.

Perhaps they're taking cues from the mayor, who often projects a particular about-face depending on which groups he's speaking to. In front of the mainstream, he often masks the intentions behind his decisions or indecision. When amongst his progressive cohort, he smooths any ruffled feathers with a wink and a nudge. Of course, this is mere observation. All very easy to plausibly deny. So, council members, was it political?

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Rod's Comment: Unfortunately, both MAGAs and Progressives share similar views. Free Speech is for my team, but not your team. Fairness is for my people, but not your people. It seems that power and tribalism are the driving forces. Each side will excuse whatever is done by their team, but attack the other team for similar actions. Trump has done bad things on a much greater magnitude than Democrats have ever done, but of a similar kind. Trump is the biggest crook we have ever had in office, but we should not forget the Biden family's China dealings and Hunter's corrupt practices. While Trump has trampled the rule of law to a greater extent than ever before, we should not forget that the Biden administration pressured universities to deny due process to men accused of sexual harassment. The Obama administration pressured the IRS to deny tax-exempt status to conservative non-profits with "patriot" or "tea party' in their name and Trump has threatened the tax-exempt status of liberal churches. One has little moral authority to criticize Trump's use of the IRS for political revenge unless they so criticized the Obama administration. 

Our progressive Metro Council is no more committed to free speech or fairness than any MAGA state legislature. 

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Kid Rock is the Perfect Alternative Artist for the MAGA Half-time Show. His Values Align With Trump's. Enjoy the Show.

Dear MAGA friends and family, 

I hope you all enjoy the Super Bowl today. Thankfully, for the half-time show, you will have an alternative to that disgusting Hispanic pervert called Bad Bunny. You can instead watch the wholesome, patriotic alternative show featuring Kid Rock. He is White and he doesn't cross-dress. 

I had never heard of Bad Bunny until recently, but then I'm not very hip and tuned into contemporary culture. The Super Bowl folks, however, I don't think, just picked him at random to piss off MAGA folks and offend Christians. He is a global music phenomenon and one of the world's biggest pop stars, having been named Spotify's top global artist four times (2020-2022, 2025) with over 100 billion total streams. That's pretty impressive, you've got to admit. He has won the 2026 Grammy for Album of the Year. 

I know he sings in Spanish and has brown skin, but he is an American. No, I know some people assume he is an immigrant or a foreigner and was picked to do the half-time show just to poke MAGA folks in the eye, but he is an American. He's from Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is part of America. Really, I'm not making that up. Puero Ricans are Americans. 

Kid Rock is very much pro-Trump, and he will probably say some pro-Trump, maybe even some anti-immigrant things during his show. He can be pretty outrageous, so who knows what he will say. He has a Rheinstone suit patterned on the U.S. flag. Maybe he will wear that. 

I think he is the perfect entertainer to represent the MAGA crowd. His values align with what I perceive to be Trump's values, as expressed in the lyrics of this song he wrote and recorded. 

Enjoy the Super Bowl. 

Rod

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