2026-02-20 23:21:27
ICE Detention Centers Face Huge Backlash—Before They’ve Even Been Built https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built
ICE Detention Centers Face Huge Backlash—Before They’ve Even Been Built https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built
from my link log —
Rust's huge compilation units.
https://pingcap.com/blog/Rust-s-Huge-Compilation-Units
saved 2020-06-23 https://
ICE Detention Centers Face Huge Backlash--Before They've Even Been Built (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p60#a260220p60
A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews
recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s
has been digitized and made available online for free listening.
The Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lomax in the 1980s,
has posted some 20,000 recordings.
An analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of "hostile architecture" (Shubham Bose)
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
Companies are realizing that pushing people to using "AI" is expensive (even at the subsidized pricing going on right now)
(Original title: Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due)
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/19/companies-go-full-…
Raiders Urged to Make Huge Decision on Tyler Linderbaum https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/urged-tyler-linderbaum-decision-ravens/
This article is rightly making the rounds, but somewhat misses the point. The Guardian annoys you because you aren't paying. What is really off here—and the article completely fails to talk about—is what they do to *subscribers*. I'm already PAYING!
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
Secretary Hobbs: SAVE Act creates huge costs for Washington | The Olympian
https://www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/article315116193.html
An analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of "hostile architecture" (Shubham Bose)
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
Holla… this is huge https://www.heise.de/en/news/BGH-bombshell-on-card-sharing-no-computer-fraud-in-pay-TV-piracy-11144974.html
The sentence by the highest German court is interesting as it seems to end a common practice …
My kid's logged back into Animal Crossing and has been switching around some villagers and such. There are entire islands that people playing the game have set up as clothing shops, huge warehouses of sets of clothes everywhere, that you find and fly to via a code. It's absolutely wild
Hehehehe. I sense a story behind this accidental discovery. 😂
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/116259701700541563
"Oldest-known whale song recording provides new insight into ocean sounds"
#Oceans #Animals #Environment
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Archon/116104313512121764
If I lived in Gorton and Denton, I'd vote Green. But tactical voting is forced on you by the stupid voting system -it's grossly unfair when there are more than two parties. There's a huge …
Review of the cost structure for connecting generators to the grid really is long overdue.
Instead of charging Scottish generators more to connect to the grid, the UK government should be investing to increase energy storage to make the most of our renewable generation capacity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/new…
I am reading "Baldwin: A Love Story" right now. It's huge but very good, and very enlightening on issues of race and color and sexuality and how individuals navigate a world with cultures built to oppress them and do the introspective and interpersonal work to think about and write about those cultures both creatively and truthfully. Huge recommend.
I'm reading the audiobook and the reader does a great Baldwin voice without making it feel like an artifical or shallow …
Spring is here. A couple of days ago I saw some pterodactyls (herons) carrying twigs to their nests in a huge tree; today some trees in front of my house were showing those pinhead pink blossoms that come out before the leaves.
TIL Halo:Infinite's artificial intelligence, 'The Weapon' was given an official name!
And it's origins go all the way back to 1994! (And no, it's not Cortana)
▶️ Halo Studios FINALLY Revealed The Weapon's REAL Name (Huge Implications)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EZ-2g6K…
RE: https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/116256923938563402
Huge feature. Signal is a great app and wish more people used it.
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
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RUSSIA UNDER HUGE ATTACK: EXPLOSIONS IN MOSCOW BRYANKS KALUGA BELGOROD Vlog 1321: War in #Ukraine
Hundreds of Ukrainian #drones
The Avi Lewis AMA on Reddit this afternoon was interesting. He didn't answer my question, and I'll eventually get over it, but he was swinging for the fences with his ideas. His responses would resonate I think with MastoCanucks as they pretty much call for the government to get more involved in providing real solutions. Including building 1M public homes, tackling U.S. ownership of our media, getting rid of FPTP with electoral reform, guaranteed income programs, publicly owned options for major business categories (banks, grocery, phones, etc). Those big ideas could wake up and excite voters while at the same time facing huge opposition from big businesses and wealthy Canadians who would face a new wealth tax.
I hope he wins the leadership. At the very least he'll push the Liberals to be bolder, and maybe even lead a minority government that could bring some of his ideas to fruition.
#CanPoli #NDP
https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/s/fwKRmDPSvd
Uber plans to invest $1.25B in Rivian through 2031, contingent on meeting autonomy milestones, starting with $300M at signing, to deploy 50K Level 4 robotaxis (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/897105/uber-rivian-robotaxi…
Bears Insider Gives Raiders Huge Trade Update on Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-trade-update-bears-insider/
Cowboys Predicted To Sign Former All-Pro LB Bobby Wagner in Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-predicted-sign-former-all-pro-lb-nfl-free-agency
#ThursDeath this week is this absolute BANGER of a sophomore record Whittier, California deathgrind freaks CASKET MUSH just put out, 'Evocation of Paranoia'. This fucker grinds and churns and smashes at your skull in the best ways. HUGE contender for me this year. Gonna be listening to this one a lot.
China’s Edge in an Oil Shock: Electric Cars and Renewables.
Beijing’s decades-long push to reduce its dependence on foreign oil with huge investments in clean energy sources like electric vehicles is now paying off. https://www.nytimes.com/20…
"We’ve neglected the power of carbon-sucking fungi. Meet the scientist determined to change that"
#Fungi #Plants #Environment
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
#RUSSIA HUGE UTILITIES COLLAPSE: GAS HEATING ELECTRICITY WATER Vlog 1293: War in #Ukraine
Dozens of russian regions experience huge…
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After 30 minutes of standing in a window recess surrounded by people, being hit with water balloons, "marched" to his hotel
He has reportedly retreated / led the crowd to his hotel, very smart guy 🙃
I sincerely hope that all of the bluster of the nonstop national news networks, as well as the massive mobilization of forces, all end up being for a huge nothing-burger. 20 people?! Even ICE recruits better than that.
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Thanks to all the folks on the ground and following the video who are sharing all these reports.
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Bears-Raiders blockbuster trade proposal would solve huge problems for Chicago, Vegas https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/chicago-bears/news/bears-raiders-blockbuster-trade-proposal-solve-problems…
The US used to be really dirty: Environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference #UnitedStates
Democratic Representative Dan Goldman revealed an unredacted file from the government’s Jeffrey Epstein files on the House floor Wednesday,
saying that it directly contradicts Donald Trump’s account of his relationship with the billionaire sex offender.
The document is an October 2009 email containing information about a conversation between one of Epstein’s attorneys, Jack Goldberger, and an attorney for Trump, Alan Garten.
The email was initially released to the public in…
"Under the banner of democracy, freedom and human rights, the United States has thereby extended its domination over large swathes of the world, presenting itself as a benevolent benefactor rather than a domineering despot. It has, in this way, perfected the use of empire denial as the best cover for the construction of its imperium."
Gabriel Rockill
True, but the current regime is taking the huge risk of ending that pretence. Let's hope that heralds its fall.
Analyst predicts Cowboys’ next big payday could fuel Dak Prescott’s MVP run https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/analyst-predicts-cowboys-next-big-payday-could-fuel-dak-prescott-s-mvp-run
Latest A.J. Brown trade rumor amounts to huge news for Patriots, Raiders, Chiefs https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/news/latest-aj-brown-trade-rumor-amounts-huge-news-patr…
"AI needs a lot of code."
No. It needs a lot of data and compute. But the amount of code required is comparatively small and comparatively simple.
People think of "AI" as these huge and complex IT systems when the coding part is mostly 200 Lines of Python.
Middle East war having 'huge impact' on EU economy: Commissioner Christophe Hansen - Talking Europe - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20260313-middle-east-war-having-huge-impact-on-eu-economy-commissioner-christophe-hansen
If I were looking for evidence of extraterrestrial visitation & influence on humans I’d focus on the Eurasian steppes where the indo-European languages and domestication of the horse originated. Two phenomena that had huge ramifications for the world we live in now, and the people living there at that time just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Where else in our prehistory have there been similar focal points with such far-reaching consequences?
As usual, I just look at somewhere in ngscopeclient and more massive speedups fall out.
Today it's the AC couple filter (10x speedup), average (5.6x), and base (2.4x so far from trivial block swaps, but the inner loop is still on the CPU so I expect a huge speedup once I get *that* in a shader).
I can't imagine how fast things are going to get once I have a sizeable fraction of the filter library GPU accelerated.
Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-of-border-patrol-and-ice-goons-allegedly-leaked-in-huge-data-breach/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p101#a260113p101
Den of Angels is a forum dedicated to the appreciation of resin ball-jointed dolls and the artisans who make them, started in May 2002 as a Yahoo! Group
https://denofangels.com/
Regardless, we can be careful to echo the OP in a way that doesn’t inadvertently become advertising.
❌ No: “This magical tech holds the keys to the future, and if billionaires own it then that screws the working class!” (This is a caricature, not what the OP wrote! I’m just exaggerating the thing to steer clear of.)
✅ Yes: “Whether this tech is ultimately good or bad, the investment bubble surrounding it is creating a huge wealth transfer in favor of billionaires.”
/end
The final trailer for #ProjectHailMary is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0XN3-n-2Lo. And a few have seen parts of the actual movie, some 30 minutes of it: https://gizmodo.com/we-saw-a-huge-chunk-of-project-hail-mary-and-expectations-couldnt-be-higher-2000718974
‘A whole lost culture’: the Irishman reviving the forgotten sport of stone lifting
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/14/stone-lifting-sport-irish-culture-indiana-stones
Microsoft has been rejecting email from independent servers for weeks now. The "rate-limit" mentioned in this article makes it sound like it's an issue with huge amounts of mail, but it's likely triggered by dozens over days.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/use
A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided
https://skywriter.blue/@coreyspowell.bsky.social/3meoshhxwic2u
I have finally figured out a way to cope with CJK scripts at work, and I've made _huge_ progress on a largely untested codebase
So of course the PMs are super change averse
"Look, I have been doing character encoding fixes since literally 2001"
"can you trust that the tests that I added are the right things"
"you do realize that the current system *doesn't work*, right?"
And each of them gets a "oh I don't know, so…
The cause of my outage appears to be a hydroelectric failure. PG&E's penstock failed sending a huge flood down the river and stopping the generation at the Colgate Powerhouse. Yet more PG&E infrastructure maintenance failure. At least this time they didn't kill anyone.
Would anyone else just watch the everliving hell out of a movie about the Choctaw vampire hunters in Sinners?
Aaaaand I have just, in checking my spelling, discovered that there is a HUGE number of people who feel the same.
from my link log —
Towards fearless macros.
https://lambdaland.org/posts/2023-10-17_fearless_macros/
saved 2026-02-15 https://
The existence of Israel is a manifestation of European antisemitism, both historically justifying the project of Zionism and European governments continuing to fund Israel instead of addressing the core role of antisemitism in maintaining (at least) the conservative elements of the neoliberal order.
If antisemitism props up Israel, then a core part of dismantling Israel (and thus saving the lives of Palestinians) is addressing European antisemitism. There are Israeli Jews who would leave if they felt safe to do so. There are Jews demanding Israel be armed, because they don't feel safe anywhere else.
Protest, boycott, take whatever action you feel is appropriate. There is a limit to your ability to convince governments to stop funding genocide, but you can learn about antisemitism and you can work to fight it, especially within "The Left." You can learn to distinguish between legitimate critiques of Israel, and antisemitic ones, and you can stand and call out antisemitic ones.
Honestly, this is some of the easy work that I think a lot of people don't consider even doing, don't even realize it is a thing that can be done.
I'm talking to Israeli folks who identify as being on the Left. It's hard because they've been through a lot of propaganda. Israel is a cult that terrorizes its members. This is important work that can have a huge impact, because it focuses on dismantling the networks of support that reinforce what's happening now.
Meanwhile, I still run into wild things like "Rothschild" conspiracy theories among people who identify with the idea of supporting Palestinians.
Not only can you support the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people while opposing antisemitism, but you must actually do both in order to do either. They are exactly the same fight, and anything short of both is thrashing against oneself.
oh, Seedance 2 is another huge step forward in video generation. wow. https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1r0wr5l/seedance_2_anime_fight_scenes_pokemon_demon/
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
MOSCOW HUGE ATTACK: AIRPORTS PANIC, FLIGHTS CANCELLED, EXPLOSIONS Vlog 1349: War in #Ukraine
#Moscow experienced one of the largest…
Huge Oil Drilling Plan Threatens Alabama’s Conecuh National Forest https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/huge-oil-drilling-plan-threatens-alabamas-conecuh-national-forest-2026-02-02/
<…And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)
David Cronenberg, master of body horror movies, was born today (March 15) in 1943 (during World War II!)
I saw his films 'Crash' and 'Naked Lunch' early, around the same time, in 1997 or 1998. Since then, I've seen many more of his- I just counted, I've seen 13 of his 23 films, and I've loved all of them. I'm a huge fan. My favorite was Shivers for a while. I'm not sure what it is now. Gotta see those final 10!
Happy birthday, David. We love …
Dallas Cowboys Have Huge Opportunity For NFL Offseason Trade Activity https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-have-huge-opportunity-nfl-offseason-trade-activity
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: Privacy Display works well, meaningful camera upgrades, and sleeker than S25 Ultra, but still huge, expensive, and lacks Qi2 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/893936/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-review-show-of…
Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year.
What is stopping us from doing it?
A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage,
protect 140,000 people from flooding,
and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every year
Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Huge Regulatory Rollback (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-repeal-landmark-climate-finding-in-huge-regulatory-rollback-ff7d58db?st=7FhEac
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p30#a260210p30
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in berkeley, with an opening set by the rowan brothers. not absolutely certain peter rowan was playing was his bros. at this point, but still a huge bummer to me that he & garcia never performed together again after ’74, despite sharing several bills. now “garcialive vol. 12”:
Oh no. And this follows a huge fire at the Matanzas refinery last year.
Sabotage? It wouldn't be the first time.
Fire at Havana oil refinery as Cuba’s fuel crisis deepens | Humanitarian Crises News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/new…
Former LB Sean Lee says Cowboys will have a huge year in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/former-lb-sean-lee-says-cowboys-will-have-a-huge-year-in-2026
Sources: Sony is considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029, as the AI boom fuels huge memory chip demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-15/rampant-ai-de…
It seems likely that a bright #fireball on the morning of the 12th dropped #meteorites in #Bavaria, says the Czech analysis https://meteor.asu.cas.cz/cz/post/bolid_2026_02_12/ based on data from special cameras: the body came in slowly and at a very shallow angle, so the potential strewnfield is huge and thus a systematic search not viable, and one can only hope for discoveries by chance.
Saw a VW Golf with "Volkswagan" in huge letters across the top of the windshield. No proofreading, we ball!
"UK industry could unlock major energy savings through heat reuse, says new report"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy
Website that leaked thousands of ICE agents’ personal information is down after huge ‘Russian cyberattack,’ founder says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-information-leak-website-down-russia-cyberattack-b2900713.html
Sean Lee: Cowboys are 'going to bounce back and have a huge year' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/sean-lee-cowboys-are-going-to-bounce-back-and-have-a-huge-year
good grief, gnuplot is always a huge battle
here's a graph of the length of day (green, microseconds)
and UT1-UTC (purple, milliseconds)
from 1973 until today
the LoD is the difference from 24h, averaged over the previous 12 months - the LoD is _very_ noisy so it's hard to see the trends from a shorter averaging period
UT1-UTC is the integral of the LoD, with leap seconds to keep it in bounds
things have been a bit weird since 2020 because the LoD …
Nscale acquires American Intelligence & Power, which owns a 2,250-acre data center campus in West Virginia, where it plans to build up to 8GW of compute by 2031 (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
Sean Lee: Cowboys are 'going to bounce back and have a huge year' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/sean-lee-cowboys-are-going-to-bounce-back-and-have-a-huge-year
CBS News report on ICE officer's injuries drew 'huge internal concern' (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/15/cbs-news-ice-officer-injuries
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p158#a260115p158
Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty Gifts Veteran with Huge Surprise https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-gifts-veteran-with-huge-surprise
Spend the day talking to workers council members about "AI". And it's kinda wild hearing their stories from the wild: Management is 100% in fantasy "AI" can do everything land and makes huge plans for how to use "AI" to cut workers when real projects that supposedly can do 50% of a specific task end up being able to do 8%. And they still go live. It's fucking bonkers. CEO's are really not okay.
AWS signs a two-year supply deal with Rio Tinto to access its Arizona copper mine, the US' first new source in 10 years, as AI data centers create huge demand (Ryan Dezember/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
Raiders add DE Kwity Paye as their huge first day of free agency continues https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-add-de-kwity-paye-as-their-huge-first-day-of-free-agency-continues-3717126/
'Insane This Is Legal': Bettors Make Huge Profits From Suspiciously Timed Wagers on Iran War | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/insane-this-is-legal-bettors-make-huge-profits-from-suspiciously-timed-wagers-on-iran-war
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
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#RUSSIA ARMY TRAPPED IN MOLDOVA, #ATLANT AERO HUGE STRIKE IN TAGANROG Vlog 1288: War in Ukraine
1,500 Russian soldiers wit…
"Fossil fuel pollution’s effect on oceans comes with huge costs"
#FossilFuels #Oceans #Environment
Tailings dams
– repositories of mining waste that is often toxic and stored under water
– litter landscapes around the world.
Often, they hold huge quantities of poisonous, harmful material .
While tailings dams are theoretically built to last for ever, more extreme weather driven by the climate crisis has changed the risk profile of many structures.
Flooding, intense rainfall and other weather extremes mean that many of them are more unstable, according to ex…
A preview of Nvidia's 2026 GTC, which kicks off on March 16, where the company is expected to unveil new agentic-optimized CPUs, a CPU-only rack, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/nvidia-gtc-ai-jensen-huang-cpu-gpu.html
…
Javonte Williams re-signing with Cowboys is 'huge', Dak says https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/javonte-williams-re-signing-with-cowboys-is-huge-dak-says
Insider Drops Huge Raiders News for Defensive Coordinator Role https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/insiders-drops-news-defensive-coordinator-role/
Javonte Williams re-signing with Cowboys is 'huge', Dak says https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/javonte-williams-re-signing-with-cowboys-is-huge-dak-says
Salesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/slackbot-ai-agent-upgrade/
China could emerge a winner from Trump’s global energy shock
The disruption caused by the war on Iran may reveal that years China spent preparing for a global energy crisis have left the country and its economy better positioned than most to endure a long-term hike in the cost of oil and gas.
Through massive stockpiles of crude oil,
an aggressive push into electric vehicles
and huge investments into coal, renewable power and battery storage,
Beijing has worked …
Maxx Crosby Trade Speculation Ignites Huge Claim for Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-trade-speculation-huge-claim/
Cowboys Headlines: Gary took pay cut; Dallas pulls interest in polarizing LB https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/17/news-headlines-march-16-2026-rashan-gary-pa…
Maxx Crosby Reportedly Traded to Ravens for Huge Haul, Including 2026 First-Round Pick https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/maxx-crosby-reportedly-traded-ravens-huge-haul-including-2026-first-round-pick
Broncos make huge Davis Webb OC decision after Raiders head coach news https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/denver-broncos/news/broncos-huge-davis-webb-oc-decision-raiders-head-coach-news/7bc04f74d7d9b4f670…
Insider Expects Raiders to Take Big Swing on 30-Year-Old Head Coach https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/head-coach-rumors-davis-webb-broncos/
Insider Drops Huge Prediction About Raiders Head Coach Search https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/insider-drops-prediction-head-coach-search/