Vox Sentences: Are you ready for some football? It’s okay if you’re not. No pressure.

Super Bowl tips for everyone; Sanders vs. Clinton heats up; ISIS's Twitter purge.

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.

TOP NEWS

The Superb Owl

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• Super Bowl 50 (the NFL gave up on trying to teach America how to read Roman numerals) will take place on Sunday.

  [USA Today / Chris Chase]

• If you're there for the football: Just know that this game will be a showdown between two great quarterbacks, but Cam Newton is all that is good about America.

  [SB Nation / Spencer Hall]

• And that the criticism of Newton when he was drafted (as rounded up in this blog post) is a pretty damning indictment of how much racism shapes sports-media narratives.

  [Awful Announcing / Brad Gagnon]

• But try not to forget that you are essentially watching men give each other repeated head trauma.

  [Vox / Joseph Stromberg and Joss Fong]

• If you are there for the food: You could order takeout chicken wings ... or you could make some yourself, and feel so much more smug about everything.

  [Eater]

• If you are there for the commercials: Here is your pregame viewing — 25 of the best Super Bowl commercials of all time.

  [Vox / Noel Murray]

• If you are not there at all: Vox's Laura McGann is a genius who spends her Super Bowl Sunday going places that would normally have crowds. Here are some suggestions.

  [Vox / Laura McGann]

• If you're just here for the jokes: The "what time is the Super Bowl?" post has become an internet media in-joke. Here is how it got started.

  [The Atlantic / Robinson Meyer]

• And here is what time the Super Bowl actually is, provided by spoilsport Google. (Okay, fine: 6:30 pm Eastern.)

  [Google]

We have a Democratic primary race!

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• Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders went mano a mano in last night's Democratic debate.

  [NPR / Susan Davis]

• And by drawing a contast with each other they, arguably, both won.

  [Vox / Dylan Matthews]

• They're now very close to neck and neck in nationwide polling (and Sanders is expected to win New Hampshire easily).

  [The Hill / Bradford Richardson]

• With a serious two-person campaign comes fights over smart things — like what it means to be progressive, and how politics works.

  [Vox / Ezra Klein]

• But it also means fights over stupid things — like whether the Twitter-active "Bernie Bros" are representative of Sanders supporters. (Hint: that is not the point.)

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• Sometimes smart things get called stupid. The dating app Tinder, for example, just cracked down on people using it to canvass for Sanders. (That was unfair; the tactic was brilliant.)

  [Reuters / Melissa Fares]

• Don't worry, though. History tells us that once one of them (still probably Clinton) wins the nomination, supporters of the other will come back into the fold.

  [Salon / Walter Shapiro]

How much speech is too much speech?

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• Twitter announced today that it has shut down 125,000 accounts for "threatening or promoting terrorist acts" since 2015. Most of the accounts, it says, were associated with ISIS.

  [Twitter ]

• Why the announcement now? Well, tech companies are under pressure from politicians (including presidential candidates of both parties) to "do more" to help the government fight terrorism.

  [NYT / David E. Sanger and Amy Chozick]

• And the US government is pressuring companies to create a security backdoor so that government can access encrypted messages.

  [USA Today / Erin Kelly]

• It's not just government; Twitter is being sued by a woman whose husband was killed in a terrorist attack.

  [The Verge / Russell Brandom]

• Twitter used to be a bastion of free speech. But as it's grown, that's changed — it's now trying to balance free speech with protecting its users.

  [Motherboard / Sarah Jeong]

• Sometimes it goes too far and bans Arab Spring protesters instead.

  [The Verge / T.C. Sottek]

• It's still kind of failing at the protection part, though. A recently started parody account mocks Twitter's ineffectualness when people are being harassed and threatened. The parody account was suspended.

  [Motherboard / Sarah Jeong]

MISCELLANEOUS

When Rick Santorum took a quiz to see which presidential candidate he should support, he found he agreed with himself 97 percent of the time, and with Marco Rubio 98 percent of the time. [BuzzFeed / Andrew Kaczynski]

• One year later, how does the guy who tattooed the Left Shark from Katy Perry's Super Bowl halftime show on his ankle feel about that decision? Kelsey McKinney reports.

  [Fusion / Kelsey McKinney]

• Want to own a castle in the Czech Republic? Well, that's a weird life goal, but it appears to be surprisingly affordable.

  [Bloomberg Businessweek / Ladka Mortkowitz Bauerova ]

• When Bernie Sanders challenged Gov. Madeleine Kunin (D-VT)'s reelection bid in 1986, he argued it'd be "sexist" to vote for her just because she was a woman.

  [Boston Globe / Madeleine Kunin]

• Tired of making that cheddar? Then consider investing in some Parmesan-backed bonds.

  [Reuters / Isla Binnie]

VERBATIM

"The humble man, because he sees himself as nothing, can see other things as they are." [Iris Murdoch]

• "You tell the man on the bus that he’s got a spider on his shirt. 'It’s been there for years,' he says. 'Got anything else to say to me?'"

  [Guernica / JM Tyree]

• "Though Republicans have held the Bay State’s governorship for 16 of the past 24 years, no GOP governor since the 1990s has had enough votes in the legislature to sustain a veto."

  [The Atlantic / Molly Ball]

• "With Hillary, sometimes you get this feeling that all of her sentences are owned by someone."

  [Olivia Sauer to NYT / Amy Chozick and Yamiche Alcindor]

• "He has portrayed himself as a Scottish-born D.J., a Cambridge-trained thespian, a Special Forces officer and a professor at M.I.T. He has posed as executives from Microsoft, British Airways and Apple, always with a military background. He pretended to be a soldier seeking asylum in Canada to escape anti-Semitic attacks in the United States. He once maintained an Irish accent so well and for so long that his cellmate in an Indiana jail was convinced that he was an Irish mobster."

  [NYT / James McKinley and Rick Rojas]

WATCH THIS

Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless [YouTube / Joseph Stromberg and Estelle Caswell]

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