Why the immigration court backlog is so hard to fix

[View in browser]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter]( February 7, 2022 Two weeks ago, I preordered a record from one of my favorite artists, [Big Thief](, in anticipation of their new album, set to be released on February 11. To my surprise, the double LP arrived at my doorstep last Thursday, more than a week before its official release date. I spent the entire weekend in front of my turntable, playing one side of the record and then flipping it over. I felt like it was 1969. Digital native that I am, I've never had to purchase a physical record before streaming it. The entire history of recorded music has always been a click away, on Spotify or YouTube or individual artists' websites. Collecting records is a novelty born of nostalgia for an age I never experienced. In the event of some sort of strange apocalypse that shuts down the internet but allows electricity to keep flowing, at least I'll have something to listen to. The [Joe Rogan–inspired]( [exodus from Spotify]( has, more than anything, made me rethink the way that I consume music. Why do I devote so many of my listening hours to an app that pays artists a [fraction of a cent]( per stream? Is [Apple Music]( really much better? And how in the world am I going to keep up with my Joni Mitchell [scrobbles](? I'm curious: How do you listen to music? Do you stream, download, or buy physical copies? And has the recent controversy at Spotify changed your habits at all? Let me know at aweinberg@motherjones.com. I'll be hunting Discogs for a vinyl copy of Hejira. —Abigail Weinberg Advertisement [Oxford University Press]( [Top Story] [Top Story]( [More Immigrants Are Waiting in Legal Limbo Than Ever Before. Why Is It So Hard to Fix the Backlog in the Courts?]( New data shows a record 1.6 million cases in the immigration court pipeline. BY FERNANDA ECHAVARRI [Trending] [Louis DeJoy’s USPS is defying a new climate order to buy a bunch of gas-guzzling vehicles]( BY ABIGAIL WEINBERG [Dozens of people were massacred in Myanmar on Christmas Eve. This is what it looked like.]( BY DAVID CORN [Are we even talking about the same “housing crisis”?]( BY NOAH Y. KIM [Here's one way to make server farms suck less power]( BY MATT SIMON Advertisement [Oxford University Press]( [Special Feature] [Special Feature]( [This Era of Athlete Activism Is About to Collide With the Reality of the Beijing Olympics]( And it’s unclear whether national Olympic committees—or the IOC—will protect protesting Olympians. BY DAN SPINELLI [Fiercely Independent] Support from readers allows Mother Jones to do journalism that doesn't just follow the pack. [Donate]( Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by [forwarding]( it to a friend or sharing it on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. [Mother Jones]( [Donate]( [Subscribe]( This message was sent to {EMAIL}. To change the messages you receive from us, you can [edit your email preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all mailings.]( For advertising opportunities see our online [media kit.]( Were you forwarded this email? [Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today.]( [www.MotherJones.com]( PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755