While Fox News and other right-wing outlets decried the NFL decision to have Bad Bunny perform at next year’s Super Bowl Halftime show, one media personality – John Oliver – is a big fan, praising the superstar Latin trap artist while addressing recent headlines on tonight’s installment of Last Week Tonight.
“The NFL controversially gave the Super Bowl Halftime show to one of the hottest, most commercially successful people alive,” he quipped.
After the appointment of the Puerto Rico-hailing musician, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would send ICE agents to the venue, with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem doubling-down on the matter later.
Last night, the singer-songwriter addressed the furor during his monologue on the Season 51 opening episode of Saturday Night Live. “I’m very happy, and I think everyone is happy about it, even Fox News,” the three-time Grammy winner said, the show then cutting to spliced-together footage from the network, which said: “Bad Bunny is my favorite musician. He should be the next president.”
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getting to know Benito
“There’s nothing better than being yourself” says global music superstar Bad Bunny, telling Stephen Colbert that Benito and Bad Bunny are ultimately the same person, before sharing his perfect day in Puerto Rico. Stick around for more with Bad Bunny and watch him in “Happy Gilmore 2” opening in theaters on July 25th.
“I got emotional” says Bad Bunny about meeting his “Happy Gilmore 2” co-star Adam Sandler for the first time. Watch Benito give Stephen Colbert some fashion advice, and go see “Happy Gilmore 2” in theaters on July 25th.
Oct 5, 2025
Global superstar and Grammy-winning singer Bad Bunny has been getting hotter and hotter lately. His celebrity reaches beyond the music industry, spanning generations and encompassing politics, Caribbean culture and Puerto Rican and Latin pride. John Yang speaks with Yale professor Albert Sergio Laguna about what makes Bad Bunny such a phenomenon.
Nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana, así que disfrutemos hoy = No one knows what’s going to happen tomorrow, so let’s enjoy ourselves today.
Anon – There’s actually Gaga’s “Paparazzi” and Portugal The Man’s “Feel It Still” riffs in that song. “Wi$h Li$t” is a better song than the opening track, IMO.
Bad Bunny probably making a fortune from the commercial usage of “Manaco.” I’d swear it’s in multiple ads.
https://www.vibe.com/lists/bad-bunny-songs-translated-into-english/callaita/
What is the resistance to Bad Bunny at Super Bowl all about? That he doesn’t exclusively speak English?
Hey, we all know “Frère Jacques,” so we can learn some Bad Bunny, even if it’s just a few phrases. He’s a vibe, so it’s enjoyable without knowing what the words mean.
MAGAts don’t think Puerto Ricans are US citizens. (He’s brown, and MAGAts are white nationalists.)
He speaks one of them there foreign languages. (Maybe he’s saying bad stuff about MAGAts.)
Simple answer: Racism
Trail Mix, the YouTube channel, just topped 1,500 subscribers yesterday
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October 5, 2025
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Oct 05, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court term for 2025-2026 officially begins today, Monday. The first Monday in October is the day officially set by law for the Court to reconvene after its summer break. That means the Justices will start hearing cases and making decisions on the cases it has on its docket. These cases will be briefed and argued orally before the Court, unlike the decisions off of the Shadow Docket that we’ve been seeing recently.
The Court’s calendar indicates the days, marked in red, when it will hear oral argument in cases. The Justices will add in additional days as necessary.
Calendar and known cases on link.
The racism against Puerto Rico has been around so long it has even spawned musicals.
The National Guard ploy backfired
imo, what’s below their racism is their “scarcity mentality.” They’re fine with multi-colored people who stay where they belong. Just don’t let them come here, take up our space and our stuff. They are the kids who were taught not to share in kindergarten.
And it’s the language issue, Ivy. Dumb MAGAts who won’t learn other languages hate and/or fear immigrants who don’t speak perfect English.
Jamie – Ha! I actually had a dream that Rita Moreno opened for Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl. She just sang one word: “America”
today’s meme…
meme #2…
Good point, Craig. Previous generations of immigrants did not always teach their children the mother tongue, they made them speak English. My grandfather did not teach my mother his language; Mr. Ivy’s parents did not teach him.
It is much easier to learn a language at an early age which was why so many immigrant adults, used their children as translators when having to deal with the world outside their homes. English is a difficult language courtesy of stealing any word not nailed down as untranslatable, so it is constantly growing. Two words meaning the same exist because one is Latin based and the other Germanic. A good read on the history of the language is “The Story of English” by Robert McCrum.
If ABBA performed a Swedish-only halftime show, it wouldn’t be a problem.
Creepy Andrew Cuomo is on The View. Trying to other Mamdani. FAC & FDT
My great-grandmother didn’t teach her kids any Danish. The entire community came from Denmark, but the language was gone in one generation.
He’s lying. He’s saying Mamdani is a communist. Muted him. Even listening to him with one, good ear is too much.
I’m rather skeptical of the magical time when all immigrants insisted that their children speak English at home. That would require proficient English speaking parents. Not something I noticed in immigrant households. I suspect that current immigrants have greater English skills simply because of 2 reasons. First our schools do a better job of educating with extensive English as a second language courses. Second there are many more job opportunities for women. So mom gets out of the house and has more need of English skills.
Jack
BiD
What I noticed in the Polish community that came over post WWII. Grandma spoke mostly Polish with limited English skills, Grandpa spoke an English pigeon, for work and Polish. The children could speak enough Polish to communicate with Mom. The Grandchildren knew enough words to be polite to grandma.
All future generations would tell me how terrible it was that they lost all their cultural heritage.
Jack
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-proposes-creed-as-super-bowl-replacement-for-bad-bunny/
MAGA influencer and Creed fanboy Jack Posobiec, 40, has been leading a semi-ironic online push to have the “Higher” band put on a “counter” halftime performance hosted by the late Charlie Kirk’s organization Turning Point USA.
Creed has not had a hit song since 2002, when “One Last Breath” saw mild chart success, and have not released an album since 2009. The NFL has selected legacy acts to perform the Halftime Show before, though The Who’s 2010 performance was the last time the NFL chose an act that was not actively making new music.
Since the NFL announced Bad Bunny would perform at the Halftime Show, conservatives have been engaging in their annual meltdown over the selection.
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson called Bad Bunny a “massive Trump hater,” an “Anti-ICE activist,” and bemoaned that he has “no songs in English.” Megyn Kelly called the selection a “middle finger to MAGA.”
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Turning Point USA announced they will be hosting their own concert during the Super Bowl Halftime show, using “fully Christian, American” performers.
Bad Bunny is a Christian (Catholic).
Bad Bunny is an American citizen (from Puerto Rico).
*Smells like racism. They can have their sad, little Creed-fest.
My best friend (still is, talked with her this morning) never had an actual conversation with her grandmother. She would hear her mother and grandmother talking to one another (in French Canadian) but she didn’t know what they were saying.
My friend, btw, turned maga. Upsets me greatly, but there are other things we still can talk about.
Mrs. P’s Mother’s parents were immigrants to the US before she was born. She spoke some Italian, but very little. Mrs. P’s father’s parents were Italian, immigrated here after WWII. Her father (and his 7 siblings) all came here and spoke fluent English by the time I met them, and in the case of her father, moderately accented, but he spoke fluent Italian and even made fun of her mom and some of her Italian friends who were born here when they would speak Italian. One I recall distinctly is a woman who, while born and educated in America, sounded like she had just arrived from Italy (accent wise) but didn’t have a command of Italian. She used to refer to vinegar as “vinegre” (in Italian – aceto), which is of Old French and Aglo-French origin. Mrs. P’s dad would not use Italian to talk to or teach his kids Italian. Mrs. P. took a couple of semesters of Italian in college and picked up a little, but like me and French she’s forgotten more than she learned.
This is very true, Jack, but the immigrants’ goal was to be American. They were trying to forget the bad things (pogroms and such) in the old country that made them have to leave.
I once tried to ask my then-new grandmother-in-law what it was like and suddenly all her English failed and she couldn’t understand my questions.
“fully Christian, American performers.” (Creed? Some white country singers? Lee Greenwood? That about it?) I just bet that will be riveting.
Jack – My great-grandfather’s family came from England in the 1640s, so there was one English speaker in the house.
My great-grandmother worked in a sewing sweatshop in Chicago when she came over after her mother died. She was about 14, and her older sister sent got her. Part of the deal was English classes, probably just to help with work communications. She ended up on a train to Nebraska to work for some shirttail relatives. They were terrible to her. She married the first guy who came along; my great-grandpa, the rural mail carrier.
“Is Portland burning?!?
Is Portland burning?!?”
My great-grandmother was speaking Danish either one of her neighbors. I asked about it and she told me Ingner liked to use language from the old country, so she did it for her. She taught me one sentence when I asked, and then never heard her speak Danish, again. She grew up in a poor farm/welfare farm and they were lucky to even have socks. Her mother was the ironing woman.
After her husband died, and her sister died, she married his sister’s husband and moved to Florida. She was warm, happy, and not poor for twenty years. After her second husband died, she ended up in section 8 housing in Nebraska, which was a community of farm wives, many of them from Denmark like her.
Sturg, nope. 54 and sunny.
Are they showing SFB 2020 tapes of Portland, again?
Any new stuff may not be Portlanders, as there were reports of agitators with microphones descending on Portland.
They go after the most vulnerable, like the elderly or disabled, so it will incite violence. Do not take the bait.
That’s why we need a huge, prolonged strike and even more boycotts.
If nobody is on the street to harass or arrest, and we can still show our displeasure with the N&zi regime, it’s better.
Silence at the cash register is the opposite of golden.
My paternal grandmother spoke Finnish, I picked up on it from time at their house. Once I started in school I was to no longer hear or speak it. My maternal grandmother came from Finland, but died before I was born.
Having worked with Mexican women groups in Colorado most of the leaders, in their fifties and sixties at the time, had the same thing in their lives. Because they were working directly with women who speak Spanish they were learning it in their middle age.
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The white racists are terrified of having a person of color for a boss. God forbid she’s a woman also.
how could they be superior then?
they must mean Roman Catholic because all of those other denominations are heretical
😊
https://www.newsweek.com/chicago-brandon-johnson-executive-order-ice-national-guard-10834723
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order on Monday establishing “ICE Free Zones” across city-owned properties, barring federal immigration agents from using municipal spaces for civil enforcement operations.
The order prohibits Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from staging personnel or equipment in city-controlled parking lots, garages, and vacant lots.
The move drew immediate backlash from the White House’s Rapid Response 47 account, which accused Johnson of “aiding and abetting criminal illegal immigrant killers, rapists, traffickers, and gang bangers.”
*Ah, yes, the children ripped from their apartments in the middle of the night and zip-tied for hours. ~Gang bangers~ Got it.
Anon, not in the South…
BiD, Judge Immergut may have a thing or two to say about that. WaPo
Federal Judges – apparently even Dumbass appointees – recognize a shell game when they see one.
📊 Judges Push Back on Deportations
Stat Dude breaks down the numbers showing immigration courts rejecting more deportation orders than in the Obama or first-term Trump years.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/greta-thunberg-lands-greece-among-172012360.html
Greta Thunberg landed in Athens on Monday alongside 160 other nationals from 16 European countries expelled to Greece by Israel for taking part in a Gaza aid flotilla, AFP journalists saw.
The 22-year-old Swedish climate campaigner had been among hundreds of people who had been on the 45-vessel flotilla that had unsuccessfully tried to break through an Israeli blockade to deliver aid to Gaza.
The United Nations says famine has taken hold in that Palestinian territory after two years of devastating war.
On arrival at the airport, Thunberg called the Global Sumud Flotilla “the biggest ever attempt to break Israel’s illegal and inhumane siege by sea”.
“That this mission has to exist is a shame!” she added, urging the world to act to prevent Israel’s “genocide” of the Palestinians.
“We are not even seeing the bare minimum from our governments,” Thunberg said.
it’s funny there’s this newer Latin club in town and it transformed the neighborhood it’s in from former industrial wasteland to the coolest spot in town
If only I wasn’t too old to hit it up
I’m just going by what Jesus said Peter is the rock on which his church would be built that church is the Roman Catholic Church
that’s in the Bible the Bible is the Word of God contravening the Word of God is heresy.
iirc 😊
I’m pretty sure nowhere does it say in 1500 years Martin Luther gets to make up his own bullshit
don’t worry I am not reigniting 500 years worth of intrafaith conflict, they will get to that on their own when they run out of other people to fuck with
OK, have a good day, Slava Ukraine, God save the United States of America ✌️
(fun unrelated palate cleanser: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis
was trying to understand photosynthesis better for gardening purposes is how i got there)
i am headed to the chatroom this afternoon to put together some videos, stats and graphs on immigration for my MIGRANT PURGE series — getting your thoughts, stories and opinions on camera will help with what I ultimately put together.
I swear my Oklahoma born mother didn’t have a racist bone in her body. She had friends who were black, brown, and oriental. She had even (gasp!) dated an Armenian boy in 1930s Fresno which was the equivalent of having an assignation with a Martian. She still almost had a cow when she found out I was dating a Catholic. Those Southern Baptists are hard core.
Me and Jack are live. Join us.
https://streamyard.com/jp2mwysyxk
Anon, fuck ’em. Go to that new Latin club and enjoy the music and food (if they have food).
No biblical scholar here, but you’re right about that Peter and Catholic church stuff – of course the rednecks in the South put the Catholic Church in close to the same league as the Jewish faith, what with Protestant churches being in their minds where the true faith is down there, and somehow can find justification for their abhorrent racist views in their religion. And Jamie, it ain’t just the Southern Baptists, although they unquestionably set the standard.
i’d have no opinions and complete respect for whatever they’re doing on their own without it affecting public policy
There’s been some discussion among biblical scholars about that Peter and the rock comment. I forget what exactly the nature of the interpretations, maybe it’ll come up on the google machine.
Anyway, I gather that they had a big meeting somewhere in the Adirondacks, I think, and decided to go with
Peter being the Rock
So Onward Christian Soldiers Marching As To War.
Hell, I don’t know…..I just wandered in from off the street.
from today’s live chat…
Obama’s quiet no-drama crackdown — methodical, professional, relentless. “Deporter in Chief” wasn’t an exaggeration.
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…perfect example of how it’s an inherently ridiculous discussion that should be kept out of the public sphere 🫡
and yet they get all butt hurt when called Nazis
Are they just bluffing?
I asked AI Sam if there have been any actual firings since the shutdown:
I would post the Ninajirachi album, but it is too intense for a trail mix
Album of the year
Pam Bondi Calls for NFL to Cancel Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show
In a dramatic live television appearance, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi called on the National Football League to cancel Bad Bunny’s upcoming Super Bowl halftime performance, sparking intense debate and a wave of reactions across social media. Bondi accused the NFL of using the halftime show as a vehicle for “woke propaganda” rather than pure entertainment, and her closing remarks—threatening accountability for sponsors and broadcasters
*There are more of us woke folk than MAGAts. Sponsors would be stupid to comply with the N&zi party. They know what happened to Target, Paramount Plus, and Disney.
She argued that the halftime show would be “more than just music,” warning that it would serve as a “cleverly disguised political statement” promoting radical social movements under the guise of art. “I refuse to see America’s biggest stage used to push an agenda that erodes our traditional values,” Bondi declared
*The she-devil, Pam Bondi, has gone on record to promote white supremacy.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/twelve-failed-constitutional-amendments-that-could-have-reshaped-american-history-180987425/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93468455
Interesting Smithsonian reading
Twelve failed constitutional Amendments That Could Have Shaped American History
After that Bondi news, I needed a palate cleanser. Elephants are good for soothing aggravation. It’s late in Tennessee, but the sanctuary has been there for 30 years so they will be there tomorrow
https://www.elephants.com/elecam
…but he’s American-born-and-bred!
DAF is wrong with these people
…from what i know about him also seems like a decent human being
Mickey Mouse Republic
can we deport Italians please so annoying and not white
^not worse than Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke at the 2024 RNC
10x better tho
…some very deep Dr. Who references in most recent “Slow Horses”
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