Amy

[Ethical American @AmericanEthical]

Michael Garrett - NC Senate's Viral Statement on the Bad Bunny Halftime Show

“I watched #BadBunny deliver the most American halftime show I have ever seen. Then I came home and watched it again. And I am not okay. In the best possible way.

He sang every single word in Spanish. Every. Single. Word. He danced through sugarcane fields built on a football field in California while the President of the United States sat somewhere calling it “disgusting.” Lady Gaga came out and did the salsa. Ricky Martin lit up the night. A couple got married on the field. He handed his Grammy, the one he won eight days ago for Album of the Year, to a little boy who looked up at him the way every child looks up when they dare to believe the world has a place for them.

And then this man, this son of a truck driver and a schoolteacher from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, stood on the biggest stage on the planet and said “God bless America.”
And then he started naming them.

Chile. Argentina. Uruguay. Paraguay. Bolivia. Peru. Ecuador. Brazil. Colombia. Venezuela. Panama. Costa Rica. Nicaragua. Honduras. El Salvador. Guatemala. Mexico. Cuba. Dominican Republic. Jamaica. The United States. Canada. And then, his voice breaking with everything he carries, “Mi patria, Puerto Rico. Seguimos aquí.” My homeland, Puerto Rico. We are still here.
The flags came. Every single one of them. Carried across that field by dancers and musicians while the jumbotron lit up with the only words that mattered: “THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE.”

I teared up. I’m not ashamed to say it. I sat on my couch and I wept because THAT is the America I believe in. That is the American story, not the sanitized, gated, English-only version that small and frightened people try to sell us. The REAL one. The messy, beautiful, multilingual, multicolored, courageous one. The one that has always been built by hands that speak every language and pray in every tongue and come from every corner of this hemisphere.

That is the America I want Jack and Charlotte to know. That when the moment came, when the whole world was watching, a Puerto Rican kid who grew up to become the most-streamed artist on Earth stood in front of 100 million people, sang in his mother’s language, blessed every nation in the Americas, and spiked a football that read “Together, we are America” into the ground. Not with anger. With joy. With love so big it made hate look exactly as small as it is.

And what did the President do? He called it “absolutely terrible.” He said “nobody understands a word this guy is saying.” He called it “a slap in the face to our Country.” The leader of the free world watched a celebration of love, culture, and everything this hemisphere has given to the world, and all he could see was something foreign. Something threatening. Something disgusting.

Let that sink into your bones.
The man who is supposed to represent all of us looked at the flags of our neighbors, heard the language of 500 million #Americans across this hemisphere, and felt attacked. That’s not strength. That’s not patriotism. That is poverty of the soul.

Here’s what I want to say to everyone who posted about that show tonight, who shared it proudly, who turned away from Bad Bunny’s celebration because it was in Spanish and the flags weren’t only red, white, and blue:

Your children will see those posts. Your grandchildren will find them. The internet doesn’t forget. And one day, when the history of this moment is written, when our kids and their kids look back at 2026 the way we look back at the people who stood on the wrong side of every bridge and every march and every moment that mattered, they will know exactly where you stood. They will see who chose Kid Rock over a hemisphere of flags. They will see who called love “disgusting.” And they will carry that knowledge the way all of us carry the knowledge of what our ancestors did when they were tested.

The only thing more powerful than hate is love”

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

She’s ALWAYS been on the correct side‼️

[Julie Ertz @julieertz]

THANK YOU!

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Maybe someday, women in America will have as many rights as guns do.

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

Like many of her male compatriots, Marta got her start playing barefoot on the streets of a small impoverished town in northeastern Brazil.

Unlike the men who merely lacked boots, however, Marta also lacked infrastructure.

From 1941 to 1979—just seven years before Marta was born—it was literally illegal for women to play soccer in Brazil (it was deemed dangerously unfeminine), and that attitude still permeated Brazilian society.

Marta not only had to beat her opponents.

She had to constantly prove women belonged on the football field in the first place.

Gods of Soccer: Marta 🇧🇷

[Ciara @ciara]

I am so crushed to hear the news that you are no longer with us. I’ve always known you as joy, laughter, good times, and a big smile! Heaven has gained an angel today! May you rest in paradise. Praying for your family during this difficult time ❤️🙏🏽

[UConn Women’s Basketball @UConnWBB]

Starters at #20 Maryland

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

I started asking my 12 year old son ‘who did you help today?’ instead of asking ‘how was school?’.

He now starts his stories with ‘I held the door’, ‘helped a friend with math’, or ‘asked someone to sit with us at lunch’.

He now proactively shares how he was helpful at school.

[Nobles Athletics @NoblesAthletics]

GVS with a big 1-0 win over @WA_Athletics

[meuwzic. @meuwzic]

Hit after hit, decade after decade: Beyoncé

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

You ready for a radical idea? Here we go. You should not have to work two or three jobs just to keep a roof over your head.

[Jayson Tatum @jaytatum0]

Boston we going to the finals☘️😁!! A kid from St. Louis… playing for the Celtics with chance to win a championship… dreamed of moments like this 🙏🏽

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

There is no such thing as being “pro-life” while supporting laws that let children be shot in their schools, elders in grocery stores, worshippers in their houses of faith, survivors by abusers, or anyone in a crowded place.

It is an idolatry of violence. And it must end.

[TheDailyDoseOfShit @dailydoseofxxxx]

@TheAmandaGorman @ebonyplusirony

[Amy @ajoyce13]

@karrose91 @theweeknd Hi

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

If we can bail out the crooks on Wall Street, yeah, we can cancel all student debt in this country.

[Norwood Mustangs @NHS_Mustangs]

Congratulations to Kristen McDonnell on being named the Boston Globes D2 Boys Basketball Coach of the Year!
#goUstangs
@CoachKristenMcD

[Amy @ajoyce13]

Proud of you @Lauren_Dillon11 !!!!! Congrats to your squad ♥️

[LD @Lauren_Dillon11]

LOVE. THIS. TEAM.

The most hard-working, dedicated and fun group of people I’ve ever met are now 2022 Ivy League Champs!!! 🏆🧡🖤

Couldn’t be any prouder. But not done yet.

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

Millennials watching the Super Bowl halftime show…

[Amy @ajoyce13]

@CoachCrowley24 @MarnelleGarraud @katiekbenz @c_ducharme3 Wow 🤩🤩🤩