~jb

[~jb @johnbion22]

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.
~ John Adams (Founding Father)

[~jb @johnbion22]

@HelloBenWhite @UEFA

[~jb @johnbion22]

@WW3finalboss @grok Did Donald Trump really say this? If so what was the context?

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

.@JonStewart: "These people... are so triggered by someone singing in Spanish for 20 minutes, they needed to create their own safe-space alternative halftime show"

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Conservative commentator: “They could’ve found somebody more uniting.”

Jon Stewart: “Why the hell is it the Super Bowl halftime performer’s job to unify the country? Isn’t there literally someone else whose entire job description is that?”

[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”

[~jb @johnbion22]

@thenation It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[~jb @johnbion22]

@RepJeffries It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[~jb @johnbion22]

@RepMikeLevin It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[~jb @johnbion22]

@tedlieu It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[~jb @johnbion22]

@SenWhitehouse It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[~jb @johnbion22]

@SenWarren It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[~jb @johnbion22]

@RepRaskin @RepDonBeyer It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[~jb @johnbion22]

@KRobbinsMN It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[~jb @johnbion22]

@TheRickWilson It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[~jb @johnbion22]

@RepAOC @Robertr369 It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[~jb @johnbion22]

@ChrisVanHollen @TheDemCoalition @washingtonpost It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[~jb @johnbion22]

@SenJeffMerkley @abramson1234 It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[~jb @johnbion22]

@SenSanders It’s like we’re in Malebolge and nearing the Valley of the Violent. We can see it through the flames and smoke.

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

I’ve earned the right to say this, President Trump.

I served alongside U.S. and NATO troops. I still advise, at the request of the U.S. DoD, to help give American soldiers a better chance of survival if captured.

I was captured, tortured, falsely tried by a Russian proxy court, and sentenced to death after Russia invaded my country. America judged my experience worth listening to.

So when I say you are an offensive dick, when you dismiss allied service with “they’ll say they sent some troops,” then smirk and say they were “a little away from the front,” you insult every veteran who stood with America after 9/11.

You breed contempt, and that’s the second put-down to veterans in as many days, and to those who fought and died in Afghanistan to support you, the US

Thank you for your attention on this matter.
Shaun Pinner
Recipient of the Order of Courage
Ukraine 🇺🇦

[Acyn @Acyn]

Miller: Every one of those producers at 60 minutes who engaged in this revolt, clean house and fire them, that's what I say.