I started listening to Bad Bunny when I moved to Miami a few years ago.
It was always playing in the gym. I started to learn the songs, which started teaching me words in Spanish. Then some of the Dominican trainers at the gym and I became friends, and they started speaking Spanish with me.
It gave me a small taste of what it must be like for immigrants who don’t speak English to come to America and turn to movies, TV shows, and music to learn the language. And how quickly you can become friends with someone even when you only share a few words in common.
IMO that’s what Bad Bunny’s halftime show captured creatively.
Latin culture is special. And you don’t need to speak the language to be invited to the party, dance, and experience community & connection.
I’m glad he didn’t sing a single word in English.
It’s his party.
And I appreciate him inviting all of us, fluent or not, to be part of it.
this is the exact reason why having grocery stores open 24 hours was so important. it was so therapeutic and such a vibe to perform alone in the aisle and maybe catch a staff member watching you and they smile in approval WE WERE A PROPER COUNTRY
wendy was so nasty but she was still a great journalist and im sorry thats whats missing from media today. there's nobody to keep checks and balances or to keep celebrities accountable.
NYPD officers quit in droves before Zohran Mamdani was even inaugurated.
Then NYC just had its safest January on record:
- 60% fewer homicides
- 20% fewer shootings
And suddenly… crime drops.
Almost like when abusive, unaccountable cops leave, communities get safer.
Funny how that works.
This is the single most important book for understanding our current era. Ray Bradbury foresaw, in 1952, how we would voluntarily abandon literacy for mass entertainment and how that entertainment would be used to enslave us. Every single thing he envisioned has come to pass.
In the early 2000’s, there was this weird admixture of Kumbaya globalism and small-c conservatism. Growing up in the Bush era, I remember seeing this multicultural imagery everywhere - paper hands circling globes, multiethnic kids books, etc. Yet patriotism was still politically neutral at the time, especially after 9/11. In 1st grade, I remember making Valentine’s cards with my classmates for soldiers in Iraq. Something like that would be unthinkable today.
The idea vaccines cause autism was invented by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 and was so thoroughly debunked he lost his license for gross malpractice
And here we are 27 years later RFK Jr dredging up the same nonsense
Such a tiresome waste of time
I mean trumps still pretending the 2020 election was stolen I don’t see why we can’t just say he actually sucked off bill clinton for as long as we want
I don’t think it’s mentioned nearly enough that Zohran, who was spectacularly successful among young voters, never used memes in his social media posts.
Obama gave trump an fully recovered and stable economy and he destroyed it
Biden gave trump an economy that was recovering faster than any other on earth, with the longest record of month to month jobs gains ever in history and, once again, he has destroyed it.