Mark Potts

Epic Bad Bunny halftime show explainer thread

The halftime performance, IMO, is a clear argument that art might be the best way to show off the many braided sides and stories of a specific place *in a way that is accessible and meaningful to an outside audience*

ATTENTION: If You Watched Kid Rock at the Turning Point USA Half-Time Show, You May Have Contracted Cerebellar Herpes

After watching Bad Bunny’s halftime show I’m so proud to be an American. Puerto Rico represents! Beautiful Spanish language, people of color filling my TV screen. This is what makes America great and it’s what I will always fight for.

#BadBunny

And while everyone is feeling good about Benito giving a Grammy to someone who is not Liam Ramos: Congress can pass a personal bill to grant citizenship to Liam Ramos, his family and Kilmer Abrego Garcia.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

Entertainment comes and goes, but rights, once weakened or taken, are incredibly hard to regain, and history shows that freedoms are usually lost slowly. At the same time, people are distracted by outrage over things that ultimately don’t change their daily lives.

Donald Trump Attacks Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show As A “Slap In The Face To Our Country” Donald Trump ended up watching the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show, after all, and to little surprise, the president hated it.

Oh please. The only thing “disgusting” about that halftime show was how allergic some people are to joy they didn’t personally approve of.

It wasn’t an “affront to America.” It was America loud, multilingual, rhythmic, layered, imperfect, alive.

the bushes were people 😂

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

oh my god this fucking rules

A year later, a restaurant in Chicago called the Snuggery introduced a ten-layer dip, in keeping with the restaurant’s reputation for being both on-trend and over-the-top. (Patricia Tennison’s review for the Chicago Tribune had this lede: “Thigh, thigh, thigh, thigh. Plus the guy with the fine-lined profile. The music pounds. The thighs are blaring. It’s hard to order without staring. This place, good grief, is a sensory workout. And the food’s not bad either.”)

3. In 1984, a Chicago restaurant introduced a TEN-layer dip.

You have to read this excerpt from a review of the place:

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career — from his embrace of birtherism to his hatred of birthright citizenship — cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism. Trump is not profound. He has been the same person this whole time. The question is why so many others have refused to see what he has never bothered to hide.

This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.

She Was already convicted. She has no fifth amendment rights for most of these questions.

A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black.
A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black.
A HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY cannot say Black.

“Black” is being flagged as a potentially prohibited word violating anti-DEI law at multiple Florida Universities. My interview this week with @grundrza.bsky.social documents his event being flagged because the flyer said “Black.”

Racial authoritarianism is here, it’s just unequally distributed.

Stop having liars on national political talk shows. Why is this so hard??

just a reminder that the united states is essentially operating a network of torture camps holding individuals in arbitrary detention, without access to appeal and rarely to counsel.

The “several drinks” in the Dawsey anecdote dovetails with this sly shot in Ashley Parker’s Atlantic story: “Lewis, who has already earned a reputation for showing up late to work when he showed up at all.”

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

Back in the day in the Post newsroom, we used to refer to this as “returning to his first love, unemployment.”

What immigration divide, he is an American citizen, you morons.

The implication that Bad Bunny is not a natural born citizen because of language and appearance is a sign of our constitutional and moral decay.

Worst midlife crisis ever.

I have lived and worked among immigrants in California since forever, they are by far among the best people I know.

Literally a dad joke.

odd feature of our time in how many liberals and progressive are bog standard monogamous family types--Serwer, Bouie, Hayes, AOC, etc--and how many Traditional Family Values conservatives are fuckin drugged up perverts

It's John Barron, no doubt.