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Bad Bunny draws record audience

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Bad Bunny delivered a Puerto Rican themed Super Bowl halftime show at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, drawing record global audiences and prompting President Trump to call it "an affront."

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"Bad Bunny told the audience at the outset of his performance, “I’m here today at Super Bowl 60 it’s because I never, ever stopped believing in myself.” He added, “You should also believe in yourself, you’re worth more than you think.”

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MAGA preferring a lip-syncing Kid Rock to Bad Bunny is what white supremacy looks like!
The MAGA freak out was delightful!
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February 9, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Bad Bunny the artist has no moral lessons to take from Pussy-Grabber the president, does he? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
Trump Criticizes Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
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February 9, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Bad Bunny halftime show crashing X is next-level symbolism

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February 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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What a bunch of petulant toddlers.

Conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA aired a counter-program billed as the "All-American Half Time Show," which went on at the same time.

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Bad Bunny delivers a heartfelt homage to Puerto Rico on the halftime stage | CBC News
The 31-year-old Puerto Rican superstar took to an elaborate set depicting his home island’s landscape on Sunday night, delivering a high-energy performance filled with hit tracks.
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February 9, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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I remember when Bad Bunny was announced, Noem said they'd be sending ICE to the Super Bowl to conduct immigration raids. Not feeling quite so swaggy now I presume
February 9, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Bad Bunny and jingoism lite: was this the Super Bowl where woke roared back?

The NFL appeared keen to welcome the sport’s non-Maga contingent back into the tent. But the theater and violence of capitalism was still there Roger Federer smiling wolfishly to the crowd: a return to woke? Adam Sandler hangdog in the Levi’s Stadium stands, Jon Bon Jovi mooching on the sideline like a retired dentist on a cruise, Billie Joe Armstrong belting out American Idiot during the pre-game show under his motionless meringue of fogey-blond hair: were they a sign? A New England Patriots team who were neither favored to win nor widely reviled, then promptly repaid a grateful public by losing : was this the Super Bowl which proved that history really can move on, that America is not fated to remain hostage to the tremors and hatreds of the past? Well, yes and no. A year after Donald Trump made American football’s showpiece all about him , Sunday’s game in Santa Clara always promised a sort of correction - a cooling of the mood, perhaps even an end to the manipulation of sport for political ends. As always the best way to gauge the success of this mission was as the gods intended: through a TV screen. Trump - saddled with historically low approval ratings, facing a massacre in this year’s midterms, and no doubt wary of risking a public appearance in the deep blue sea of the Bay Area - was absent on this occasion, and he kept the F-22 fighter jets that were scheduled to be part of the pre-game flyover away from Levi’s Stadium too. (Unspecified “operational assignments” were the reason offered for the jets’ withdrawal, which means there’s probably a low-ranking member of the Trump administration putting big money on a US military strike somewhere in Latin America as we speak. ) And yet, the absent autocrat still weighed on proceedings, his curdling influence turning every moment and gesture on Sunday into a referendum on the prospects for a post-Trumpian sporting future. Could football be normal again? Continue reading. . .

Bad Bunny and jingoism lite: was this the Super Bowl where woke roared back?
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Just watched Bad Bunny's halftime show. It is amazing how the absolute celebration and love of Latino culture is clearly an act of resistance. It shouldn't be. It should be celebrated for the wonderfulness that it is, but in this moment? It was powerful and a whole bunch of fun.
February 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM

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