"The American sports community, athletes and fans, are more political this year than anything I’ve seen since the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. It’s deeper than that.
The NBA crowd warm-up chant is, 'FUCK ICE.' The All Star Wrestler Event, the champ Brody King wore an Abolish ICE shirt. It’s the same across major league sports, including football."
~ Susie Bright
#Trump #ICE #PopularCulture #sports #NBA #BadBunny
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https://susiebright.ink/p/ice-athletes-bad-bunny-and-knights
"Conservatives are envious of liberalism’s broad appeal and star power, and that is why they attack. They want to emulate the left’s appeal to well-known people, but there just aren’t enough bigoted celebrities to go around.
That’s how you end up with a store-brand Super Bowl halftime show featuring washed-up Kid Rock and a bunch of people nobody has ever heard of."
~ Oliver Willis
#Trump #ICE #PopularCulture #sports #BadBunny #SuperBowl
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/2/7/2367373/-Why-Republicans-are-seething-with-celebrity-envy
"To many Bad Bunny fans, Sunday’s show, which he has dedicated to “all Latinos and Latinas around the world and here in the United States,” lands as an act of resistance. It’s a performance they hope will reverberate far beyond the Golden State arena."
~ Lauren Gambino
#Trump #ICE #PopularCulture #sports #BadBunny #SuperBowl #immigrants #Latinos
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/bad-bunny-super-bowl-trump-maga
Bryan Armen Graham notes that though NBC censored the boos aimed at JD Vance and wife Usha at the Winter Olympics., "American athletes were cheered, their enormous contingent given one of the most full-throated receptions of the night. The political emissaries were not universally welcomed. Both things can be true at once."
#Trump #JDVance #WinterOlympics #sports #NBC
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics
"Crowd dissent is not a failure of the Olympic ideal. In open societies, it is part of how public sentiment is expressed. Attempting to erase one side of that equation risks flattening reality into something audiences no longer trust. And if Milan was a warning shot, Los Angeles is the main event."
And, as he notes, good luck with the censorship, when news outlets from other countries and fans' cameras capture the real story.
"It's Super Bowl Sunday, and Bad Bunny is playing the halftime show, and as you may have heard white bigots in the U.S. are losing their minds over it. There's a whole separate halftime show that's been counter-programmed just for people who experience psychological distress at the idea of a fellow human being taking center stage at one of the grand U.S.ian cultural events, if that fellow speaks Spanish."
~ A.R. Moxon
#Trump #MAGA #BadBunny #SuperBowl #Latinos
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https://www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-game/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter
"White bigots act like this because they demand to be treated as the default heroes of the American story because of their whiteness and because of their bigotry. So white bigots treat the existence of anyone else in positions of prominence or success as a threat to that exclusive standing—which is what makes our nation's 'immigration divide' equate to the mere presence of nonwhite people, whether they are a fellow citizen or not."
"Our response should not be 'This response to Bad Bunny's inclusion shows how divided we are, how can we stop this polarization?' Our response should be uncooperative: 'The response to Bad Bunny's inclusion shows just how racist our society is. Racists are angry about the halftime show? Good!"
"The day began with Donald Trump lashing out at a member of the United States Winter Olympics team. In a Truth Social post, Trump attacked freestyle skier Hunter Henderson, calling him 'a real loser' and claiming he does not represent the country. Henderson is currently competing on the world stage for the United States, yet the president of the United States chose to publicly smear him."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #MAGA #WinterOlympics #sports #ICE #immigrants
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/sunday-afternoon-news-updates-trump
Hi all, I hope your Sunday is going well.
"Trump’s post was triggered by comments Henderson made about the moral conflict he feels representing the United States at a time when he believes the government is terrorizing migrant communities through aggressive immigration enforcement. Henderson explained that wearing the flag does not mean he supports everything the government does, and that he is competing for his friends, family, and those who helped him get there."
"...ICE’s paramilitary war on Americans has broken all those old culture-war signifiers. Most Americans no longer see ICE as hallowed “law enforcement,” because that fundamentally isn’t what ICE is practicing. Working-class voters oppose ICE and mass deportations. And an emblem of anti-ICE, pro-immigrant America is doing the halftime show at the Super Bowl. “
https://newrepublic.com/article/206292/trump-bad-bunny-super-bowl-maga-weakness
I wouldn’t watch the game, but I would watch Bad Bunny. Do you know what time is the show? #LatinosEnEEUU #Latinos
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