it's deeply funny how maintaining the belief in fascism requires hiding any contrary information, and how every institution has to abase itself toward that end.

ONE MORE bad bunny piece by my friend Shannon Melero, who's a FANTASTIC writer and is appropriately starting her newsletter w/this <3 read it/sign up!!!

You won't read a more beautiful and true account of yesterday's performance, it is by @jawnita.bsky.social

I wrote last week about the dangers of normalization and political debates rooted in premises already engineered by the authoritarians, when premise is often just as important as the discussion itself

misty-eyed at this @jawnita.bsky.social piece. Gonna be processing this performance for years alongside everyone else, and reading this emphatic breakdown shook me!! I hadn't even finished processing my emotions about the Tiny Desk with the cuatro player who looked like me yet, déjame en paz, coño

Remember to tell people that things have NOT DEESCALATED. Pulling 700 agents means there's 2,300 agents on our streets, terrorizing us and kidnapping our neighbors.

Wrote about Bad Bunny and how after more than a century under U.S. rule, after attempts to erase our national identity, after the man-made crises and natural disasters that have befallen our people, in the face of every challenge, seguimos aquí. We’re still here. www.thecut.com/article/bad-...

good time to bring back this all timer:

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

nuevayoooooolllllll

That was hands down the best halftime show ever. It was filled with so many references to Puerto Rican culture and history. The sugarcane fields, the casita, the streets of NYC, and the power lines. All of it resonated so much. Boricua por siempre. Seguimos aquí. 🇵🇷

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Eagle-eyed watchers of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show would have spied Toñita, the queen of Los Sures, AKA Williamsburg. Read all about Maria Antonia “Toñita” Cay here: hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg...

HERE IS TOÑITA IF U WANNA KNOW WHO TOÑITA IS hellgatenyc.com/williamsburg...

FUCK LUMA! FREE PUERTO RICO!!! BAD BUNNY FOREVER!!!!!

GOD BLESS ALLLLLLLLLL AMERICAS HHYESARIUADFKJHAFSDKLJASEF

FUCK LUMA!!!!

LOS SURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TOÑITAAAAA! LOS SUREEESSSSSSSS REPRESENTEEEEEEE

TOÑITAAAAAAAAAAAASASSSSSSSS

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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

my mom is 88 years old and just told me she's in trouble at work for talking shit 😭😭😭

RELATEDLY u can read my 2018 bad bunny cover story for the fader here (shout to my editor rawiya kameir!!!!)

went on pop pantheon w/ la brega's alana casanova-burgess to chat bad bunny pre-super bowl! poppantheon.transistor.fm

i know u have been waiting for my review of the new Bratz album so here it is

"By turning his attention back to his home—the beating heart of Puerto Rico—Bad Bunny has rediscovered what truly matters to him. That love, and the fight to protect it, will set a person free." Read Julianne's review of the Grammys' Album of the Year

Album of the Year. Entirely in Spanish. It’s an awards show but—I absolutely cannot believe it.

PUERTO RICO

angie stone was the first concert i saw after i moved to new york going on 23 years ago. i went alone to bb kings like 1 month after she dropped stone love, her talent and power was unforgettable. i was bawling for like an hour! forever one of my favorite artists. rest in peace.

rip luther vandross!!!!

cher is perfect

BILAL

i mean www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

lolll "needs more reporting"

tyler's creativity unmatched and never misses

It’s important to understand that Dominicans and other immigrants are part of the fabric of Puerto Rican society — and ICE is currently terrorizing them on the island. Benito is speaking against what’s going on in the U.S. but also on its colony, where people literally did not vote for any of this.

i guess indie sleaze has gone re-mainstream but i cannot live thru yet another apocalyptic war era hearing franz ferdinand ass songs tho

gaga should do an identical performance to justin bieber

benito antonio martínez ocasio and that's that on that

cbs putting on all three palatable Latinos it knows on its broadcast.

im lit scared biebz is about to jerk it into a sock

i aspire to one day be as moisturized as benito rn

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

it's in the constitution that at least 60 percent of the best new artist grammy nominees must be starbuckscore

She’s come a long way from ripping off black tiktokers on Jimmy Fallon.

addison rae singing sounds like coworker karaoke