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Something that Cosme shows in her interview for this article is that high quality interpretation is only possible when the interpreter has a rich and nuanced understanding of the cultural context. She lived the experiences Bad Bunny is singing about and that is not something you can learn in school.

Of course the MAGA cult who worship a president mentioned thousands of times in files about a child sex trafficking ring would also select an entertainer who brags about preying on underage girls in his songs as the headliner of their anti-half time show.

This is true. And all the more striking because we *barely* integrated. Most organizations remain highly segregated but even minor integration was too much for some folks.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

“Bad Bunny’s performance isn’t just the story of the ascendancy of a single performer, or of one genre, or even of Latin music more broadly. It’s the sign of something bigger still. America’s pop culture today is multilingual, polycultural and international at its very core.”

Puerto Ricans are not immigrants. What this illustrates is the racism that has always shaped the colonial relationship of Puerto Rico to the US. What this also illustrates is that when you are a colonized subject your refusal to accommodate the colonizer will always be as a political message.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

Happy Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl day to all who celebrate

This blatant coverup further supports my claim that we are at the Mississippi Burning phase of our current era where the feds are now the white supremacists both killing white activists and working to cover it up

The same side having a complete meltdown about Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl wants you to believe that anger over depicting the Obamas as monkeys is “fake outrage.”

In anticipation of the Super Bowl this weekend I thought I would reshare my post from when Bad Bunny was first announced as headlining the half time show to remind us that the joy many of us will feel is a reminder of the world we are fighting for. educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/t...

I think many people confuse partisan politics for ideology and so what they really mean to say is that Trump has no coherent partisan views but that is possible both because he is completely self-serving and more importantly the ideological foundation of partisan politics is white supremacy.

In anticipation of the Super Bowl this weekend I thought I would reshare my post from when Bad Bunny was first announced as headlining the half time show to remind us that the joy many of us will feel is a reminder of the world we are fighting for. educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/t...

Huh. What a coincidence that the elites that folded in the face of rising authoritarianism also were part of the child trafficking cabal

that stage of society when school children share the bond of having endured the camps together

This was literally a storyline in the TV show Younger 🙃 www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/box...

Philadelphians are bringing the history back to the President’s House. 🦅

I have never been one of those who struggled to rectify Chomsky’s linguistics with his politics because they were both so white bro-y. I, therefore am also not surprised about his white bro-iness showing up in the Epstein files.

Jesus’s family fleeing political persecution to Egypt would be criminalized by GOP Christians today

Republicans are in here cosplaying as protectors of women and children, but they were silent when Renee Good was killed, willingly voted to cut SNAP, and are now sitting by as ICE rips children away from their families. Miss me with the selective outrage.

Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

The whole Trump tone change was always a BS effort to get people to think it is over and to stop by attention. And the media more worried about getting sued than finding out the truth has been complicit in reproducing the false narrative that things have changed in Minnesota when they have not.

When we say abolish ICE we mean abolish a rogue government agency that has unlimited power to terrorize both US and non-US citizens living in the country with impunity and replace it with constitutionally governed immigration enforcement

Imagine actually having to go through through the process of *checks notes* following the Constitution

Trump has now announced he plans to sue Harvard for 1 billion dollar, which reinforces the point I was trying to make that perhaps the NYT needs to stop relying on anonymous Trump administration sources who are clearly using stories leaked to it as a negotiation tactic apple.news/ABtdCrI8gQnW...

I love how the NYT feels no obligation to point out that they have also repeatedly published stories from anonymous Trump officials saying a $200 million dollar deal was imminent. Are they still journalists or just mouthpieces for whatever anonymous Trump sources want to feed to the media?

The natural follow up question is why the quote was included in the first place. Did the reporters and editors working on the story also not know Bad Bunny was an American citizen 🤔

Columbia administration looking especially craven and incompetent about now.

This is the literal trafficking of children

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.

"Neoliberal multiculturalism rests on a simple premise that diversity is welcome as long as it can be made profitable. Difference is embraced when it can be commodified and put to work for institutional prestige and corporate agendas."

In my latest blog post I think through how ICE agents targeting immersion schools in Minneapolis connect to a broader collapse of neoliberal multiculturalism and what we should do about it. educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i...

"You can beat the charge but not the ride" is the fundamental premise of so much of what the Trump administration does. And, our system is ill-equipped to stop it.

In my latest blog post I think through how ICE agents targeting immersion schools in Minneapolis connect to a broader collapse of neoliberal multiculturalism and what we should do about it. educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i...

Just imagined if we lived in a society that focused it resources on ensuring that everybody had their basic needs met instead of wasting money paying corporations to make sure people don’t receive resources because they aren’t poor enough or didn’t fill out their paperwork properly

The whole “what took people so long to care?” is so odd to me because it takes a victory (community organizing leading to shifts in public opinion) and makes it seem like something we should be condemning instead of celebrating

NO LIES 👇 DETECTED......

Ilhan Omar spent four years in a refugee camp and ended up becoming a Congresswoman. She represents the best of America, while Donald Trump represents the worst.

This much is clear: Stephen Miller is in charge. They've shipped off Bovino, they're hanging Noem out to dry, Trump is using slightly conciliatory language...and Miller is still running a blitzkrieg in Minnesota. He, not Trump, is in charge. And he is the one Democrats should fight to remove.

As much as I had to admit it, one effective strategy that the Trump administration consistently deploys is to recklessly break the law and then convince their opponents to get them to follow some of those laws is a victory

While I love to see it happen the whole “I was following the directions of my subordinate” is probably not the own that Noem thinks it is

I was recently talking to a school leader who shared that some ESL teachers at her school interpreted the “science of reading” to mean that ELs had to learn phonics before they could do anything else in English so not surprised at all that this is what the uptake has been more broadly

I personally don't tell people who have been fighting their hearts out daily for weeks not to celebrate wins of any size. I certainly don't do that when I've been nowhere near the place where the fight has been happening and have done little more than make some donations from miles away.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps