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February 9, 2026

Puerto Rican sign language- a first for Super Bowl halftime

This Super Bowl Sunday at Levi’s Stadium, Bad Bunny will make history, headlining the halftime show, and singing entirely in Spanish. It will also be the first time the show includes Puerto Rican sign language.

https://www.kqed.org/news/12072562/sign-language-interpreter-will-also-make-history-during-super-bowl-halftime-show

February 8, 2026

WARNING: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show will turn you woke. This is very funny. 😄


This is Bob Boudelang level writing.


In my house, we speak American, and having to listen to and be entertained by one of the world’s most popular pop stars singing hits beloved by untold millions IN SPANISH could reveal that people different from me are good and worthy of respect.

There’s an AMERICAN word for that, and it’s WOKENESS, a debilitating and contagious condition President Donald Trump has worked hard to eradicate, along with other liberal failings like empathy, honesty and inclusion.

Wow. That kind of inflammatory, wokey McWokeWoke, love-wins-over-hate rhetoric should have forced the NFL to cancel the Super Bowl halftime show. But it didn’t, and now countless millions will be exposed to Bad Bunny’s music, which I’ve never listened to but assume is filled with anti-American sentiment because the news sources I rely on have told me to fear him. (The libs say Mr. Bunny is Puerto Rican and thus a U.S. citizen, but I won’t be tricked into learning something I don’t understand.)


Suffice it to say I and the small number of family members who still speak to me will be celebrating the Super Bowl halftime by tuning in to the Turning Point USA alternative halftime show, which features a veritable “who’s who” of who I’m able to listen to while remaining loyal to MAGA.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/02/05/super-bowl-bad-bunny-turning-point-usa-halftime-show/88509842007/


February 8, 2026

🏈 🍔 The $180.00 LX Hammer Burger (X & text)

The LX Hammer Burger.

It’s $180 at the Super Bowl today. @LevyRestaurants is making 200.

It’s a cheeseburger with braised bone-in beef shank, roasted mirepoix demi-glace, and Point Reyes bleu cheese fondue on baked brioche bun.

https://x.com/darrenrovell/status/2020593997807509536?s=46&t=3VBm1LJ8j8qLp6JTs_8J2A

February 8, 2026

Wilbon on Bezos and the Washington Post layoff - shutting down the sports pages

Michael Wilbon goes after ‘lightweight’ Jeff Bezos for gutting Washington Post sports desk


Wilbon came to the Post in 1980 as a 22-year-old kid out of Northwestern. He left in December 2010 after 30 years and six months to work full-time at ESPN. Sixteen years later, watching it get dismantled hit him — and his colleagues — like losing someone.

“It’s a death, I’m not overstating it,” Wilbon said. “This we’ll never get over. This is the death of something, if not someone. For those of us who participated actively, proudly, arrogantly, we’ll never get over this.”

“We went to work every day thinking we were battling the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and specifically, our sports section was better than the New York Times,” Wilbon said. “It was. The people that we had. The things that we did. The places we went to cover sports and bring people the best stories — we thought — in the world.”

“Most of us thought he was going to infuse the place with money and energy,” Wilbon said. “I didn’t know (Jeff Bezis) is such a lightweight. I didn’t realize that. That was evident a couple of years ago. In the last two years, we’ve seen that. Yeah, he’s a billionaire, but he’s a lightweight. A stiff wind comes and blows him away.”

https://awfulannouncing.com/newspapers/michael-wilbon-washington-post-sports-section-jeff-bezos.html

February 4, 2026

Gov. Spanberger orders (Virginia) state law enforcement to exit federal immigration agreements

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an executive directive Wednesday instructing the state's law enforcement agencies to terminate agreements that allowed them to be deputized to conduct federal immigration enforcement activities.

A statement from Spanberger's office reads in part: "Governor Spanberger today directed Virginia's state law enforcement agencies and divisions — Virginia State Police, Virginia Department of Corrections, Virginia Conservation Police, and Virginia Marine Police — to terminate all existing 287(g) agreements with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE). These agreements placed Virginia law enforcement officers under federal control and supervision to conduct civil immigration enforcement."

Spanberger's Republican predecessor, Glenn Youngkin, ordered state law enforcement agencies to enter 287(g) agreements roughly a year ago as part of a nationwide immigration crackdown desired by President Donald Trump.

On her first day in office last month, Spanberger, a Democrat, signed 10 executive orders — one of which rescinded Youngkin's order that also encouraged local law enforcement bodies to enter similar agreements. But that order merely eliminated Youngkin's directive, rather than dissolving the agreements themselves.

https://www.vpm.org/news/2026-02-04/abigail-spanberger-executive-order-immigration-287g-ice-youngkin-trump

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I refuse to subscribe to the idea that the poor and the powerless are the ones organized to screw me over. Truth, Justice, & the American Way - that’s all we ask.
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