The Super Bowl hasn’t even kicked off yet, but the halftime show is already a fumble in the eyes of over 100,000 disgruntled fans.
A viral petition demanding the NFL ditch Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny in favor of country legend George Strait has gained a lot of internet interest, racking up more than 122,000 signatures as of Tuesday morning.
George Strait speaks onstage during the 59th Annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on November 19, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee.Getty Images
The petition, started in October 2025 by Kar Shell, argues that Strait — the Texas-born country music icon with more than 60 No. 1 hits and decades of chart-topping success — better represents “American music’s rich heritage” and would be more appealing to a broad, cross-generational audience.
“The Super Bowl halftime show should unite our country, honor American culture, and remain family-friendly, not be turned into a political stunt,” the petition reads. “Bad Bunny represents none of these values; his drag performances and style are the opposite of what families expect on football’s biggest stage.”
On Sunday, Bad Bunnytook to the Grammys stageto accept an award for Best Música Urbana Album and used the platform to deliver a blunt “ICE Out” message.
Bad Bunny poses with the Album of the Year, Best Música Urbana Album, and Best Global Music Performance Awards during the 68th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena.Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Bad Bunny accepts the award for Album of the Year for “Debi Tirar Mas Fotos” as presenter Harry Styles looks on during the 68th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California.REUTERS
He went on to say immigrants “are not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens — we are humans, and we are Americans.”
The Bad Bunny debate has become a larger conversation about representation, language, politics and some have even started to label the sporting event as the “Woke Bowl.”
“Let’s be American,” one petition supporter commented. “I don’t wana hear a Spanish performer at the superbowl. Inappropriate. He’s stirring up trouble with his words.”
“I think bad bunny is a bad example for young audience,” another commented. “He sings in Spanish. That won’t do any good at an American football game.”
Bad Bunny performs onstage during Night One of Bad Bunny: “No Me Quiero Ir De Aqui” Residencia En El Choli at Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot on July 11, 2025.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
“Bad Bunny, and I think that was demonstrated last night, is one of the great artists in the world,” Goodell said.
“That’s one of the reasons we chose him. But the other reason is he understood the platform he was on and that this platform is used to unite people and to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talents and to be able to use this moment to do that.”
The No. 1 job of a mayor, above everything else, is to keep his or her cityfunctioning.
Yet with people dying on the cold streets of New York and trash building up in parts of the city, New York is by no means functioning. Not even close.
The snow and frigid temps have tested Gotham’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani and, alas, he has not risen to the occasion. Rather, he’s left the city a mess.
Everest-size mountains of garbage have popped up. Unremoved snow, ice and road salt have damaged Con Edison electrical equipment, contributing to power outages.
Chalk that up to a perverse ideology on the homeless or simple mismanagement, but either way, it represents tragic, unforgivable failure.
There’s more: Mamdani’s Upper East Side neighbors were beyond livid that hisGracie Mansion home was somehow trash-freewhile snowy, 8-foot garbage heaps went untouched on their streets.
Across the five boroughs, sidewalk curb cuts are only now getting cleared, more than a week after a major snowfall.
Failure to remove melting snow from atop Con Ed equipment is likely one reason 1,900 Park Slope residents have been without power.
Con Ed reported that uncleared snow slowed power restoration in parts of Brooklyn and Queens.
New Yorkers have been clocking Big Apple chief executives’ responses to snow emergencies ever since Mayor John Lindsay’s disastrous mishandling of the Great ’69 Blizzard.
They won’t give Mamdani a pass, no matter his appeal.
Though his top goal might be converting New York into a socialist paradise (and slamming Israel), his troops still need to pick up the garbage and clear the snow.
Nor will his glib, on-camera smiles and social-media savvy substitute for managerial competence and the execution of core city services.
Yes, Mamdani has still 1,428 days to get his act together and prove he can keep the city functioning.
But here’s some free advice: New Yorkers are renowned for their lack of patience. Better get moving.
The order revoking temporary protected status for the Haitian migrants from DC US District Judge Ana C. Reyes outraged administration officials and Republicans like Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), who posted on X that “an unelected Democrat judge” had “unilaterally” halted President Trump’s deportations.
DC US District Judge Ana C. Reyes outraged the Trump administration and Republicans by blocking the revocation of temporary legal status for Haitian migrants in a Monday court ruling.REUTERS
The Uruguay-born jurist had previously served as a litigation attorney focused on international disputes at Williams & Connolly LLP, while working pro bono on behalf of refugee groups. She emigrated with her family to Kentucky when she was a child.
Reyes’ federal election contributions, which werepreviously exposed by Fox News, show that while at the law firm she has apparently donated exclusively to Democratic campaigns since 2008.
She maxed out donations to Biden for President with two $2,800 contributions in August 2020 — and shelled out $2,700 to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign against Donald Trump in 2016.
Then-California Sen. Kamala Harris’ campaign also received $4,500 from Reyes during her failed run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019.
Some Haitian migrants entered through the southern border — including several apprehended by Border Patrol agents in Texas. The Biden administration falsely accused agents of whipping those migrants.AFP via Getty Images
Reyes gave $200 to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress in 2019, one year after her first successful run for Congress. The Bronx and Queens Democrat has supported the “Abolish ICE” movement and even hawked “Dad Hats” bearing the slogan.
Moreno balked at Reyes’ recent order as amounting to an admission of “Permanent Protected Status” for all migrants let in from Haiti.
“When a Democrat president can create a TEMPORARY program and an unelected Democrat judge can unilaterally block a duly-elected Republican president from ever undoing it, we do not live in a democracy,” Moreno said. “This outrageous decision cannot stand.”
Separate cases that saw judges similarly block the Trump administration’s attempts to rescind protections for migrants from Venezuela and Nicaragua were struck down by appeals courts and the US Supreme Court.
Then-President Joe Biden appointed Reyes to the federal bench in February 2023 — one month after his administration allowed up to 30,000 Haitians to enter the US every month under a humanitarian parole program.REUTERS
Reyes ruled Monday that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem did not have authority to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian migrants, which gave them work authorizations to remain in the US.
“Supreme Court, here we come,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin fired back on X. “Haiti’s TPS was granted following an earthquake that took place over 15 years ago, it was never intended to be a de facto amnesty program, yet that’s how previous administrations have used it for decades.”
“When a Democrat president can create a TEMPORARY program and an unelected Democrat judge can unilaterally block a duly-elected Republican president from ever undoing it, we do not live in a democracy,” Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) said.Getty Images
The TPS program has provided humanitarian relief, work permits and temporary legal status to migrants from disaster-plagued and war-ravaged regions since the 1990s. The Obama administration added Haitians to the program after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit the island nation in 2010.
Reyes’ order stated it was “substantially likely” that Noem sought to terminate the program “because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”
“Secretary Noem has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk — twelve countries up, twelve countries down,” the judge wrote
“Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite country) faces merely ‘concerning’ conditions cannot be squared with the ‘perfect storm of suffering’ and ‘staggering’ ‘humanitarian toll’ described in page-after-page of the Certified Administrative Record (CAR).”
