Sunday, February 8, 2026

The bushes were real (Super Bowl roundup)













Variety confirms the wedding in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show was real

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— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) February 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM


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 TaΓ­nos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

— Soraya Nadia McDonald (@sorayanadiamcdonald.com) February 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM


If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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— Jonathan M. Katz (@katz.theracket.news) February 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM










FWIW







This burger at Super Bowl LX is $180 πŸ‘€

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— The Athletic (@theathletic.com) February 8, 2026 at 3:44 PM










Can’t wait to watch all the ads that I’ve been seeing trailers of for weeks! And, if we’re lucky, some bonus (or too-hot-for-broadcast 😏) footage on brand websites!

— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo.com) February 8, 2026 at 8:57 AM


They should try putting a celebrity in a commercial

— Scotty Ray (@theterminizer.bsky.social) February 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM


So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

— Adam Gurri (@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com) February 8, 2026 at 6:10 PM
























darnold-meter.com is super bowl ready. new "since kickoff" button added

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— Seth Walder (@sethwalder.bsky.social) February 8, 2026 at 3:36 PM