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Nelson Flores
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Professor researching race and language in education
Check out my book:
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 11h
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 12h
“This refusal is consistent with Bad Bunny’s career-long rejection of the idea that global success requires crossing over into English. Instead, he has always invited those who do not speak Spanish to cross over themselves—to feel the rhythm, move with the music,and perhaps even learn a few words”

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 12h
The Benito effect... activity on Bluesky spiked 70% during the Super Bowl 👀

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 16h
When Bad Bunny was announced as performing the Super Bowl half time show I wrote a blog post talking about how the world we are fighting for sounds like Bad Bunny singing at the Super Bowl. Having seen the performance I am doubling down on that claim
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When Bad Bunny Sang at the Super Bowl, the World We’re Fighting for Sang Back
A few months ago, I wrote about the world we were fighting for and suggested that it might sound like Bad Bunny singing in Spanish at the Super Bowl. That piece was written in anticipation, as a wa…
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 22h
And the fact that many of us saw him in the child actor finally achieving his dreams shows a collective hope for a better world for all of our children
dbrauer.net David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 22h
Liam couldn’t be at the Super Bowl because he‘s in hiding
vtuss.bsky.social Vince Tuss @vtuss.bsky.social · 1d
"Liam and his family are sequestered during this time," Kristen Stuenkel, a spokeswoman for the Columbia Heights Public Schools district said in a statement about Liam Conejo Ramos. She said Superintendent Zena Stenvik has indication the child was not Liam www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 22h
Even though it appears that the intent was to represent Bad Bunny as a child, I see this as also representing the dreams of all Latinx children and their families, including Liam Ramos and his who immediately came to mind for me when I saw the child on the screen.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
FYI: The little boy in Bad Bunny's #SuperBowl halftime show wasn't Liam Ramos as some have said, it was a child actor: Lincoln Fox www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/...
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 22h
Liam couldn’t be at the Super Bowl because he‘s in hiding
vtuss.bsky.social Vince Tuss @vtuss.bsky.social · 1d
"Liam and his family are sequestered during this time," Kristen Stuenkel, a spokeswoman for the Columbia Heights Public Schools district said in a statement about Liam Conejo Ramos. She said Superintendent Zena Stenvik has indication the child was not Liam www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
The latest: ICE’s top prosecutor in MN retires; Homeland Security defends conditions at Whipple
DHS pushed back on Rep. Kelly Morrison’s characterization of poor conditions for detainees at the Fort Snelling federal building.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d
What this means is that even Trump watched Bad Bunny instead of Kid Rock 😂

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Trump says Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime was 'absolutely terrible' — Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday in a social media post that the Super Bowl halftime show fronted by Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny was
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d
Since presumably the people complaining don’t know Spanish their assumption seems to be that the very presence of Spanish is a political message. This is a great example of a raciolinguistic ideology.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d
lol stay mad
Bad Bunny's halftime show ripped for language barrier, suspected political message

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d
FYI: The little boy in Bad Bunny's #SuperBowl halftime show wasn't Liam Ramos as some have said, it was a child actor: Lincoln Fox www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/...
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d
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.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show will be interpreted by Celimar Rivera Cosme into Puerto Rican Sign Language, a unique dialect used on the island that academic researchers and other experts consider endangered.
Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too
Puerto Rican Sign Language is not the same as American Sign Language. Celimar Rivera Cosme will uniquely capture the rapper’s slang for the game’s deaf viewers.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d
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.

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 1d
AERA is saddened by the passing of Dr. Ernest Morrell, AERA Fellow and former at-large member of Council. A distinguished scholar of English and Africana studies, he made enduring contributions to education research. We extend our heartfelt condolences.

Read more: news.nd.edu/news/in-memo...
Head shot of Dr. Ernest Morrell. He is smiling and wearing a gray suit jacket, white shirt with light blue checker board pattern, and tie with diagonal yellow, blue, and white stripes.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d
“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.”
cantb.bsky.social Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d
This is very good
🎁 🔗 hhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/bad-bunny-super-bowl.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Opinion | If You Hate Bad Bunny, I Have Bad News for You
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 1d
This is very good
🎁 🔗 hhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/bad-bunny-super-bowl.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Opinion | If You Hate Bad Bunny, I Have Bad News for You
www.nytimes.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show will be interpreted by Celimar Rivera Cosme into Puerto Rican Sign Language, a unique dialect used on the island that academic researchers and other experts consider endangered.
Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too
Puerto Rican Sign Language is not the same as American Sign Language. Celimar Rivera Cosme will uniquely capture the rapper’s slang for the game’s deaf viewers.
trib.al

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d
so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 1d
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

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d
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.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d
The Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star delivers an explicit political message.
The enthusiasm — and scorn — surrounding Bad Bunny’s star turn at the Super Bowl
The halftime show will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star makes an explicit message about Trump’s deportation drive.
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d
Happy Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl day to all who celebrate
the statue of liberty has a puerto rico flag draped over it 's head
ALT: the statue of liberty has a puerto rico flag draped over it 's head
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d
The Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star delivers an explicit political message.
The enthusiasm — and scorn — surrounding Bad Bunny’s star turn at the Super Bowl
The halftime show will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star makes an explicit message about Trump’s deportation drive.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 2d
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
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
Kash Patel, a podcaster selected because of his fierce loyalty to the President, told FBI agents not to investigate the details on Renee Good's shooting because it would contradict the President. Fact matter less than the King's opinion in a personalist regime.
But later that week, as F.B.I. agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Ms. Good’s S.U.V., they received orders to stop, according to several people with knowledge of the events who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The orders, they said, came from senior officials, including Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, several of whom worried that pursuing a civil rights investigation — by using a warrant obtained on that basis — would contradict President Trump’s claim that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer” who fired at her as she drove her vehicle.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 2d
“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.”
Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing
Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
Kash Patel, a podcaster selected because of his fierce loyalty to the President, told FBI agents not to investigate the details on Renee Good's shooting because it would contradict the President. Fact matter less than the King's opinion in a personalist regime.
But later that week, as F.B.I. agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Ms. Good’s S.U.V., they received orders to stop, according to several people with knowledge of the events who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The orders, they said, came from senior officials, including Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, several of whom worried that pursuing a civil rights investigation — by using a warrant obtained on that basis — would contradict President Trump’s claim that Ms. Good “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer” who fired at her as she drove her vehicle.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 3d
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 3d
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.”

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 3d
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.
victorerikray.bsky.social Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · Jan 9
I’m not linking but I just read a columnist (one of my favorites) say Trump “has no ideology beyond his own power.”

Ten years in, this trope should die. Trump's ideology is white supremacist and that goes a long way in explaining his imperialism and protectionism.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 3d
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.

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The World We’re Fighting For Sounds Like Bad Bunny Singing in Spanish at the Super Bowl
For many of us, Bad Bunny’s selection to perform at the next Super Bowl was a moment of joy. A global artist singing in Spanish on one of the biggest stages in the world feels like an affirmation o…
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5d
Brad Karp, the chairman of the Paul Weiss law firm who brokered that deal with Trump last year & agreed to provide $40 million of pro bono services for Trump's causes, resigns due to fallout over his emails with Epstein: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Brad Karp Resigns as Paul Weiss Chairman Amid Epstein Fallout
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