Bad Bunny, Budget Battles & Belonging: Who Really Counts in America?
A Super Bowl halftime rumor shouldn’t trigger a civics crisis - but the Bad Bunny backlash did exactly that. We start with culture and run headlong into identity, geography, and the gaps in how we understand America. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. Spanish is part of the national soundtrack. When people panic about who “counts,” it’s really a story about education, belonging, and whether we can sit still long enough to be surprised by something new.
From there, we drop into the mechanics that actually shape lives: how the Senate’s 60-vote threshold turns “control” into negotiation, why the…
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