I cannot recall any Super Bowl halftime show ever needing a next-day explainer, but CBS News apparently thinks you need one after the Bad Bunny spectacle during Super Bowl LX. And, as fate would have it, CBS’s self-styled “Bad Bunny correspondent”, Lilia Luciano, handled the segment which quickly descended into outright propaganda. Watch as Luciano regurgitates Bad Bunny’s fake ICE raids story, and confirms our suspicions regarding Bad Bunny’s “God Bless América:” WATCH: Lilia Luciano, CBS's self-styled "Bad Bunny Correspondent", repeats the ICE Raids Hoax (Bad Bunny secured the PR residency dates two years in advance, during the Biden administration when there were clearly no ICE raids- refusal to do CONUS dates due to poor sales in… pic.twitter.com/Hk0EjI8Soj — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 10, 2026 LILIA LUCIANO: There was no mention of ICE. But for an artist who wouldn't bring his tour to the continental U.S. out of fear that his fans would be targeted by immigration agents, taking the stage at the most watched sporting event in the nation allowed him a teaching moment. BAD BUNNY: God bless América! LUCIANO: That America encompasses more than the United States. BAD BUNNY: Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador… The segment, prior to this moment, was equal parts explainer and worshipful review. Luciano went through the visuals, gushed over Ricky Martin, and cast Lady Gaga as the show’s diversity token. Then began the propaganda. Luciano repeated the ICE story as if it were a mantra. But as we explained previously, it simply isn’t true: Then there is the matter of the rank hypocrisy of Bad Bunny playing the Super Bowl after allegedly refusing to tour in the mainland U.S. due to ICE raids, which supposedly compelled him to do a 30-date residency in Puerto Rico instead, a narrative that the media gleefully and uncritically advanced. For starters, ICE has an active presence in Puerto Rico, and has conducted raids in accordance with existing policy. Then there is the matter of the residency itself. Per multiple accounts, the residency was booked in 2023- when Joe Biden was allowing illegal aliens to flood into the country with nary an ICE agent to be seen. What ensued was a brilliant piece of marketing meant to ensure sell outs while saving on travel, logistics, and while avoiding the embarrassment of having to cancel concerts due to poor sales in cities such as Minneapolis. Luciano then hails what she calls a “teaching moment.” What is Bad Bunny teaching us, you might ask? That the “America” in “God Bless America” really meant “The Americas”, from Argentina to Alaska and points in-between. If we are all América, then what need is there for borders? The segment closed out with additional explainers and with a reference to the Puerto Rican community as a “diaspora”, a characterization many reject because it is insulting to actual diasporas. Looking back, we absolutely called how the show would be critically acclaimed. Luciano’s gushing is but a sample: The worst part of all is that this performance will be hailed as proof evident that diversity is our greatest strength, and as a triumph of Latino culture. That’s a hard no on both counts.   Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance is not a triumph of the traditional “God, country, and family” values that Hispanics have espoused for centuries and brought to America since before the Revolutionary War. However, it is a high-water mark for an artificial and political Latino identity that seeks to perpetuate a permanent alien underclass forever separate and alien from the mainstream of American (captured) culture. To showcase this brain rot at such a quintessentially American institution as the Super Bowl is a sign of the extent to which our culture remains captured by the far left.  Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on the CBS Evening News on Monday, February 10th, 2026: TONY DOKOUPIL: Here’s an American story for you. A decade ago, Bad Bunny was bagging groceries in Puerto Rico. Last night he was center stage at the Super Bowl. And if you didn't follow a word of it, fear not. Here's Lilia Luciano on what it all means. LILIA LUCIANO: The halftime show was a love letter to Puerto Rican and Latino culture. From the sugarcane fields of Puerto Rico honoring its jibaro farmworkers to Puerto Rico's original crossover star Ricky Martin. (SINGING IN SPANISH) LUCIANO: But it was the  groundbreaking beats of reggaeton music that ignited the stadium. (LADY GAGA SINGING) LUCIANO: A Lady Gaga cameo in English was a reminder that everyone is welcome to a salsa party. Even the kids. For them Bad Bunny had a motivating message, believe in yourself he told the child actor who played young Benito. There was no mention of ICE. But for an artist who wouldn't bring his tour to the continental U.S. out of fear that his fans would be targeted by immigration agents, taking the stage at the most watched sporting event in the nation allowed him a teaching moment.  

With the threat of kinetic action not appearing imminent in the Caribbean, news coverage has sharply tapered off, But, as the most recent cutting off of oil to Cuba’s Castro dictatorship shows, there is plenty that the media isn’t keen on people seeing. The sole broadcast network nightly newscast to cover this development is NBC’s Nightly News. Below is their full report, as aired on Monday, February 9th, 2026:   WATCH: NBC Nightly News is the sole broadcast network newscast to report on Cuba's critical fuel shortages pic.twitter.com/SaZT6FM7mh — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 10, 2026 TOM LLAMAS: And the new warning from Cuba that due to a fuel shortage, they can no longer refuel international flights into the island nation. Some airlines are now suspending flights to Cuba. The growing energy crisis due, in part, to a US blockade cutting off oil from Mexico and Venezuela. The Cuba squeeze is of vital importance within the context of what the Trump administration is trying to accomplish in the Western Hemisphere, but it has gone critically unreported. The regime had been surviving for years off of free Venezuelan oil. And when that source started to dry up, Mexico began kicking in free “humanitarian assistance.” Last year alone, Mexico sent close to half a billion dollars’ worth. Fast forward to today: the Maduro regime is out of power, and the country runs as an American protectorate. Ghost fleet vessels are routinely intercepted, with Cuba getting cut off. And today the president of Mexico announced the suspension of oil shipments to Cuba.  This is critical to U.S. policy in the region because the Castroite regime has been a destabilizing force throughout the region. Their toxic export of socialism throughout Latin America has made the region less free, and unstable. There is an opportunity for that to end quickly.  Perhaps one day the media might tell this story instead of reporting on Cuba reactively, if at all.  

During Monday's Morning Joe, so-called ‘conservative’ writer Matt Lewis alleged ICE was “buying” local police forces across the country through the federal 287(g) program in order to serve as a “paramilitary” force for a possible plot by President Donald Trump to steal the midterm elections. The federal program referred to by Lewis, titled ICE’s 287(g) program, was a cooperation partnership between ICE and local police agencies that allowed local police to help ICE carry out immigration enforcement in a limited fashion.  In return for joining the program, local police departments may receive reimbursements for money spent on local immigration enforcement.  During his MS NOW appearance, “conservative writer” Matt Lewis alleged participation in the 287(g) program decreased trust in police, even though the program had existed for decades: And look, maybe you look at this and say cooperation is a good thing. Maybe you look at it and say, there's some perils to this, right? For example, there could be an erosion of trust in local police. Like if you're an immigrant, are you going to want to cooperate with the local police? But all of those things, I think, are interesting debates.     Then, while saying he didn't want to be a conspiracy theorist, Lewis suggested an ulterior and diabolical motive for the program: For me, my concern, and I don't want to sound conspiratorial here, but, you know, recently Steve Bannon said that ICE should be used during the midterm elections. If you are concerned that ICE could be a paramilitary, private police of Donald Trump, then I think this takes on kind of an added dimension in terms of its importance. Without any pushback on his outlandish claims, former ESPN personality, and now apparent MS NOW resident sports analyst, Pablo Torre continued spreading the notion of ICE “buying” local police: But like the notion that local government, different from the federal government, money being a way to get what you want. Could you just spell out that effective conflict of interest that I think lots of people are probably only now learning and hearing about. Lewis then implied if the federal government gave you money, you have to do what they tell you, or else: The fact that ICE is paying for the salaries, the benefits, the equipment, the overtime for these local police officers. What happens is - I've just grown up believing that whoever pays you money ultimately becomes your boss, and you will do what the person paying you money does. (...) And they’re doing it with - they're basically buying off these police departments. The whole idea of the 287(g) was grounded in the idea of local governments choosing to help federal authorities. Lewis even mentions that the program was created in 1996 during the Clinton Administration. It is also an absurd idea to claim that all federal grants to localities are bribes. If that is the case, then what was the point of federal funding for state government if it’s all a big bribe. Even worse from Lewis was enflaming the idea of ICE being Trump’s “private police” or “paramilitary” force. With statements like this, it was no surprise why liberals are forming ‘resistance’ and ‘revolutionary' groups against ICE. The transcript is below. Click to expand: MS NOW’s Morning Joe February 9, 2026 7:42:22 AM Eastern JONATHAN LEMIRE: And on this subject, conservative writer Matt Lewis contends that ICE is buying America's local police forces. In a new piece on Substack, Matt writes about a financial arrangement that, he argues, raises the sort of eyebrow arching questions usually reserved for lobbyists and free steak dinners. Matt joins us now. Matt, good to see you. An important piece. So explain for us, if you will, what these 287(g) partnerships are and why they matter. MATT LEWIS: So these are partnerships between ICE and state and local governments. And they ask for help from the state and local government police departments. It's optional, but if you go along with it, if you cooperate with ICE, they will reimburse your salaries, benefits, overtime and equipment. So effectively there are, according to the DHS, 40 states that are cooperating and over around 1,300 local police departments that are taking money from ICE to cooperate with them. And, you know, look, I think depending on how you look at it, this could be fine, right? And there you see this chart. It has dramatically increased during Donald Trump's first term. This policy has actually been in place since 1996 but it has become, as you can see, just dramatically ramped up. Many, many more local police departments are taking money from ICE to cooperate.  And look, maybe you look at this and say cooperation is a good thing. Maybe you look at it and say, there's some perils to this, right? For example, there could be an erosion of trust in local police. Like if you're an immigrant, are you going to want to cooperate with the local police? But all of those things, I think, are interesting debates. For me, my concern, and I don't want to sound conspiratorial here, but, you know, recently Steve Bannon said that ICE should be used during the midterm elections. If you are concerned that ICE could be a paramilitary, private police of Donald Trump, then I think this takes on kind of an added dimension in terms of its importance. PABLO TORRE: Yeah. Matt, The notion of the separation of powers. I don't want to be, you know, the pedantic academic guy in this discussion. But like the notion that local government, different from the federal government, money being a way to get what you want. Could you just spell out that effective conflict of interest that I think lots of people are probably only now learning and hearing about. LEWIS: Right, Pablo. I am blown away that this story is not a bigger deal. Like in the past week, we have seen states like Virginia and Maryland try to roll back these programs, but most people don't understand the money involved, right? They just think, Virginia, because Virginia elected a Democratic governor, she no longer wants to be complicit with what ICE is doing. She doesn't want her local police to be helping them, right. To round up migrants, some of whom may or may not be illegal. But most people don't know about the money. The fact that ice is paying for the salaries, the benefits, the equipment, the overtime for these local police officers. What happens is - I've just grown up believing that whoever pays you money ultimately becomes your boss, and you will do what the person paying you money does. And some of these local police departments, and I'm sitting here in West Virginia, these small counties, they may not have a lot of tax revenue. They're relying now increasingly on money from ICE and, at a certain point, you do what you're told to do by the people who are paying you and who are funding you. If you are a person, and I don't want to sound again too esoteric here, but if you believe in federalism, if you believe in separation of powers, if you believe in checks and balances, this is really Donald Trump and the federal government eroding that. Sort of tearing down that wall of separation, which – I know there's always going to be cooperation. At the end of the day, if the president wants to like nationalize, you know, somebody that he's probably going to do it. But it's happening already under our - we don't even, no one even knows that this is happening. And they're doing it with - they're basically buying off these police departments. That's how I see it. But you know, you can talk to a law enforcement officer who I'm sure would have lots of logical reasons why this is helpful. JOE SCARBOROUGH: There are a lot of conservative beliefs and values that have been completely thrown out the window. Whether you're talking about balancing budgets, we've got a $39 trillion debt, whether you're talking about federalism and states rights. Gone. And your piece just underlines it. And the new piece is online now, conservative writer Matt Lewis, we thank you so much for being with us. The article, "How ICE is buying America's local police forces." (...)

We've been chronicling Audie Cornish's adventures as host of CNN This Morning ever since she took over the post just shy of one year ago. There was never a doubt that Audie leaned left.  After all, before joining CNN, Cornish co-hosted NPR's All Things Considered for ten years. You don't get that gig unless your lefty credentials have been conclusively established. But Audie's affect has always been more temperate than that of other liberal media hosts. See and compare with the hard-edged Nicolle Wallace, the screaming Joe Scarborough -- and don't even get us started on Joy Reid! But there was apparently something about the video posted by President Trump's Truth Social account that depicted Barack and Michelle as apes that pushed Cornish over the edge. Audie would not normally express her liberal opinions outright. Instead, she would do so with a subtle suggestion, a loaded question, and by stocking her panels with a disproportionate representation of liberals. On those occasions when a conservative is permitted to appear, he or she is sure to be outnumbered by people on the left. But today, Cornish adopted a tougher tone.  She twice flat-out accused Trump of "racism," and accused his administration of promoting "white supremacist ideology." She refused to grant Trump any grace for having deleted the video in question: "You don't get points for not apologizing and saying someone else did it." And, reacting with surprise to the fact that some Republicans had criticized Trump over the video, Cornish took a nasty little shot at the only black Republican senator:  "I was surprised, honestly, to see the Republican [inaudible.] I did not know they had a line. So we found it somehow. Even Tim Scott found his way to this line." "Even" Tim Scott?  Speaking of Cornish's surprise at Republicans finding a line that Trump crossed that was too much for them: Despite the glaring evidence of his incapacity, Biden never crossed a line with Democrats or the liberal media--all devoted members of the "Biden is just fine" cult--until the utter debate fiasco of "we finally beat Medicare." Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning  2/9/26 6:25 am ET AUDIE CORNISH: President Trump refusing to apologize for a racist post on his Truth Social account depicting the Obamas as apes, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling out his racism.  PRESIDENT TRUMP: I looked at the first part, and it was really about voter fraud and the machines, how crooked it is, how disgusting it is. Then I gave it to the people, so generally they'd look at the whole thing, but I guess somebody didn't.  REPORTER: President, a number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post. Is that something you're going to do?  TRUMP: No, I didn't make a mistake.  CORNISH: Racism against the Obamas has been a longtime preoccupation with Trump. He launched his political career by questioning former President Obama's U.S. citizenship. This recent post was just the latest instance, however, of white supremacist ideology that's been amplified by the administration.  Joining us now in the group chat this morning, Zach Wolf, CNN senior politics writer, Francesca Chambers, White House correspondent for USA Today, and Catherine Lucey, Bloomberg News White House correspondent.  So. the reason why I wanted to do this is because I keep seeing percolating online images that then people who are experts in this will say, hey, that looks strangely familiar.  So the last one I noticed was Kristi Noem. And I don't know if we have that image. But we also have Homeland Security is like a really big proponent of this as well, using phrases like One Homeland, One People. Can you talk about why? Oh, here's some of them. Can you talk about why you think we are seeing these comments and amplification and retweeting? What are they getting out of it?  ZACH WOLF: Well, those are very, those are very specific things that were done on purpose when you look at those Homeland Security, the ICE recruitment videos. So it's hard to deny that they are, at least, trying to appeal to this segment of society, the white nationalist segment of society.  If you add on to that something like President Trump's Truth Social post, which has something that's so obviously racist that even he deleted it, which I think is the real interesting thing here, it's hard to not, kind of add those things up and see that this administration is certainly trying to appeal to these people.  CATHERINE LACEY: And I do think, as Zach said, it is notable that they took this post down. He didn't apologize. But we rarely see any kind of retreat from this White House  on any of these social media posts. You have the different kinds that you're talking about.  CORNISH: Isn't that the soft bigotry of low expectations?  LACEY: That is.  CORNISH: That's my soft bigotry.  LACEY: That is what we are getting on this.  CORNISH: You don't get points for not apologizing and saying someone else did it.  . . .  WOLF: The anti-wokeness element is still very much driving so much of what this president does.  CORNISH: But it seems like there's a red line even for the anti-woke, or else these Republicans wouldn't have been calling.  WOLF: Sure, and this is the thing that got those Republican lawmakers you mentioned frustrated and had them call out the president. But he has also referred to Somalis as garbage, and he didn't retreat from that at all. I mean, that's a patently horrible thing to do. And so the line, there is a line we have identified now, but -- CORNISH: Which I was surprised, honestly, to see the Republican [inaudible.] I did not know they had a line. So we found it somehow. Even Tim Scott found his way to this line. 

Last week at the Democratic Party State Convention in Syracuse, New York, Governor Kathy Hochul accepted her party's nomination to run for reelection this year, and she chose former New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams as her running mate. On Sunday, Hochul appeared on MS NOW's Politics Nation, where she and Host, Reverend Al Sharpton, celebrated Adam's selection, never mentioning the controversy surrounding the pick, while also attempting to portray Hochul as a moderate. Sharpton began the segment by admitting that he has a personal connection to Adams. "I want to start with your reelection race and your pick for Lieutenant Governor, former New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, who I'm proud to say is a member of National Action Network." Sharpton is the Founder of NAN.  HOCHUL ..I picked the most experienced person I could find who had an in-depth knowledge of New York City like no others. And it's a hard job to be the Speaker of the City Council, with many diverse voices and competing interests. So my job is to make sure there's a Lieutenant Governor who understands the power of government to lift people up, understands how we can continue to promote our agenda, and also knows how to fight back against Donald Trump, which does seem to be an all day long exercise. Not what we asked for, but we have to stand up for New Yorkers. So she's going to be terrific. I've seen her in action for years. We've been friends a long time, and so this is going to be great for New York. Maybe not. What both the Governor and Sharpton failed to mention was what some of the reaction has been to the selection of Adams. As noted in the link to the New York Post story above, "But some Democrats immediately revolted against the Adams pick, with the Brooklyn Democratic Party saying it would rescind its endorsement of Hochul over the choice." How did that one get past Reverend Al? Or this line: "But some, including powerful city Dems and Jewish pols and activists, disapproved of the choice."  Why? This New York Post op-ed from early 2025, when it was rumored that Adams would run for Mayor, describes her this way: "Speaker Adams as a Mayoral contender would compete for the title of candidate most in thrall to the antisemitic far left. As Speaker, she has shown her willingness to use her office to condemn Jews — and her unwillingness to safeguard them." The Post piece went on to report, "As speaker, Adams backed controversial measures to ban solitary confinement at Rikers Island jail complex and to require NYPD cops to report on all low-level stops that critics said would drown officers in paperwork...She also pushed for a housing voucher program to be implemented that has helped contribute to the city’s $12 billion budget gap.." No big deal I guess, since none of this was mentioned.  Sharpton then turned to Hochul's politics, calling her "a self-described moderate." A most generous self-description, especially since she had ripped President Trump earlier. So nice of Sharpton to repeat it. Hochul gave a brief summary of her political history, and claimed, "I have to represent everybody. And so I, I'm not going to be defined by a label... And I'm going to make sure that we have, a city and a state that can thrive and help our families. And as I've said, your family is my fight. That's personal, as the first mom Governor and actually the first grandma Governor. So I don't think it matters what we call each other. All I know is coming out of the convention, people have said they've never seen our state party more unified." Of course Sharpton didn't challenge that claim. Hochul probably could have said almost anything, and Sharpton would have proceeded to the next question. It's liberal media protocol.