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   From: noreply@mixmin.net   
      
   One of the most coveted pieces of Super Bowl merch this year won’t be   
   sold in stores, and the NFL probably doesn’t want to see it in the   
   stands.   
      
   It’s a rally towel with a cute, punting bunny graphic from acclaimed   
   L.A. illustrator Lalo Alcaraz on one side, honoring this year’s halftime   
   show performer Bad Bunny. But there’s an unambiguous message on the   
   other side — “ICE OUT.”   
      
   Before the game, activists clandestinely distributed 15,000 of them to   
   fans entering Levi’s Stadium for the Super Bowl, seeding grassroots   
   support toward a performer who spoke up for Latinos and immigrants at   
   the Grammy Awards last week.   
      
   Though the NFL prefers the game — and its halftime show — not become a   
   referendum on the ICE raids that have brutalized American cities over   
   the last year, the group behind the effort hopes the signs are   
   inescapable in the crowd.   
      
   “I’m a big ‘Joy is resistance’ person,” said Shasti Conrad, a leader   
   of   
   the group Contra-ICE and a vice chair of the Democratic National   
   Committee. “Today is a celebration of American sports, and there are   
   opportunities to really be heard here. It’s about drawing attention to   
   show that there is massive support to challenge Trump and the Department   
   of Homeland Security. Any opportunity to push back is important.”   
      
   Such pushback was enough to keep President Trump from attending the game   
   in person — “I’m anti-them,” Trump said earlier, about performers Bad   
   Bunny and Green Day. “I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow   
   hatred. Terrible.”   
      
   While a competing halftime show from Kid Rock for Turning Point USA will   
   try to rally the MAGA faithful, a pre-game set from Green Day needled   
   ICE agents: “Wherever you are: quit that s— job you have,” Green Day’s   
   Billie Joe Armstrong said. “Come on this side of the line.”   
      
   The NFL keeps tight reins on messaging from its halftime show   
   performers, but this year’s selection of Bad Bunny (a choice announced   
   late last year) carries unusual salience for the battle over raids by   
   federal agents on immigrant communities, which have led to the deaths of   
   two protesters and many more detainees in custody.   
      
   https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2026-02-08/how-did   
   -those-bad-bunny-themed-anti-ice-towels-get-into-super-bowl   
      
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