“Come on to this side of the line,” Armstrong added.
Super
Bowl LX is taking place amid the backdrop of mass protests against the
Trump administration’s anti-immigration surge in cities across the
country. The deaths of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti last
month at the hands of federal immigration agents in Minneapolis have
further inflamed tensions.
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong warns ICE officers that Trump admin will drop them ‘like a bad f***ing habit’
At
a show in San Francisco to kick off the Super Bowl weekend, Armstrong
gave the crowd a potential preview of Sunday’s performance
“This goes out to all the ICE agents,
wherever you are,” Armstrong said. “Quit your s***ty ass job. Quit that
s***ty job you have. Because when this is over, and it will be over at
some point in time, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Donald Trump —
they’re gonna drop you like a bad f***ing habit.”
During Friday’s show, Armstrong also referenced the Jeffrey Epstein scandal by changing the lyrics of the band’s hit, Holiday. “The representative from Epstein Island has the floor,” Armstrong sang, and dedicated the song to Minneapolis.
Green
Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong made a direct appeal to Immigration
and Customs Enforcement officers to quit their jobs and warned that the
Trump administration will one day ‘drop’ them(Getty Images for Spotify)
Green
Day will open Super Bowl LX, where the Seattle Seahawks and New England
Patriots will face off at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California,
the home of the San Francisco 49ers.
The
band kicked off the Super Bowl weekend by headlining the FanDuel Party
& Spotify party in San Francisco Friday night, where Armstrong gave
the crowd a potential preview of Sunday’s performance (Getty Images for Spotify)
“Before
I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ICE out,” he said at the Grammys
last weekend during an acceptance speech for Best Musica Urbana Album.
“The only thing that’s more powerful than hate is love,” he said.
“So
please we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with
love.”
There
were fears that ICE agents would be deployed to the Super Bowl after
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in September that officers
would be “all over” the event following the announcement of Bad Bunny as
the headline act.
The NFL’s chief security officer, Cathy Lanier, gave assurances that there are no planned ICE operations at the Super Bowl.
“There
are no known, no planned ICE or immigration enforcement operations that
are scheduled at the Super Bowl or any of the Super Bowl-related
events,” Lanier said Tuesday.
“Our Department of Homeland Security,
who’s been our partner for more than 20 years now and is made up of more
than 20 different departments, will send a variety of different
agencies. It does not include ICE.”
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The
MAGA world went on a days-long meltdown after Billie Joe Armstrong
dissed them on New Year's Eve. We try to figure out why — and what it
says about the 2024 election
Green Day changed one lyric on New Year's Eve — and all hell broke loose. We tried to figure out why GILBERT FLORES/PMC
ON NEW YEAR’S Eve,
we learned the improbable fact that a trio of middle-aged, Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame-inducted punks in notably well-tailored suits can
somehow still shock and offend the masses. For Green Day,
all it took was changing the “American Idiot” lyric “I’m not part of a
redneck agenda” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during their
performance onDick Clark’s New Year’s Rocking Eve with Ryan Seacrest — a lyric tweak they’ve been using for years.
The
ensuing freakout on social media and conservative news channels went on
for days, with some commentators seeming to be downright stunned that Billie Joe Armstrong holds the left-of-center political views he’s been quite clear about for decades. “Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,”Elon Musk wrote on X.
In the new episode ofRolling Stone Music Now,
we try to make sense of the outsized reaction to Green Day’s
performance — and take a look ahead at what it says about the role
musicians might play in this year’s presidential campaign, with Andy
Greene joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. To hear the full
episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play above.)
In
the episode, we look back at similar meltdowns in the recent past,
including when right-wingers accused Rage Against the Machine, of all
people, of “going woke” when it appeared their concerts had vaccine
mandates.
We also ponder how the current left-wing backlash against Joe
Biden might affect musicians’ decisions about publicly endorsing him or
performing at fundraisers; wonder how performers will find fresh things
to say about Donald Trump in his third campaign for president; and
debate what role Taylor Swift might end up playing in the election.
(Dick Clark Productions, which producesNew Year’s Rockin’ Eve, is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between PMC and Eldrige. PMC is the parent company ofRolling Stone.)
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L’inspectrice Izzy Jaynes, épaulée de la détective Holly Gibney, se lance à la poursuite de ce mystérieux serial killer. Au même moment, à Reno, la militante féministe Kate McKay entame une tournée de conférences houleuses, émaillées d’injures et de menaces. Holly est, là encore, appelée à la rescousse. Il semblerait que quelqu’un soit prêt à tout pour éliminer la bruyante activiste…
Depuis maintenant une bonne dizaine d’années, l’intrépide Holly Gibney accompagne le grand maître du thriller américain dans ses meilleurs romans. Tout juste sortie des griffes d’un couple de grabataires sadiques (l’excellent Holly, paru en 2024), on la retrouve aujourd’hui avec bonheur au centre de ce polar à l’architecture complexe, où deux intrigues sombres et touffues fusionnent en un bouquet final… king size.
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