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The most trendy accessory at this year’s Grammy ceremony? Sanctimony

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03.02.2026

On Sunday night, a group of artists — some in various states of undress — came together to pat themselves on the back for making and selling a lot of music.

What transpired was a televised resistance revival in a cathedral built on empty platitudes and slogans. And the hymns were woefully auto-tuned.

The general public knows it as the Grammys.

Any good performances or moments were overshadowed by mass moral preening from the movers and shakers of the music industry, which is not exactly associated with deeply principled players.

On the red carpet, Justin Bieber and wife Hailey wore “ICE Out” pins. Inside, R&B singer Kehlani — whose Central Park concert was canceled by the city last summer over her embrace of intifada — temporarily abandoned her usual anti-Israel act to boldly declare, “F–k ICE.”

Bon Iver, aka singer Justin Vernon, adorned his lapel with a red whistle “to honor the observers in Minneapolis.”

But as the daughter of a football official, the whistle pin felt more like stolen valor to........

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