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gwen howerton

@kissphoria.bsky.social

AT&T Stadium reportedly is one of the venues that opposed Macklemore being on Ed Sheeran's bill. Worth noting that AT&T is hosting Kanye West in November.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12d

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran.

Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

September 14, 2026 at 5:34 PM

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bites u

@snuffbait.bsky.social

i love a slip chain cause it's a really classy statement piece that says "i love it when beautiful women choke me"

August 11, 2026 at 11:54 PM

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#StupidSuez

@diplomatofnight.com

BTW people keep telling me there isn't an anti-Arab problem and uh

#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · Jul 24

Great stuff

Farmington school board member
Angie Smith says she's backing Stevens because she believes she will represent everyone, "not just one race... You have to know how to work the room, don't just come in here speaking Arabic, don't come out with your Arabic music on."
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July 24, 2026 at 11:08 PM

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kate bush’s husband

@airbagged.bsky.social

I don’t even know what to say anymore man. Every day trans people are a target. They do nothing but want to exist and they are a target. Every time we see senseless violence in the US, it is spun into a lie involving trans people.

May 19, 2026 at 10:41 PM

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Jon Bois

@jonbois.bsky.social

i think that babies should have to file tax returns under penalty of law. hear more on my daily video series And I Can’t Even! that costs $8,000 to produce per episode and that people have only ever seen by accident

May 15, 2026 at 3:28 AM

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utopia deferred

@utopia-defer.red

beast mode, i'm afraid

April 17, 2026 at 11:09 PM

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Ken Klippenstein

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social

Congress dialogue tree:
A. Sorry, we don't have a majority
B. Sorry, we don't have a supermajority
C. Sorry, we have to support the president
D. [say nothing, avoid all media]

March 21, 2026 at 3:15 AM

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Ahhhhh

@nerdjpg.com

Reminder that the Soviet government was the only government at the time trying to liberate women from domestic work by providing more domestic services on a socialized scale like worker canteens and kitchens etc

V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · Mar 8

But you cannot draw the masses into politics without drawing in the women as well. For under capitalism the female half of the human race is doubly oppressed.

March 8, 2026 at 1:58 PM

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief

@katie.bzky.team

the bluesky experience:

March 6, 2026 at 7:12 PM

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Evan Greer

@evangreer.bsky.social

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.

Full stop.

"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name

We have to stop this.

theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online

The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

theintercept.com

March 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM

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Robert Reich

@rbreich.bsky.social

10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch.

March 2, 2026 at 9:56 PM

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Jac

@dairyqueenslime.bsky.social

gone off one hit of Boner Bears

February 27, 2026 at 2:33 AM

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@mayor.nyc.gov

I had a productive meeting with President Trump this afternoon.

I’m looking forward to building more housing in New York City.

Mayor Mamdani and President Trump meet in Oval Office.

February 26, 2026 at 8:27 PM

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@bloomfilters.plus

it would be good to read up on the history of Frances Thompson's testimony regarding the Memphis massacre

February 26, 2026 at 2:32 PM

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@bloomfilters.plus

how to get rid of the trans women to break the back of a movement or committee's maintenance? just put them in jail en masse to v-code them. there is a long history of sexual violence targeting women & the gender marginalized to scorched-earth political opponents

February 26, 2026 at 2:29 PM

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@bloomfilters.plus

i hope more people are aware that the mass targeting to remove trans people out of public life is both violence against an oppressed minority but also has a strongly political bent, since trans people are often integral members of liberal & leftist organizing institutions

February 26, 2026 at 2:29 PM