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Macklemore just announced he’s donating the $1 million he made from Sheeran’s tour to 6 organizations to support Palestinians and he’s asking Robert Kraft to match it. This is just the first part announcing it.
With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom. I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.
September 16, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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mayor.nyc.gov
17 new public bathrooms. Across all five boroughs.

Because you can’t wait — and you shouldn’t have to.
September 16, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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jaywillis.net
"Somebody yelled down the hall, ‘Brett Kavanaugh just put his penis in Debbie’s face,’ ” she said. “It was his full name. I don’t think it was just ‘Brett.’ And I remember hearing and being mortified that this was out there." www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
Ramirez said that, when both she and Kavanaugh were freshmen at Yale, she was invited by a friend on the women’s soccer team to a dorm-room party. She recalled that the party took place in a suite at Lawrance Hall, in the part of Yale known as Old Campus, and that a small group of students decided to play a drinking game together. “We were sitting in a circle,” she said. “People would pick who drank.” Ramirez was chosen repeatedly, she said, and quickly became inebriated. At one point, she said, a male student pointed a gag plastic penis in her direction. Later, she said, she was on the floor, foggy and slurring her words, as that male student and another stood nearby. (Ramirez identified the two male onlookers, but, at her request, The New Yorker is not naming them.) A third male student then exposed himself to her. “I remember a penis being in front of my face,” she said. “I knew that’s not what I wanted, even in that state of mind.” She recalled remarking, “That’s not a real penis,” and the other students laughing at her confusion and taunting her, one encouraging her to “kiss it.” She said that she pushed the person away, touching it in the process. Ramirez, who was raised a devout Catholic, in Connecticut, said that she was shaken. “I wasn’t going to touch a penis until I was married,” she said. “I was embarrassed and ashamed and humiliated.” She remembers Kavanaugh standing to her right and laughing, pulling up his pants. “Brett was laughing,” she said. “I can still see his face, and his hips coming forward, like when you pull up your pants.” She recalled another male student shouting about the incident. “Somebody yelled down the hall, ‘Brett Kavanaugh just put his penis in Debbie’s face,’ ” she said. “It was his full name. I don’t think it was just ‘Brett.’ And I remember hearing and being mortified that this was out there.”
September 16, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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oldmanweldon.bsky.social
And now to let all of my Irish opening acts know that I have done the right thing, side with a violent and repressive colonialist project.
September 15, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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museum-of-twitter.bsky.social
@MohanadElshieky Please stop saying the vaccine doesn't have severe side effects. I took my shots and now I'm alive and have to keep working
September 15, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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cethanleahy.com
Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
September 15, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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eidin.bsky.social
Agus Beoga
September 15, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
opener for most of ed sheeran’s shows in south america just now on IG:
September 15, 2026 at 7:40 PM
snacksrule.bsky.social
ED SHEE-RAN AWAY FROM CONTROVERSY AMIRITE
September 15, 2026 at 4:13 PM
snacksrule.bsky.social
it's not impossible or illegal to embarrass kash freaking patel like i've almost never seen an easier target. be meaner!!! that is always the lesson
September 15, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards.

The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL U.S. Department of Homeland Security Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures. Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026 Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
September 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
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 4:04 PM
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standplaatskrk.pl
Discord: evil f skeleton: "bro so like I was in my college class and they don't let you use ai right and so like I started using chatgpt in my head analyzing the article and shit it was like I was using chatgpt in my head u feel me?" harkits: "motherfucker thats called thinking"
September 14, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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moxiest.art
"this is what you need to do to win texas"

-strategists who have never won texas
September 11, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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ianboudreau.com
Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered
September 11, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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lukeoneil47.bsky.social
I just have concerns about girls sports
September 10, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Vote Blue No Matter Who radicalized me against my own party lol
September 10, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Yup. I also find it gross to play the "just trying to win <insert state here>" shit because what I'm tired of isn't left right or whatever what I'm tired of is people running for office to follow and not lead. 'I'll go where the wind blows'. I can't vote for that anymore. Principles matter.
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · 6d
trying to get people to understand that the trans women in sports debate isn’t really about sports but a meta narrative pushed by the right all about slowly getting all trans people out of public life is truly impossible
September 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
snacksrule.bsky.social
the check’s in the mail ass administration at it again
September 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
My favorite doorknobs are the ones the New York City public schools installed at the turn of the 20th century. You can still occasionally find one on eBay!
A brass doorknob with the all-caps lettering "PUBLIC SCHOOL—CITY OF NEW YORK," surrounded by a swirling motif that looks rather like leaves.
September 10, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
If “we need to do this to win Texas” means throwing away human rights for all then no, Texas is not worth winning. If it wouldn’t be moral to do it in Mississippi in 1962 then it’s not ok in Texas in 2026. Under any circumstances.
September 10, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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neilc-atl.bsky.social
No, the appropriate response is “leave trans kids alone you absolute freaks.”
September 9, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
All new products have the same pitch: it spies on you, but also no it doesn’t.
September 9, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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dansolomon.com
just today, texas democrats have: made an ad built around a "pronouns" joke, voiced their opposition to "biological males playing girls sports," and called the disabled governor "gov. hot wheels" in a press release
dansolomon.com dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 7d
i'm fucking exhausted
an email from the texas democratic party's press office that reads "Despite Plenty of Hot Air, Gov. Hot Wheels Has a Flat."
September 9, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Principled politicians should say: Trans girls are girls so they should be able to play sports with other girls. Unfortunately there aren't many principled politicians.
September 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM