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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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…

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Right taking Moby-Dick

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 19/08/2026

Making the editorial decision of excluding all trans people from an exclusive interview of a WNBA player known for her anti-trans views and relegating their responses and humanity to another article that will surely not get the same ballpark of views is the textbook definition of burying the lede

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is the same old "you can't solve weightlifting with a forklift" thing that happens again and again with current consumer uses of AI: the point of reading a book is not to finish the book easily, it's to READ the book, especially if the book asks you to do something that feels difficult

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/08/2026

Study: Dolphins Not So Intelligent On Land theonion.com/study-dolphins-not-so-…

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

george miller, bc the fact that mad max: fury road exists at all is really something

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Mad Max Mad Max Fury Road

ALT: Mad Max Mad Max Fury Road

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“Former NBA Super Star”

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12/07/2026

I’m so embarrassed that I started this book like, “UGH a canon text, let’s see what’s the fuss,” and now I’m quietly weeping with joy to myself and filled with goodwill and optimism toward humanity and its capacity to love. How dare you, Jane Austen!!!

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 20/06/2026

"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If a curriculum is to be purposeful and meaningful, it needs to be particular. Locally determined, departmentally determined, teacher determined, ideally with input from students.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company

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Forrest Brown @forrestgbrown.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I just tried cooking with gochujang…. Things may never be the same

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Fortunately, there are numbers to multiply by that are bigger than two.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The funniest thing about the “fertility debate” is that it has an easy answer as far as America is concerned (let in more immigrants) but people are like that is neither racist nor misogynist enough

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Forrest Brown @forrestgbrown.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

😭😭😭😭 GEORGE ELIOT YOU’RE MAKING ME CRY AT THE CLUB* *my living room

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Why do we have so much investment in AI when nobody has figured out how to make a non-plastic chopping board that you can put in the dishwasher. Get your priorities in order

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

my top three favorite boroughs of new york: 1. new york 2. philadelphia 3. brooklyn 4. the one and only new york city! 5. boston 4. bodegas

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Forrest Brown @forrestgbrown.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Reading Middlemarch

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/05/2026

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

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Doc Hammertime @dochammertime.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The thing about sopranos v the wire is that the answer is Deadwood

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Craig Jenkins @craigsj.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

the velvet underground & grogu

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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 10/04/2026

Butlerian Jihad Now.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

To all who celebrate

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Every week I see a post like “well, Silicon Valley has built a dick-breaking machine. No matter how you feel about getting your dick broken, it’s our responsibility to integrate mechanical dick-breaking into our schools.”

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

In space no one can hear you Teams.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews. There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

haaretz.com

Israel passes bill mandating death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror

The Bill's Wording Creates a Distinction Designating It Almost Exclusively for Palestinian Terror, While the Ideological Burden of Proof It Sets Is Expected to Make Its Application to Jewish Nationali...

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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

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Forrest Brown @forrestgbrown.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Northanger Abbey ROCKETING up my Austen rankings, can’t believe I’ve never read it before

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Forrest Brown @forrestgbrown.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Me when I don’t have a crush: I wish I had a crush Me when I have a crush: literally nothing could be worse than this

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

kind of goes without saying but the punctuation in Cormac McCarthy is not a mistake

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Toronto Man @fucklandlords.com · 07/03/2026

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his substack depends on his not understanding it".

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The word you are looking for, Tom, is "bad." A demented authoritarian illegally and immorally bombing a foreign country is bad.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Lacy’s a great writer and doesn’t ignore the issues, but I find it impossible to untangle Fennell’s “big swings” from her class privilege, and what we need more of is filmmakers without the same background given the same opportunities. Without depth, a big swing is just a Gatsby party.

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

What’s most annoying about this is it assumes economic insecurity is a product of individual “skills gaps” as opposed to a structural condition of our political/economic systems. So now Ss are trapped in a system obsessed with job prep at a time when every company is gutting their future jobs.

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