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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

YES LET'S GOOOO

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If I were trying to gain influence on US laws because I was a powerful individual, corporation, or a foreign country I would 100% try to gain a foothold in both US political parties (left and right). I'd play a long game in both but push toward my agenda. This could account for some current behavior

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.

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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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tranna karenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

lrt: i've talked about this before on here, but far right political movements are in fact intrinsically antisocial and criminal, and can prob be stopped in every country in which they're rising simply by enforcing existing law against them

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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/09/2026

nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026

Did I miss the big open letter signed by a hundred academics opposing this?

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

He’s literally inventing the future of politics. He’s both communicating that he’s listening and doing something and is growing his visibility and popularity which allows him to actually accomplish things.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/08/2026

This is crazy. Alex is from Brazil, why would they deport him to Guyana? He’s a longtime West Hollywood resident who has been following his immigration requirements. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t on the run. He showed up for his required ICE check-in. And that’s where they detained him.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

When he's not being smuggled out of Air Force One in a catering truck, he's being protected by anti-missile systems and barbed wire as he does the vital work of golfing.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

@sfiscience.bsky.social I'd be interested in following everyone involved at the Santa Fe Institute. I've found the multi-disciplinary approach valuable. Is this possible? Credit to @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for the lead.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is the only response to someone asking if a Democratic candidate is "too extreme"

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Honest to God, don't think I've been inspired by a YouTube video like this in my life. What a weird savant.

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America’s largest grocery store should be out of business

YouTube video by Morning Brew

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Brutal news about Glen Hansard. Every once in a while I'll rewatch this opening scene to Once, which is obviously of a time, but is still awfully beautiful. Watched this at a little movie theatre and had no idea what it was about and was just blown away by the electricity of it. RIP.

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Once (2006) - Say It To Me Now (by Glen Hansard)

YouTube video by bogdan dincă

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This feels like such a painfully obvious dynamic to me and yet I wonder if it's just not that effective? Or have people really not tried to craft better text messages and emails? They are just so universally terrible right now and I don't understand why.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Somehow I had not know about OATH. Seems like a good way to donate to candidates and causes. app.oath.vote

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Oath | Your one-stop-shop for political giving

Your one-stop-shop for political giving

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Pa-‘Trick-Or-Treat’ Barron 🐻〽️ @bluebarronphoto.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

One of my views in Katmai National Park last week. Count the bears! The salmon are coming in and the bears are hungry!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

They’re kids!

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Establishment Democrats and Republicans are enraged by Zohran Mamdani and his one weird trick of using tax dollars to help taxpayers instead of only benefiting corporate lobbyists or hurting minorities & trans people.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Ossoff looking like a 2028 front-runner.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

There is too much complexity in software/business/politics for AI, which as yet has no intimate knowledge of human culture in its wide ranging diversity, to understand and/or predict. AI will impact jobs (as many other inventions have) but humans will be intimately involved for a long time to come.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This guy terrorized our city, now appears on Alex Jones' two-bit closet Twitter podcast, and is responsible for several deaths of American citizens and injuries of countless others. Justice starts with him in jail.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/05/2026

Kelly Loeffler glazes Dear Leader: "You are leading us to the greatest economy that the world has ever known ... I hear it everywhere I go -- 'Please thank the president.' They love you."

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The "Epstein Class" is such a great political move and so necessary at this time.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is how it's done.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The newfound Dem fondness for cutting people's taxes is profoundly shortsighted one-weird-trick thinking. What we actually need to do is to reinvigorate the idea of civic virtue, and part of that is doing our part to contribute to collective well-being. Paying taxes is good. Skin in the game.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Absolutely outrageous Virginia Supreme Court invalidated redistricting referendum approved by the voters when voters haven’t been able to weigh in on a single gerrymander passed in red states

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I don't always fully intuit how math can be bent and stretched to explore new ideas or challenge assumptions, but it is fascinating to read about the different angles of math and physics people are exploring.

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

✨NASA: "Jesse, Steve, Laddy, and Vlad….such an incredible feeling to welcome you aboard Integrity after a nearly 700,000 mile journey. Forever thankful for your service to our crew and the nation." @astro_reid

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Mayor Mamdani has to be one of the most effective defenses against the damage the current administration has done to the perception that the US is welcoming to immigrants and is a place where an immigrant can find success and have an impact.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is an excellent video and something we will need to deal with for the indefinite future. I don't quite understand when people want it to not exist. Even calling it for it to be illegal requires a pragmatic enforcement policy. It's a very tricky situation.

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is exactly how AI psychosis starts because this kinda technology doesn't not need to exist and be easily accessible. If she can do this benign video on Instagram, imagine what folks with malicious intentions are doing.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I find it frustrating to know that, in the not-too-distant future, you will not be able to distinguish a person from a bot on social media. Maybe at all? Possibly with enough investigation, but I kind of doubt it. It's interesting to think about how you could prevent this.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The New York Times deleted Trump’s “open the fuckin’ strait” line to make him look less insane Their write-up falsely says his post says only “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” and “Praise be to Allah”

NYT: Iran War Live Updates: Trump Escalates Threat to Hit Iranian Power Plants After U.S. Rescues Downed Airman
President Trump used an expletive-laden social media post to taunt Iranian leaders, saying that the United States would attack if they did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post.

Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6.

If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.

“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps.

Iran has threatened to retaliate by intensifying its attacks on critical infrastructure in Israel and Arab states that are allied with the United States. An escalation could further derail the lives of civilians throughout the region and add to worries about the global economy, which has been rattled by soaring energy prices since the start of the war.

Over the past two days, the U.S. military has been in a race with Iranian armed forces to find the missing airman after an F-15E jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, in the first known instance of a U.S. combat aircraft since the start of the war.

The plane’s pilot was quickly rescued. But a second officer was stranded in Iran and injured in the incident. American commandoes found the airman deep inside Iranian territory under the cover of darkness.

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