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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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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The fired Rockstar workers are asking supporters not to boycott GTA 6, but instead, to directly support the union's legal costs as it approaches next month's employment tribunal.

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Thomas Goorden @goorden.be · 21/05/2026

Vier zinnen, drie flagrante onwaarheden en één van de pot gerukt insinuatie. Ge moet het maar kunnen. Een draadje. 1/

Post op FB van Maarten Boudry:
“Even recapituleren.
De VRT heeft een studie besteld over diversiteit en intolerantie. Ze hanteert daarbij het zinloze containercategorie “buitenlandse origine”, dat ze vervolgens volpropt met Nederlanders en andere Europeanen omdat ze kennelijk te weinig Marokkanen en Turken vonden, wat die categorie waardeloos maakt. Maar toen nog stééds bleek dat die groep gemiddeld intoleranter was dan de Belgen, hebben ze instructies gegeven aan hun journalisten om die balkjes maar helemaal weg te moffelen.”

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Cedric @cdtro.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Helden. Hoed af. Ik buig nederig het hoofd.

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songfestival.bsky.social @songfestival.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

"EBU, en alle omroepen: maak hier een einde aan en sluit Israël en omroep KAN uit van het Songfestival 2026. En red zo wat er nog te redden valt. Voor het te laat is."

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'EBU, laat Israël niet deelnemen aan Songfestival 2026'

'Ik weet niet meer of ik moet lachen of huilen.'

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pierre485 @pierre485.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

[Q3 2025] Nintendo Results (July 1st, 2025 – September 30th, 2025)

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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/1147...

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

June is LGBT Pride Month. Love is love. Be your fabulous selves. A good piece here for any of my friends that want to learn about its history: lordslibrary.parliament.uk/pride-in-the-u…

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Jonathan Loeys @jloeys.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

#DeMol "Heb jij emotionele bagage?" Ik: "nee, totaal nie" Ook ik:

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NintendoFanGirl @nintendofangirl.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I really loved Legends Arceus so I feel confident I’ll like Legends Z-A, but arceus had a specific charm to its time setting and art style and Z-A right now just visually looking like another modern Pokemon title is really harshing my vibe

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Me and a small nugget of love. 🇸🇪♥️🇺🇦 @mnotme.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

How to change a swastika that cant be removed

How to change a swastika into a message of love

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

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11.11.11 @11.be · 05/02/2025

Benoem Trumps oproep voor wat het is: een voorstel tot etnische zuivering. We roepen alle Belgische politici, ongeacht hun partij, functie of beleidsniveau, en media op om zich openlijk uit te spreken tegen dit gevaarlijke en immorele plan.

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Seth Bob-Omb @theflemishseth.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Just released and already gone platinum in this household 👑 youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28?...

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Lady Gaga - Abracadabra (Official Music Video)

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Thomas Smolders @ljosmyndun.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

De komende vier jaar wordt het, nog meer dan anders, belangrijk om bepaalde symbolen (online) te herkennen. Toch mogen de discussies erover niet afleiden van wat er naast de marge gebeurt. Dit zijn my two cents: ljosmyndun.medium.com/gegen-nazis-...

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Gegen Nazis, ook online

De komende vier jaar wordt het, nog meer dan anders, belangrijk om bepaalde symbolen (online) te herkennen. Toch mogen de discussies erover…

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