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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The verdict is in: Spouse, Covid in right shoulder, flu in left, significant side effects afterwards Me, Covid in left, flu in right, mild side effects Being a Covid leftist has its perks

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PNWRaven @jojoraven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Seattle Times is a has been, and has been for a long time 🙄

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Notable report from spouse, post excursion: English speaking Turks say “Turkey”, not “Turkey-yay”

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

TBT September 17 Waxahatchee at Spanish Ballroom Tacoma, Washington September 17, 2021.

Katie Crutchfield, AKA Waxahatchee, performing on stage at Spanish Ballroom, Tacoma, WA, wearing a white wide leg pantsuit behind a mic stand decorated with red roses

Katie Crutchfield, AKA Waxahatchee, performing on stage with her band at Spanish Ballroom, Tacoma, WA

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Kinda hard to for @Patriots owner Robert Kraft to make the claim this was about fighting antisemitism and not protecting Israel when Kanye still gets to play stadiums after ‘HH’ but @macklemore doesn’t 🤔 Here’s a list👇🏽 (cc: @edsheeran)

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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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Indivisible Vashon ❌ 👑 @indivisible-vashon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We ALL need to stand up to this insanity! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE them all out in November!

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Canada will never forget.

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

TBT September 10 Semisoft at Surf Perch, Titlow Beach Tacoma, Washington with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge behind them September 10, 2024 Celia, on drums, has excellent local restaurant recommendations

The band Semisoft performing outdoors at a waterfront location with a suspension bridge over an inland channel behind them

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The state of Washington is the only one named after a US president . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Festival attendees will actually be able to see stage performances since folks in front won’t be blocking their view with umbrellas

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Tbh, I don’t know why folks still care about the NYT and the like

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

TBT September 3 Bumbershoot Day 2 September 3, 2023 Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington King Youngblood The Black Tones Massey Ferguson Valerie June Band of Horses

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 03/09/2026

The first person #OliviaRodrigo called when she had the idea for Daisy Chain Fields? Sarah McLachlan to get her blessing 💛 Sarah: "I always said it needs somebody of this generation who is successful now who can breathe new life into it." Video interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP8G...

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Akin to profiteering from slave labor and exploitation of indigenous people, more recent generational wealth was made at the expense of non white immigrants while the perpetrators of this exploitation do their best to hide the truth from the public

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

IMO, the US is as corrupt as any other country. Until recently, Americans just hid it better than others “. . . if the sale had progressed would have enabled Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital to buy 21% of future Fifa revenues in perpetuity for $4.2bn” www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Uefa raises stakes with criminal complaint in battle to unseat Infantino | Matt Hughes

Uefa has begun a legal process against the embattled Fifa president but it will still be an uphill struggle to remove him

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A reminder that this lawsuit about Epstein file redactions is ongoing

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, to Katie B. Wilson, mayor of the city of Seattle, in the state of Washington, of United States of America, I say 🙌

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don’t care if you’re the queen of England

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Instead of Duolingo, I’m learning Spanish by listening to El Sonido on KEXP

Screen shot from radio station KEXP’s app displaying “Nacido en el Bayou (Born on the Bayou)” by the band Las Moskas during the station’s Monday evening show, El Sonido, with DJ Goyri

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Suicide Squeeze Records @suicidesqueeze.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There's a new Death Valley Girls album, 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩, on the horizon, and today they share the album’s lead single, 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫, alongside a new music video directed by Ian Svenonius! Pre-order the artist and label exclusive LP on 180g High Melt Vinyl! 🔗 lnk.to/dvgearth

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Death Valley Girls Welcome to Earth 10/2/2026 “The road to Death Valley Girls’ Welcome to Earth begins in the ashes of California’s Eaton Fire” “What makes Welcome to Earth so moving is its refusal to separate the cosmic from the deeply personal” suicide-squeeze.myshopify.com/products/dea...

suicide-squeeze.myshopify.com

Welcome to Earth **PRE-ORDER**

Pre-order Welcome to Earth, the new album from Death Valley Girls!

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

When your telling the kid to get entirely behind the sofa when teaching them hide and seek

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bikebike @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"The reason young people are riding their electric devices on the sidewalk is because it is not safe to ride them on the streets. The reason the streets are not safe is because of all the cars and trucks." (and increasingly, really bad driving habits) www.nsnews.com/opinion/opin...

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Opinion: Cars are the biggest threat on the road, not kids on e-scooters

All the outrage we feel about teens weaving on e-bikes and scooters would be better spent figuring out how to keep massive motorized vehicles away from all other road users

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? An emergency flashlight that can’t be found during an emergency

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Rosy Overdrive @rosyoverdrive.com · 05/08/2026

BrooklynVegan was definitely one of the websites that informed how I wanted Rosy Overdrive to look and work. It died whenever Live Nation apparently gained the power to gut it, because that’s what will always inevitably happen. RIP.

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

No one likes us, I don't know why We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try And all around, even our old friends put us down Let's drop the big one and see what happens - Randy Newman, 1972 In this primary election, I am not inclined to vote for centrists

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“These “external boundaries” include international land borders but also *** the entire U.S. coastline ***”

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hear me out: In addition to ArtButMakeItSports Have PoetryInMotion match sporting event images to passages from well known poems and novels

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

No government has unlimited money. Every budget is a choice about who matters. The Constitution’s promise to promote the general welfare is not decoration, it is an instruction.

MOVING FROM CALIFORNIA TO TEXAS?
SELECTED THINGS YOU GIVE UP

CALIFORNIA
TEXAS
Life expectancy, 2022
79.3 yrs
77.1 yrs
Infant deaths per 1,000
4.18
5.70
Teen births per 1,000
8.7
18.5
Uninsured rate, 2024
5.9%
16.7%
ACA Medicaid expansion
Yes
No
Avg. teacher salary
$103.6K
$63.7K
K-12 spending per student
$20,898
$12,815
Free meals, every student
Yes
No
Free pre-K, all 4-year-olds
Yes
No
Free community college
Up to 2 years
None
State minimum wage, 2026
$16.90
$7.25
Guaranteed paid sick days
5 days
O days
Paid family leave
Up to 8 weeks
None
State disability insurance
Up to 52 weeks
None
Overtime after an 8-hour day
Yes
No
Required meal and rest breaks
Yes
No
Workers in a union
14.9%
4.9%
Tax on a $332.7K home
$2,320
$4,961
Tax system fairness
Slightly progressive
7th-most regressive
Firearm deaths per 100K
7.0
13.9

Texas has no state income tax. Texas taxes sales and property instead.
LAGUNA BEACH DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Sources: Census, CDC, NEA, ITEP, BLS, CA EDD, CA Dept. of Education, DOL

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

“Korfball is one of the few team sports where men and women not only compete together at the highest level, but compete together as equals,” . . . “And that’s built into the sport’s DNA” As one who played the game as a kid, I’d like to see more of this

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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Which type of growth do you prefer? 1 building that contains 32 homes in an existing city OR bulldoze 32 acres of forest to build 32 1-plexes? We can call the 1-plex development euphemistically "Forest Park Estates." Which is better for trees? Let's welcome more neighbors in our existing cities

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M◼️x B◼️◼️◼️e @maxbelle.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The US is capitalistic. There isn’t as much money to be made from pedestrians as from car drivers. Sidewalks, bike lanes and such are called elitist, socialist, etc., and there will always be a “who’s gonna pay for that?” response to pedestrian and cycling infrastructure improvements

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