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[Macklemore @macklemore]

What happened to me is bigger than one artist or one stage. When the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention.

So we're going on tour. All proceeds will benefit organizations supporting the Palestinian people and movement.

Sign up at https://t.co/2na35y8pQ5

[CD @cilliandoyle87]

Aaron used to play in the pub down the road from me (Noggin Inn)

It’s hard to understate what a massive break this must have been for him, and the courage it took to give it up on a point of principle

Massive respect

[JO @withlovejohana]

All of Ed Sheeran’s openers have now withdrawn from the Looper Tour. Please realize how big this is. This is what unity looks like. Billionaires are terrified of people realizing how strong they can be when we come together for a cause. Continue speaking out. Support the new artists that are deciding to put their careers at risk to take this stance.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

All three remaining opening acts and Ed Sheeran’s touring band have announced that they are dropping out of the remaining dates of his ‘Loop’ tour in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore.

[Courtney ❯❯❯❯ fan acct @DirtySweetStyle]

So just to summarize, venues will gladly host the racist slur-loving Morgan Wallen, repeated abuser Chris Brown, and proud Nazi supporter Kanye on tour, but draw the line at free speech they dislike? Cool. Cool. Cool.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This is one of the many perverse ironies of the Macklemore situation.

If Ed Sheeran's opening act had waved an Israeli flag and proclaimed his love of Israel -- and then a cartel of rich venue owners banned him from appearing -- we would have a two-month orgy of people screaming ANTI-SEMITISM, with Mike Johnson holding emergency House hearings featuring Jonathan Greenblatt and Dana Bash and Jake Tapper crying with Van Jones on CNN about how dangerous America has become for Jews.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

kanye played at one of these venues in june and is playing another in november. but please, tell me again how this is about “antisemitism”

[Caroline @carolinekwan]

Kanye West did a song titled Heil Hitler and is currently doing a concert tour, which has included multiple dates at Raymond James stadium in Tampa that has banned Macklemore for saying end the genocide & free Palestine

fucking absurd

[Macklemore @macklemore]

Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Macklemore opened for Ed Sheeran at MetLife Stadium wearing a keffiyeh, performed "Hind's Hall" with Gaza footage on the screens, and told 80,000 people he wanted those in Gaza and the West Bank to know "they have not been forgotten."

He said every human being deserves "the exact same freedom, to know safety and peace before knowing the sounds of violence."

He called ICE a "terrorist organization" and shouted "Free Palestine, free Cuba, Congo, Sudan and Iran."

The Israeli-American Council petitioned to drop him from remaining tour dates.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Mawlid al-Nabi Mubarak to Muslims in New York City and around the world.

Today, we honor the life and enduring legacy of Prophet Muhammad (May Peace Be Upon Him), whose teachings of compassion, generosity, justice, faith, and service have inspired communities for more than 1,400 years.

Here in New York City, his example reminds us that caring for one another, embracing our diversity, and serving our communities, makes us stronger as we work to build a better New York City for everyone.

Wishing joy, peace, and blessings upon all who celebrate.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

This week the Senate will vote to merge our military’s most sensitive & secretive capabilities with Israel. This merger is buried within the massive NDAA and they’re hoping you won’t notice.

Merging our military with a foreign country is a treasonous betrayal of our sovereignty.

Call your senators & tell them to vote no on the NDAA until the merger w/ Israel (section 219) is taken out.

Tell them that we will never support merging our military with a foreign nation.

The senate switchboard number is: [phone].

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is being held and reportedly tortured in an Israeli prison with no charges, no trial and no Due Process. Netanyahu's government must immediately release him from these lawless, horrific and life-threatening conditions.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

HISTORY.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

After bombing a school and massacring young girls, the war criminal in the White House is threatening genocide.

It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment. This maniac should be removed from office.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

He did not have congressional approval to blow up boats in the Caribbean.

He did not have congressional approval to invade Venezuela.

He did not have congressional approval to bomb Iran.

This is dictatorship.

Impeach Trump now.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

The US and Israel dropped bombs on an elementary school for girls in Iran’s city of Minab.

36 little girls have been killed so far.

People are still pulling bodies from under the rubble.

Not militants. Not combatants.

Little girls. Students.

This is terrorism.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Your tax dollars paid for this dipshit to fly on a Gulfstream G550 to Milan to cosplay as an olympian. Can someone in Congress please subpoena how much Patel's make-a-wish trip cost us?