.@edsheeran I brought my wife and two daughters to MetLife Friday because we are huge fans of yours. We arrived early, I spent $180 on two sweatshirts for them, watched the first two opening acts and were having a great time.
Then Macklemore decided to turn your concert into his political rally.
When he started chanting “Free Palestine” and pushing his clearly uneducated version of the Israel/Gaza conflict, my daughters looked at me completely confused. I had brought them to an Ed Sheeran concert, not to have an opening act lecture them about Middle East politics.
After Friday night, I started looking into Macklemore’s history. What I found, including his repeated use of antisemitic tropes, made the whole thing even worse.
So I took my family and walked inside alongside hundreds of your other fans. As we were walking in, even the MetLife security guards were rolling their eyes at what was happening on stage.
We waited until Macklemore was finished before returning to our seats. Then we watched your show, which was phenomenal.
I left Friday hoping maybe this had caught you and your team off guard.
Then tonight you allowed it to happen again.
You knew exactly what Macklemore had done the night before, and you gave him the stage again.
Friday might have been Macklemore’s decision. Saturday was yours.
You have a lot of Jewish fans who love your music, buy your albums and merchandise, and bring their kids to your concerts.
Tonight, you lost four of them. And I suspect plenty more.
@CombatASemitism@StopAntisemites
MUST WATCH: Washington state Father RIPS @HighlineSchools board members after discovering that his child attended an anti-ICE protest during school hours without parental notification.
"I have the right to know where my child goes. That was taken from me... You exposed him to real danger. That's neglect and that's endangerment."
To all those who follow me because of @xx_xyathletics and who are now telling me to stop talking about covid...
Let me just explain a few things -- and why that isn't going to happen.
The only reason I'm even active on @X is because of covid. The only reason I have any following at all is because of covid.
Why? Because I objected to school closures and lockdowns from day 1. I lost my career, my city, pretty much all of my friends. Because I said closed schools, closed playgrounds, and masking were harming our kids.
We all suffered the most egregious violations of our civil liberties imaginable during lockdowns. I will never understand why people don't care and want to just pretend it never happened.
We couldn't leave our homes. Literally. We were told we couldn't see family, celebrate the holidays. We couldn't move about freely. We were censored. We couldn't gather or protest (unless it was for BLM, then it was ok). People couldn't go to church or AA meetings. For years!
Two year olds were forced to wear masks for hours a day. They suffered speech and developmental delays. That continue to this day.
Public school students in blue states were kept out of full time school for a year and a half. While their private school peers attended school and played sports. The most vulnerable children were harmed the most.
People couldn't work. 27M people lost their jobs in 2020. 27M!!
People couldn't visit loved ones in the hospital. People died alone. Women gave birth alone.
People were arrested for surfing. In the ocean - alone.
The world shut down. Supply chains stopped. That initiated the inflation we still are struggling to beat back.
I've been a covid dissident since March 2020. Children were harmed. They are still suffering from learning loss and the emotional impact of isolation and halted development. For some, the course of their lives was altered forever. They dropped out of school. Or fell behind and never caught up. Disengaged and never re-engaged. Drugs. Eating disorders. Suicidal ideation. Attempted suicide. Oh and the by way, the trans madness accelerated during lockdowns. Why? Isolation, terminal on-line-ness, depression, anxiety, all of it. Caused by lockdowns.
This is not something I will forgive. Or forget. You can't treat kids like prisoners and expect them to be ok (that is quote from a parent in Generation Covid - a parent who lost his child to suicide in 2021.)
I started making this documentary in 2022, and followed children and families who were harmed for 2 full years. It's called Generation-Covid.
Don't look away.
@andrewmercado@MPRnews This is completely false. I have no idea who this lady is, she is lying to make herself look good for her campaign. Shame on her!
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If you want to make the world a better place take a look at yourself and make the change!!!
Here’s to all you beautiful people fighting to make the change!!
Matthew Dowd: "You can't be saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place."
Bill Maher: "Yes, you can... We don't sh*ot people in this country, and we don't defend it, and we don't mock their death."
Sometimes I forget that leftists cheered little girls drowning in floodwaters because those little girls were from Texas and probably came from conservative families.
Nothing after that should surprise me, and yet, the vile things these people say still leave me speechless.
Words are not violence. When you pretend that views that oppose your own are violence, you are justifying the use of actual violence towards the speaker.
Gender ideology’s reliance on tropes and slogans like ‘words are violence’, its constant rationalisation and justification of using force against opponents and its preference for enforcing compliance through fear rather than permitting debate, are straight out of fascism’s playbook.
‘The function of propaganda is . . . not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.’
The words are Hitler’s, but I must have seen trans activists say the same thing, barely rephrased, a thousand times. Your movement seeks to remove rights from others. It is anti-truth and critical thinking, pro-violence, pro-dehumanisation of those who disagree with you, and you are so lacking in self-awareness you cannot see that you are precisely what you pretend to hate.
.@Simone_Biles - you are truly heroic for exposing the abuse in women's gymnastics. Something I started in 2008 -- but you brought the attention to it that was sorely needed.
But seriously? It isn't our responsibility as women to make men feel included in women's sports.
Anyone can compete. In the category to which they were born.
Trans-identified males have rejected a 3rd category. Swimming tried it. The trans-identified males said no. They only accept being affirmed as women. They aren't women. They are male.
@Riley_Gaines_ is a hero, just like you, for wanting safety for girls in sports. Acknowledging biological reality is not bullying. That is straight up bullshit. I have to believe you know that.
This is not about being a sore loser any more than me calling out abuse in gymnastics was. (You can read my book Chalked Up, 2008). But that's exactly what was said about me too. That I was loser and bitter angry ex-gymnast, despite being a 7x national team member and 1986 national champion.
This has nothing to do with "losing" and everything to do with standing up for women and girls.
You, of all people, should know that. You are a hero but I find this incredibly disappointing.
A few points to reiterate as you head to the voting booth:
1. Project 2025 is NOT my father’s plan. He has not read it and does not endorse it.
2. My father will NOT sign a national abortion ban.
3. My father greatly supports IVF and wants to make it accessible to anyone who needs it.
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