Day four of a saga I keep saying I'll stop covering. Quick recap for anyone joining late: Macklemore said "Free Palestine" at two MetLife shows, got dropped...
Macklemore donating $1 million to Palestinian relief efforts, invites Kraft to do the same
Macklemore said on Instagram he wants to “bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people.”
Macklemore To Donate $1 Million In Tour Money To Support The Palestinian People
Macklemore says he'll donate the $1 million in net earnings he made as the supporting act on Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to organizations that support the Palestinian people. And he's inviting Robert Kraft, the billionaire Gillette Stadium-New England Patriots owner who threatened a venue boycott against the tour, to match his donation.
Hamleh - New 7amleh Report: Meta Monetizes Settlements and Violence Against Palestinians
April 13, 2026, 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has released a new report titled “Monetizing Occupation: Meta’s Financial Enablement of Settlement Activity and Violent Rhetoric Against Palestinians.”
Philadelphia Showed Up Anyway. The Public-Records Question Didn't Go Away.
Day five of a saga I keep saying I'll stop covering, and keep not stopping: Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour after his September 4-5 "Free...
Robert Kraft Claims His Donations Help Palestinians. Turns Out He’s Funding Friends of the IDF.
An analysis of tax forms by The Intercept show Kraft’s charity and LLC have donated to Friends of the IDF and AIPAC’s super PAC.
Robert Kraft Is "In the Epstein Files." Here's What That Actually Says.
The chain of events On September 4, Macklemore opened for Ed Sheeran at MetLife Stadium and told the crowd: "The people all the way in Gaza to the occupied...
Who is Robert Kraft, pro-Israel billionaire who cancelled Macklemore?
Rapper Macklemore claims Kraft rallied other venue owners against his participation in Ed Sheeran's US tour.
Kraft Matched the Donation. He Didn't Answer the Question.
Recap Yesterday I wrote about the Kraft/Sheeran/Macklemore dispute and flagged the one thing nobody with direct knowledge had confirmed or denied: whether...
The end of IPFS at Shipyard
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled
Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ (@elena@aseachange.com)
[1 media attachment] #WSocial state of the network - September 15th, 2026 There is a lot of misinformation regarding W Social and how active/successful it is. So, from time to time, I'd love to share some numbers. The beauty of #opendata! The network endorsed by the #EuropeanCommission may be the darling of Brussels political circles and European media organizations (who simply rehash PR talking points). But the look behind the curtain is really troubling. As @pallenberg often says, this network is #DOA (dead on arrival). A social media graveyard, or rather, a simple moribund database. There is no way that Zeiter, Rentzhog & co. can start monetizing it in 2027. Numbers from this morning at 10:30am: - Accounts on their PDS: 37,531 - Users with verified ID: 7,492 - Users with 1+ post: 3,388 - Users who have never posted: 34,143 - Users with 0 posts and who follow 0 accounts: 26,444 - % of users with 0 posts, who follow 0 accounts: 70,4% - % of users who have never posted: 90,97% So, whenever you hear someone hyping it up, feel free to forward this post or point people to my articles at https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/ The one thing I will give W credit for though is how good they are at lobbying and hyping up their image. While this playbook may have worked in the past, not anymore. On an open network, with open data, it's child's play to expose misrepresentations and show the real, raw data. sources: pdsls.dev, clearsky.app, atproto.at and the csv of their full PDS that I download daily 💁♀️
US Labor & Imperialism Pt. 2: Zionism w/ Jeff Schuhrke (Palestine Pt. 16)
Going to the W Social launch this afternoon at the Brussels Press Club. Should be interesting! Anyone I know joining me?
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til w social client became closed source; a lil concerning since some high level eu officials moved to w instead of eurosky, might be the start of a "big tech but eu" trend from blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-… by @elenarossini.com
The ADL has gone from a civil rights organization to a pro-Israel antisemitism tollbooth
Noah Shachtman
According to Puck, Live Nation execs say they're willing to work with Kanye again ... if the "Heil Hitler" rapper cuts a deal with the Anti-Defamation League.
