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Erwin Samson

@erwinsamson.bsky.social

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Rusni_pizda@rusni-pizda.bsky.social · yesterday

Canadian plants are building Ukrainian drones. The Atlantic, the North, and the East are becoming one security space. The 100-year declaration is the paperwork. Canada is finally treating Ukraine as a manufacturing partner.

Erwin Samson@erwinsamson.bsky.social · 3d ago

Schoolkampjes begeleiden, gotta love it. Degelijk draaiboek en toch voortdurend improviseren op van alles wat zich onvoorzien voordoet: verlichting, omslaand weer, kapotte uitrusting…

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 4d ago

They don’t even try to hide it anymore…. Trump Jr. and Bettina Trump in a joint Instagram post said their "dear friend" Umar Kremlev – an ally of Russia’s President Putin - "very generously hosted two incredible nights" of festivities in the Bahamas in May www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Trump's son confirms Russian businessman paid for post-wedding festivities

A Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin paid for celebrations after the wedding of President Donald Trump's eldest son and his new bride, the couple confirmed on Monday.

france24.com

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 4d ago

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…
Huub Eggen@huubeggen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Rond het middaguur vandaag bewoog de Maan vóór de planeet langs. Venus is helder genoeg om overdag te zien, maar bij ons zat bewolking in de weg, en het gebeurde vlak boven de horizon. Javier Manteca Exposito in Getafe, een voorstad van Madrid, zag met zijn telescoop hoe Venus weer tevoorschijn kwam

The image shows a thin waxing Moon with a very small crescent just over its edge at right. This is planet Venus. The image was taken 14 September 2026 12:22:20 pm local time, so during day time.
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last wk.

Summer of 2026. The scene is reminiscent of 1970s world crises. Soaring food and energy prices. bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Put yourself in shoes of someone in a oil & gas importing country Its triage: which hospitals get fuel, which industries shut, which crops get fertilizers? Those who don't have deep pockets in a bidding war pay in increased hunger, lost wages and shrinking economies. tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan

Erwin Samson@erwinsamson.bsky.social · last wk.

Ouderschap van tieners valt me best zwaar… Ik had me ingesteld op ruzies over drank & uitgaan, hoopte op creativiteit en initiatief, misschien met robotics, desnoods AI. In plaats daarvan krijg ik een ‘leuke short’ toegestuurd of een verhaal over een streamer als ik belangstelling toon 🙄

(((Tendar)))@tendar.bsky.social · last wk.

It is obvious that Iran is deliberately exhausting US stockpiles using rather cheap missiles. The political backlash in the US is already huge, and any further uncoordinated escalation is primarily hurting the US and the West altogether.

Bad Baltic@badbaltictakes.bsky.social · last wk.

A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well. Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when he was handed a note from a Chinese official, meant as intimidating.

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 2w ago

MSNOW: Joel, what was your first reaction to what Witkoff said to Putin? RUBIN: I mean, that was embarrassing. No American diplomat should ever be communicating like that to a foreign dictator who’s invaded an ally of United States and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Krsto Lazarević@krstorevic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wir reden hier zu einem großen Teil über Leute, die ein Häuschen besitzen und einen VW vor der Tür haben, aber denken, dass ihnen eigentlich eine Villa und ein Porsche zustehen. Da kommt Sozialpolitik irgendwann auch an ihre Grenzen.

Krsto Lazarević@krstorevic.bsky.social · 2w ago

AfD-Wählende sind zu einem großen Teil Menschen mit einem sozialdarwinistischen Weltbild. Sie haben gar kein Problem damit, wie ungerecht es in der Gesellschaft zugeht. Sie haben nur ein Problem damit, dass sie selbst nicht ganz oben stehen.

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 2w ago

These snivelling cowards. Canadians will not forget that America treated Putin's Russia like its best friend and us like an enemy. Ever.

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 2w ago

Witkoff: "President Putin, thank you so much for having us. We were sitting outside just now, me, Jared, Kirill, Yuri, and we were talking about, when we retire, we'll have all these incredible stories and memories, and yours will be right at the top of it all."

Philip Obaji Jr.@philipobaji.bsky.social · 2w ago

Russia is engineering a migration crisis for Europe via the West African. Disinfo on local radio & media pushes desperate people north through Niger toward Libya. Wagner trucks move migrants to smugglers; their militias then help load boats across the Mediterranean. Time to act.