Super Bowl halftime performer arrested for ‘Sudan and Free Gaza’ protest https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6455078/2025/06/26/super-bowl-halftime-sudan-gaza-protest/
Super Bowl LIX halftime show protester arrested months after demonstration during Kendrick Lamar's set
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I was VERY pleasantly surprised by how well my #PyConUS talk resonated! Over the past ~1.5 years I bounced the idea off people of all stripes & got very mixed responses. That helped me to shape the content but also tempered my expectations and I begged everyone who would listen to come to my talk out of fear to speak to an empty room.
I ended up speaking to an standing room only and fo…
Neuwahlen bringen eh nichts, vielleicht hilft nur noch Anarchie
Irgendjemand muss ja Witze machen, es hilft alles nichts.
"Ajattelen, että empatian kautta nämä poliittiset toimijat haluavat määritellä ihmisyyden rajoja. Empatia on meille lajityypillinen ominaisuus. Ilman sitä emme olisi ihmisiä, eikä meillä olisi esimerkiksi yhteiskuntaa, taidetta, oikeusvaltioperiaatetta, internetiä, sotaa, politiikkaa tai uskontoa."
Ei yllätä, että valtionvarainministerin "empatia ei kuulu politiikkaan" on sekin kopioitu julistus.
Dear Emily Thornberry,
I don't usually bother to write to you on most issues because I figure there is pretty much no point communicating with a whipped MP in a safe seat under first past the post. Such an MP has no reason to listen to their constituents at all, and is entirely a tool of the party leadership.
I make an exception today since I hear your government is about to classify Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Despite them being peaceful, non-violent, and dedicated entirely to preventing the greater crime of the ongoing genocide of Gazan Palestinians.
This is obviously a gross overreaction and a completely unjustifiable act designed not to prevent domestic terrorism but to cover up British forces and UK government involvement and collaboration with the genocide in Gaza.
If we are taking suggestions for groups to ban as terrorists even though they aren't terrorists, I would like to suggest the Labour Party! The party has helped facilitate a genocide abroad, and continues to supply the perpetrators with arms and intelligence to aid their actions.
I don't expect you to take that suggestion seriously, but maybe Reform will take it seriously when they get elected in a few years and I suggest it again to them. After all, a precedent will have been set that groups which aren't terrorists can be banned under anti-terror legislation anyway. Democracy will have already been eroded.
I was ready to be disappointed by this Labour government, but I confess that the level of gut-wrenching visceral disgust I am experiencing at them surpassed all my wildest expectations. Taking money from the disabled to buy new war-planes from a fascist US president while abetting a genocide in Gaza makes me wonder if Reform wouldn't be better in the end anyway. At least they might do electoral reform and nationalize the water companies.
Labour's only hope, the country's only hope, is to remove Starmer. I wish you had won that leadership election instead of him.
Anyway, as I say, I don't expect it to make any difference at all because under this election system even MPs in safe seats are nothing but tools of the party leadership and the party leadership seems determined. But I thought I'd let you know that I see you. I see what you are doing.
I support Palestine Action more than I support this government. Let me know where I should hand myself in for my "crime".
Yours sincerely,
Adam
SB LIX performer arrested for halftime protest https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45591753/sb-lix-performer-arrested-la-state-police-half-protest