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Máire Ní Mhórdha @mairenimhordha.bsky.social · 5h

Absolutely brilliant 😍

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 7h

They’re putting up stickers like this in my area

#IrelandForAll

STICKER OF AN IRISH FLAG

ATTENTION THIS FLAG IS FOR EVERYONE!
Do not let the small mumber of people with hateful and extreme views tell you that it is only meant for those wto are straight, white, and obediently nationalist.
This fag, as a whole, is intended to symbolise the inclusion and hoped-for union of the people of different traditions on the island of Ireland, which is expressed in the Constitution as the entitlement of every person to be oart of the independent Irish nation, regardless of eteric oriain, relicion, political conviction, gender, sex or sexual orientation.
WE WILL NOT FALL
FOR FASCIST PROPAGANDA.

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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 1d

This is what the UK does to trans kids now, just to mollify a noisy, vicious minority and some rich US evangelicals.
Fucking evil.

North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 1d

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her 15-year-old suicidal daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

MP fails to support suicidal constituent

A mother pleaded with her MP to help her suicidal15-year-old daughter who said she ‘wanted to take her own life’

northwestbylines.co.uk

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking | Since midnight, 141 Palestinian bodies were recovered from under the rubble in multiple areas across the Gaza Strip.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I absolutely believe: there is no police force that will not beat the shite out of people if they have half a chance.

Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 2d

"Is this the road we're going down now, to go lockstep with many other European countries in terms of brutalised repression against protesters?"

Horrifically violent footage from Saturday. And still no statement from Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan, nearly a week on.
#SpéirGhorm

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The letter Nobel Prize Winner María Corina Machado sent Netanyahu in 2018 begging Israel to help her enact Regime change.

Very peaceful behaviour.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3d

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
lithub.com/irish-noveli...

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

lithub.com

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 2d

White House Launches ‘Nobler Peace Prize’ http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/10/white-house-launches-nobler-peace-prize/

White House Launches ‘Nobler Peace Prize’

THE WHITE HOUSE has confirmed that sitting US President Donald J. Trump is the first ever winner of a prestigious new world peace award called 'The Nobler Peace Prize'. Launched this morning in Washington DC, the …

waterfordwhispersnews.com

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Kevin St. Alder @kevinstalder.bsky.social · 2d

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

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Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social · 6d

What a beautiful day with Catherine Connolly in the Inner City yesterday. Catherine has tapped into something special, the energy and hope in this campaign to elect a president with values, integrity, and a real connection to the people she seeks to serve. You can feel it building everyday.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

papers like the New York Times actively help right wing propagandists by introducing false claims as something that's open to debate and interpretation, instead of clearly framing them up front as lies pushed by unreliable operators

Turning Point USA is a right wing propaganda op aimed at kids

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

The New York Times also just kind of introduces Turning Point USA as this ambiguous entity without explaining what it is, or detailing any of its dodgy behaviors as a super shady right wing propaganda organization

this kind of generous framing isn't done by accident

NYT: "In the weeks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, he has become a target of right-wing hate, accused of being a part of the movement he studied. Jack Posobiec, a right-wing influencer, called Dr. Bray a “domestic terrorist professor” on X. The Rutgers chapter of Turning Point USA then circulated a petition accusing Dr. Bray of being an “outspoken, well-known antifa member” and called for him to be fired.

The petition referred to him as “Dr. Antifa.”

“My role in this is as a professor,” Dr. Bray, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers, said in an interview on Wednesday, hours before his planned departure. “I’ve never been part of an antifa group, and I’m not currently. There’s an effort underway to paint me as someone who is doing the things that I’ve researched, but that couldn’t be further from the truth."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Emmy-award winner Hannah Einbinder: "I have trouble with the term 'liberal Zionism' because I think it absolves the identifier of reckoning with the necessary elements for the ideology to thrive."

Watch it all in Zeteo's new podcast, Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman:
zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...

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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 2d

Colin Sheridan: The one word missing from all this so-called talk of peace in Gaza is 'Palestinian'

The people, whose lives, homes, and futures have been flattened beneath the euphemisms of 'security' and 'defence' have, once again, been spectators to their own story

dlvr.it

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: An @theintercept.com analysis finds that almost all Republican-led states — 23 of the 27 with Republican governors — have deployed National Guard troops in support of Trump’s war on immigrants or military occupations of Blue cities

theintercept.com/2025/10/09/r...

Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

theintercept.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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Máire Ní Mhórdha @mairenimhordha.bsky.social · 2d

Out for @catherinegalway.bsky.social this evening, Uachtarán do chuile dhuine, north and south, citizen or not 💚 #ConnollyforPresident #Áras2025 #spéirgorm

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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 3d

“Catherine has the most dignity, the most authenticity, and she js a deeply principled and progressive person who has united the parties of the left behind her, she will make a great president.” @ivanabacik.bsky.social

Vote Catherine Connolly # 1 on Friday, 24 October.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

To the extent we should celebrate, it is that Gaza will receive even a temporary reprieve. But an end to the hostilities for an undefined period of time does not mean the war has ended, and the war on Gaza is only one theatre in the broader war on Palestine which has no foreseeable end in sight.

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Máire Ní Mhórdha @mairenimhordha.bsky.social · 3d

What’s happening to @mark-bray.bsky.social and his family is utterly dystopian, but very real, and should concern every one of us.
Solidarity forever to you and your family Mark, you have the support and care of so many.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists. Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled. Continue reading...

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NPR @npr.org · 3d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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