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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 14h

Good man. Dont back down. Don't let these thugs intimidate you.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 17h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 3h

Catherine Connolly is a striking example of a near-universal truth in Irish politics: the left wing candidate is almost always far more likeable, on a personal level, than the centre and right alternatives.
The electoral history of this state is even more baffling when you notice this.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 14h

When the notoriously leftwing institution of the <checks notes> papacy is telling your country it’s gone too far right

NPR @npr.org · 21h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 16h

Ian Watkins’ ex girlfriend reports him multiple times to the police for what he was doing and they treated her as if she was hysterical in every sense of the word. Misogyny is dangerously and deadly, it played a huge role in those poor children’s torment. Hope he went roaring

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Kieran O’Connor 🇵🇸 @kieranoconnor.com · 23h

Catherine Connolly built the RTÉ Player #Smearthebejaysus

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Jr is going to be the Kennedy with the greatest death toll in history, which is really saying something when his uncle started the Vietnam war

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

Somebody who thinks an ai summary is the same as reading a document would go to a restaurant and eat the menu

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 1d

AI “summaries” are not summaries but slop

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bkeithb @bkeithb.bsky.social · 1d

Keep doing a little something every day to #DismantleApartheidIsrael.

You never know the impact of your protesting, boycotting, social media involvement, etc.

youtube.com/shorts/O5yK7...

Fruit for thought. Never judge a book by its cover. #comedy #histoty #storytelling #standup

YouTube video by David Nihill

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1d

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 1d

more👏women👏hawks

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 1d

She literally supports trump bombing the boats

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MrSheamus 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @mrmooshoo.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely thought Brolly was fundamentally fairly decent until I saw that clip.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

If you live in Ireland or the UK, Absolute Dominion is available today on Google or Apple TV
www.rte.ie/video/id/28161

Absolute Dominion, the new film from Palestinian-American Oscar®-nominated director Lexi Alexander

This superb martial arts battle for humanity begins on October 9.

www.rte.ie

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MrSheamus 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @mrmooshoo.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that Alan Kelly was the only member of the PP not to back Labour's support of her nomination is revealing in this context.

Micheál @nameless-weevil.bsky.social · 2d

The all channels attacks on Catherine Connolly are because, as with Irish Water, Ireland's right wing establishment have an unpopular project (de facto joining the "Western military alliance") that the hoi polloi aren't sophisticated enough to grasp the necessity of and desperation is setting in.

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Spare me Trump being celebrated as a peacemaker. The war on Gaza could have been ended at any time in the last two years with a US president telling Netanyahu to "stop the holocaust," as Reagan ordered Begin in 1982.

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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 2d

Jim Allister is a (v good ) Barrister & has said multiple times that he would have no qualms taking the case of an IRA person if he was approached because the cab rank rule is fundamentally part of the legal system here.
JIM ALLISTER.
So quit with this angle about Catherine Connolly, it’s a smear

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MrSheamus 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @mrmooshoo.bsky.social · 2d

Probably the only thing I know about barristers' work is that I understand that the taxi rank rule applies.

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MrSheamus 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @mrmooshoo.bsky.social · 3d

They... they.... arrested Krupskaya????

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 4d

Two Irish novelists have now done more to break the blockade and end man-made famine in Gaza than the entire UK government.

(Naoise Dolan on the flotilla and Sally Rooney with her words and deeds)

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4d

Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel
#speirgorm #stopthegenocide
jrnl.ie/6838266

Author and TD among five Irish people on board latest Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel

There were five Irish citizens aboard boats in the flotilla.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 4d

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane.

They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 4d

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

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MrSheamus 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @mrmooshoo.bsky.social · 4d

Serve him better to pay back that rent he owes.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 4d

British prosecutors will appeal against dismissal of terrorism charge against Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh. Read here why the British state is so desperate to silence @kneecapceol.bsky.social:

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 5d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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