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Paddy Hillyard

@paddyzemia.bsky.social

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Emeritus Professor of Sociology. Human Rights and climate activist, former chair of Independent Water Review Panel, Zemiologist. Latest book: Decades of Deceit: The Stalker Affair and its Legacy. https://www.beyondthepalebooks.com/ .. more

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Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 7d

Outrageous. So much for the rule of law in the US and internationally. Frightening times.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7d

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President of Ireland @president.ie · 7d

Statement by President Michael D. Higgins on the death of Manchán Magan president.ie/en/media-lib...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

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PAT FINUCANE CENTRE @finucanecentre.bsky.social · 10d

Claire and Siobhan Brown making the case for Public Inquiry into their father Sean’s murder at Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Fringe event at 6.30

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 20d

10 years ago, there was only a single 'leathceann' (windswept) birch tree in the foreground.

Now, there's a full-on exploding diverse native rainforest, none of which was planted. All it took was fencing out sheep.

Let's rewild the world 🌏

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21d

I'm sorry, but this is unjustified, optimistic, drivel

Governments across the world are turning away from green measures and FF corporations are expanding operations

Best we can hope for is a return to the Pliocene - 3C hotter and sea levels eventually up 20m

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Something is working’: UN climate chief optimistic about green transition

Exclusive: Simon Stiell believes economic benefits will compel countries to speed up climate action

www.theguardian.com

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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 24d

Michael D’s finest moment: the President of Ireland calls for Israel to be excluded from the UN.

Why can’t other leaders speak the truth about Gaza like this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGsZ...

President Higgins suggests Israel should be excluded from the UN

YouTube video by RTÉ News

www.youtube.com

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 24d

A new Explainer out from @aoifemod.bsky.social and me detailing the UK's ECHR commitments under the 1998 Agreement in response to recent speculation. It is short, because there is very little to say - the UK's obligations are evident on the B/GFA's plain text:

caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 24d

MI5 admit to spying on Belfast-based journalist’.
@Irishnews.com

For more on MI5’s lawlessness, cover-up and lack of accountability in Northern Ireland, see my book: Decades of Deceit. @beyondthepalebooks.com

Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · 26d

This image distortion is what Mussolini did for his march on Rome in 1922.

Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 26d

Musk sharing an AI generated image of the Arc de Triomphe with loads of England and Union flags thinking it's London is peak information disorder.

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 26d

"Why such massive firepower in these rockets? What's their goal? We are dying here, with nowhere to seek refuge... and the world just watches."

www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

Israeli attacks kill 38, destroy high rises across Gaza

Israeli forces destroyed at least 30 residential buildings in Gaza City, forced thousands of people from their homes and killed at least 38 people in continued attacks, Palestinian officials said, as ...

www.rte.ie

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26d

Lewis Goodall, "This is Elon Musk, turning up at a far right rally, basically inciting violence in this country"

"Most people in this country have no desire to go there, or look at it, or have any interest in that sort of rhetoric"

"And yet, we are being pushed and pushed and pushed towards it"

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 26d

Musk sharing an AI generated image of the Arc de Triomphe with loads of England and Union flags thinking it's London is peak information disorder.

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 28d

This is McCarthy era behaviour and shame on the university for losing 160 staff n students this way- the accused do not even know what the complaints were about and are not allowed to see the accusations which seems quite frankly out of the 1984 playbook

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

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Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social · 29d

Carbon capture – the get-out-of-jail-free card that does not actually work

Cutting emissions will work

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Carbon capture – the get-out-of-jail-free card that does not actually work

Engineers have been trying to perfect the technology for years but the maximum effect it could manage is far short of what the planet needs

www.theguardian.com

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 29d

Brexit and the trajectory that followed it have been almost fatal to English Unionism on the right.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 29d

conservative and *unionist* party supporting offloading NI to the Republic to leave the ECHR is a certified bruh moment

Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 29d

A cross party platform - Reform and Tory - mad that the biggest shove towards a united Ireland is coming from the Brirish right....

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Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · Sep 10

Great to see my book with these two important analyses. How much longer will the British government continue cover-up the role of the intelligence services and their agents who operated without a legal framework and accountability throughout the conflict? Families need the truth.

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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · Sep 3

Satellites have been tracking the water held in glaciers, lakes and the world’s vast underground reserves — aquifers. A extensive analysis of that data reveals water is rapidly disappearing beneath much of humanity’s feet, and large swaths of the Earth are drying out. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Humanity is rapidly depleting water and much of the world is getting drier

Research shows vast portions of the world are losing fresh water and getting drier. Groundwater depletion accounts for two-thirds of the continents' water losses, contributing to rising oceans.

www.latimes.com

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · Aug 30

Total f&%kery is going on with the 3-year running average of the global sea-surface temperature as temperatures continue to trend significantly above "accelerating warming."

Zen kōan: What is the sound of one planet dying?

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · Aug 23

It is the moral responsibility of Irish ppl, & 100m ppl of Irish heritage, to demand the starvation of the children of Gaza, & their families, ends.

This crime equals the Holocaust; to knowingly starve babes in the womb, children & adults to death. Ireland knows brutal famine. It must end:

Statement by President Higgins following declaration of Famine in Gaza City and surrounding areas | President of Ireland

Welcome to the website of the President of Ireland.

president.ie

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · Aug 23

Farage has now said very clearly he will remove judges he does not approve of and abolish UK citizens' human rights. No-one at the BBC, Sky or ITV - or inside the government - seems to think it is worth highlighting. This is exactly what sleepwalking towards autocracy looks like.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong.

Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Aug 22

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)?

Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts!

NEW POST -->>>

Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact

Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · Aug 22

The legacy of this genocide will last beyond any of our lifetimes. We’ve arrived at this point after decades of the US doing everything in its power to defend and fund the Israeli government’s policies of ethnic cleansing, land theft, and now starvation and genocide. This depravity must end.

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · Aug 22

The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine.

Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.

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Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social · Aug 21

What a privilege to be able to take a photo of Fair Head on the Antrim coast as I try to rid my mind of the daily horror images from Gaza and reflect on the total failure of the international rule of law.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Aug 20

UK Govt to kick off public-private partnerships in England.

It is new name for Private Finance Initiative. Private sector invests £1, gets £6+ back. The state guarantees corporate profits.

Nothing learnt?

Govt can create money, borrow, do QE, tax the rich ... why hand free cash to corporations?