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Gigi Greene
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student of the world | making good trouble

I went out to the hazel wood / Because a fire was in my head
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Finally, someone with some urgency and integrity.

Cory Booker speaks overnight in Senate against Trump

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Cory Booker breaks a 68-year-old Senate record with a 25-hour speech
The New Jersey Democrat spent more than 25 hours criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m. ET Monday. He ended his marathon speech sh...
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April 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Had the pleasure of attending a discussion here in Ireland with the ambassadors from Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Estonia. Report below

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Ukrainian resilience: five ambassadors on Ukraine and Europe
Image from Unsplash On the third anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, University of Galway hosted a roundtable conversation with five ambassadors from the region, chaired by Dr B…
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March 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Just finished this last night. Gutting, galvanizing, and gorgeously written.

#Sunriseonthereaping #hungergames
#booksky
Sunrise on the Reaping A Hunger Games Novel by Suzanne Collins
March 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Keeping an eye on this: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
‘Woman, life, freedom’: the Syrian feminists who forged a new world in a land of war
In a society riven by conflict and misogyny, the autonomous region of Rojava has a government with perhaps the most complete gender equality in the world
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February 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Read my latest piece here: sin.ie/2025/01/25/y...
“You expect violence everywhere”: American students in Galway on how political violence has shaped us, and what comes next
Image by Gráinne Greene There is nowhere quite so American as the crossroads of vision and violence. Young people in the States have come of age in a period of increasing polarisation and near-cons…
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January 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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"Modern Monsters"

Original cartoon, pen on paper (2025)

#art #politics #usa #inkdrawing #illustration #cartoon
Hydra with six heads: Trump, Musk, Netanyahu, Putin, Zuckerberg, and Bezos
January 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Only then will the loving fantasies of our better nature transform into reality. The work and fight for the dream persists, and what’s more, it is not just a fight, but fate—that perhaps we are as destined for this time as it is destined for us.
January 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Peace Is Not Passive:
remember what we are working toward.

Original art.
#art #printmaking #illustration
January 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Reposted by Gigi Greene
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The perfect headline doesnt exi—

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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
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January 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 20/20: Rage Becomes Her (Soraya Chemaly)

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December 24, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 19/20: A Tempest of Tea (Hafsah Faizal)

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December 23, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 18/20: Bad City (Paul Pringle)

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December 22, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 17/20: The Starless Sea (Erin Morgenstern)

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December 21, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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Me and these birds…
#birds
December 20, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 16/20: The Last Devil To Die (Richard Osman)

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December 20, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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Finished my first semester of college and
I looked in the mirror and
Wondered if it isn’t quite
The face I left home with
Because I don’t feel quite
The same as I did before and
Yet I am more myself
Than I ever was as I
Wander into a new year
#poetry
December 19, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 15/20: A Far Wilder Magic (Allison Saft)

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December 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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There was a starling in my exam hall this morning and it flew over my shoulder while I was taking my Intro to Media and Comms test. Supposedly they symbolize communication so that better be a sign that my grade will be glorious 🪶
December 18, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 14/20: Starling House (Alix E. Harrow)

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December 18, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 13/20: The Witcher: The Last Wish (Andrzej Sapkowski)

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December 17, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 12/20: The Power (Naomi Alderman)

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December 16, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 11/20: When The Angels Left The Old Country (Sacha Lamb)

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December 15, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 10/20: Beauty Sick (Renee Engeln)

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December 14, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 9/20: Call Us What We Carry (Amanda Gorman)

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December 13, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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20 books that have stayed with me (no explanations/reviews)

Day 8/20: The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)

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December 12, 2024 at 11:05 AM