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Keith Adams
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Kept around by Irish Jesuits to think about prisons and punishment
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A Minority Report type future, where the pre-cogs identify future criminals but instead of arresting them we get them connected with social programs and supports so that they never have to become criminals in the first place
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
the traditional time lag in policy and rhetoric imported from England is rapidly shrinking
December 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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www.european-group.org/2025/12/09/5... European Group Conference 2026. Alternatives to Punitive Security Culture: Organising for Social Liberation. Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1–4 Sept 2026. Join scholars & collectives to build abolitionist alternatives to policing, prisons & capitalism. Deadline--- 23/32026.
December 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
SF and FFG on justice policy
a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van
ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I am not altogether clear on how SF are differentiating themselves from FF and FG on prisons

sinnfein.ie/news/justice...
Justice Committee visits Limerick prison to examine overcrowding crisis - Matt Carthy TD - Sinn Féin
Chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, Matt Carthy TD, today led a visit by the committee to Limerick Prison to see at first hand the impact of the prison over...
sinnfein.ie
December 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
maybe the ECHR no longer has utility for the State as it seeks to expand coercive confinement and deportation of migrants and people seeking asylum
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
this rhetoric is going to end well, surely his handlers have been watching the UK
December 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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over at @theatlantic.com, they let me write about how Heat is just a regular-type romance movie. here’s a guest link

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
December 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Forward. The Bicycle

So simple yet so illustrative!

Love it 😍👌
December 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Studies Winter 2025 - 2026 is available now, with lead articles from Tom Casey SJ, @liammacamhlaigh.bsky.social, Nuala King, and Siobhán McNamara.

Found at select bookstores and online at www.studiesirishreview.ie
December 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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DCC removed it! Well done to everyone who reported it and followed up. Especially, area Cllr Janet Horner.
December 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.

Us: Across your entire career?

Reiner: In a 6 year period.

Us: That sounds-

Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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December 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Nazi and Islamophobic graffiti besides the entrance of the small masjid on Hardwick Lane that we wrote about the xenophobic hate it faced recently @dublincitycouncil.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Protein maxxing at work by stealing patient's Ensures
December 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
killer whales and dolphins coming for your yachts
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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The overlap between people who lament how long it takes them to get places in a car and the people who hated the Green party appears to basically form a circle
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
great that ordinary people are getting the chance to be heard, can they also be asked who they voted for in recent GEs?
December 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
one of the very wealthiest countries in the EU-27
December 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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'and family', a truly wonderful phrase for Christmas card writers who - like me - have only a vague idea what their mates' kids are called.
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Stealworkers
December 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
my brain when someone is waffling in a meeting
What is going on at Movistar's team launch
December 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM