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Way to go, Sheryl!!

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21 February 1934 | Dutch Jewish girl, Elisabeth Rimini, was born in Amsterdam. She was deported from Amsterdam to #Theresienstadt ghetto in April 1943 and on 23 October 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz with her younger sister Sophia. They were both murdered in a gas chamber.

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Good to read a more positive piece from @rbreich.bsky.social about resistance in US open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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BREAKING: All seven of Elon Musk’s companies — X, xAI, Neuralink, Starlink, the Boring Company, Tesla and SpaceX —have netted a combined $20 billion in US government contracts and subsidies, according to the Financial Times. Does MAGA care to comment?

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Eliza Gilbert (aka Lola Montez), born #OTD 1820, had a life so colourful it can’t be captured in one post - she carried a bullwhip, pursued Franz Liszt, crashed a male-only banquet to dance on the tables and toasted a mob with champagne & chocolate. www.dib.ie/biography/gi... #DIBLives

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I definitely remember the days when Ireland exported all it's doctors!

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Around 2017/2018 “serious” British commentators were writing columns saying that the easiest solution to the Brexit “problem” was for Ireland to also leave the EU & rejoin the Union, as it would be “mutually beneficial” to both the UK & Ireland… #Speirgorm #Ireland

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Your good new story for the day. I just received a message from a landlord in Florida. He has lost over $30,000 in rentals since Canadians began the boycott. Canadians are doing their part. LET'S TAKE THE BOYCOTT INTERNATIONAL. We invite allied nations to boycott all things American.

submitted 6 days ago • 308 comments

This feels so relevant right now.

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Very important questions for Ireland here. Time to wake up and look at the defence challenge. Nobody else is going to come to our rescue. RTE news : US Ukraine plan prompts questions on Irish resilience www.rte.ie/news/us/2025...

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Sadly, it is needed and has been needed for the last three years

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Dublin are playing Kerry in Tralee this evening and the Dubs have descended on the town en masse. To their credit they are adapting, they've already fashioned a makeshift Luas out of a bike and six bewildered stray dogs and are currently riding it up and down Denny Street

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⚡️Zelensky calls for creation of 'army of Europe' amid US support uncertainty. "Let's be clear: We cannot rule out the possibility that America may refuse to cooperate with Europe on issues that threaten it," Volodymyr Zelensky said at the Munich Security Conference.

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US seems to want to reinfect Europe with fascism.

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Fired: CDC's most recently hired Epidemic Intelligence Services officers – the people who fight disease outbreaks. They are not mere "probationary" staff. They are "Fellows" who are physician-scientists in a globally recognized applied epidemiology training program.

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Excellent set of graphics showing where, what and how big are the trade deficits with US. Ireland looks pretty exposed.

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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

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Isn't this a great opportunity to re-think the types of trees to plant by coillte and move more rapidly to the mix of native trees that we need in our woodlands. Fir/pine much more susceptible #speirgorm RTE news : Damage to Coillte forests after storm could cost millions www.rte.ie/news/munster...

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Jesuit Priest 👇🏽

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No argument with this.

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#speirgorm #spéirghorm

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Watch a slug in a hamster wheel (rather than in the White House).

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Dear Secretary Rubio: a thread of quotes from South African mothers who lost babies to AIDS. You can prevent more by waiving PEPFAR from the stopwork order. “What stressed me so much is that I did not know how to help her. To see her in pain was the most painful thing to me”

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There's a huge lot to be learned by the new Irish government from the lessons of #stormeowyn Resilience of the country is very fragile. The telecommunication is very fragile. People have been left with no way of calling.emergency services let alone their own families.

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As we again approach Holocaust Memorial Day, we again ask: “Are we there yet?” Forget excuses, deflections, “Godwin’s Law”… No, we’re not there yet. But we will be. Unless we stop those working to take us there. Here’s a letter from Peter, to his sister and her husband, to remind us. A🧵/1.

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I’m sure many share this sentiment. Deeply Jarring.

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