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The US Gov't is complicit in genocide. The shame began before this.

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Major Security Breach Sees Two Russian Agents Gain Access To White House

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Tánaiste Simon Harris > “Ukraine is not to blame for this war brought about by Russia’s illegal invasion. We stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 “

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Trump is vastly worse than Chamberlain who genuinely thought peace was attainable (but was still rapidly rearming in case it wasn't). He didn't actively ally with Hitler and fought him when no alternative was left.

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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

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"With contemporary English including more than eighty thousand terms of French origin, Georges Clemenceau might have had a point when he argued that ‘the English language doesn’t exist – it’s just badly pronounced French." Thanks to @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com for the link to this article

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Lobbyists “standing up for Israel” wrote to government last year requesting the state adopt a controversial definition of antisemitism – and the Department of Justice assured that Ireland’s hate speech legislation would address some of their concerns. www.ontheditch.com/lobbyists-st...

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Yeah but nobody is suggesting we change the Dáil speaking arrangements to give Slab Murphy a slot in leaders questions, Micheál

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I'm guessing that for Bezos, 'personal liberties' don't extend to the right to join a union...

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Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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Last week, the new owners of the Observer wrote to tell me they would not be issuing me with a new contract. 🤷‍♀️ So...I want to say publicly that it was an absolute privilege to speak on behalf of my Observer colleagues during our strike. I don't regret doing so. And I learned so much from it. 1/

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Star Observer writer @carolecadwalla.bsky.social has had her contract ended by @tortoisemedia.bsky.social ahead of take-over of the title on 20 April. NUJ expresses "serious concern" that her exit follows her making public criticism of deal. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

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Director of al-Shifa hospital Dr. Abu Selmia after 7 months in Israeli jails: “There was little to no food...no water, no toilet...I saw people who were dying there...I was beaten so badly I couldn’t use my legs or walk. No day passes without torture.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Event with Sally Hayden on her book and a panel discussion on human rights and displacement 3rd March Museum if Literature Ireland @sallyhayd.bsky.social

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Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees | Stewart Lee “revealing an interlocking and endless web of bad influence that only “cat woman” Carole Cadwalladr had the persistence of vision to apprehend… a crowdfunded Cassandra in an era busy eating its own brainstem.”

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"Science fiction lends itself readily to imaginative subversion of any status quo. Bureaucrats and politicians, who can't afford to cultivate their imaginations, tend to assume it's all ray-guns and nonsense, good for children." - Ursula K. Le Guin (2012) [Anthology idea: Ray-guns and Nonsense]

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The vast majority of these 600 are civilians that were kidnapped in Gaza. Not accused of anything, not charged of anything.

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Hack writer plot twist. Harking back to earlier seasons.

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As plans announced by Donald Trump to "take over" the Gaza Strip and forcibly displace its population have shocked even close allies of the US and Israel, occupation forces in the West Bank have been driving people from their homes en masse. http://jrnl.ie/6624911

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HANG IT IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA!!!!

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Drop Site’s Sharif Kouddous reports from the southern Lebanese village of Kfarkela, which is in ruins after Israeli troops withdrew on February 18. Every single structure has been completely destroyed or badly damaged. It is mostly just piles of rubble.

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Sinn Féin will not attend White House’s St Patrick’s Day event because of Trump’s plan to work with Israel to ethnically cleanse and resettle Gaza www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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I've resigned from the UK Society of Authors

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I can't wait that fucking long.

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Just in case people have forgotten, Trump has an abiding hatred of Zelensky for refusing to pursue Biden and his son, Hunter in an investigation Trump wanted opened in Ukraine, as he thought it would help Trump’s 2020 Presidential run. What you see now is spite

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Sasquatch has a blurry photo of me looking over my shoulder as I disappear into the forest.

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Incredible journalism.

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This is maybe my proudest ever "tweet that immediately earned a block"

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In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

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Well done to @booksupstairs.bsky.social on winning Bookseller of the Year. Very well-deserved. m.independent.ie/regionals/du...

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Omagh victims and their families deserve better than ‘there was no alternative’ to violence www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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Allowing the country's rental stock to be consumed by foreign investment firms so that more and more wages are sent directly overseas rather than circulating here is actually good economic policy because economics isn't real, it's formalised rhetoric used to justify wealth hoarding

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Octavia Butler was a black female science fiction writer who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.

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On 18 February 1943 Hans and Sophie Scholl, part of the White Rose group of peaceful protesters against the Nazi regime, were arrested at the University of Munich. They were later executed by guillotine. They were 24 and 21 years old. #HansScholl #SophieScholl #WhiteRoseGroup #Nazis #Germany

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Jewish man shoots two Israelis after ‘mistaking them for Palestinians’ in Florida. Victim blames anti-semitism and posts “death to the Arabs”. Meanwhile in Gaza… www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

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