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My captain, my king

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Someone called ICE on this sweet family who was running a Kebab restaurant. They have had a case open with with USCIS since 2016. They would feed the homeless, people with disabilities, and people who just couldn’t afford to pay them. There is a GFM to offer support for legal fees and lost income.

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Gosh Simon Harris must have absolutely lost his mind when he heard about the printer they bought for the Dail that was too big to be used

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The Trump budget has passed in the House of Representatives: 💸$4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the top 1% + corporations 🪖more money for war + mass deportations 🚑$2 trillion in cuts to programs like Medicaid + food stamps This is a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the uber-elite.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

We are juggling four separate legal threats at the moment here at Dublin Inquirer.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

One thing about the Paddy's Day stuff this year is that Elon Musk is now in charge and has already repeatedly tried to intervene in Irish elections, legislation and tech policy. So I hope our ministers are prepared for the possibility that they will be intentionally and publicly humiliated this time

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

I would get the history of the witch panics right before posting saccarine dross like this. going-medieval.com/2023/10/20/y...

submitted 5 days ago • 53 comments

Red = lowest ecological integrity. Ireland has the great honour of being probably the most ecologically trashed nation in all Europe. 🏆 🏆 🏆

submitted 24 days ago • 69 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 5 days ago • 895 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 5 days ago • 590 comments

Nach álainn an scéal é seo? Maith an fear, agus fáilte 💚

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Great website. Join CATU

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

No I don't think anyone is left wondering where the US stands on Russia/Ukraine.

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The National Science Foundation fired all its experts. The National Science Foundation. Fired. All of its. Experts. And they weren't even told to! The leadership worked toward the Fuhrer and went beyond the cuts demanded of them in anticipation of many, many more firings—up to half its staff.

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

RIP Nilay Ateşoğlu, a Queer Kurdish asylum seeker who sadly took her own life at the Cliffs of Moher. "I have no family," her note said. She asked to be buried in "a handful of soil" in Ireland. "Do not give my corpse to the oppressors." Her note was ignored & her body was sent to Turkey.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

I swear to God the new york times is engaged in a dadaist art project to twist the English language into a fucking pretzel

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

submitted 8 days ago • 273 comments

“Airing Cupboards redesigned as Housing for statistical purposes. Also, Govt welcomes record new housing completions.”

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This would be tragic and horrible anywhere, but feels worse in a country obsessed with writing about soil and land.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

you know it’s bad when even the anarchists are calling their congresspeople

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

“I have even been told to tone it down, and that this is how it is, and it’s a rite of passage. The fear of speaking out is.” People are afraid of speaking out, I congratulate those quoted for their bravery. But also we should ask, why is there a culture of fear on our campuses?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Seen so much of this and am very happy to have gotten out before it wrecked my morale and motivation

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Beavers have to be along the most undeservedly underrated animals, bunch of furry legends messing about in rivers and forests, they know a good life when they see it

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I've resigned from the UK Society of Authors

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

This is why we keep saying you need to teach the kids history.

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Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 9 days ago • 765 comments

Leaving aside the obvious environmental aspects, it doesn't seem very bright to me to give an increasingly volatile and unpredictable US administration even more leverage over Ireland

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Plz stoppp😭🍉🇵🇸 I’ve lost everything my home, job& income ‼️ I struggle to find water,food &milk for my baby while trying to survive😢 Despite everything I stay up late sharing our story,hoping to raise enough to live with dignity& protect Mila from hunger& cold! PLz even $1 can help gofund.me/78ffd496

submitted 10 days ago • 33 comments

|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣| It benefits the far-right if Nazi Germany is viewed as an anomalous outlier rather than an ethno-nationalist model |＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || / 　づ #HistorianSignBunny

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

The Co-founder of Airbnb folks. A craven hypocrite. Bending the knee to MAGA. Having previously presented himself as a defender of refugee rights. Bye bye Airbnb.

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

Happy tenth birthday to a real one

submitted 11 days ago • 93 comments

As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index. The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe. #journalism #democracy #freepress rsf.org/en/index

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Valentines Day at Willie Yeats' House

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

🧵 1/2 “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. … History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.”

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

submitted 15 days ago • 27 comments

The BDS movement is calling for people to Skip Captain America 4, Brave New World It features a Pro-Israel Character, Sabra, named after the 1982 massacre in Lebanon that murdered over 3,500 Palestinians.

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Fuck google

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We're officially not on Twitter anymore but we have <10% of the followers we had there, so please give us a follow. Here's the latest from the Wild Gees blog - a guest post about some midnight #SheelaNaGig activism: The Banksy Sheelas of Sussex thewildgees.com/guest-post-t...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

First they came for trans people, and I did not speak out- because I avoid 'identity politics'. Then they came for the Palestinians - but I don't do 'purity politics'. Then they came for everyone but me - but I was waiting for the midterms. Then they came for me- and I was quite shocked tbh.

submitted 18 days ago • 64 comments