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1st day of Christmas #Bethlehem #Palestine #Christmas

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

If you have ever wondered what colonization was like—the violence, the dispossession, the massacres, the genocide, the displacement, the famine, the dehumanization, the racism—you are watching it in real time in Palestine. It is among the most depraved of all possible acts.

submitted 69 days ago • 6 comments

It’s been a very disappointing week for progressive left politics in Ireland, with Sinn Féin shifting to the right on LGBT issues and the SocDems revealing themselves to be either just as superficial or inept. Both parties caught up in pretending to be something other than they are.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Shocking state racism and discrimination 😔

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

For Real Change to happen Vote left, transfer left. Vote left, transfer left. Vote left, transfer left. Vote left, transfer left. Vote left, transfer left. #GE2024

submitted 95 days ago • 35 comments

One thing Fine Gael and Fianna Fail have done very effectively is normalise mediocrity. I asked someone why they thought investing in roads was more important than public transport. They said they want public transport as good as other EU countries but don't believe our government could deliver

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

Day 1 of the ceasefire and Israeli forces occupying south Lebanon have already shot towards journalists and continue to destroy public infrastructure Because that’s what the Israelis do

submitted 97 days ago • 6 comments

132 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 132 years the problem has only gotten worse.

submitted 98 days ago • 91 comments

A new report found that 85K women were killed by men in ‘23, with 60% of the deaths committed by someone close to the victim. “Globally, the most dangerous place for a woman to be was in her home, where the majority of women die at the hands of men.” t.co/OrP35T4AqA #MedSky  #MedTwitter #BlueSky

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

Reiterating that there are more Gazans here and they are more persistent in posting their links because there has essentially been no flour in all of South Gaza for well over a week. It is also cold. Please treat them how you’d want people to treat you or your family in a famine.

submitted 101 days ago • 11 comments

Here is a textbook example of propaganda in action. They took a population projection from 2023 and presented it as up-to-date population data for Gaza so they could pretend no genocide is taking place. Btw genocide propaganda is a war crime.

submitted 101 days ago • 10 comments

theintercept.com/2024/11/21/i...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Why was there no criminal prosecution? Who made that decision? Why? This is a high profile case, we don't see enough in the media about all the other cases to appreciate how deep the rot goes, how rape has essentially been legalised in this country.

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

USA moving to destroy the ICC in 3,2,1... Expect massive pressure on their European vassal states to support the shredding of whatever facade remains of international law.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

God can be good sometimes

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments

Looking at these shocking stop and search statistics is bringing to mind the work of the Late, Great Vicky Conway who fought tirelessly to bring truth to power & ensure rights for the most vulnerable in society. We need more voices like hers advising government and the Gardai.

submitted 103 days ago • 3 comments

"Trump will be worse". I don't doubt he'll try, but Biden has let Israel off the leash, utterly destroyed Gaza, destabilised the Middle East and is now allowing US made and guided missiles to be launched at Russia. Unless Trump nukes Beijing on day 1 of his presidency, 'worse' is going to be tough

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Colin Sheridan's letter to his friends has a message for each one of us. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 107 days ago • 4 comments

There's a subset of posts on here that are new largish accounts bellowing that Bluesky is a tech product and funded by venture funding and beware etc. And yes! That is true! And it will surely end up badly, but it's a bit mad that this is presented as hard truthtelling to the masses.

submitted 107 days ago • 6 comments

In sheer numerical terms, in brute numbers of bodies and property destroyed, there is absolutely nothing to compare between what Zionism has done to Palestinians and what, in retaliation, Palestinians have done to Zionists. —Edward Said

submitted 107 days ago • 3 comments

In Gaza, from the grounds of the primary care clinic, I would always hear the incessant buzzing of the drones deployed by Israel and the US. This is what the Canadian govt and companies continue to arm, fund, and support. Genocidal colonial violence and a war on humanity itself. This is a drone.

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment