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Genocide unchecked spreads.

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Atrocity after atrocity

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UK Lawyers for Israel condemned over claim war may reduce obesity in Gaza

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I genuinely don't know how to process this. It seems unthinkable that deliberate, calculated mass starvation is just... happening. In full view. It's impossible and yet real.

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Our leaders in the EU are using our money to save trees in Israel while the same nation is committing crimes against humanity.

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Artists' statement calls out a “clear, concerted attempt to censor and ultimately deplatform” Kneecap. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

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Beltany Stone Circle • Donegal Set high on a Donegal hilltop with extensive views over the surrounding landscape, Beltany Stone Circle is one of the places most associated with this time of year, as its name is thought to derive from An Bhealtaine. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

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our President's heartwarming Easter address (with all of the outright lies redacted)

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Trans people told you we were just the start of a wholesale attack on human rights. We are just the lowest-hanging fruit. They are coming for a much larger group next…

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It is 100% a choice, and one that Netanyahu is making so that he can stay in power and avoid elections and so that he can ethnically cleanse the Gaza strip. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Happy Easter 🐣

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There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.

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Annaghmakerrig lake looking sublime this beautiful last morning at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Very hard to leave, as always

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Cannot believe the world is letting this happen. 💔

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Since dawn today, Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed at least 92 Palestinians.

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"I want to state this as clearly as I can: Nearly choking up on national TV as you lament your falling stock price is weak shit." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

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I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's mass theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their large language model ‘AI’. Their trawl includes fourteen of my titles. If you live in Ireland and care about the arts, please sign. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

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Today I published something I've been thinking about for a while, connecting the dots from America's history to the seemingly inevitability of the path we're currently on. Our timeline is even darker than most probably realize. The US is trying to bring back slavery ricochet.media/internationa...

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me reading national security secrets bc i've been accidentally added to a group chat

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A lot of people are reasonably very concerned that a well-liked comedian might be hurt by angry online comments, but are unconcerned that already piled-on and sometimes destitute immigrants might be hurt by false and alarmist online comments because they see the former as a person but not the latter

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Thanks for the shoutout! "The story drew on private recordings of a series of speeches given in 2023 and 2024 by Russell Vought obtained by our colleagues at Documented, a news site with a remarkable knack for uncovering information powerful interests would prefer remained secret."

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Kneecap appear to bring missing head of King George V statue on stage during Melbourne gig

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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Happy St Patrick’s Day. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...

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For St Patrick's Day. Ladybird books were published in many different languages - including Irish

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Bees are becoming Homeless. Plant a Patch or Pot for Bees & Pollinators. 🐝 " Consistency Is an Underappeciated Form of Intentional magic Disguised as a Mundane doing " Victoria Erickson Author Edge of Wonder

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Ireland. I live here now. It's so nice.

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Larry the Lurcher feeling springy this Spring day #dogsofbluesky #spéirgorm

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✍️ Evil passes, tyrants fall Winter is past, the world turns, and brighter days will come – it's time to believe in change A poem, by Steve Pottinger @bigstevepoet.bsky.social

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😂😅

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🇨🇦 Canadians… We’re building a European Movement Canada to bring Canada & Europe closer together. Maybe even campaigning for Canada to join the EU (yes, it’s feasible) Sign up here to get more info… … and share, share, share everywhere. 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦🇪🇺

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The Horrifying Fascist Manifesto Endorsed By J.D. Vance A disturbing book plans a ruthless total war against the “unhuman” left.

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Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

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I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

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