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Historian, podcaster 'Dirty War in Dublin' & 'Brothers in Pain'; it is possible to disagree in good faith, but let's be honest we won't do it.
i am really looking forward to the exit polling showing jews turned out overwhelmingly for him despite all the efforts and heaps of cash spent to cast him as a hamasnik
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 10h agoWe got the first "El-Sayed won Rochester Hills because he's a Zionist" take in the wild.
The latest epiaode of Tucker Carlson can be seen as a manifesto for a right’s attempt to erase our antifascist memory www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How a Nazi-obsessed amateur historian went from obscurity to the top of Substack
Tucker Carlson has called Darryl Cooper the “most important popular historian working in the United States today.” His background is more extreme than previously reported.
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“It … has made a laughing stock of the whole movement” – John Clarke’s disputed Service (1917-1921) Medal award.
Letter from Thomas Ruane, former OC North Mayo Brigade, IRA, and Chairman, North Mayo IRA Brigade Committee, to Michael Cremen, Secretary to the Referee, Military Service Pensions Act, 1934, queryi…
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A youth-led uprising in India stirs hopes of greater solidarity among Indian Dubliners. Late last month, a small group gathered on O'Connell Street to support the "cockroaches" movement that had taken to the streets in their country of birth. www.dublininquirer.com/a-youth-led-...
A youth-led uprising in India stirs hopes of greater solidarity among Indian Dubliners
Late last month, a small group gathered on O'Connell Street to support the "cockroaches" movement that had taken to the streets in their country of birth.
dublininquirer.com
A great movie. His novel, Union Dues, is worth reading too. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice
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“Ceuta’s border is so thoroughly militarised that it puts even Trump’s barrier-building – let alone that of Greece, Poland or Finland – to shame. The paradox… was that this militarisation had involved ceding control”: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right’s exploitation of the Ceuta migrant ‘crisis’ almost guarantees that it will happen again | Ruben Andersson
The EU’s panic and the lack of solidarity emboldens smugglers and the far right – and makes Spain even more vulnerable, says Ruben Andersson, professor of social anthropology
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The gutless response of ostensible countervailing political forces across the Global North to Trump and Netanyahu’s disastrous, criminal war has accomplished nothing but to hand the space for opposition and critique over shameless opportunists and antisemites now using it to brand build on bigotry.
I know how you feel. Take care and keep writing.
As Rod Liddle has died, I notice this column I wrote in 2019 about his attacks on people with M.E. is on the most read again. Rebekah Brooks, of News UK, described Liddle today as “provocative”. In reality, he spread lies about very sick people for cash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances Ryan
Whether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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We’ve just rented a projector so the kids can watch some films over August and we’re trying to source and buy treats and snacks. Ionad Hind Rajab is about more than education. It’s about getting back a little bit of childhood. 👇
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 2d agoAn Irish artist has helped establish a children's centre in Gaza that provides food, education and psychosocial support to children displaced by the war. Adam Doyle, better known as Spicebag, tells us why he helped create Ionad Hind Rajab. jrnl.ie/7117887
Ken O'Flynn TD happily sharing a photo with a white nationalist who makes money by inciting abuse and harrassment against others. a man who advocates ethnic cleansing of immigrants, who complains of "controlled opposition by the jews" just racist buds hanging out at the Gript summer school
Two children suffered minor injuries in a racist attack on a property in Co Down.
Children injured in racially motivated attack in Down
Two children suffered minor injuries in a racist attack on a property in Co Down.
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Slightly different for me. I published three monographs (one co-authored) in a six year period, but it has been another six since my last book, and my fear is that I will never get enough time to write the next one properly (and it is a good one).
Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 4d agonot unique to me! see also assoc profs waylaid by teaching and/or service. above all it’s interesting to think about parallel—though different—emphases on the “first book” with its assumption of a second and third and and and when there isn’t infrastructure to support that at scale.
As Italy marked 46 years since the Bologna station bombing, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni steadfastly avoided blaming the neo-fascists that the Italian courts have long found to be responsible. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/08/melo...
Meloni refuses to blame fascists for Bologna massacre | Searchlight
As Italy marked 46 years since the Bologna station bombing, prime minister Giorgia Meloni steadfastly avoided blaming the neo-fascists that the Italian cour ...
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I don't "support Spain" and I don't "support Morocco" and it's not an Israeli plot nor is it a epic decolonial or colonial struggle nor is it generic great replacement nor is it Muslim hordes get over yourselves.
Most unlikely pairing ever ... the Redskins and Five Star, c. 1986 www.facebook.com/TheRedskin/v...
100 reactions · 12 shares | Who remembers this Redskins' performance on kids' TV show No. 73 in the 80s? | The Redskins
Who remembers this Redskins' performance on kids' TV show No. 73 in the 80s?
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The funny(?) thing is that no matter how demonstrably pathetic the Mossad proves to be - in Iran, they worked on their covert "influence campaigns" and plot attempts for decades and they all went south in seconds - people still think it controls everything including the weather.
Not to mention the fact that an argument that hinges around migrants being bad and polluting ultimately leads you to the far-right anti-Zionism of Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, even if Javier Bardem and those sharing this latest conspiracy theory no doubt think of themselves as on the left.
The idea that bc I’m of Palestinian, Arab descent and therefore reduced to some box of an existence with a limited humanity, isn’t just offensive, it’s ignorant at its core. I vehemently detest that kind of “identity” nonsense, reject it, completely. It’s ludicrous and insulting, as well.
I know a middle-aged nurse who caught COVID four times. Yet the predominant voice we hear now from that era is a middle-aged guy who went far-right because he couldn't have a pint.
researchdoom@bananaintherama.bsky.social · 4d agoI remember my SIL nurse crying in rage on the phone when this was announced. Yes, she got COVID in her ward. She lost a baby. Fuck these people.
He doesn’t lead marches or stand for election, yet for two decades Jim Dowson quietly bankrolled Britain’s far right. Equipping Scotland’s vigilante patrols is his latest venture. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/08/the-...
The shadowy figure financing far-right groups for decades is backing Scottish vigilantes | Searchlight
He doesn't lead marches or stand for election, yet for two decades Jim Dowson has quietly bankrolled Britain's far right — and equipping Scotland& ...
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1 August 1944 | The 82nd anniversary of the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising. Today, we commemorate some 13,000 citizens of Warsaw who were deported by the Germans to Auschwitz during the uprising. Learn about their fate from our #podcast: https://bit.ly/3TxXiX1
Football chiefs are now rightly pushing for Infantino’s exit But it doesn’t stop there and the reform that didn’t come in 2016 is now badly needed Football also has to live with his decisions, like Saudi 2034, because the same critics let too much go www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Gianni Infantino’s demise isn’t enough – Fifa must fundamentally change
Infantino’s fall after his scandalous World Cup sell-off plan is being compared to that of Margaret Thatcher, writes Miguel Delaney, but football needs to think much bigger than just getting rid of on...
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The media is desperate to find some reason why Elon Musk's politics are complicated or more sophisticated than they seem, because the simple truth is too ugly for them to admit - an actual Nazi is the world's wealthiest person, and his companies hold substantial American government contracts.
