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Dee Reddy

@deebodee.bsky.social

Podcaster / Music and Movies on Today FM & Newstalk / DJ / Broadcaster Managing Director of Poddle Audio. Music, film, feminism, comedy and Dolly Parton enthusiast. Enjoys Pina Coladas.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · last yr.

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic

The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...

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Dee Reddy@deebodee.bsky.social · last yr.

Great news! I guess the citizens of Greenland, Yemen, Canada, Panama, Ireland, Palestine and the EU at large can rest easy now. For a while there it seemed like America thought it was completely reasonable to interfere in the politics of another country or something.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last yr.

Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene literally telling a British reporter to "go back to your country" and berating her for trying to ask a question. "We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 2y ago

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you're at the point of anti-woke moral panic that you're questioning whether NORTHERN IRELAND needs public investment in equality and inclusion initiatives, it's safe to say you're out of your fucking mind.

Belfast Telegraph@belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 2y ago

The Department of Finance has spent almost a quarter of a million pounds on Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) training and related initiatives since 2019, with a further £70,000 shelled out by other Stormont departments.

Dean Van Nguyen@deanvannguyen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ireland and UK cover reveal! This edition will be published by White Rabbit and available to pre-order via its website and plenty of other places too. Just saying, I hear that pre-orders are considered important...

Cover of the book Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur by Dean Van Nguyen
Dee Reddy@deebodee.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s pretty chilling that someone preaching simple compassion and empathy so clearly puts these people to shame. Bishop Budde serves as a reminder of what speaking truth to power looks like. If only other prominent Americans were as brave. news.sky.com/video/bishop...

Bishop pleads with Trump over LGBT children

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde pleads to President Donald Trump to have 'mercy upon the US people' as he begins his second term in office.

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Irish Independent@independent.ie · 2y ago

David Lynch, the American filmmaker, writer and artist who scored best director Oscar nominations for ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘The Elephant Man’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’ and co-created the groundbreaking TV series ‘Twin Peaks,’ has died at age 78 www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

'Twin Peaks' creator and filmmaker David Lynch dies at 78

David Lynch, the American filmmaker, writer and artist who scored best director Oscar nominations for ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘The Elephant Man’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’ and co-created the groundbreaking TV seri...

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