Family of Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra file wrongful death proceedings in US

Family of Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra file wrongful death proceedings in US

The 33-year-old fashion designer, originally from Co Carlow, was found dead on a yacht in New York in August 2025

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“We are told we don't have enough money to feed our children… But somehow we have enough money for this foreign nation...” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social & @ilhanmn.bsky.social discuss the influence of money in U.S. politics, from funding war in Israel to AIPAC’s future. Watch: zeteo.com/p/live-from-...

If AIPAC's commitment to arming a rogue state isn't enough for you, I cannot emphasize enough that this organization is just a slush fund for GOP donors to influence Dem races. Their donor base is mostly conservatives who want Republicans to win.

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 6h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

The Netanyahu govt "aims to make Palestine disappear physically, economically, culturally and politically. This is happening on our watch. The lack of accountability that has allowed Israel to act in this way is unconscionable. The impunity must be stopped." pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/08...

What I saw in the West Bank

Former Irish president and UN human rights chief Mary Robinson says Israel’s annexation of Palestinian land is unfolding in plain sight, enabled by impunity and a lack of international political will.

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So their policy positions are irrelevant?

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 23m ago

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said in an interview with NBC News that he will encourage progressive voters to still back Democrats on the ticket in November even if moderates are victorious in the primaries.

It’s weird how words like “indoctrination” or “acculturation” have become an excuse for privileged people to not reflect on and change the reactionary values they were raised with. Doing this used to be both normal and unheroic

looks like the earnings call went well

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Australia's No.1 Nazi propaganda site has been temporarily suspended on X, The Everything App. (The Good News is that it remains Zucc-approved.)

“Reckoning” never ends www.declassifieduk.org/bbc-censored...

BBC censored film on British army killing child

Downing Street persuaded Panorama to cut an exposé on the shooting of an unarmed boy in Derry in 1972

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the Arday discourse on X is now at 'VC of Cambridge needs to resign and a KC needs to be appointed to investigate the whole affair'

Mass funeral held in Gaza for victims of 2023 Israeli strike

Mass funeral held in Gaza for victims of 2023 Israeli strike

Remains of 112 victims, including 40 children, recovered from rubble more than two years after residential block was destroyed Mourners gathered in central Gaza on Tuesday for a mass funeral for 112 people, including 40 children, who were killed in 2023 in one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Gaza war. Their bodies could not be recovered until now because of Israel’s continuing strikes, which have slowed, though not halted, since the ceasefire in October. Continue reading...

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Congrats to everyone who got a shoutout in the Telegraph today, although I don't know where they got the idea that Bluesky is a place where people are kind to each other. This is site is not kind. This is a PvP server where you get randomly matched with an American who has misunderstood your joke.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 14h ago

I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…

"The strikes mainly targeted warehouses belonging to civilian businesses, Zelenskyy said, as well as infrastructure and a railway station — sites that he said have “no connection to the war'" apnews.com/article/ukra...

Russian missile and drone barrage in Ukrainian capital region kills 17

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and its region have killed 17 people and wounded 44 others.

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It was always strange to call the genocide in Gaza a war, but it's even more bizarre when there is a ceasefire and Israel has killed 1200 Palestinians since then. Even if the Guardian doesn't want to use the term genocide "war" doesn't capture one sided slaughter of civilians

“Palestinians on Tuesday buried 112 members of a single clan killed in Israeli air strikes in November 2023, after their remains were recovered from beneath the rubble last month.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-fa...

Gaza families bury 112 people recovered nearly three years after Israeli strikes

Remains recovered from beneath the rubble renew grief for families still searching for thousands missing in Gaza

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“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

"Clean zones." Diabolical.

Alissa Walker@awalkerinla.bsky.social · yesterday

Fantastic reporting here by Libby Rainey that confirms what we've been hearing about the "clean zones" around LA28 venues: "Carter Hewgley, chief strategy officer for L.A. County’s Department of Homeless Services and Housing, said his office had been told to plan for perimeters as wide as a mile"

Interesting and open access: 'Urban planning as a settler colonial tool: land, control and extractive settlement on the Queensland (Australia) frontier' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Urban planning as a settler colonial tool: land, control and extractive settlement on the Queensland (Australia) frontier

Colonial settlement was a spatial strategy through which territory was claimed, governed, and made extractable. Conventional origin stories of planning in the Anglosphere emphasize social reform in...

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Austria has set a new all time temperature record of 41.0°C today. 9 separate weather stations recorded >40°C as heatwaves & record temperatures continue to impact the Northern Hemisphere.

The US host cities for the 2026 men's World Cup claim that they were *verbally* promised $1 million each by Gianni Infantino and that FIFA hasn't paid up. Truly incredible stuff. www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is zero for 20 in its lawsuits seeking to obtain state voter rolls, after a federal judge dismissed its case against Colorado Monday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump DOJ now 0 for 20 after judge dismisses Colorado voter roll lawsuit ‘with prejudice’

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is zero for 20 in its lawsuits seeking to obtain state voter rolls, after a federal judge dismissed its case against Colorado Monday.

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automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot

BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1

More incendiary stuff. Prince Ali, the FA president from Jordan, who was a rival to Infantino in his first election in 2016, alleges FIFA attempted to effectively blackmail theJordanian FA, withholding funds until they had provided backing to Infantino for next year’s election.

This guy still has replies turned off so this is my only way to tell him that I am a reporter, and I have no specific interest in Francesca Hong's election except insofar as it reveals the essential stupidity of US politics & many users of this website

Rod O’Connor @theblueape.bsky.social · yesterday

This guy doesn’t understand that losing elections for niche reasons that matter only to him and his two friends is worse than not running at all.

This guy has replies disabled on a quote tweet for some reason, anyway if it costs her the election it will be for the reasons I nominated

Rod O’Connor @theblueape.bsky.social · yesterday

It’s a bad answer because it’s going to cost her the election. Full stop

This should have been an adversarial interview

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · yesterday

Genuinely a choice to give the son of a billionaire column space to argue for him to further consolidate the media, especially given the pretty abysmal track record of on journalism he has already implemented at CBS

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS