Spotted in Barnes & Noble in Boulder, Colorado! 🇺🇸 So excited to receive this. @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
Joe Noonan
@joenoonan.bsky.social
Cork-Donegal migrant blend. Knows some law.
European Union 's "good ally" #Israel plans to destroy 14 more schools in southern West Bank while EU refuses to put any sanctions on the #Israeli regime or stop the flow of European tax-payers funds to Israel via EU programs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO23...
مخطّط إسرائيلي لهدم مدارس مسافر يطا | Israeli plan to demolish the schools of Masafer Yatta
YouTube video by ميغافون
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Italy, Germany and other countries that accused Spain of attracting migrants with its amnesty scheme have also quietly legalised the status of people who arrived irregularly in their own territory. ft.trib.al/XYObpMy
Seeing the Irish president, Catherine Connolly, come to Belfast near everyday if not everyday for the historical moment of Fleadh Cheoil being hosted here for the first time is wholesome - a president walking through the city, watching people play, going to the pub. Presidency is different here.
AFP journalist Christina Assi, who lost a leg in an Israeli strike while reporting from the Lebanese border, will be honored at the International Press Freedom Awards, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. rfi.my/CwN4.BS
AFP journalist to be honored at International Press Freedom Awards
AFP journalist Christina Assi, who lost a leg in an Israeli strike while reporting from the Lebanese border, will be honored at the International Press Freedom Awards, the Committee to Protect Journal...
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#OccupiedWestBank, 5 Aug 2026 Hours before her scheduled release, #sraeli authorities renewed the administrative detention of Palestinian detainee Walaa Khaled Tanji from Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, for another six months. The decision was issued despite the end of her 13-month sentence.
Foreign ministers warn Christian and Islamic holy sites 'threatened' by Israel 'as never before'.
Top Arab, Muslim diplomats launch plan to protect Jerusalem religious sites
Foreign ministers warn Christian and Islamic holy sites 'threatened' by Israel 'as never before'.
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And if we reduced server farms to the EU average we'd pretty much be carbon-free on the grid..
Green Collective@greencollective.io · 21h agoFor the first time, Ireland generated more electricity from renewable sources than fossil fuels in the first half of the year 🍃 The chart below makes the trend clear. Will 2026 be the first year with majority clean energy? We at Green Collective hope to be the first to report it!
Competition undertakings to separate the British owner of Ireland’s largest regional media group from the advertising sales house his rivals depend on have “proven ineffective”, according to Celtic Media Group. ‘This is not healthy for media plurality.’ www.ontheditch.com/competition-...
Competition undertakings ‘ineffective’ in regional media
The British media executive has been hoovering up Irish titles
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Unprecedented drying of 43% of small French streams, as reported by the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB), indicates a critical ecological tipping point following the 2022 drought. Increased climate-driven drought frequency is causing permanent biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse in waterways.
Dr. Serge Zaka@sergezaka.bsky.social · 19h agoCette carte est gravissime. Mais elle n'a pas fait la une de l'actualité. Pour moi, l'été 2026 marque un tournant. Après celui de 2022, il devient difficile de ne plus parler de "rupture écologique" ou de "point de non retour" pour une partie des milieux aquatiques français. 1/18
The last few years have seen an escalation in attacks on Palestinian bus drivers and sanitation workers, with Israeli labor union organization Koah LaOvdim citing 30% more attacks in 2025 compared to 2024. There were dozens of attacks in Jerusalem alone last year. (3/4)
We just paid a solidarity visit to Moatasem al-Qaq, a bus driver who was attacked in Jerusalem by several people who came onto the bus and began assaulting him so severely that he lost consciousness. Four of his teeth were knocked out in the beating. (1/4)
Israel’s crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank go unpunished & are increasing largely due to the silence of world leaders #ACT @president.europarl.europa.eu @spokesperson.europarl.europa.eu work w/member states, push for the SUSPENSION of the EU-ISRAEL ASSOC. AGRMT, weapons embargo… @cnn.com
In @irishtimes.com, Oxfam Ireland CEO Jim Clarken responds to Limerick billionaire Patrick Collison donating €6.2m to a group blocking a proposed wealth tax in California. It marks the latest example of a billionaire using their fortune to influence politics.
Letters to the Editor, August 3rd: On schools and day care, Patrick Collison and wealth tax and e-scooters
Every environment a child enters is an educational environment
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In defeat, Haley Stevens: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 15h ago🇺🇸 🗳️ A leftist insurgent Democrat defeated the party establishment's candidate to score a stunning win on Wednesday in the primary race for the Senate after harnessing popular discontent and anti-Israel sentiment ➡️ u.afp.com/SHqx
Graduating in #Gaza today is more than a validation of skills. It is a testament to perseverance, innovation, determination & hope for the future. UNRWA Technical & Vocational Education & Training programmes continue to equip young people with the skills and opportunities they need. #UNRWAworks
...and phoned them days later pretending to be their card company trying to help sort things out. The gift card scam is only the first step. Please, please be really vigilant. If you think they won't get you, you'll probably be incorrect. They're super evil. 😡😡😡
🚨 Please be aware that this scam is still running. Someone close to me was got by it a few weeks ago, and is still sorting out the carnage it caused. Although they spotted it pretty much straight away (cards cancelled etc), the scammers redoubled... www.which.co.uk/news/article...
Beware of scam emails impersonating Marks and Spencer - Which?
Sneaky messages claim to offer free products
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We too easily skipped over the part of the Ceuta story where thousands of young people were manipulated into risking or losing their lives for a lie; to orchestrate images that then led the news agenda for the weekend, and kneejerk reactions from EU Govs And the Irish failures that let this happen
Deirdre O'Shaughnessy@deshocks.bsky.social · 22h agoIf you were confused about what happened in Ceuta last week read this piece by @lizcarolan.com who's looking at how it blew up online and who's behind it... www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
My latest post....https://open.substack.com/pub/annpettifor/p/the-globalisation-of-markets-and?r=nle0&utm_medium=ios
The Globalisation of Markets and the Localisation of Hunger
On the Urgent Need to De-colonize Global Markets in Money, Food and Energy
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Great post by @annpettifor.bsky.social noting essential survival commodities have become instruments of financial speculation inflating prices, triggering hunger worldwide, stripping democratic control over own food systems 1/4
Ann Pettifor@annpettifor.bsky.social · 3w agoMy latest post....https://open.substack.com/pub/annpettifor/p/the-globalisation-of-markets-and?r=nle0&utm_medium=ios
"(We are) protesting against the possible proposals to have a single fund for all EU expenditure, with none of it ring fenced specifically for agriculture. At the drop of the hat, they could pull money out of that and put it into defence..." - Irish Farmers Association President.
Gorman: EU budget changes ‘risk undermining support for farming’
To coincide with the protest in Brussels, similar protests will take place tomorrow across all 27 EU member states.
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I lose it a bit when I try figure out what the Gardaí are telling us with their Bank Holiday operation stats. Yes, we know people are driving recklessly, instead of patting yourselves on the back for a few days enforcement, you've just broadcast how little is being done the rest of the time
Mike McKillen@mikemckillen.bsky.social · 14h agoDoes this level of law breaking by drivers not suggest that we need Garda operations such as this one on a 24/7 basis & not just at bank holidays? "Between the period of Thursday 30 July – Tuesday 4 August 2026, a total of 169 people were arrested for driving under the influence of an intoxicant,
"The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Naziism was their failure to unite against it." -William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Iran and Oman have reportedly agreed that all ships transiting Hormuz have to go through an Iran-controlled corridor, and are finalizing tolls of 3, 5, or 7%. This would close off the path outside Iranian waters the US encouraged ships to use during the MOU, then started bombing again to keep open.
Proposed Hormuz deal would give Iran control of inbound traffic, sources say
A proposed deal between Iran and Oman would give Tehran control over ships entering the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Iranian source and two regional officials told Reuters, in one of th...
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A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
