Brian Kerr on Virgin Media: “I’ve been in touch with [Gavin Bazunu] this evening, and he’s feeling quite low, and shunned by some of the players and by the FAI… (🧵)
Marion O’Dwyer
@mariondublin.bsky.social
Free range actrine Peace lover Also cats… (she/her)
Well, I hate this team now. Gavin Bazuno is a hero and I need to know the name of the scumbag who abused him.
UNREAL: According to the Ellisons, opposing the Paramount merger that gives them control of CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, BET, CMT, Paramount, Warner Bros, HBO, CNN, DC Studios and Tik Tok's algorithm is anti-Semitic. Actually it's called opposing oligarchy! www.mediaite.com/media/entert...
Mark Ruffalo Blasts Ellisons After He's Called 'Antisemitic'
Marvel actor Mark Ruffalo fired back at Paramount after a spokesperson called his criticism of the company's pending merger with Warner Bros. "antisemitic."
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that Mexico is taking legal action against the United States in regards to the cold blooded murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE killer in Texas. They’ll pursue justice for the mistreatment of Mexican nationals. Good. 💙👊
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6mo ago🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”
Love France 🇫🇷 They understand the importance of the battery life of a Nokia 3310
President Catherine Connolly has warned that the world is drifting towards a “might is right” approach to global affairs, as she delivered her first address abroad at an international summit in Barcelona jrnl.ie/7016654
President Connolly warns of global shift to 'might is right' in first overseas speech
During her address, President Connolly made several critical remarks which seemed to point the finger at western powers.
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And people will be all outraged when areas like this vote for some unsavoury characters who promise to fix things for them
Dublin Inquirer@dublininquirer.com · 6mo agoBallymun and Finglas are to get the least council investment in projects in the coming years. The area has been allocated just 2 percent of the pot of capital funding – not including housing – over the next three years.
If I were in an opposition party, I would run a social media campaign about the government spending almost *€20 million* of taxpayers' money* on greyhound racing. *that's per year by the way
The Journal@thejournal.ie · 6mo agoIreland’s greyhound industry has failed in its duty of care to the dogs, receiving taxpayers’ money without scrutiny while the Government turns a blind eye, writes Chris Andrews. jrnl.ie/6995306
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"In 1847 the Choctaw nation set aside its own impoverishment and suffering to make a $170 donation to victims of the Irish famine...The generosity left a lasting mark on Ireland, which remembers it through art and commemorations" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
Irish support for Native American Covid-19 relief highlights historic bond
GoFundMe page for Navajo and Hopi aid lists many Irish names echoing donation in 1847 by Choctaw Nation for potato famine victims
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Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
Joe Robertson@joro.bsky.social · 8mo agoMore than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.
Was lucky enough to catch another performance of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Gate on Sunday. It finishes its run this weekend. Treat yourself. The best start to the New Year! My two young companions had the best time too!