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Mother Friend Trade Unionist .Activist till I die I repost things that interest me not because I always agree with them. Belfast City She/Her Sí/í
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6h agoRapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month
Oh and: the PSNI was found to have referred migrants who were victims or witnesses of crime to the Home Office. They have since said they stopped in 2025.
Women for Refugee Women@4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 12h agoWomen seeking safety in the UK often experience sexual and gender-based violence in their countries of origin, on their journeys to safety, and again in the UK. Yet the latter is often overlooked, with women left with little support to seek justice, to heal, and to recover. 1/🧵
what passes for journalism in Britain puff pieces on crypto billionaires
Simon Gosden@simongosden.bsky.social · yesterdayA philanthropic gift is a new hospital ward, it’s a CAT scanner, it’s a new library, it’s a school swimming pool it’s not funding fascism.
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 18h agoBreaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.
Thanks to TG4 for this powerful report on the massive protests held on Saturday in Dublin, Shannon, and Doonbeg against Trump’s visit to Ireland. #FreePalestine #StopFundingGenocide
Peter Thiel—the Palantir billionaire who created JD Vance from a bag of Cheetos and a bucket of eyeliner—is giving his Antichrist lectures in #Nashville. I just bought a ticket… What would Dolly do?
The taoiseach was at a golf tournament/maga rally.
President of Ireland@president.ie · yesterdayInniu, d'fhreastail an tUachtarán Connolly ar an gcuimhneachán do mhná a raibh i Neachtlanna Mhaigdiléana na Gaillimhe i Reilig an Bhóthar Mhóir. ~~~ Today, President Connolly attended the memorial for the women of the Galway Magdalene Laundry at Bohermore Cemetery.
As we reflect on sixty years of free secondary education and how it has transformed Ireland, it’s worth remembering that some people thought it was a mistake in its first few years. Who would object to free secondary education? In 1966, quite a few. jrnl.ie/7159629
Who would object to free secondary education? In 1966, quite a few.
There was even a pushback against school buses as a nature walk spoiled or an impromptu GAA match missed.
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Russia attacked the train carrying Boris Johnson and other Western officials share.google/aNnSvScsr5sI...
Russland greift ukrainischen Grenzübergang nach Polen an, deutscher Merz-Vertrauter betroffen
Seit dem Sommer attackiert Russland gezielt ukrainische Grenzposten Richtung Westen. Nun traf es einen Übergang nach Polen. Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen war auch einer der engsten Berater von Kanzler Me...
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Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · yesterday🚨—> Boris Johnson was aboard the train hit by a Russian drone near the Polish border today, but he's thought to be unharmed share.google/qIQvJxryHGam...
Thinking of all the young people who work in his hotel most likely on minimum wage having to put up with this shite I hope they are good tippers
The Journal@thejournal.ie · yesterdayGolf fans serenaded Donald Trump with renditions of popular songs and chanted 'USA' as the US president made a brief appearance in the hotel residents' bar at Doonbeg Saturday night. jrnl.ie/7161408
The latest issue of the Democracy for Sale interview is my favourite yet I spoke to London Falling author Patrick Radden Keefe about corruption, Londongrad, MAGA in Britain - and he researches and writes such compelling stories Highly recommend a watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTvo...
Trump's America, Coming to Britain | Patrick Radden Keefe
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As ambassador I was told he was being reined in, but Bezalel Smotrich has used unprecedented power to deliver his life’s mission: claiming West Bank land from Palestinians Matthew Gould www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
The man driving Israel’s settler agenda has wanted this for decades
As ambassador I was told he was being reined in, but Bezalel Smotrich has used unprecedented power to deliver his life’s mission: claiming West Bank land from Palestinians
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Tucked away in this article about GB PAC is the N. Ireland connection of Jim Allister MP, a UVF bank robber and a sectarian killer. If you think dark money funding is an abstract debate - tell that to people here following the third pogrom in as many summers.
The Ferret@theferret.scot · 2d ago🔴 NEW: This US-style right-wing political pressure group keeps its funders a secret. Its members have helped man Scotland’s anti-migrant and asylum demonstrations. Find out more: https://www.theferret.scot/p/a133bcc2-0540-4673-bf9f-96b6fd48ac63/
2020: Ben Delo, "Last year I signed The Giving Pledge, pledging to give the majority of my wealth to good causes over my lifetime" 2026: Ben Delo donates £36 million to Nigel Farage's Reform UK
Congratulations to +972 Magazine’s investigative reporter Yuval Abraham and co-director Rachel Szor on winning the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival for their film “NAZA.” NAZA draws in part on investigations published by +972 Magazine, @theguardian.com & @mekomit.bsky.social
The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inaction
Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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This is absolute madness Labour - and I’d say what’s left of the centre right - is an existential battle against oligarchy But it hasn’t a clue that it is
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2d agoLabour sending out fundraising emails off the back of the Harborne and Delo donations. Yes chaps, that’ll do it.
Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”
UK commentators musing on irish reunification seem barely alive to the fact that UK democracy can be sold to the highest bidder
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2d agoI think I would be reasonably confident in predicting that there is unlikely to be a united Ireland by 2038 - in 12 years time. Whether + how far there would have been significant moves during the 2030s towards a vision/model of what that would mean and how it would work seems a much more open Q
Britain is bought and paid for
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 2d agoAstounding story. Reform receives a *second* £36m donation from a crypto billionaire in 48 hours. Christopher Harborne- the £5m benefactor- has matched Ben Delo's money pound for pound. £72m in total. Approaching US politics sort of money. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Party financing in this country is out of control The government needs to act via the Representation of the People Bill to restrict spending limits and donations👇🏻 Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record
Cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne says he has matched a donation from Ben Delo announced late on Friday.
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A lot of men and not a lot of women gathered at the US residence in Dublin to hear Trump Praising irish, dropping a few broadsides against Europe (and starmer) for not backing him in Iran... and for immigration... riffing on everything from Venezuela to Kamala (pre mid term aimed at US probs)
A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:
Statement from President Connolly: We are in a world facing the existential threat posed by war and climate change, both of which are inextricably interlinked. I conveyed the strong view of the Irish people that the normalisation of war and genocide can never be accepted.
Breaking: Donald Trump says “I’d love to see Ireland unified…. I think it would be a great thing. How could it be bad?” Oh my word.
