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This brought back some horrible memories from a truly awful time. Every word of 👇🏾 is true. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain is a swamp of lies and disinformation – and we got here on the Brexit bus | Jonathan Freedland
Ten years after the vote, our economy is battered – and our national conversation darkens by the day. Still, there is reason for hope, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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66.66€ per day, that's what the *day rate* is through the redress scheme for being brutalised from morning till night, day in, day out, year after year ... I don't know how you calculate something like that but it doesn't seem like enough for the trauma inflicted and the lives shattered. #speirgorm
‘Another institutional abuse’: UK survivor of Irish mother and baby home can’t afford to accept compensation
Rosemary Adaser, 70, would lose £1,000 a month in benefits, while her twin brother in Ireland got full amount with no penalty
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Lúcás Ó hArgadáin@lukeh95.bsky.social · 4mo agoThey attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused. Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.
6.5 hour drive from south kerry to dublin today .... felt like the 1980s again. Great craic altogether. #speirgorm #protests
The Handmaids of Nashville, carrying signs with the names of the men who are in the Epstein files.🔥🗽
It was Glasto 2003, it was 28° & sunny and this man was awesome. 🔥 You've crossed your last river Jimmy, RIP #glasto ##speirgorm
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 8mo agoJimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
Incredible shot - such joy💚 #COYBIG
David Ó Muircheartaigh@davidmoriarty.bsky.social · 9mo agoA hilarious line from Murph on @secondcaptains.bsky.social, paraphrase - never mind McIlroy at the Masters, Troy Parrott has had the greatest Thursday to Sunday run in the history of Irish sport. #COYBIG #speirgorm
@fotoole.bsky.social is spot on with this. the maths isn't even that complicated. Not a good look. And doesnt fill me with confidence about where the public discourse is heading. Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration
For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’
irishtimes.com
The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
Journalists in Dublin: 6pm this evening at the Spire.
South Park's still got it. Savage, as always 😆
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 12mo agoSouth Park just had ICE raiding heaven. KRISTI NOEM: “Remember, only detain the brown ones. If it’s brown, it goes down!” The most effective mass media analysis of Trump is now coming from South Park. Shows what you can do if you don’t care about WH access or your billionaire owner. (🎥Paramount)
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Big news! My book, #RunLikeaGirl, is launching in Canada & US on September 23. It’s about having the courage to run your own race-even when it’s hard. Trying to live up to the expectations of others is no way to live or make a difference. Let’s do this!🏃♀️💪 🏃♀️💪 🏃♀️💪 🏃♀️💪 #WomenLeadingonClimate
🥳🥳🥳🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️ Delighted to see this! @cathmckenna.bsky.social hope you are kind to the family 😆❤️
Catherine McKenna@cathmckenna.bsky.social · last yr.Big news! My book, #RunLikeaGirl, is launching in Canada & US on September 23. It’s about having the courage to run your own race-even when it’s hard. Trying to live up to the expectations of others is no way to live or make a difference. Let’s do this!🏃♀️💪 🏃♀️💪 🏃♀️💪 🏃♀️💪 #WomenLeadingonClimate
So easy to forget America is full of caring communities and courageous people. I just hope they can stay the course.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.New — I spoke to the school principal of Sackets Harbor, NY, where ICE handcuffed and disappeared a mother and 3 kids (including a 3rd grader). It’s also the town Trump Border Czar Tom Homan calls home. Cook tells me about how the small town is taking on enormous power to bring the students home: