"The octopus on your plate can feel pain, delay gratification, and probably outthink a toddler. Just something to consider before you order."

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A reminder that ordinary people are the same everywhere , they just want to bring up their children in peace, and be friends with all around them. substack.com/@tritaparsi/...?

European State of the Climate 2025 is out, and it’s clear: Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average. Hidden away on page 145: the laws that can help Europe take action. climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2025 Thanks @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social and @wmo-global.bsky.social for your work.

We should tax the super wealthy (a 3% annual tax on net wealth over €10m) and use it to finance universal unconditional basic income. The world would be a much happier place.

The EU and its member states, the UK, and other countries with leverage should suspend trade deals with Israel and adopt a ban on trade and business with illegal Israeli settlements, applying to the occupied Golan Heights and the West Bank. Countries should also suspend arms transfers to Israel.

I'm attending a @world-beyond-war.bsky.social event "the Neutrality Roadshow is Going Online!" on Thursday 30th April at 7pm. You can too. Just RSVP here to join: actionnetwork.org/events/the-n...? #USMilitaryOutOfShannonAirport #NoToIrelandJoiningNATO #IrelandMustRetainTheTripleLock

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has triggered a crisis and sent the cost of fuel, fertilizer and other commodities soaring.

Since Maduro’s Fall, Oil Is Flowing in Venezuela but Freedoms Are Not passblue.com/2026/04/27/s...

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If anyone is still in doubt - watch this vid showing how our EU leaders look to NATO to defend the EU. So if we in Ireland want to retain our neutrality, we must retain the #TripleLock.

Excellent analysis by journalist Richard Medhurst. I don’t agree with Richard that the US is acting out of greed though, I believe it’s just desperate to save the US economy. Either way the US is now an autocratic state surviving only through its criminality. open.substack.com/pub/richardm...?

Pope Leo condemns capital punishment amid US execution push reut.rs/4e8wRzw

Why am I running for the Dáil? It’s because I want to deliver a better Dublin. I want to deliver a Dublin where people can afford to rent or buy a house, a Dublin where our communities aren’t divided by social class.

Ask Roscommon county councillors to support the retention of the Triple Lock - by please signing this, thanks: my.uplift.ie/petitions/ro...?

15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas. We are about to feel a very painful food shock. 1/

The IHRA definition of antisemitism includes any criticism of Israel, it is therefore a flawed definition, the Jerusalem Declaration is more appropriate. In the meantime government should drop the IHRA definition from the PFG2025, if you agree please sign this: my.uplift.ie/petitions/re...?

Ireland is playing a dangerous game with food security. 'The policies of successive governments have prioritised an export-led agricultural system leveraging the big beasts of beef and dairy, while ignoring the needs of our indigenous veg and fruit growers.' www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Worth reading: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...?

Mick Kelly at giy.ie warns us about our food security. And he's not wrong. There will be food shortages everywhere because of the global recession coming. Instead of buying food starving others need, we need to produce enough food to feed ourselves. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.

Since the start of its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in October 2023, Israeli authorities have drastically escalated their policy of torture, abuse, & extreme deprivation of food & medical care against Palestinian prisoners in a desperate attempt to break their will. #FreeThemAll

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Is the EU finally ready to listen? 21 April could be a decisive moment to finally suspend the EU Israel trade agreement. Germany and Italy hold the key. Tell Friedrich Merz and Giorgia Meloni to suspend the agreement NOW. Sign 👉 www.amnesty.org/en/petition/...

This is likely the eighth ICE flight to refuel at Shannon since last May. Previous flights sent third-country nationals to prisons in South Sudan and Rwanda, and forced repatriations to warzones of Russians, Ukrainians and Palestinians via a third country (Egypt, Poland, and Israel, respectively).

HEADS-UP, IRELAND: A likely ICE flight has just landed at Shannon again, likely to refuel before delivering shackled migrants to god-knows-where. This is the same plane that sent migrants to Uganda — a country they had never been to before — on April 1. #spéirghorm

Packed day in Berlin at the Sudan conference. Vital talks. But they only count if the results are felt by the Sudanese people facing atrocities everyday. Sudan needs action, not words.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... At what point does the survival of the majority outweigh the greed of the fossil fuel rich? At what point do we start a global general strike and mass civil disobedience to save ourselves from this greed-driven polycrisis?

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Lelia Doolan - an amazing woman: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Please join the protest outside the Dail at 5.30 Wednesday 22nd April and if you like also sign this @greenparty.ie petition thanks: my.uplift.ie/petitions/no...?

Lelia Doolan’s March for Peace (#USMilitaryOutOfShannon): Day 16... Final Day! Today Wed. 15th April Assemble at 10am Barnardo Sq next to Dublin Castle (maps.app.goo.gl/xjXQMme3G8KY...) *Depart 11/11.30am* *Arrive at the Dáil for 12pm* Please bring along instruments, songs, poems... 🩷🩷🩷

The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground. Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground. War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.

Lelia Doolan will reach the Dáil tomorrow after walking from Shannon to Dublin in protest at the use of our so-called civilian airport by the US military. You can walk with her from Dublin Castle at 10am, or welcome her at the Dáil at 12pm. #USMilitaryOutOfShannon

www.thejournal.ie/film-maker-w...? If you’d like for Ireland to remain neutral, and for the Triple Lock to be retained, please join Lelia on her walk for peace, today from Rathcoole, and tomorrow from Dublin Castle. Thank you.

‘We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest degenerate into physical violence.’ MLK, 1963

War criminal netanyahu is destroying towns in southern Lebanon without military reasoning, which is a punishable war crime.

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If you can’t find a showing or haven’t seen it yet, then listen to/read this excellent article: open.substack.com/pub/chrished...? War is evil. Israel and US are evil states, but they have support from others. If our governments won’t change then we, the people, must change our governments.