A majority in Northern Ireland now support a United Ireland in the EU. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

Every day he says something that would have ended a politician’s career twenty years ago.

By all accounts, President Donald Trump really, really did not want abortion to become a major issue this election year. But here we are, six months before the midterms, and abortion pills are back at the Supreme Court.

"Most of the enslaved people identified in the research so far were enslaved by Harvard presidents, treasurers, deans, and academics and made to work in Boston, Cambridge, the American South, and abroad..." Whew. Also, the redress ideas are...lacking.

In 2024, after two years of process & more than 24,000 comment letters, with the support of the overwhelming majority of institutional investors, the SEC passed a simple rule: big companies need to disclose, to investors, the risk that climate change poses to their business. They're repealing it.

With activists – including an Irish citizen – facing a “show trial” in Germany, The Ditch can reveal the weapons factory they’re accused of vandalising is today sending a laser system for marking human targets to Tel Aviv. www.ontheditch.com/elbit-german...

Speaker announcement! Lubnah Shomali is the Advocacy Manager of BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, a Palestinian human rights organization defending the rights of Palestinian refugees. Join us, 1pm Garden of Remembrance. #FreePalestine #Nakba78

WILL COCAINE MAKE COLLEGE OBSOLETE?

Keir Starmer's key legacy will be over 2,700 arrests (so far) because he decided to classify people who oppose genocide as terrorists. Arms dealers making money matters more to him than the lives of children. He's an enemy to human dignity and should've been driven out long ago.

This is an important point, it seems to me, because there’s a discourse developing about refusers: namely, that they refuse genAI use in order maintain some kind of individualistic or self-gratifying purity. No, it’s a matter of solidarity (with the harmed & marginalized), of social ethics.

The trans bigotry to genocide-embracing full fascism pipeline embodied www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Souffrance silencieuse: les enfants de Gaza perdent l’usage de la parole. On estime que 1,1 million d’enfants à Gaza ont besoin de soutien mental. Un nb croissant perdent leur capacité à parler du fait de traumatismes causées par les attaques israéliennes. agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2026/05...

Au Sénégal, il est de plus en plus difficile d'être homosexuel : des centaines d'hommes ont été interpellés au cours des dernières semaines, quand ils ne sont pas lynchés par la foule. Les lois contre les homosexuels ont par ailleurs été drastiquement durcies. Ils risquent jusqu'à dix ans de prison.

You can say anything in government and they'll print it like it meant something.

She claims she's being oppressed... but she might wish to consider what it's like for any trans person right now at the hands of the likes of her. She also says (young) trans people are 'confused' because ofc Roisin knows better than them, she's an expert on the lives of other people.

Finally, a major American newspaper whose editorial board is courageous enough to stand up for the rights of big tech companies.

UK has dropped from 1st in 2015 to 22nd out of 49 countries in 2026 in the @ilgaeurope.bsky.social rankings. Degradation, the stripping of rights and the endangering of LGBTQ+ communities IS UK Labour policy. LGBTQ+ people are now no more than scraps of meat tossed to Reform voters who hate Labour.

“So take, for example, large US multinational that needs data centres in Ireland and is doing an interesting nuclear technology in America. Then Ireland might see if that company, Amazon or whoever it is, might be willing to develop a partnership.”

"The only challengers to a far-right government are the Greens” @mothinali.bsky.social on BBC Politics North this morning Join the Green Party today and help us take the fight to Reform ⤵️

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

👀 Pretty remarkable stat! The Green Party got 1.95 million votes at the local elections (excluding mayoral!) Approx 1 million more people (!!!) than best record in 2023. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Voting rights

"Across Gaza, more than 16,000 women are now the sole heads of their households, raising their children under extremely difficult conditions ... [M]ore than 50,000 pregnant women have lived in Gaza during the war and its aftermath. They face a severe lack of basic necessities[.]"

Hot off the press! See the latest article 'Imperial Persuasion: British War Propaganda and the Manufacture of Consent in Colonial Cyprus in World War I' by Nur Çetiner & Ceren Uçan: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Alan Cumming in a Sunday Times magazine cover interview talking trans rights and JK Rowling.

do you understand how historical research works? Search engines are only a part of it. I use physical indexes, and physical sources in three out five archives I frequent. And that is not going to change.

"The only thing we’re really any good at building these days is data centres, which is funny, since they use up roughly a quarter of our energy anyway. If we stopped building those we wouldn’t even need the nuclear power plant!" Here's this week's column.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

I see that Matt Taibbi, who just lost the defamation case he filed against Eoin Higgins for criticism of his hackery, is one of the featured speakers at FIRE’s “Soapbox 2026” “celebrating free expression, fearless debate, and the courage to dissent.” Very free. Oh, no doubt.

Reform candidate Jay Cooper who said the Holocaust was a hoax is now a Reform Councillor. I imagine we will be hearing endlessly about this antisemitism...

"In overcrowded displacement camps, in shelters exposed to the elements, and in makeshift homes that barely offer protection, they persist—not out of choice, but because there is no alternative."

The way they asked him the question *twice*, and he was like "oh, did I not give enough examples the first time" and added more examples of how labour are not a progressive party

Historic moment, indeed! Greens have: 2 directly elected mayors in Hackney & Lewisham; 2 directly elected SMPs for Glasgow S. & Edinburgh C. (More to come via regional lists) 2 seats in Senedd, both in Caerdydd; 57 local councillors more than before... with 43% of seats still to be declared ✊💚👍

I think students often learn more from the process of writing an essay than they do from the feedback they receive at the end.

i thought this was the case it's nice to see that it is. the seat wins look scary but their vote is actually down.

Afrique: Paludisme - Un enfant sur huit sauvé grâce à un vaccin

Former diplomat says Dublin is afraid of Irish unity because it would threaten the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael ‘comfortable duopoly’. www.irishnews.com/news/politic...

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Workers at Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research laboratory in the U.K., have launched a unionization bid as part of an attempt to end the use of their technology by Israel and the U.S. military.

Our President and CEO Nancy Northup delivers a warning about the ongoing attacks on abortion pills by mail: “Those who are opposed to abortion are seeking to get a nationwide ban. And this is the first step of it … but it will not be the last step.”

4 months ago today disgraced former border commander Greg Bovino arrived to the scene of the Renee Good killing in Minneapolis to stand in front of the cameras. No one has been held responsible for the killing that was caught on video. chaddavis.photography/border-patro...

⭕Blessure de plusieurs #Palestiniens lors d'une attaque de colons et de tirs de balles à #Khirbet-Samra, dans le #Jourdain Nord. #Qudsn

Le RN dénonce les "assistés", mais a beaucoup moins de scrupules quand il s'agit de détourner l'argent de l'Europe pour financer les ambitions présidentielles de Bardella. Vos impôts ont financé son media training. Vu le résultat, c'est d'autant plus scandaleux.

Disrupt apartheid - Join the CAF Global Week of Action, June 6-13. CAF directly enables Israel's illegal occupation and annexation of East Jerusalem and the consolidation of Israel’s colonial settlements that ethnically cleanse Indigenous Palestinians from their homeland. https://loom.ly/RH0QSWI

they did the same thing to nashville five years ago. the state’s largest city — the source of most of tennessee’s income — does not exist electorally exist. was shocked this didn’t get more attention at the time. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"Israel is waging an environmental and public health war against Gaza, where mountains of waste, rubble, rodents, and harmful insects are turning displacement shelters into zones of epidemic risk…!"(Global intifada) #Israel #Gaza

Queer love has often been recorded through crime or scandal, and with so many forced into secrecy, parts of Trans+ history are lost.  @transgenderhistory.bsky.social traces the history of Trans+ romance in one of our articles released this week. Get it here: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

Francesca Albanese: Sign the petition. #GazaGenocide eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Spain has awarded the Order of Civil Merit to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. "Public responsibility also carries the moral obligation not to look away. It's an honour to recognise someone who defends the conscience of the world”-President Sánchez.

Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for documenting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. His photos are worth seeing, so here’s a gift link: