People died for your right to vote. Black History Month By most estimates, a total of 30–80 black people were killed during what has been considered the "single bloodiest day in modern American political history".

Y'know... she kinda looks like she could take a stab at Michael Myers with the outfit on the right Also no one caught the Boomtown Rats reference!!! I'm so sad youtu.be/Ks_HIeRo7fU?...

Maine: Nurse & co-worker (US citizens) passed ICE vehicle - followed them, rolled its window down "I’m gonna arrest three more families today, just for you, ha ha ha – and this evil, sinister laugh,” the nurse said "We were both stunned and shocked" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

"On this day 100 years ago, The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey premiered at the Abbey Theatre."

Still some shame this side of the pond? youtu.be/7CyDNxPnvhw?... Preview of Private Eye.

James Joyce - born on this day #botd 1882: “Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?”

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”: youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Congratulations to Public Service Credit Union who are moving in to their new building on Lincoln Place Dublin 2 this week.

‘If you haven’t served, respect those who have’: Nato soldiers on Trump’s slurs

Brilliant

USA: Another General Strike Now Likely paydayreport.com/alex-pretti-...

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’

Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In 1977 a young Robert Francis Prevost, now better known by the name Pope Leo XIV, was given the job of posting Boomtown Rats records to DJs across the USA. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Donald Trump’s White House is now a volatile force of change and whimsy

Read the text message between Macron and Trump about Greenland standoff

Trump links Greenland threat to Nobel Prize snub in message to Norway’s PM

OMG it’s been almost 50 years since Blake's 7 first hit screens, but I hear a reboot is in development! Favourite quote: Blake: No, not until free men can think and speak. Not until power is back with the honest man. Avon: Have you ever met an honest man?

A stunning poem from Irish poet Rebecca D’Arcy!

I'm not saying Trump is a Russian asset, just that I can't think of anything he'd be doing differently if he were.

Expand credit unions to boost cheap credit to low-income people, Labour MPs urge Reeves

My Future Fund blindsides industry on charges www.thetimes.com/article/be3d...

www.rte.ie/news/analysi... Good Article. “Europe is under attack from Russia militarily, China economically and USA politically “ . Brexit weaken Europe and more so the UK and that is exactly what its architects wanted.

EXACTLY

Family seeks answers after ICE deports man to Costa Rica in vegetative state

How White House unleashed torrent of false claims after woman shot dead by Ice

A uniquely Irish tradition!

And the people suffer

Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.

The personal and societal consequences of dyslexia can be catastrophic. At every grade level, dyslexic students are more likely to be suspended, expelled, or placed in juvenile detention. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

No Dr Who Christmas Special this year. Well that’s my Christmas Day ruined. Thanks very much BBC.

How Newgrange's spectacular Solstice light show was rediscovered. Those who flock to Newgrange on 21 December owe much to the excavation work of archaeologist Michael J O'Kelly in the 1960s, writes Terry Clavin @dib.ie @ria.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

In cooperation with the Office of Public Works (OPW) and the National Monuments Service, RTÉ will be broadcasting live from inside the passage tomb from 8:40am. jrnl.ie/6899314

I re read this book every Christmas. It never gets old. Will Stanton begins to have strange and magical experiences on his 11th birthday, which is at the winter solstice – a few days before Christmas.

An view from Europe