🦉 Seanfhocal: Féasta inniu agus gorta amárach. ℹ️ Ciall: Bíonn féasta againn lá amháin agus ocras an domhain orainn an lá ina dhiaidh sin. ➡️ Meaning: It’s either a feast or a famine. ☘️ A new term of live Irish classes begins soon - go to LetsLearnIrish.com/allcourses for details!

Having acquired Paramount and CBS and eyeing TikTok and CNN, the Ellisons are constructing a pro-Israel information empire with unprecedented reach.

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

Thousands are languishing in brutal prisons without due process. And under Ben Gvir, the situation is on track to get much worse

Beau was shared with us through our submission portal! If you’d like to get your dog officially rated, as well as considered for a feature, use the link below 🤗  portal.weratedogs.com

❝ One of the biggest foundational lies, upon which generations of Israelis have been raised since the establishment of the state, is the lie of 'two thousand years of exile'. There was no exile. That is the conclusion. ❞ – Rogel Alpher

More than 33,000 new images of detainees in Assad’s Syria provide further evidence of the regime’s ‘machinery of death’ www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Israel's practical guide to genocide in the 21st century - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israels-practical-guide-genocide-21st-century

Severed fingers and incisions: Bodies returned by Israel shock Gaza families - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-bodies-returned-israel-signs-torture-incisions

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UN Committee Against Torture finds 'de facto state policy' of systematic and widespread torture by Israel against Palestinian prisoners.

Children, photojournalist among Palestinians killed by Israeli forces across Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Gary Lineker on Gaza, "It's the worst thing I have seen in my lifetime. Constant images day in, day out of children losing their lives." "But the minute you raise your voice against it you get accused of being a supporter of Hamas."

I will repeat for the people at the back, Venezuela is one of lowest producers of drugs in South America. But it has the largest oil reserves in the world, enough to supply the USA for 50 years.

The UN Committee against Torture highlights Israel's widespread and systematic torture of Palestinians based on submissions made by Palestinian civil society.

The team behind Together For Palestine, which organised a sold-out concert in Wembley earlier this year – raising more than £2 million for Gaza – is set to release their single Lullaby next week.

"Assuming no change in the rate of taxation, and all other things being equal, the exchequer will lose the thick end of £100bn in tax revenues this year. Far from having to raise £26bn in extra taxes, Reeves could have chosen to halve the 20% rate of VAT with money to spare."

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

"The Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guard members in the nation’s capital last week had been unraveling for years, unable to hold a job and flipping between long, lightless stretches of isolation and taking sudden weeks-long cross-country drives…" www.latimes.com/world-nation...

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Farage would actually turn up in the House for THAT vote!

From Israel to Elon Musk's SpaceX and other giant companies in the US and Europe, arms producers had a profitable 2024.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

BREAKING: Israeli forces have stormed the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, report our colleagues on the ground. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/oapeu6

This week showed what online communities can do. By sharing the petition for an inquiry into Russian influence, people have forced Parliament to act.

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Netanyahu has formally requested a pardon from President Isaac Herzog. In a statement he said: “The security and political reality and the national interest require the immediate termination of the trial.” The aim of the carnage all along,

#GVerse The man who shoot those two West Virginia National Guard in DC was working with the CIA. He was vetted by #Shit4Brain's administration. #Shitface is lying about everything.

It's always the ones you suspect.

Israel has “a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture”, according to a UN report covering the past two years, which also raised concerns about the impunity of Israeli security forces for war crimes.

Aid keeps disappearing. Many trucks that go through never reach the families that need the supplies the most.

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

Why do they want us to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)? The Government moots leaving the ECHR as a pragmatic solution to an immigration “crisis”, but is there a more sinister motive behind the push?

Finally the research has been published to prove that wild cat (Felis silvestris) lived in Ireland 5,500 years ago. Many claims over the years but the backup genetics was needed and a good number of bones have been recovered to provide enough material www.rte.ie/news/munster...

❝ Expulsion, loss of livelihood, disruption of studies: Just another day in the West Bank ❞ — Amira Hass Haaretz archive.md/q4y3d

Ceasefire violations by Israel, no housing, destroyed farmland and ongoing sea blockade are intended to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, Amnesty report says

This is a day of mourning for native Americans.

Then as now ...

The United Nations says Israel’s war on Gaza has created a “human-made abyss” that will cost more than $70 billion in reconstruction over several decades.

The Israeli army is launching a large-scale military operation in the northern West Bank, claiming it aims to prevent the regrouping of armed resistance groups in the Tubas district. But the real reason may be related to settlement expansion.

If anyone in Northern Ireland is looking for a great Christmas event for kids who don’t like a lot of noise or crowds, @downrail.bsky.social have a handful of places left on their Lapland Express ‘Quiet Train’ on Saturday 29th November. Details here: www.downrail.co.uk/2025/10/lapl...

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Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'. One wonders what *would*.