Well there's no ambiguity here so I wonder will micheál martin finally just acknowledge that Donald Trump is openly and repeatedly advocating war crimes?

hasan is genuinely the joe rogan of the left in that he says a bunch of dumb shit that a bunch of dumb guys on the left nod along to and say "yup"

Worth a listen if you don't know the stories, a wonderful @rtedoconone.bsky.social produced by Pranjali Bhave #EasterRising #1916Rising #IrelandIndia #SuryaSen #SubhasBose www.rte.ie/radio/docono...

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For anyone who has read @mauricejcasey.com's "Hotel Lux", this is a wonderful spin-off of an anti-Nazi resistance network and the family at its heart, told through a newspaper crafted by two young girls. The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

“Immigrants could be found in every corner of the Irish Free State at that time.” Excited for this release - and grateful it’s not paywalled, unlike its UK counterpart www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

Chancers like the Wolfe Tones have destroyed a lot of good songs but for Easter Monday, a decent version of one of the better rebel ballads www.youtube.com/watch?v=keWn...

Colonisation created class in Ireland apparently. Oh, and Connolly wasn't Marxist either. Things you learn on social media on Easter Sunday.

There's actual structural reasons why millions of ordinary Americans voted Trump. Some of them are very bad; racism, sexism- others, despair, cynicism, hopelessness, are factors across the globe. I know plenty of people who assumed he couldn't be worse than Biden: But things can always get worse

Posted them up up from kid's tv in 1985 last night - had no idea a book about them was coming out

This whole "the US is a paper tiger" that certain people who have absolutely zero understanding of military history love to talk about online is just such fucking cope I'm sorry

The 1867 Proclamation far ahead in terms of radical demands- including separation of church and state

You still get people who wonder why independent Ireland wasn't a secular republic

By my old mate Scott

I’m 80 minutes behind my usual schedule but, an Easter tradition that outlives the radio youtu.be/vY9g-PgSiGA?...

the official conservative position in Ireland is that as they get less popular and representative of the population, they deserve more of a voice in public discourse, an obviously absurd position that is nonetheless constantly validated by the Irish press for some reason

“Our job is supposed to be done by UN-sanctioned peacekeepers who have the mandate, resources, funding, and support,” X lamented. “Instead, a lot of the time it’s a bunch of 18-year-old refuseniks running around with their phone cameras.” www.972mag.com/protective-p...

Starmer consistent. Particular fans of a band no doubt will defend West’s right to be an “in character” dose who shouldn’t face consequences because it’s a character and just music sur. What harm to it like. Right? Right???

Vladimir Putin’s intelligence service continues to use the European far right for both propaganda and terrorism. Some of the most pro-Moscow fascists from across the continent gathered last month at a luxury hotel in Rome. Read more here: searchlightmagazine.com/2026/04/robe...

First despatch from @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social’s current trip to Cuba open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...

After 42 years.

Brian McClair classic never mind Messi www.youtube.com/shorts/l2UCU...

Apparently a lot of people losing their shit over this, makes perfect sense to me. Also a Manc and United, and after beating Godwin they should be inviting her to OT (not that Ratcliffe would be impressed) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Redskins and ... 5 Star. 80's TV was great www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvsM...

From the @newlinesmag.bsky.social  archives: On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, forcing a reckoning inside the Civil Rights Movement. In the aftermath, Bayard Rustin, his strategist, argued for staying with nonviolence even as the movement splintered.

This springs to mind

The context being that this was NORAID's weekly paper

Attn: D. McWilliams (from the Irish People, 10 November 1979)

Can we be very clear that 'choice' in Ireland has always been dependent on class & wealth. Women like Maria Steen own handbags costing more than the yearly income of many women on part-time incomes in precarious jobs who can neither afford to give up work nor put their kids in full-time childcare.

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Doesn't pay any tax in the UK because he ran away to the Tax Haven Singapore to escape the effects of the Brexit he helped create. Then he bought up hundred of millions of pounds of farmland to avoid tax, then cried when it was made taxable. James Dyson is a scumbag.

Across Israeli prisons, the number of Palestinian detainees classified as “security prisoners” has surged from roughly 3,500 before October 7 to around 10,000 today — about half of whom are held without charge, as “unlawful combatants” or in administrative detention. www.972mag.com/palestinian-...

The word 'Marxist' does a whole lot of work in many, many contexts ...

Half a million people dispossessed and exiled in mere days. Can't wait to see the archeological excavations that will come from this and be presented about by very nice people who don't take part in bad things because it's not bad if you're an academic and there's a publication at the end.

Latest from me: for my newsletter I write about Joe Rigney, the pastor who warned of the "Sin of Empathy, and his example of what Christian nationalism will look like as Christian Zionism dies as is replaced by flagrant bigotry and cruelty. maiseh-review.ghost.io/post-zionist...

Amplified: What Happens When America Exports its Culture Wars? https://open.substack.com/pub/frankschaeffer/p/amplified-what-happens-when-america?r=1uznkl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Israeli leaders are condemning settler attacks. It’s a smokescreen The recent wave of denunciations from government ministers, army chiefs, and right-wing pundits aims to obscure the fact that settler violence is state policy www.972mag.com/israeli-sett...

For the Easter weekend, a post about republicans who fought in the Rising and subsequently joined the British Army brianhanleyhistory.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/f...

From the archives: ‘Red Easter’. In 1918, the Bolshevik writer Platon Kerzhentsev produced the first Soviet history of Ireland, describing 1916 as “Red Easter”. Maurice J. Casey explores this remarkable Irish–Russian connection. historyireland.com/red-easter/

“No regime willingly relinquishes power unless, however, it is compelled to do so. … In this sense, a negotiated revolution is about preparing for such a moment.” Atef Bayat’s open letter to Iranian sociologist/journalist Saeed Madani, currently imprisoned in Iran newlinesmag.com/argument/fro...

I'll be in Trinity next Weds giving a guest lecture, a mere 46 years after leaving midway through second year of my degree to pursue something or other. Talk about the long way around. Do come along if you're in Dublin. bit.ly/4dYIHMf

Powerful piece by Mina Khanlarzadeh on how struggle analysis emerges from street progress slogans in Iran. open.substack.com/pub/minakhan...

At this point, former Blairite turned corbynista Chris Williamson is indistinguishable from an outright fascist. In recent days he amplified Jayda Fransen of Britain First & AmericaFirst/Infowars Chris Menahan. But this has been entirely predictable for years.

Protests across Syrian cities over the Israeli law allowing the execution of Palestinian captives.

The far-right have called a rally in Coleraine this weekend, this is the peaceful counter. 'The Causeway Trade Union Council is organising a peaceful counter-demo to show that the north coast stands for peace, solidarity, and inclusion. Where: Coleraine Town Hall When: 2PM, Saturday 4th April'