Joe Noonan
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Cork-Donegal migrant blend. Knows some law.
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Here for the blue sky.
about 1 year ago
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OlĂșfáșčÌmi O. TĂĄĂwĂČ
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"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israelâs systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
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Mondoweiss
about 3 hours ago
Leqaa Kordia was recently hospitalized after a seizure as she approaches a year in government detention. Her family and attorneys say she is being subjected to worsening conditions as punishment for her Palestine activism and her faith.
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-...
#Palestine
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The government-sanctioned persecution of Leqaa Kordia
Leqaa Kordia was recently hospitalized after a seizure as she approaches a year in government detention. Her family and attorneys say she is being subjected to worsening conditions as punishment for her...
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-government-sanctioned-persecution-of-leqaa-kordia/
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If your local shopping centre allowed one of its retailers to defraud you and then profited from the transaction, that would be a matter for the Garda. Yet the same is not true of the powerful technology companies ⊠- Irish Times on another glaring scandal
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...
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The Irish Times view on fraudulent ads: Social media companies must pay a price
Revenue derived from them should be treated as proceeds of crime
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorials/2026/02/10/the-irish-times-view-on-fraudulent-ads-social-media-companies-must-pay-a-price/
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Election Maps UK
about 3 hours ago
Fishguard North East (Pembrokeshire) Council By-Election Result: đŒ PLC: 33.8% (New) đ¶ LDM: 18.0% (New) âĄïž RFM: 12.7% (New) đč LAB: 11.1% (-47.9) đ Ind: 10.5% (New) đł CON: 9.2% (-31.9) đ Ind: 4.7% (New) Plaid Cymru GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2022.
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EU: Combination of centre-right and far-right MEPs moves EU closer to creating âoffshoreâ centres for migrants and asylum seekers.
www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-4...
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EU moves closer to creating offshore centres for migrants and asylum seekers
MEPs voted for legal changes that will give authorities more options to deport asylum seekers, including sending people to countries they have never been to
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41791274.html
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Maybe itâs illegal after all.
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Aiding creation of non-consensual explicit images is a criminal offence, says Justice Minister
Jim O'Callaghan said Government is taking 'concrete steps' to address the issue
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41791370.html
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Kat Tenbarge
about 13 hours ago
Iâm glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that thereâs immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens
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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy
about 16 hours ago
âNobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayedâ
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Government bodies need to get off X, now
Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed, writes Clare O'Donoghue Velikic
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41787647.html
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The Conversation U.S.
about 3 hours ago
Foreign tourism to the U.S. fell 5.4% in 2025 while the rest of the world saw a 4% increase. Canadian visits dropped nearly 30%.
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Will a âTrump slumpâ continue to hit US tourism in 2026 â and even keep World Cup fans away?
Talk of boycotts have added to fears among the US tourism industry that foreign tourists will continue to stay away.
https://buff.ly/MSynHSJ
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Raider
about 5 hours ago
Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
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Marisa Kabas
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âFour of my children just evaporated,â Badran said, holding back tears. âI looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?â There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/10/israel-used-weapons-in-gaza-that-made-thousands-of-palestinians-evaporate
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Supreme Court yet to decide on key defence issue relevant to Shannon charges - cases adjourned.
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Case over Shannon Airport protest adjourned as clarity on common law defence awaited
Ăine NĂ ThreinĂr, AindriĂș de BuitlĂ©ir and Eimear Walshe are accused of trespass and interfering with airport operation, management and security
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/02/10/case-over-shannon-airport-protest-adjourned-as-clarity-on-common-law-defence-awaited/
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John Kostyack
about 4 hours ago
@garymarcus.bsky.social
: LLMs still hallucinate and continue to make boneheaded errors, and this Caltech / Stanford paper is yet another suggesting that this is inherent. Even LLMs marketed as offering "reasoning" systems have major problems with reasoning.
garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-l...
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BREAKING: LLM âreasoningâ continues to be deeply flawed
A new review underscores the breadth of the problem, and shows that close to a trillion dollars hasnât changed that
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-llm-reasoning-continues
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zeno
about 4 hours ago
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canada joins allies in condemning Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank | CBC News
Canada and 13 other countries issued a joint statement Wednesday condemning the Israeli security cabinet's approval of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-condemns-israel-settlements-west-bank-9.7027713
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Voice4Justice
about 4 hours ago
EU's West Bank Warning Highlights What Israel Stands to Lose if It Proceeds With Annexation Haaretz Today
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
đ§” By Vera Weidenbach
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Rachel Maddow
about 5 hours ago
This is that "red line" we heard so much about at the outset of Trump's second term.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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How ICE defies judgesâ orders to release detainees, step by step
A POLITICO review of hundreds of cases brought by ICE detainees shows a pattern of noncompliance that has frustrated judges across the country.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/ice-immigration-detention-court-orders-00771727
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Akela Lacy
about 5 hours ago
Google handed ICE a student journalistâs bank and credit card numbers
theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
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Google Handed ICE Student Journalistâs Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/
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Seamus Culleton yesterday on RTĂ radio said disease was rife in this camp where he is incarcerated.
@klillington.bsky.social
Now this.
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Karlin Lillington
about 5 hours ago
That's my story đ -- we're staying on this and watching for further developments.
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Financial Times
about 5 hours ago
Canadian pension giant halts deals with DP World over chiefâs Epstein ties
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Canadian pension giant halts deals with DP World over chiefâs Epstein ties
La Caisse to suspend future ventures with the Dubai-based logistics group over Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayemâs messages
https://ft.trib.al/KYJc6mr
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about 22 hours ago
Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Detected at Camp East Montana ICE Jail in El Paso
truthout.org/articles/tub...
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Tuberculosis and COVID-19 Detected at Camp East Montana ICE Jail in El Paso
News of the infections comes less than a week after two cases of measles were identified at another Texas ICE jail.
https://truthout.org/articles/tuberculosis-and-covid-19-detected-at-camp-east-montana-ice-jail-in-el-paso/?utm_campaign=Truthout+Share+Buttons
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Left Of Center Orange Hater
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The rich know the value of having their access to justice. Their favoured governments respect their preferences. Ireland is well along the road to limiting access to justice for people who are not rich. It is about to press the accelerator. Justice Jackson of the US Supreme Court:
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Katherine Nolan
about 7 hours ago
Our government is great at saying nice sounding words. They get plaudits for them, mostly from people online who don't live here and don't know any better. But it's only words, there is never any action, or even any intention for action, to follow them.
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Kev Ăł Mhaigh Eo
about 6 hours ago
Your data: needs to be monitored and recorded Our data? Don't worry about it:
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Red Cross President: What we have seen in Gaza exceeds all legal, ethical, moral and humanitarian norms.
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Fransglobal
1 day ago
Shameful for Ireland
@micheal-martin.bsky.social
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Mark Chadbourn
about 7 hours ago
The BBC has managed to get into Tehran. All journalists are banned in Iran.
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BBC's Lyse Doucet in Tehran for first time since unprecedented protest crackdown
Lyse Doucet reports from Iran, where she says the pain is still raw after unprecedented force was used to put down the protests there.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c5yr82796j4o?app-referrer=push-notification
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Voice4Justice
about 7 hours ago
đŽââ ïž Netanyahu Reportedly Received Detailed Plan of Hamas' October 7 Attack From IDF in 2018
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
đ§” Haaretz
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
about 15 hours ago
đš Tomorrow, von der Leyen meets corporate lobbyists just hours before EU leader retreat. Trade union and NGO coalition warns against an (E)U-turn on protections. We call for rules that protect democracy, people & planet - not polluters. đ Joint Declaration:
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/t...
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Trade union and NGO coalition calls out corporate "shadow roadmap" dictating EU agenda | Corporate Europe Observatory
A coalition of major civil society and trade union organisations has issued a joint declaration to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, stating that the EU Commission is prioritising a ...
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/trade-union-and-ngo-coalition-calls-out-corporate-shadow-roadmap-dictating-eu-agenda
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Carl Quintanilla
about 13 hours ago
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: â.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didnât reduce work, they consistently intensified it.â
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
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Karlin Lillington
about 16 hours ago
My story yesterday; the Irish Times and I broke this now-international story and I am hoping he'll have some resolution and that this case will draw ever more scrutiny to the horrific conditions and circumstances in which so many detainees are held.
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Taryn de Vere
about 8 hours ago
Fair play India
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Morally, people can make their own mind up. Legally, imho this merits investigation as potentially breaching the Convention against Torture - a serious crime in Irish law. Criminal Justice (United Nations Convention Against Torture) Act 2000:
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Mgt Satterthwaite, UN SpR on the independence of Lawyers: âItâs shocking that someoneâs human rights work could be seen as so dangerous that they would be thought of as akin to a terrorist." A US official said Trump is concerned the ICC could prosecute him.
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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âItâs surrealâ: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-us-sanctions-lock-international-criminal-court-judge-out-of-daily-life/
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Governor JB Pritzker
about 8 hours ago
No way will I attend the White House dinner with this President. Iâm standing with
@govwesmoore.bsky.social
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@colorado.gov
â and standing against Trumpâs corruption and hatred. And Iâm calling on my Republican colleagues to do the same.
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Democratic governors to boycott White House dinner
More than a half dozen Democrats said Donald Trump disinviting two of their colleagues is the latest example of administration's 'chaos and division.'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/10/democrat-governors-boycott-white-house-dinner/88606162007/
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Europe Elects
about 8 hours ago
Germany, INSA poll: AfD-ESN: 26% CDU/CSU-EPP: 25.5% (+0.5) SPD-S&D: 15.5% (-0.5) GRĂNE-G/EFA: 11% LINKE-LEFT: 10% BSW-NI: 4% FDP-RE: 3% +/- vs. 02-06 February 2026 Fieldwork: 06-09 February 2026 Sample size: 2004 †europeelects.eu/germany
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Josef O'Shea
about 8 hours ago
This is the worthless POS that's been threatening Ireland on Trump's behalf.
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Aaron Rupar
about 9 hours ago
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man? LYONS: Yes mam McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
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London Review of Books
about 9 hours ago
âOur opponent is tricked out with military gear, staying in Hilton hotels and renting Enterprise cars, with technological support from Palantir and Amazon Web Services.â NEW: Amna A. Akbar writes from South Minneapolis
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Amna A. Akbar | In South Minneapolis
I live in one of the south Minneapolis neighbourhoods that ICE and CBP have been pummelling for the last few weeks. This...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/in-south-minneapolis
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Where are Russia's cables?
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With their jobs?
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Ms Kordia has been incarcerated by ICE for eleven months.
www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actio...
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about 23 hours ago
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OisĂn McGann
about 10 hours ago
Why is it always, always about handing more power, data and influence to these huge companies, instead of holding them responsible for what they do online?
#SpeirGorm
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The Editorial Board
about 9 hours ago
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Democratic governors to boycott White House dinner
More than a half dozen Democrats said Donald Trump disinviting two of their colleagues is the latest example of administration's 'chaos and division.'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/10/democrat-governors-boycott-white-house-dinner/88606162007/
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Ireland's government permits ICE fights to refuel in Ireland, knowing the deportees are kept in chains on board. Despite Irish law.
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ĆéåĆ
about 10 hours ago
It'll be typical if *this* is the policy they actually manage to follow up on and deliver, as it's just actively harmful with no benefit to the public.
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Harmonious Bosch
about 10 hours ago
Brought to you by the same people who developed the twice-found-unlawful Public Services Card / MyGovID system, which will doubtless be kludgily attached to the age verification system.
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Red Cross President: "What we have seen in Gaza exceeds all legal, ethical, moral and humanitarian norms."
about 10 hours ago
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She faces deportation in chains through Ireland to Israel and into Gaza on the flights uncovered by
@gbrockell.bsky.social
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about 23 hours ago
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