The media reports today that a new bill proposes to expand the Public Services Card's use in Irish society. Key elements of the PSC operate unlawfully. With @digitalrightsirl.bsky.social, we say that extending its use as a form of national ID compounds the legal issues. www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

BDS Global Week of Action against Elbit Systems 20th to 25th April.

Hugo Bachega repeats Israels justification for its attack as he walks through a paramedic station bombed by Israel alongside a paramedic whose colleague was killed. Shameful. What Israel did was a war crime. Thats what he should be reporting.

Some additional tips for Shetland voters:

'In a world full of challenges, there are moments when assistance is more than just financial support; it's a true lifeline and a powerful source of moral support, enabling us to cling to hope and life itself.'

🇮🇹 #BREAKING | Italy has suspended its defence co-operation agreement with Israel following escalation in political tensions between the two countries The move came amid a series of incidents involving Israeli forces and Italian peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, where they are deployed under the UN

Homes and infrastructure across #Gaza are in ruins or heavily damaged. People remain displaced, living in overcrowded shelters with limited access to basic needs. #UNRWAworks every day to support families. UNRWA has the capacity to do this at the scale required.

Global Sumud Flotilla Press Conference. Barcelona, 12/04/2026

an awful lot of people have been using comments on local FB pages to gauge public support for the protests, and apart from all the other reasons you shouldn't use social media to gauge public sentiment: you're not hearing from people who won't comment against the protests because they'll get savaged

More of Taybeh village, south Lebanon detonated by the Israelis

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We had a good life, but the war ruined our income for two years. 🧡🙏 I and my husband cannot buy simple essentials like food or medicine in North Gaza. Every day is a struggle. We need a project to earn our living and save our family. chuffed.org/project/help...

Again, I know nothing about Hungarian politics or what Magyar is like, so will just have to enjoy that it would appear, based on reports, that Matt Goodwin has lost a €10,000 per month paycheck, and I can be content with that. Good luck to Hungary for the next steps.

The scale of Orban's defeat is a hopeful sign for anti-fascists everywhere. Including in the US. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Another 523 arrests were made in Britain on Saturday of people carrying placards with the words: “I oppose genocide; I support Palestine Action”. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Mathias Corvinus Collegium -which Orban used to fund Christian Right across Europe - has endowment worth *1% of Hungary’s GDP* This money has gone to Matt Goodwin, Frank Furedi, a Roger Scruton foundation run by Michael Gove + James Orr Magyar needs 2/3rd of seats to unpick this. Be huge if he can

Open arms rescue ship to accompany the Global Sumud Flotilla: m.youtube.com/shorts/WeuXb...

Global Sumud Flotilla departs Barcelona:

US-Iran ceasefire talks: What are the key sticking points? https://aje.news/ezxhvm

As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

It is almost, almost, impressive just how Labour have taken the massively dysfunctional and incompetent Home Office and managed by dint of policies and rhetoric to make it even more dysfunctional and incompetent. It is a true testament to how hostile they are to migrants. archive.today/07Hdr

The terms were that Israel gets to keep committing genocide.

Netanyahu is standing in front of a map of Israel that includes the Palestinian West Bank and the Syrian Golan Heights www.instagram.com/reel/DXBpXLz...

Three times bigger than the last one. Fingers crossed. #SumudFlotilla substack.com/@yourfavorit...

Was cycling through town last night and it really hit me how much damage this O'Connell St blockade has done to the authority of the Gardaí. It's pretty clear that law enforcement in Ireland is _entirely_ arbitrary and the idea that justice is delivered without fear or favour has been proven false.

Hunger is rising as prices crush us. Finding food is a daily struggle, and survival feels like a constant fight 💔 As a young man, I only want to keep my family safe, I can’t face losing them. Your humanity is our only hope. Please help us endure this nightmare. -Ahmad 🙏⬇️🫂 chuffed.org/project/157281

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

DW: According to Lebanese health authorities, simultaneous Israeli strikes killed 303 people and injured 1,150 on Wednesday. Doctors Without Borders confirmed a mass influx of injured patients, including children, at Rafik Hariri Public Hospital in Beirut.

So he's going to leave office, and he's admitting his sycophants are committing crimes?

Europe: "but they're our evil, vile, unethical, dishonest, violent, horrid, putrid, genocidal mass murderers..."

"Ritaj Rihan was nine years old. She was sitting in a classroom set up in a tent in northern Gaza, about two kilometers from the yellow line, when Israeli forces shot her three times, killing her instantly. She was not near a military target. She was not in a combat zone. She was in a classroom."

The Iranian negotiating team has not arrived in the Pakistani capital Islamabad and has no plans to attend peace talks with the US until Israel stops bombing Lebanon, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported, citing a knowledgeable source. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260410-no-...

Every single article covering Israel should start by mentioning that they dubbed yesterday's operations in Lebanon "eternal darkness." You know that so much has already been normalised when this isn't even a cause for outrage. 303 people, at least, were murdered yesterday by Israel.

I and my husband had careers and dignity. Now we lack basic food. 🧡🙏 2+ years without work in North Gaza. We need a project to become self-sufficient and provide for Ziad & Mirna again. Your solidarity is the only way. chuffed.org/project/help...

'Every day we go on a journey in search of food and live on whatever aid we receive. We live a simple life today, but inside we are filled with sorrow, pain, and loss. I hope that one day we will wake up to find only peace.'

The irony of Jim O’Callaghan having to announce he’s calling the army in to break up a protest filled with the people whose racism he has been assiduously courting and pandering to since taking office.

This seems to be the most recent update of the death toll in Lebanon following today’s Israeli strikes

No—he's lying. It was Pakistan that wrote up the ceasefire agreement, and Pakistan has said unequivocally that Lebanon was included. So this isn't a mistake Iran has made, this is Trump yet again covering for war crimes and vigilantism by Israel by lying to the American people. A Trumpist pathology.

'Burning fossil fuels to power a dangerous artificial intelligence arms race accomplishes the impressive alchemy of making two of the leading threats to civilization worse at the same time.'

This is interesting because Micheál is wrong and so are the protesters. Disruptive protest is legitimate ,and often necessary, when the government ignores less disruptive efforts to effect change. These protesters are dicks because they immediately chose disruption. Also, they're assholes.

A quick look at social media and live streams showing all the anti immigrant, anti IPAS, anti trans crew all over the blockades spinning rubbish re climate crisis etc.

'The bet ‌follows ⁠similar moves on March 23, when investors sold $500 million in oil futures just 15 minutes before an announcement by Trump that he would delay attacks on Iran's energy infrastructure, which stunned markets and then triggered a 15% drop in the crude price.'

“Given the international landscape today it is easy to see how lack of energy diversity can quickly become a national security issue,” Seán Golden, Chief Economist and Director of Policy, Limerick Chamber. A national security issue. That's Trump speak, isn't it?

🚨 URGENT: Israeli forces struck multiple cities and towns across Lebanon shortly after 2pm today, less than 10 hours after the announcement of a regional ceasefire. Hundreds of people have been killed and injured. 🔊 Safa Bleik explains the situation in Lebanon's biggest public hospital, in Beirut.

Iran may quit US ceasefire if Israel continues attacks in Lebanon: Iranian media

#SpeirGorm #FreePalestine #FuckIsrael

Local media reporting that the death toll in Beirut alone from Israel’s bombardment is over 500. AFTER a ceasefire was agreed. It looks like 9/11 on the ground. (🎥 Arthur Sarradin, Radio France)

Every single country that does not cease all relations with Israel is complicit in today's massacres in Lebanon

This has been a very long battle for @antaisce.bsky.social in the face of much abuse, misinformation and a wrong decision from the EU to give Ireland another derogation despite worsening pollution. Fair play to them for not giving up! www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid...