1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

What the hell can you even say any more? Little Jana pulled her brother from the flames.

The low lifers who did this to a working migrant family #spéirghorm - who were providing a service in the community - deserved to be handed up by that community ....https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/12/01/familys-food-truck-destroyed-by-arson-attack-in-dublin-nothing-is-left/

Every year I read this short story by Helen Simpson called Cheers. It's perfect. The problem is that I sit down to read this one story and end up reading the whole collection again. It's called Hey Yeah Right Get a Life. There's another story called Burns and the Bankers that's 🔥🔥.

Lots to unpack here. None of it good.

Standing in solidarity with Palestine today in Belfast. The genocide is still happening, Palestine is still oppressed and occupied. We weren't allowed to fly the Palestinian flag from City Hall but an alternative was found. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

‘When the ceasefire was announced on 9 October, I wanted to believe it was over. I don’t think I was alone, but I do know that I was entirely wrong. That period, it has transpired, was merely a transition to another phase of land grabbing.’ @selmadabbagh.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

“Soldiers testify that they have been told to burn down houses they have stayed in by pouring oil on curtains, books and mattresses.” Read @aloner.bsky.social’s report on the destruction of Gaza’s cities.

I'm taking my lovely books to a bunch of places: Dromore tomorrow (Wed Nov 26), Oh Yeah Xmas Market (Thurs, Nov 27), Vault Christmas Market (December 6-7), Eastside Visitor's Centre (Dec 10), Portview Market (December 19-20). 'Mon and see!

Adding this again, just in case there is still someone in the UK who doesn't know that this government is now being controlled by US corporations bsky.app/profile/lexi...

This is so disrespectful and harmful. AIDS hasn't gone away, and to save lives, we need to keep talking about and advocating for better policies.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n... The revelations in this investigative piece about the role of ian Paisley Jr are interesting...

Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer

Israeli settlers torch olive trees and steal equipment in occupied West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-torch-olive-trees-and-steal-equipment-occupied-west

I enjoyed this film so much. It shows how much common ground we have with each other if we take the time to be open-minded. The dehumanisation of refugees and minorities is driven by the few to divide us all. A beautiful film. Great panel discussion afterwards too. Blue Has No Borders by Jessi Gutch

Explosive blasts leave a growing wave of deafness across Gaza, with medical care out of reach

One of the most important voices of the Arab world's reaction to Mamdani

In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” about the war in Gaza won the nonfiction award at the National Book Awards.

'Micheal Martin said that some people believe that Ireland's standing internationally is based on "how loud we speak," but the truth is that it is based on "countless hours building relationships".' Building relationships with the World Bank for €600k a year jobs? www.rte.ie/news/politic...

The audiobook of 'Unsettled', Rosaleen McDonagh's incisive and groundbreaking essay collection, is now available to purchase on our website. Narrated by Kathleen Murphy, the book explores racism, ableism, abuse, resistance and the bonds of community that tie us together

"An Israeli air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed at least 13 people. Dozens more were injured in the attack" Israel is a terrorist state.

Powerful op-ed from Btselem on accountability in Gaza: "Accountability is essential – not for revenge, but because there’s no reckoning without responsibility. Genocide must not be normalized. And a system that carries it out must not go unchallenged." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📽️ Jeremy Scahill On The Gaza Vote: “Extraordinarily Dark Moment In The History Of The United Nations.” Scahill says the new UN resolution gives an “international stamp of legitimacy” to the U.S.–Israeli plan to privatize and occupy Gaza. The UN now “endorses Israel’s war of subjugation and...

Trans people are waiting 25 years to get access to HRT on the NHS: It took me 5 hours! “The whole time I was talking to my GP I couldn’t stop thinking about how my experience was so totally & completely different to that of a trans person. The contrast was impossible to ignore” #TransAwarenessWeek

Totally normal stuff: Unremovable Israeli Spyware Found on Samsung Devices smex.org/open-letter-...

"top border patrol official was so inspired by hunting magazines that he vowed to hunt immigrants" is really...something.

Gazans queue at a UNRWA distribution centre in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, to receive tarps to reinforce their tents amid worsening winter conditions and displacement.

Male violence against women is an endemic problem in NI and we need action, not promises from Stormont. I've signed this petition to stand up against men's violence towards women - will you sign too? my.actnowni.org/petitions/st...

So-called "Centrism" does not work.

The Hammer Blow: How Ten Women Disarmed a Warplane. A fascinating account of ploughshare activism and a correct jury decision based on conscience. My portrait of Jo Blackman, who was one of the women involved, will be in the Rebellion! exhibition. www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue/issue-...

genuinely not surprising at all to me that the transmisogyny moral panic is moving all through the same anglosphere media network that is and continues to do massive coverups for the fact that their entire ruling class is good buddies with jeffrey epstein

My (longer) short story "The House of Solace and Comfort" about a young person navigating a strange world is now up and free to read on my Substack! open.substack.com/pub/nomikiss...

Yup it is.

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

@galleybeggars.bsky.social Look at this for cheering up a wet day in Belfast. Cannot wait to read. You never disappoint with your care for writers, books and readers Galley Beggar Press ❤️ Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia

Hell yeah

This is so cool @ninalakhani.bsky.social wrote an essay for this book that features three people in Gaza from Bluesky- @abdullahs-dad.bsky.social, @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social and Adham (who’s new account I can’t find)

I was very radicalised studying An Gorta Mór for A-Level History. My teacher said be careful, be objective on the exam paper. LOL. It never gets easier reading about how the Irish were allowed to starve because of capitalism, because of landlords and colonialism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Calm down. I just wanted a raincoat.

"Josefina climbed down a wooden ladder into the pit & ran a finger along the vertebrae. Then she closed her eyes, whispered something & kissed the skull." A fascinating @lrb.co.uk piece by Stephen Phelan on the work to recover the bodies of men murdered by Falangist forces in Spain.

As the season’s first storm hits Gaza, displaced Palestinians use simple makeshift tools to drain the rainwater flooding their deteriorating tents.

Does this sound like the parliamentary wing of the trade unions speaking or does it sound like standard issue toryism

petro is so beast