“Family reunification accounts for little more than 1% of migration into Ireland. Telling people granted refugee status to wait three years – until their children no longer recognise them – is not the stance of a country that professes to cherish the family unit.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Alt text, because one would think folks would want news about a general strike to go as far as it can.

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

The single biggest thing (in cost terms) I’ve changed my mind about is UK tuition fees. Dreadful system, need to scrap it.

this completely horrifying. ICE is a domestic occupying threat against us all

Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! @nursingclio.bsky.social

This is the opposite of what students & staff want. But the same consultancy powerpoint everywhere. Linking to some student reporting about the messiness of consultancy-induced-shrinking of #UKHE degree offerings below. 🧵

Judge who said cyclists a “nightmare” pleaded guilty to failing to take breathalyser test A Dublin-based Circuit Court judge who said that "Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin" pleaded guilty in 2012 to failing to comply with a request by a garda to use a breathalyser in Connemara.…

"If CSAM isn’t a red line that can never be crossed, then one wonders what else ever could be." - Conor O'Mahony, Professor, Child Law expert, former Special Rapporteur on Child Protection to the Government of Ireland.

I will be expanding on some of the themes in this piece (and much more) at UCL later this month - but with a focus on U.K. public inquiries - later this month. Online and in person. www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

As a professional feminist: 100% team wine mom.

This type of public protest feels very Pink Pussy Hat coded, and there’s a real power in a form of almost cringe (?) public feminism that comes from brazenly adopting insults as epithets. It goes back to the SlutWalks, and further back than that too.

Just came across the phrase "casual academic talent pool" in a recruitment advertisement. Christ alive.

After her last interview in @theguardian.com just last week, it's immensely sad to announce the death of Diane Munday at 94. Patron of @humanists.uk (first joining 70 years ago!), friend and mentor. Her exemplary life as an activist will be a permanent inspiration. humanists.uk/2026/01/11/h...

Die Frauen in Iran 🔥

The idea that journalists, politicians, groups or - you know, women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people - should "stay on the pitch" doesn't really hold up. Foreign Minister's account has 60k followers - 40 likes, 13k views? Blue ticks straight to the top of the queue with misogyny, bile.

My mam was an operator. Once, a payphone making a call overseas was on a line that kept breaking. Mam kept monitoring and kept managing to reconnect them immediately. When the call ended, the person rang back to thank her, and put some money in the slot saying “There’s something for yourself”.

Pretty slushy out there in Brummagem. Nice to see families having a snow day. Not sure what would have happened to the city infrastructure if the predicted 30cm of snow had materialised!

A new note on my child's Clacton nursery app today: They're going to stop leaving free surplus food for parents in need (a mini food bank) by the door because there's a new fridge to keep things fresh for longer. 'Please take what you like but consider others, so that everyone who needs to can.'

“Another has refused food longer than 80% of Irish republican hunger strikers who died in 1981.” Palestine Action Hunger Striker Hospitalised With Heart Muscle Shrinkage novaramedia.com/2026/01/08/p...

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

You have to understand, the agent involved is stupid. We begged him to stop standing in front of cars but he can’t figure it out. He’s stupid and he has anxiety from the time before when he was stupid, so we just have to let him pop off. We wish he weren’t, but he is. And we have to respect that

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

the day today tier paragraph

Sending much solidarity @sheffielducu.bsky.social. These punitive deductions are immoral and any conscionable employer should steer away from them. There are cases going through courts trying to clear up the legal grey area: qmucu.org/working-grou...

Oh hey, listen, just a quick word. Do not do this.

Very much continuing a grand British tradition of alternating between demonizing / downplaying hunger strikes as a means of political protest. Different party, same script.

The evidence is also clear that “elite” universities do not offer objectively better education. There is no Secret Extra Learning obtained there. Just a route into other kinds of elite that is closed, by definition, to everyone else.

The state shot &killed people in the uk for decades, colluded with citizens to kill & has frustrated justice in uk courts ever since. Sean Browns widow awaits her day in the Supreme Court. THAT has been a warning siren ringing for decades - the colonial attitude of us being lesser stops them hearing

Short sound bite for UK leftist pundits today- the UK has long shown what it will do to peaceful protestors against the regime when it hates them, it will send in the paratroopers and they will shoot them dead, smear them as criminals then deny them justice via every means possible, for decades.

And not only in Northern Ireland - police killings and impunity are part of GB’s recent history too history.inquest.org.uk/case-profiles

People living in UK - especially GB - should not be thinking 'at least we're not as bad as America,' when Northern Ireland exists and civilians were being shot by state forces there for decades, and recent governments have given those forces amnesty. @grantsana.bsky.social leading bsky voice here.

Renee Good, who was murdered in cold blood today by ICE, was a queer woman. June "T-Rex" Knightly, who was murdered in Portland, was a queer woman. The ICE detainees who were sexually assaulted in Louisiana are queer women and trans men.

Can’t help but think that if our fellow MAGA citizens can dehumanize a white mom in a Honda CRV, we are well beyond “first they came for the communists”

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Renee Nicole Good was a mother and a wife. And ICE executed her in broad daylight. In front of her wife. And left her to die, refusing her medical care

An Coimisiún Pleanála's decision for a commercial Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal at Tarbert, north Kerry is due by January 13th. If approved, this would be absolutely devastating for Ireland's climate and human rights obligations - let us explain why ⬇️

Renee Nicole Good was identified as the woman murdered by ICE. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

When I moved to Ireland, a colleague joked - I thought then - that Irish legislation took whatever had passed in Westminster, did find-replace "Queen" with "the State", and stuck a harp on the front. Sorry for doubting you, Fachtna.

The responsible adults in the room trying to pass the "You Can't Hold Me Accountable For Anything Act (2026)" I see

The Great British Rail Sale is great cos it just shows how little of a shit we actually give about making affordable rail travel. Germany: "go anywhere in the country for €63/month, always, just get on the trains, please!" UK: "go to Tilbury in February, half price"

The legal assessment of the US intervention is not, in fact, complex

Almost went arse over tits myself yesterday, as none of the pavements or bike lanes in Wales' 2nd city were gritted. The roads? Perfect.

@anniemcdonough.bsky.social: "Yellow cab driver Richard Chow was on hunger strike for medallion debt relief with Zohran Mamdani a little over four years ago. Today, he drove now Mayor Zohran Mamdani to City Hall for his inauguration in his taxi." Chow's brother killed himself over his debt.

No year’s round-up from me. Just the words I wrote this year that I needed most to write. Published in @arablit.bsky.social’s series “Grief in Letters” in memory of surgeon Dr Adnan al-Bursh, who was abducted by the IDF 2 years ago, before Israel brutally murdered him arablit.org/dear-dr-adna...

will need to sub out that pound for a smaller denomination asap (cashless lives, baby!) but lime pig 2026 has landed