Canadian socialist and strident Israel critic Avi Lewis smashes leadership election

Bishop Strickland “…addressed the expulsion of Carrie Prejean Boller from Donald Trump’s commission on religious freedom…she was removed for expressing a “verboten” truth about #Israel’s actions in #Gaza. These is an “expectation for Christians to support political Zionism”. #spéirghorm

AI systems aren’t just supporting decisions—they’re structuring how public authority is exercised, writes Michael A. Santoro. “Human in the loop” isn’t enough. Accountability must be built upstream through guardrails embedded in system design, not added after the fact, he argues.

NEW: Israel becomes the first state in history to write INTO LAW the death sentence for one, specific ethnic group. This is Cabinet member Ben Gvir celebrating with champagne after the vote. This is not a government, it is a death cult. They won’t serve champagne in The Hague. (🎥 Cradle Media)

Article 2, EU Israel trade deal: Relations between the Parties, as well as all the provisions of the Agreement itself, shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles. which guides their internal and international policy and constitutes an essential element of this Agreement.

The housing policy at this stage is like the man who's had 10 pints and feels so fucked he decides to plough on for another five to knock himself out.

Young leaders, brilliant 🤩 But younger #FF is still same tired, extractive & classist ideology. “I believe as someone young and energetic, I can offer a clear new voice for both Fianna Fáil & Galway West.” A bit of a smack of this off #FF trying to be all young & vibrant 🤦🏾‍♀️ #spéirghorm #IrishPol

The True dwelling of the holy.

This isn’t the first time. Normally Irish peacekeepers, who have been deployed in southern Lebanon since the 1970s, are the targets of Israeli violence. #speirgorm

#UN #Peacekeeper killed in Lebanon after weeks of attacks by Israel. “No one should ever lose their life serving the cause of peace.” Yet innocents, peacekeepers, public infrastructure, heritage & culture are being annihilated everyday because that’s the point of this war. #spéirghorm #Lebanon

One thing that Tara touches upon but that I want to spend more time on is that the master's tools that are problematic are the *epistemic* ones. Tech has unexamined epistemic assumptions inside of which there is no liberation.

I was born catholic in holy catholic Ireland. I,like most of the country,care not for Catholicism or indeed any religion. But this guy is possibly the most important American man alive. And on the face of it he seems a very good man. In the age of Trump it’s a welcome antidote. #speirgorm

Everyone should have a home ❤️ ffud.art for #DerelictIreland with @judesherry.bsky.social #speirghorm

Official Ireland will come up with a million excuses not to do this. #Spéirghorm

Regina never has to speak to anyone outside her class - the closest she ever comes is a message int he Uber Eats app that says "leave it outside the door."

“A time to tear and a time to sew, a time to keep silence & a time to speak,”Ecclesiastes This week’s stunning figure of 17,308 homeless people, a 12.5% increase in one year & doesn’t include 1,000s in precarious sleeping arrangements. Today is not the day for this🤦🏾‍♀️ #spéirghorm #Housing #IrishPol

Here’s one for today’s #vss365 #speirgorm

“The only war Ireland should wage is one of calm logic against the swollen belligerents of the world who expect other people’s children to take up arms against each other, to sacrifice their precious lives in a trillion-dollar theatre of fire & death....” #spéirghorm #TripleLock #Peace #Identity

We have the most expensive electricity prices in the EU. We import basically all of our energy. We keep allowing corporations to build energy intensive infrastructure with no real societal value. Increases demand will always lead to increased costs. This is not sustainable.

I don't think enough attention is given to the fact that FFG's housing plan: 1: Suggests rents must go UP for landlords to consider it a viable investment. 2: Envisions that those same landlords will keep building houses until their own investments will lose value through competition. #spéirgorm

Go to bed 🥱 Clocks springing forward tonight & we’ll have those glorious languid summer evenings to look forward to 🌅 ☀️🙏🏽 #spéirghorm #ClockChange

No point focusing on one miserable man on a day that was overwhelmingly positive. There was tons of support from the public and a great crew of welcoming people who show up every week. If you're in Ennis, try to join sometime. Every Saturday at 11 am #spéirgorm

While the label "Two Spirit" is a modern umbrella term the concept of gender non conforming people both existing and being accepted by Indigenous society predates colonization. Ma-Nee Chacaby explains the concept perfectly. Trans people existing is not new - history is just being erased

Science knows of 21,000 bee species. There are likely thousands more theconversation.com/science-know... 🐝 #Bees

Hang it in the Louvre. Or the home, office or classroom. artologica.etsy.com

Future history books will portray Trump and ICE as kindly as they portray Hitler and the Gestapo. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

I don’t think a religion can own a land. Men spouting a holy claim and killing everyone around them. Abuses in the name of god for fossils, minerals and soil. Men invoke god then kill in that name and all for power. All for control over resources. All innocents die for their greed.

We are estimating more than 200,000 people at the flagship No Kings rally in the Twin Cities. #NoKings

Some songs don’t remind you of somebody… they remind you of you.

ditch the US

#blueskyartshow #background Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. - Brian O'Driscoll #veggiepower photo by a friend

If Israel thinks it will be safe if it just kills enough people...? You cannot spill that much blood without leaving something unknowably evil behind. That kind of violence settles into the ground itself. Safety does not come from that. Israel will never be safe; it is cursed.

Put a bit of creativity to the washing next time there’s good drying weather ☀️🍃🌬️ This is absolutely glorious. Art is everywhere & this artist is fabulous 🤩🫶🏾 #spéirghorm #Art #Creative #Laundry

We need to know how much energy data centers use – and if YOU are subsidizing the costs of Big Tech companies. Making this data public is the bare minimum.

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

Long shot but if anyone has 2 tickets for Laura Ramoso at the Olympia next month that they can’t use please let me know!! #ticketfairy #speirgorm

Normalise referring to this lad as "landlord Healy-Rae"

Aul' Connolly knew what was up.

So much for the "narrow interests" which the government says use judicial review. When they went out and asked people what they thought 1,470 asked for Access to Justice to be upheld, only 30 sided with the government So which interest is the "narrow interest"?

a client encountered #Monotropism in the wild from a content creator I have not yet encountered it was well done i am stoked to see the concepts getting out into the world it can be difficult to see when social media gets stuff like this wrong, but teaching about Monotropism can help SO MANY

‘An Early Frost’ “…the story of a young gay lawyer, Michael (Quinn), who visits his parents to tell them he has AIDS. It depicts the cruelty & prejudice experienced by people with the disease in the 1980s & was viewed as groundbreaking at the time.” #spéirghorm #AIDS www.rte.ie/history/2026...

“Rules for Thee but not for Me!”. #spéirghorm

A while back, Israeli soldiers were yelling at the Knesset to give them better mental health support, and I remember one of my friends posting about it on here like "There's no mental health support that will help. You damaged your soul. These are the consequences". And that's how I feel here

It's very difficult to convince people that walking to work will make a difference when.......

No way. This cannot happen. The debacle of our €€€ National Children’s Hospital has been a gross example of appalling planning, dubious decision-making & now they add ROBOTS to make it extra anti-care?? Too many pigs at the trough for any semblance of propriety 🤦🏾‍♀️ #spéirghorm #NCH #IrishPol

Europe chose to look the other way, and is reaping what it sowed. - Shona Murray @shonamurray.bsky.social

Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve 🤦🏾‍♀️ “If European leaders had any backbone, they would have, in the last few years at least, tried to uphold the principles they regularly cite when discussing the exceptionalism of Europe to others. Europe likes to see itself as the dignified…” #spéirghorm #Gaza #EU

I wonder if AIPAC is coping to the fact that a majority of Americans are rooting for Iran? We are sick of Israel’s shit. They started all of this. They started it with the Nakba, they started it with genocide, they started it w/Iraq & now they started it with Iran. And we are over that shit.

A disabled actor has accused the #Motability scheme of putting young disabled people’s freedom at risk and taking away their choice and control by forcing them to sign up to an “offensive” new system that monitors how they drive. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/actor-says-m...

Ireland has 5457 children accessing emergency accommodation. We all know that's a scandalous and unacceptable number but at a certain point with big numbers you can't adequately visualise the scale of the horror. Every emoji in this video clip represents 1 homeless Irish child #spéirgorm