I don't think extremely rare random acts of violence should determine national policy

The UK media environment is so rotten whenever I'm over there I meet people who know about the Limerick pogrom and Ireland refusing WW2 Jewish refugees and think De Valera sent condolences to Hitler but don't know the first thing about the history of British antisemitism

Knowing and feeling connected to yout history is actually so important and not at all a guarantee or universal experience and we shouldn't take the value places on it in Ireland for granted

"The famine was so long ago you should get over it" no and furthermore I'm also in mourning over the lives we lost to Cromwell in the 1650s

Feeling #LeftOut not getting to vote in the dublin or manchester by-elections 😔

From The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J Adams: "When people buttonhole me demanding 'what about the homeless, what about battered women?' and insist that we help suffering humans first, I am not thrown off by such assertive narrowing of the field of compassionate activism.

Reading with reverence for the big man's birthday

If you've been voting in Brit elections for at least a decade (my first was 2015) you are likely to have been disappointed in startling new ways by every single one

From the opening editorial: "Britain is a failing state. To set Ireland's ambitions no higher than to imitate Britain is to aim for failure"

A handful of dedicated Gazan women are risking their lives to save the priceless medieval manuscripts of Al-Omari www.newarab.com/features/ins...

Speaking of emerging left media I've finally picked up An Clogán and have been seriously impressed with the work quality gone into it, strongly encourage you all to get a copy only a tenner in Connolly Books

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

When slavery was abolished in Jamaica in 1834, the following Irish surnames were present in the long list of compensated slave-owners: Barry, Bourke, Boyle, Brady, Brennan, Broderick, Buckley, Burke, Byrne, Carey, Carroll, Codd, Coleman, Collins, Conway, Corbett, Costello, Cowan, Creighton, Crowley

When they boot Starmer I’m sure we’ll all go back to making fun of the Brits for how many leaders they’ve been through recently but Macron is currently on his 7th Prime Minister and it might not even be his last

Every supposedly intellectual right-winger is at most one degree removed from open white nationalism at this point, and we have not fully reckoned with that fact.

Funny thing I kept seeing is places with these things but a noticeable absence of British or ulster loyalist flags. Even here localist nationalism can be subsumed into the mission of chud globalism

Yep I'm in east Belfast alright

this is like the opposite of when Trump won in that I keep thinking of new positive impacts it will have

Who's up libbing out

Lmao eat shit Orbán. And you too JD

Remain convinced wealthy contractors successfully pulling off what was effectively a racketeering scam for public tax money will tank whatever public support they have left once the inevitable price spikes start hitting the rest of us

Tabling a motion of no confidence off a movement of millionaire heavy vehicle contractors demanding a tax giveaway at the exact moment our far right are at their most organised, masterful gambit Sinn Féin

International reactionary influencers picking up on Irish situation, if we end up being what inspires copycat fuel protests...

Learning today that its middle class to use a ~€500 bicycle but working class to own multiple ~€20'000 hauliers

cycling past the blockade today I noticed a full row of buses from the same company. I wonder, were the employees ordered to drive them all there? Were they paid to do so? Are they losing work while the vehicles remain stationary on O'Connell street?

there's an inherant selection bias to those attending these protests because you not only need to own capital assets in buses, lorries, or tractors you need enough of an excess to spare them while your business continues to operate

"Irish Fascists would ask me, what right do you have to question Ireland's actions and policies, you brown thing. Well so long as bombs and supplies destroying my people move through your country, I have no choice but to ask." - Omar Barghouti speaking in Dublin

Any and all social or political projects necessary for the massive incoming economic and ecological challenges, the fuel protest crowd are going to fight us on with everything they have

This isn't even their first time bombing another country's synagogue

Pomegranate time

If we're gonna respond the the crisis by shovelling money into inefficient tax subsidies can I at least get some kinda tax credit for cycling everywhere

If Tony Blair wants to open up a conversation about supposed threats to the liberal order and pluralistic society can I suggest beginning with Tony Blair not being in prison for war crimes

An impassible wrinkle in the 'Israel is blackmailing Trump with the Epstein files' theory is that the worst allegations are already all but confirmed and his support base evidently do not care

Actual fifth columnist stuff from Mark Rutte going onto U.S. Regime News to tell them Europe is “on a massive scale supportive of what the President is doing" in Iran www.politico.eu/article/spai...

The european public are displaying unprecedented unity in crying out for leadership that will stand up to American belligerence and somehow we don’t have a single national leader whose name isn’t Pedro Sánchez interested in the popularity layup

whole of Ireland yesteday walking around wondering why they're in a strangely uplifted mood despite everything, have I been eating different? exercising more than usual? then you remember its the first time you've seen the sun in months

feel ominously meaningful that there's an astonishing lack of alarm among the loudest supposed champions of international law and diplomatic norms while the notable sceptics are all freaking the fuck out

most Irish people have no cause to think of Jews at all but we have a very small faction who have gone down the conspiracy rabbit hole and think about us *a lot* to the point there's a real physical risk should any of us encounter them

Some of you could stand to take a breath and ask yourself the following: Does the existence or extent of antisemitism in Ireland affect in any way the fundamental questions of justice and humanity that undergird the Palestine cause?

"Oh you're a newly qualified accountant? Would you like to live in a walled compound, where they let you drink, and launder money, and pay no tax, and have an enslaved domestic servant you literal fucking demon?"

no regrets

Could we get this for Ireland too, please

There is unfortunately a lot of explanatory power in assuming the Trump admin is staffed entirely by people incapable of second order thinking

American officials and boosters are all talking like they're the first empire in history to figure out you can get short term wins by breaking treaties and betraying allies

last sane man in british politics and they're gonna defame him to hell for it

supposedly professional journalist arguing its good that the school was struck but also it didn't happen but *also* also if it happened it wasn't our fault it would get a lot of people real worked up if I said what this reminds me of