“Tá plean ar leith agam leis an nGaeilge a chur chun cinn le linn na huachtaránachta, agus is plean simplí é: an Ghaeilge a labhairt gach lá, faoi mar a dhéanaim faoi láthair” Sin é! #gaeilge #CatherineConnolly #Aras25 #SpéirGorm tuairisc.ie/plean-simpli...

"I signed an executive order…for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances… This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room…it’s the enemy from within… That’s a war too. It’s a war from within" #Trump saying the quiet #fascist bit out loud… abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

The US govt will shut down shortly, after Senate Democrats blocked a Republican bill to extend the funding deadline. Unfortunately, I don't think "have you tried switching it off and on again" works with nascent fascist regimes, so more effort may be required. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The utter state of Twitter/X under #Musk: not only has the platform become a sandpit for #fascists, white supremacists, and #Nazis to frolic in, but antifascist accounts are now being surveilled and tagged as "terrorists". #Antifa #farright #Trump

The #TonightVMTV #presidentialdebate, in a nutshell: - #CatherineConnolly: "As President, and working together, we can shape a new, united, republic" - #HeatherHumphreys: "The problem in this country, I suppose, is it's very hard to get staff" - #JimGavin: *inarticulate waving* #Áras25 #SpéirGorm

"The EU is making moves that would trample on hard-fought protections meant to prevent catastrophic workplace tragedies and environmental abuses. Ireland should stand up against that effort." Read Cillian Quinn's piece in today's TheJournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/irela...

The European Commission has proposed pushing back the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) for another year, to December 2026, citing concerns that its IT system is not yet ready to handle the demands that the regulation would place on it.

Israel has committed & continues to commit genocide in Gaza There is a UN convention for exactly this kind of horror: the convention for the prevention & punishment of the crime of genocide What does refusal to act mean for the 🌎’s shared values of rule of law, democracy, human rights & dignity?

So Italy and Spain are sending war ships to protect its citizens from drones from its “friend” Israel?

Where’s the Rapture when you need it..?

“Danish PM: airport drone incursion a ‘serious attack’ on critical infrastructure #Russia denies involvement after #Copenhagen and #Oslo airports forced to close… #drones in #Denmark came from multiple directions, turning their lights on and off for several hours” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Multipolar world 🎤 drop: Key US client state #SaudiArabia signs mutual defence pact with #Pakistan, incl nuclear umbrella. #Israel more isolated, #India wedged (key energy supplier protected by its archenemy & #IMEC in question), & #China regional influence extended www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Effective immediately: " #Australia has formally recognised #Palestine as a sovereign and independent state, completing a landmark shift in foreign policy over the #Israel- #Gaza war." #auspol #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #GazaGenocide #IsraeliWarCrimes www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“ #SinnFéin has announced that it will support Independent candidate #CatherineConnolly in the Presidential Election, ending months of speculation over its position” #áras25 #spéirgorm www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

CEARTA - Agóid Náisiúnta na nGael! ✊🅾 Tá na Gaeil ag dul chun sráide inniu! ⏰1.30pm Satharn 20ú Meán Fómhair 📌Cearnóg Parnell, BÁC 🚨Maoiniú •Funding 🚨Tithíocht •Gaeltacht Housing 🚨Oideachas •Education 🚨Cearta Teanga •Language Rights Bígí linn! #DeargLeFearg #Gaeilge #SpéirGorm #Cearta #CeartananGael

O’zapft is!! 🍻 Not your average #Wiesn/ #Oktoberfest. 🍺 🥨🛫🦘 #Oktoberfest2025 #Ozapftis #Wiesn2025 (Previous years shown for contrast)

“Viktor #Orbán said on Friday that #Hungary will follow the lead of US President Donald #Trump and designate #Antifa …as a terrorist organization” If you feel the need to declare anti-fascism your enemy, you admit your own #fascism. The battle for civilisation is now. edition.cnn.com/2025/09/19/e...

“It is truly extraordinary that of the three countries that are party to the deal, Australia – which bears the brunt of both the cost and the risk – is the only one not to have put AUKUS to a genuine review." Petition for an inquiry into AUKUS > theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Crossing 2°C is 97% certain (UNEP, 2024) IPCC SR1.5 (2018): “Coral reefs … projected to decline by 70–90% at 1.5°C (high confidence), with larger losses (>99%) at 2°C.” Perry et al. 2025: “If warming exceeds 2°C, nearly all reefs (≥99%) will be eroding by 2100. www.nature.com/artic...

"Honestly the Israeli responses are becoming so boring.They say the same thing every time, but they're producing the responses by ChatGPT these days and they spend so much money in the foreign ministry on propaganda, you'd think that they would actually come up with something original” #GazaGenocide

" #Israel has committed #genocide in #Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry" There is no more room for Western politicians to obfuscate (or worse, enable the #GazaGenocide). The world cannot look away. We must act, & act now. #FreePalestine The key passage of the report: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

" #Nanoplastics… Minuscule pieces of waste #plastic, thousands of times smaller than a human hair, can damage our brains… contributing to the increasing global levels of #Alzheimer ’s and #Parkinson ’s disease." #pollution #microplastics #plasticpollution www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

“European Court of #HumanRights and the European Convention on Human Rights are under attack” 9 EU states (led by Italy & Denmark) claim the ECHR has exceeded its mandate, endangering “public safety” re #migration. #Denmark teaming up with the #farright - again! #dkpol euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Revealed: Sewage overflows twice as bad inside national parks Exclusive: @campaign4parks.bsky.social attack ‘outrageous’ situation, saying waters in protected areas should be cleanest Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“An independent UN commission has concluded that #Israel has committed and continues to commit #genocide against #Palestinians in #Gaza” #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #IsraelTerroristState #IsraeliWarCrimes www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

BREAKING: At least 25 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, medical sources have told our colleagues. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4176es

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

Tommy Robinson's #racist, anti-immigrant "Unite the Kingdom" march in London was easily close to 200,000 - likely Britain's biggest #farright march since #Mosley 's British Union of #Fascists in the 1930s. This is a wake-up call - to the left, & to everyone else. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

#Germany's left-wing party #DieLinke is now polling at 5 percent in #Bavaria! In other news, Hell has frozen over, Lufthansa has been replaced by flying pigs, apples have been found growing on ivy trees, & all the hens have developed molars & incisors. Pack ma's! #Bayern #SanktNimmerleinsTag

Anti-colonial revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was born on this day in 1924. A committed socialist and pan-Africanist, Cabral led the struggle for independence that toppled Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde and inspired the fight for liberation around the globe.

Yesterday the #farright in the EU Parliament tried to force a minute’s silence for right-wing US activist #CharlieKirk This was against Parliamentary protocols & the centre-right President of Parliament rejected it, but the proto #fascists are trying to blame the left www.politico.eu/article/chal...

Irish Examiner... #Aras25 #FeckOffIona

#Brazil: former President Jair #Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years prison for plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election. A powerful rebuke to one of the world's most prominent #farright leaders, one that will no doubt draw an angry response from #Trump & co www.reuters.com/world/americ...

"Ticking time bogs" #Ireland 's #peat bogs contain a vast record of human & natural history & are a vital #carbonsink, but resource extraction & #climatechange have devastated them. Experts, activists & locals disagree on how they can be saved #biodiversity #SpéirGorm thebulletin.org/2025/09/tick...

“ #Nepal ‘s #GenZ uprising is about jobs, dignity – and a broken development model” With over 22 people killed in govt violence, the #GenZProtest is not just a response to social media bans, or even to govt corruption, but to a failed development model. #GenZNepal peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/09/n...

A rock sample collected by NASA's #Perseverance rover could preserve evidence of ancient life on #Mars - a potential biosignature of bacterial activity. The evidence can't be verified without being brought to Earth, but #Trump 's funding cuts to #NASA make that difficult www.nasa.gov/news-release...

“Over 300 former EU and member state ambassadors, as well as former EU officials, have written a joint letter calling on the EU to immediately suspend the EU- #Israel Association Agreement and to impose targeted sanctions on members of the Israeli government” #GazaGenocide www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

📢 #Norway's parliamentary election on Sept 8 was a close-run race. Labour Party, clinched a narrow win and is expected to continue as a single-party minority govt, relying on deals with both left-wing allies and across the political spectrum. ✍️ Ellen Engelstad: rosalux.eu/en/2025/norw... #valg25

#Norway ‘s Labour Party has held on to power in a close-fought election. A (likely) continuing minority Labour govt must now find a way to form effective political majorities in a highly fragmented parliament while containing a strong #farright. #valg25 #norge #valg2025 rosalux.eu/en/2025/norw...

What's Nigel Farage's problem with solar panels?

"The do-nothing Commission #KajaKallas will forever be known as the EU foreign affairs chief who chose not to stop a genocide… Commission President Ursula #vonderLeyen has not mentioned #Gaza in three months" The EU is complicit in #IsraelWarCrimes and the #GazaGenocide. left.eu/the-do-nothi...

“An end-to-end encrypted chat application should be architected in such a way that even the service provider, by design, cannot read the messages, even if they wanted to,” @mshelton.bsky.social told @mikaelthalen.bsky.social. “Right now, it appears XChat does not provide these basic protections.”

Yesterday #Norway’s Labour Party has held on to power in a close and messy #election, dominated by a changing media landscape & big donations to right wing parties. Labour will likely continue to govern alone, seeking agreements with left-wing parties and across the political spectrum. #valg25

"Norway’s Red Party Offers a Working-Class Alternative #Norway ‘s radical-left party, #Rødt, has recruited thousands of members in recent years and looks set to boost its scores in Monday’s election… building on discontent with the established parties" #Valg25 jacobin.com/2025/09/norw...

#France: PM #Bayrou ousted after losing a confidence vote on his #austerity budget 364-194. President #Macron will name *yet another* new PM in coming days. #LePen ‘s #farright National Rally is calling for elections The left’s #Mélenchon has called on Macron to resign www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

Upwards of 95% of the vote has now been counted in #Norway & the ruling Labour party has been returned. With ~88 seats for the "left" bloc & ~81 for the right, however, Labour faces the challenge of forming effective political majorities while containing the #farright. #Valget2025 #stortingsvalget

“Rules-based world order is dead… Europe should adapt to the law of the jungle — or else come up with new rules. That’s the bleak message the European Commission is set to give on Tuesday” Who wants to bet the #GazaGenocide doesn’t get a mention…? #SOTEU #VDL www.politico.eu/article/euro...