Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Imagine saying Greta Thunberg is Hamas. The sheer, unadulterated, mendacious evil of the Israeli regime.

Normally I couldn’t care less about golf. But seeing a toxic MAGA mob silenced is sweet whatever the occasion.

79. American citizen.

My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.

Hate the way people talk about autism. Deeming it unhealthy is eugenics. Is it really the worst thing a child could be? You think vaccines cause autism so you'd rather risk your child dying of meningitis? You'd prefer your child to die than be autistic? Horrible ppl.

“Racism was hard-wired into this place by Carson and Craig, and it has been nurtured since then by successive generations of unionist leaders who have risen to power on the backs of loyalist hardmen” ~Tom Collins The Irish News ☕️🥐

Make America Grift Again.

16% of Britons have no savings. 39% have less than £1,000; struggle to survive without income. Profiteering, low wages, high living costs condemn millions to insecurity. 1% have more wealth than 70% of population. Can't rebuild without redistribution.

Genocide deniers have been left with nowhere to go. A new UN report cements the overwhelming consensus that Israel is committing genocide. Genocide deniers should be treated as beyond the pale. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/un-leaves-...

Today - along with colleagues from Ulster University UCU and regional @ucu.org.uk representatives - we had a productive meeting with @caoimhearchibald.bsky.social, the Minister for the Economy in the Executive, about a sustainable and accountable Higher Education sector for Northern Ireland.

All the right-wing whackos when they discover the alleged Kirk killer allegedly donated to Tump ...

Worth remembering for the next few days: When people say "political violence is never acceptable", they invariably mean TOWARDS THEM, and those who agree with them. Everyone else is fair game.

Political analyst Matthew Dowd has been fired from MSNBC after his comments about the death of Charlie Kirk, Variety reports

Love teaching this course at Queen's.

Can’t help but feel that we are living in an era of overwhelming anti-intellectualism on every front, with AI being the corporate vanguard of this cultural emptiness.

🚨Breaking🚨 Israeli war bonds won’t be sold in Ireland from tomorrow. Israel today moved its bond prospectus approval process to Luxembourg. It has also not included Ireland as one of the member states where it will sell its war bonds.

"The ideas exchange with Palestinian educators comes as they consider the monumental challenge of rebuilding and sustaining an education system under the pressures of ongoing conflict". Important work for Palestine from @QUBelfast and @StMarys_Belfast www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...

#SocialistSunday ✌️✊ to all.

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.  That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

Just reading about a doctor called Paddy Randles in Navan in the 1960s who wrote to all the newspapers to raise awareness of the number of his young patients with injuries from corporal punishment at school. He was denounced from the pulpit and had the tyres on his car slashed.

Great launch of An Clogán, a new socialist republican magazine. So important to be able to shape a vision of a new Republic together. Loved the synergies between Martina’s and my essays. Different backgrounds, but we both want a just, equal & regenerative Republic, bringing power closer to people.

This week's Andersonstown News

New research shows that Israel's airdrops of aid in Gaza cover only 0.4% of what the population requires to survive. It is pure PR cover, with an approach that is designed to dehumanize Palestinians. euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...

Thank you everyone who attended the NUJ vigil in Belfast at short notice. Anne Hailes and myself spoke for the Belfast and District NUJ brunch in solidarity with journalists and media workers in Gaza. End impunity for crimes against journalists and media workers. www.newsletter.co.uk/news/nationa...

When loyalist paramilitaries say they want to work with 'landords' but not the local council or Housing Executive, that means forced expulsions under threat.

Here in Northern Ireland, masked paramilitary groups and marching bands with proscribed Ulster terrorist group insignia can walk the streets with relative impunity. Meanwhile, a woman in her 60s is arrested for wearing a t-shirt of a group that seeks to prevent Gazan genocide. Make it make sense.

What is worth noting is that this shows the PSNI are apparently willing to take action on proscribed (rightly or wrongly) organisations... so, I suppose they'd better get to work. Or are they only willing to act when the organisation is anti-genocide and not actually causing harm?

Authoritarianism and hypocrisy. "Woman (62) arrested in Belfast on suspicion of showing support for banned Palestine Action" jrnl.ie/6786591

Wallace Thompson “I was resolutely unionist and a follower of Ian Paisley. But over the years my mind has been opened to my Irishness. The British state has very little interest in us.“

Great job this evening by Chris Loughlin on his talk on Presbyterian radical and trade unionist William McMullen. A fascinating story of a republican socialist who stood for the NILP, led the ITGWU, joined Republican Congress and entered Seanad Éireann. Well done Chris!

"'Intensive' efforts underway to secure release of kidnapped Irish aid worker in Haiti". What a remarkable person. jrnl.ie/6782471

“Israel and Northern Ireland are both seen as ‘chosen lands’, divinely set apart which then allows the unionist political project to be reframed spiritually.” Friday at #Féile www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

The welcome announcement that uk civil service internships will be open only to working class students will have major implications for policy, which will reflect more the views of a rich and diverse working class with direct experience of having less www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Like something out of a campus novel. "University criticised for ‘vanity project’ Vogue staff photoshoot" share.google/GjoDlhtFPG4L...

Intelligent people everywhere are waking up to Israel's crimes. www.classicfm.com/music-news/r...

"Attack on Indian man in Dublin: 'Words aren't enough, Irish people need to do more'" jrnl.ie/6777688

🗣️ "Don't be silenced. You deserve to be heard. You also deserve justice." Nikita Hand spoke after the Court of Appeal upheld a High Court jury’s finding that Conor McGregor raped her. #VMNews

It's nice to see McGregor expanding his losing streak from the MMA ring to the courts.

Conor McGregor has lost appeal over civil rape case - #justicefornikita #speirgorm www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

Post-primary poll by Data for Progress suggests Mamdani’s criticism of Israel, support for Palestinians attracted voters 78% of Dem voters agreed with Mamdani’s belief that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza and 63% back his pledge to arrest Netanyahu. forward.com/fast-forward...

How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller

Can’t get through 5 mins of thought without being crippled mentally by the image I saw yesterday of the 5yr old boy in Gaza having his foot amputated with no anaesthetic. And my taxes help fund the intelligence* that is gathered to carry out this attempted murder and mutilation. *child hunting info

years of live-streamed genocide, & media refusing to call it a genocide. now footage of starving people in Gaza — horrifying resemblance to Holocaust photos — gunned down trying to get food, yet media *still* refuses to call it genocide. a moral depravity/failure that'll be a museum exhibit one day