Palestinian state ‘only’ solution to Israeli conflict, says Pope Leo www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

What cease-fire?

Gotta love descendants of immigrants gettin' all anti-immigrant n' fashy cuz they got made fun of in school cafeteria. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Irish Independent... #WinterLights

The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.

Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members internationally - one death every 10 minutes, according to the UN, who released their annual femicide report today. Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469

Surely it is only a matter of time before Trump’s violent rhetoric gets another Democratic lawmaker killed? Every day he plunges new depths of indecency. Every day he drags the United States deeper into a morass of sociopathic extremism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Branding essential care workers employed on minimum wage as unworthy is a new low.

Appalling stuff said so casually. "I sound obscene" she says - the only thing she got right. Clearly she doesn't think the lesson of the Holocaust extends to the "skinny emaciated Palestinians" who are the fodder of the "wall of carnage" which she abhors only cos it makes defending genocide harder

As a handful of us have been screaming for a long time now: there is no "ceasefire". The UN security council has approved the further colonisation of Gaza, and Israel is being rewarded for its genocide. It's still the 1700s in the West, we just have phones and cheap dopamine addictions now.

Yesterday, we marched alongside inspiring organisations and individuals at the National Climate March, urging the Irish Government to deliver a just climate-action policy and phase out fossil-fuel power. Showing up. Speaking up. It matters. Let’s keep going! Climate action = health action!

Great to meet with @irishdocsenv.bsky.social today at the @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social protest 🪧 in Dublin. Thank you all for coming out and taking a stand against harmful GHG emissions!! I marched with colleagues from @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social Wildlife is affected by climate change too!!

Inspiring day at the National Climate March organised by @foeireland.bsky.social, marching with @irishdocsenv.bsky.social, calling on the Irish Government to deliver a just climate-action policy and to end fossil-fuel power. Showing up. Speaking up. It makes a difference. Let’s keep at it!

I’m noticing a strain of ignorance & intellectual snobbery from some journos on here, re the Epstein mails. They either call him illiterate, or laugh at his ignorance - like this one here. Yet, it can be said it is the partisan right wing media, & its journos, that have created this moment.

Illegal Israeli settlers set fire to this young boy. They. Set. Fire. To. A. Child. This is life in the West Bank. READ THAT AGAIN MONSTERS 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

“The scandal at the heart of this controversy is not a political one. It is a media scandal.” ~Justine McCarthy The Irish Times ☕️🥐

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Bear with me for a moment while I do a feminist rage - liberal feminism has not gone far enough in ‘ruining’ (aka fundamentally transforming) the workplace … & there is no such thing as conservative feminism (call it what it is, anti-feminism) … and that’s my tuppence worth on a Friday morning

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children. www.thetimes.com/article/0887...

He’s back! Please follow him again. And @bsky.app — why do you keep deleting accounts of Palestinians? What’s up with that??

Mary MaAleese was from the North, had never been elected before - was an academic. As much of an outsider as you can get really. She got two terms no bother - the system is fine

Narratives that underpin racial hate by scapegoating foreign men only serve to continue the historical gender relations in Irish society that have shamed and abused women. When patriarchy, sexism, and misogyny are racialised, we all lose. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Solidarity with the ppl of Doire/Derry on a hard evening.

Pope today: “With the abuse of vulnerable migrants, we are witnessing not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty but grave crimes committed and tolerated by the state. Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted, even celebrated politically, that treat these 'undesirables' like garbage.”

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

That's more like it. After all the terrible shite on Bluesky, it's kind of refreshing to watch a guard (an Irish police officer) just walk up to someone, state the law he's acting upon, explaining the guy's rights, giving his ID number, and then just taking this far-right clown's phone for evidence.

Rory Stewart, "Trump is destroying the global order. Trump is on Putin's side" "Trump wants a deal, a pro Putin deal. Putting Ukraine and Europe in a vulnerable position" "I'm worried we'll get a repeat of what he did in Gaza. He will declare peace and victory when it really isn't a peace at all"

Never forget. Never again.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

I know Donald Trump is a pathological liar, malignant narcissistic sociopath, racist, antisemite, misogynist, xenophobe, homophobe, transphobe, hater of our troops and believer in euthanizing folks with disabilities, but we too often forget that he's *also* an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.

Let’s keep breaking the stigma not just with awareness days, but with empathy in how we treat each other every day. The smallest act of kindness, the gentlest conversation, or the courage to say “I’m not okay” can change a life. #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth

More Irish activists have now been taken by the IDF from international waters including author Naoise Dolan, TD Barry Heneghan and psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane. They are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

This is outrageous. Books Upstairs have been a critical part of Dublin’s culture since the ‘70s & have supported LGBTQ ppl, feminists & poets through thick & very thin. Libraries & bookshops are being attacked throughout the country by a small group of criminals, known to the police. It has to stop

@sarahmaintains.bsky.social is on her way home. So much relief, but also so much admiration for her bravery and the bravery of all those on the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

#WATCH | Thousands of people are heading towards the European Parliament to protest against the Israeli attack on Global Sumud Flotilla 👇

BREAKING 🚨 Greta Thunberg and 15 Irish citizens were kidnapped by Israel in international waters while trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. www.bbc.com/news/article... #BreakTheSiege #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say. Thinking of Sarah Clancy - all eyes on the flotilla #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6832196

BREAKING: Israeli vessels are now surrounding the Alma, one of the flotilla’s ships, according to Yasemin Acar, a member of the steering committee. #BreakTheSiege #FreePalestine #SailToGaza #GlobalMovementToGaza #GlobalSumudFlotilla #3E 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/356qba

🚨🇪🇸 Breaking: Spain has dispatched a navy vessel to support the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza. Speaking from New York, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spain “condemns the genocide” in Gaza and demanded Israel uphold international law and allow Spanish citizens to sail safely in the...

Tom Barrack’s admission that Israel attacked Tunisia this month by targeting the Global Sumud Flotilla (with drone) is especially relevant, given the group’s claims that 15+ drones have been harassing it over the past night:

Benedict Cumberbatch reciting powerful words by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish at the Together for Palestine concert at Wembley, London. Happening right now and live streamed (link below).

'don't kick Israel out of Eurovision, the arts aren't political' variety.com/2025/film/gl...

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.