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🇮🇪🇪🇺 proud Chicagoan by way of Donegal & Kerry…sort of.

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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Started my day with mass and a few wee prayers. Remember to VOTE in Illinois #IL09 @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
#ParkRidge #Evanston #Glenview #Skokie #MortonGrove #Northfield #Niles #ProspectHeights #BuffaloGrove #LongGrove #HawthornWoods #TowerLakes #Cary #FoxRiverGrove #Algonquin #LakeintheHills Vote @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social for 9th District Congress!
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
#VoteMikeforIL9
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I'm attending Mike Simmons for Congress's event, “Thursday Eve in Uptown - Knock doors for Mike Simmons!” - sign up now to join me! @mikesimmonsil.bsky.social www.mobilize.us/mikesimmonsf...
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Thursday Eve in Uptown - Knock doors for Mike Simmons! · Mike Simmons for Congress
Join our team and Mike Simmons to knock doors and talk to voters about his run for Congress in IL 09! We will be knocking in the Uptown neighborhood.
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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The Asiancy @theasiancy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
M.I.A. by I.C.E. Sept 2025 #SeamusCulleton🇺🇸🇮🇪 1stGen: #Irish European-American from Kilkenny, #Ireland🇮🇪. Is law abiding citizen with a valid #US🇺🇸 #WorkPermit. LIVES in #Boston, MA. For 15 years+ Owner of a Construction Company. MARRIED: to US🇺🇸 citizen+is in the process of applying for a #GreenCard.
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Irish man detained by ICE in Texas for five months says he fears for his life | CNN
An Irish man who has been in US immigration detention for five months has said he fears for his life and is confined in appalling conditions, as international scrutiny grows over the treatment of immi...
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
‘Merica. 😢
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Kerry Dexter @kerrydexter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
If you are looking for new reading material, I have ideas over in my @bookshop.org lists. Your purchases can support local bookstores #creativity #ireland #Scotland #music &more bookshop.org/shop/musicroad
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MusicRoad Bookshop
Recommending books on music, the arts, travel, history, creativity, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and elsewhere.
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN And they are all Trump supporters "Liberal media" indeed
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/11/2025
BREAKING: Trump’s ICE bans Christians and all people from praying “in front of or inside” the Broadview ICE facility. So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned. This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Lu 💙 @ladyinred50.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
David Byrne background video showing ICE chasing a bicyclist
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Beautiful Chicago today! My parents didn’t cross an ocean 🇮🇪 so that one day their grandchildren would bow to a king. #NoKings
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Squeaky Squirrel🐿️🌏🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🐈 @squeakysquirrel.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 NO KINGS ​ I hope everyone feels hopeful, proud, validated, refreshed, and motivated to carry on fighting this fascist regime. 🐸🕊️🐸🕊️🐸 ​
No Kings attendees in DC
dressed in prison garb as Trump, JDVance, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings?” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings? · No Kings
No Kings will be massive, powerful, and meaningful - but it won’t be the end of our work. Join movement leaders and fellow local activists after the big day to come together, celebrate what we accompl...
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Great article by Colin Sheridan in yesterday's Irish Examiner. There must be an end to all of apartheid Israel's crimes against Palestinians, including the Occupied West Bank and in Gaza. There must be self determination, freedom, justice and equality for all Palestinians. #FreePalestine
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The TransAdvocate @transadvocate.com · 09/10/2025
“Centrism” on any civil rights issue is merely a path to fascism. Fascism isn’t possible without an army of Centrists telling 2nd class citizens to be content with 2nd class citizenry.
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The world is protesting Israel’s illegal interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla. #FreePalestine
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Alramogar @alramogar.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Comunicado de la Global Sumud Flotilla
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
@simonharrisireland.bsky.social
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"I have no regrets at all" Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey sends a message from the Global Sumud Flotilla.
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Humongous Ape MP @apesahoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Where is Greta Thunberg? Where is Yvonne Ridley? Where is David Adler? Where is Tadhg Hickey?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Free Greta Thunberg, Free Mandla Mandela, Free Tadhg Hickey and free the hundreds of others Israel holds.
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Ignorant and hateful politicians
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Movement Advancement Project @mapresearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Like all youth, LGBTQ youth need medical care providers who can support them from a place of knowledge, openness, and cultural competence about all aspects of their health and their identities. ⬇️ Keep reading. 📒 View MAP's full report: bit.ly/lgbtq-youth-report lgbtmap.medium.com/healthy-bodi...
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Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: How Providers Can Best Support LGBTQ Youth
For LGBTQ youth, achieving a healthy life must include being accepted and affirmed for who they are.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 29/09/2025
Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/09/2025
"About 52% of the patients that I’m operating on are [gunshot wounds], and the other half are explosive injuries."
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“Single Shots to the Head”: U.S. Veteran, Volunteer Surgeon Sees “Extermination of a People” in Gaza
As Israel continues its full-fledged military ground invasion of Gaza City, Democracy Now! speaks with Kathleen Gallagher, a U.S. military veteran and general surgeon currently volunteering in Gaza, who describes the scene on the ground from Nasser Hosp...
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 18/09/2025
This isn’t cancel culture – it’s state-sanctioned censorship. The President of the United States should know and respect that our First Amendment protects speech even if he doesn’t agree with it. If Jimmy Kimmel can be fired, you can be too.
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Disney's ABC pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' after FCC chair criticizes the host's Charlie Kirk comments
The network confirmed it is "indefinitely" pulling the show.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's. If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too. It's just a question of political will.
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New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free
The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This is step one in how we lose free and fair elections. It’s not that Trump will “cancel” the midterms. It’s just everyone has to vote in person, and urban downtowns will be filled with ICE checkpoints and intimidating National Guard troops to “double check” that only citizens vote.
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I choose Illinois! Humanity comes first.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Disintermediating PBMs could save Americans $100b per yr academic.oup.com/healthaffair...
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The cost of misaligned incentives in the pharmaceutical supply chain
Abstract. Recent concerns over rising drug prices have focused on the role of pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs. While multiple players make up the pharmac
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Wisdom from @pathfinder.coach
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
WFP Chief Cindy McCain describes how Israel killed over 60 aid-seekers in northern Gaza yesterday. “They were hungry. They were starving,” she said. “All of a sudden, Israeli tanks, Israeli guns, Israeli weapons of all kinds started firing at the crowd.”
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Been talking to News12 Bronx since the 2008/2009 season.
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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Shameful
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/06/2025
1. Today, 200,000 marched in Budapest Pride in defiance of a ban by Orbán's far-right government. It was led by the city's mayor Gergely Karácsony, who got around the law by making it an "official city gathering." He was warned of arrest. They marched anyway. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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200,000 March In Budapest Pride, Refusing To Capitulate To Anti-LGBTQ+ Law
The march can teach the world the power of organized solidarity in the wake of a global, anti-LGBTQ+ reactionary movement.
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Get Out The Vote New Yorkers!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/06/2025
1. After the Skrmetti decision, the New York Times has published 6 articles dancing on the graves of trans youth and spreading disinformation on care. It was cited 7 times in the ruling. Read my latest on what will be a black stain on the NYT for a generation. Subscribe to support my journalism.
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After Getting The Ruling It Wanted, New York Times Publishes 6 Anti-Trans Articles
The paper has lost all claim to objectivity on transgender people.
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Some gripping Chicago news
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
@npr.org @pbsnews.org @pbs.org stop reporting as if you were CNN and begin reporting LIKE THIS=The Truth! Who is terrorist now?! @npr I can barely listen anymore because you are just as biased as all other reporting. Grow back your spine.
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bfarren.bsky.social @bfarren.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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