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C. J. Fitzpatrick

@cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social
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Irish writer & environmental strategist in the US linking the struggles of human rights, imperial fallout, and the defense of the natural world informed by years lived in Russia, the UK, and Europe✍️ | Substack: lifeundersiege.substack.com

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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The public sees it for what it is, yet this clown has doubled down on the lie under pressure from Washington and Tel Aviv. These are indeed dangerous times.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The false flag staged by the unholy trinity of the US, UK, and Israel produced nothing, with no explosives found and every "suspect" released on bail despite a 14-day detention limit.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You would laugh at the puppet strings hovering above Andy Burnham's shoulders if it weren't all designed to draw the UK deeper into war with Iran.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@billmckibben.bsky.social I sat in affluent rooms with Hurst & Nakagawa last week, aghast not at their data center propaganda, which I expected, but at the oohs & aahs at every talking point. What use are sustainability professionals if all they do is applaud the bullshit they’re paid to challenge?
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Welcome to the Plunderdome: How Big Tech Sold Out Its Climate Pledges to Power AI | Common Dreams
​Amazon and the rest of the once aspirationally green tech industry are adding 19th-century smoking chimneys to their facilities in order to churn out more Compute, the 21st century equivalent of wool...
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He now wants to spew carbon back into the air!
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Climate Startup Shifts Focus From Carbon Removal to Oil Recovery
Direct air capture startup Spiritus was founded to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and bury it underground. Now, it’s pivoting to selling that CO2 to help extract oil, as the clean-tech indu...
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The climate space is still full of disingenuous assholes like Spiritus founder Charles Cadieu, whose motivation seems to have been profit, never climate solutions. Instead of doing the honorable thing and shutting down, he now helps produce more fossil fuels, yet is given a platform at NYCW.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's crystal clear now that joining the US military means dying for Israel, the military industrial complex, the fossil fuel industry, the tech bro oligarchy and the Epstein class.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yvette Cooper's legacy is secure. She will always be remembered along with Keir Starmer as a genocide enabler who choose to lock up the disabled and elderly rather than stand up to Israel's horrors. She must never be rehabilitated into society. Her actions must haunt her wherever she goes.
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Yvette Cooper Won’t Defend Her Own Palestine Action Ban
YouTube video by Novara Media
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At no point did he ask: 1. Why this divisive march is happening now, after 30 years without it. 2. How an appeal overturned the injunction within hours. 3. Whether unionists have a role in lowering the temperature. They are afraid of Irish unity & the gloves are off. @kamalimelbourne.bsky.social
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@news.sky.com Kamali Melbourne was an absolute disgrace while interviewing Chris Bryant. It was very clear he had been tasked with inflaming emotions and went after an elected leader supporting her constituents in first minister Michelle O'Neill on numerous occasions.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That kind of rebel courage is supposed to be in our DNA. Stop The Game! Free Palestine 🇵🇸. 4/4
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In doing so, she provided comfort to Nelson Mandela as he sat in prison. Her colleagues walked out in solidarity with her. They endured years of hardship, loss of pay, and uncertainty because they knew that complicity was unacceptable. 3/4
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mary Manning was just a 21 year old Dunnes Stores worker on Henry Street in Dublin. She wasn’t a politician and she wasn’t a millionaire athlete. She was an ordinary young woman who recognizing her own people’s history of apartheid and subjugation simply refused to be complicit. 2/4
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am so sick of the prevailing narrative around the Irish football team, that ‘it should never have been their choice to make’. As if any grown man wants other grown men making decisions for them, let alone men as weak, corrupt and inept as the Football Association of Ireland (FAI). 1/4
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We are all with you lads, we really are. You will go down in our history as legends. Please #StopTheGames
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh cool, some public comments as public support for Israel disapates, all is forgiven. Still supports Israel, still refuses to call it genocide. Try harder next time.
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Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is your periodic reminder that by far the #1 source of “fake news” in the US is #trump and his press secretaries, with #Hegseth and #RFKJr in a relentless competition for 2nd place.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just ignoring his “unequivocal” support for Israel, his criticism of Gaza ceasefires and his refusal to acknowledge genocide then are we?
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The complicity is undeniable. "Germany and the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel... They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons killing Palestinians." - UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Ben Saul
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ahh no NJ stop?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Netanyahu has said he will strip Israeli Citizenship for anyone who exposes Israeli War Crimes. Like the video released of the IDF gang raping a prisoner. Of course there will be no mention of this in Western Media or by our politicians.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And much respect to Beoga, an Irish trad band accustomed to playing in small venues and pubs with so much to gain from a stadium tour, but not at the expense of their morality. 🇵🇸
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Aaron Rowe and Lukas Graham have a fraction of the fame, wealth, and influence of Ed Sheeran. Yet today, they showed they are so much more than him. They stood by their principles, their dignity, and the people of Palestine enduring genocide by Israel. 🇵🇸 🍉 #FreePalestine
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He let better men than him within his orbit speak out, so he could cling to their coat tails. Cowardly little shit.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mr. 'I don't do politics or take sides.' Coward. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Top gig last night by a man whose morality and humanity stand apart in the world of showbiz. Macklemore has been vocal from the start and continues to lead by example. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran has never been apolitical. He attends Kneecap concerts and brought Macklemore on tour knowing exactly what he was going to say. Ed Sheeran just let better men do the talking for him, and when the heat got too hot, he turned into a sniveling little coward, choosing money over humanity.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Land of the free supposedly! Does the First Amendment not cover Macklemore? I've said it before and I'll say it again, that Israel is the greatest threat to free speech globally! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You're clearly a very angry person, whose points are actually not rational nor based in reality. Harris was literally in office during the genocide of the Palestinians and ran on the fact that she would be tougher on Iran. Wake up an realize the uniparty is real. Have a lovely day!
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You genocide defenders love talking about topics, and words like "logic" that I didn't use. Try better next time. Have a lovely day!
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Have a lovely day.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I never mentioned US society either. Keep trying.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don't remember mentioning the word Jew, 'in my own words'. Keep trying.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I provided figures from polls within Israel on the topic of Aaron's post, but you made assumptions about me and on a different topic. Bit of a simpleton are you? Ps. I loathe trump.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ah yes, the age old trick of convincing the masses that if they vote a different way, then things will actually change. 76% of Israeli’s believe there are no innocents in Gaza and 82% support their mass expulsion. Netanyahu is a symptom of a sick and depraved society.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Giuliani, Bloomberg, and their allies prioritized reopening Wall Street, allowing more New Yorkers to suffer and die than in the attack itself.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ed Miliband’s statement on Israel is only a first step. We need to go further: a full ban on goods, services & investment. Labour is still shamefully refusing to recognise the Gaza genocide. We must have a full arms embargo, full sanctions & an end to military collaboration.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For now, the UK's sanctions on Israel remain performative Kabuki theatre. Bloomberg reports UK diplomats privately told the US they are symbolic & Reuters notes the trade impact will be minimal. While welcome, much more is needed, beginning with Burnham calling Israel's crimes in Gaza a genocide!
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Top gig last night by a man whose morality and humanity stand apart in the world of showbiz. Macklemore has been vocal from the start and continues to lead by example. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A very Israeli statement. The Israelification of America continues.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The intellectual's role is "to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma, and to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations." Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual (1994)
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US House passes bill to crack down on university boycotts of Israel
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to block federal aid for universities that boycott Israel, the latest Republican-backed ​pro-Israel measure amid growing Democratic cri...
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Go get em Zack! 🟢
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As JD Vance & Peter Thiel push a distorted theology to hasten the 'end times,' the Pope, God's representative on Earth has had to remind these extremists of a fundamental truth - that life is a divine gift meant to be lived abundantly, through love, peace, and care for both humanity and the planet 🕊️
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Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the 11th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation [1 September 2026] (15 August 2026)
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE 11 th WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CARE OF CREATION 2026 [1 st of September 2026] [ Multimedia ] _______________________
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Or perhaps it’s a rare example of genuine diplomacy from an otherwise evil man in Trump. Far too many people seem willing to risk nuclear weapons being used again just so they can sit on their high horse and posture on social media. Wars end through dialogue, not moral grandstanding.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The American tradition of bombing Middle East weddings, which was the hallmark of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama's presidency, is alive and well under the FIFA Peace Prize winner.
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C. J. Fitzpatrick @cjfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's still both mind-blowing and extremely sad to me that there are people in the realm of conservation, science and environmentalism that think mass slaughter of innocent animals is acceptable and the best we can come up with. I don't know how the people behind this plan can sleep at night.
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A Plan to Eradicate the Deer on Catalina Island Will Proceed, Organizers Say
After a judge issued a tentative ruling on a legal challenge Tuesday, the Catalina Island Conservancy said that it would begin the first phase of its plan to kill nearly all of the 2,000 deer on the C...
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