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Desmond O’Toole

@desmondotoole.bsky.social
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European socialist & secularist. Trade Union official. Cosmology/Particle Physics @Labour @PES_PSE. Photos Jaurès : Biko : Nyrup Rasmussen : Ocasio-Cortez #SlavaUkraini

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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What Femi says! #freepalestine 🇵🇸
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ireland welcomes Trump.
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Paul Evans @pauledevans.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is worth a watch on this point — www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPf8...
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The Biggest AI Fraud Is the One Nobody Is Investigating
YouTube video by House of El: AI
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Steve BIKO murdered by racist police employed by the apartheid regime in South Africa on this day in 1977 … “I’m going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I’m not going to be what you want me to be.”
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This thread is the best 😄
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Bonne fête nationale 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇫🇷 🐈‍⬛😃
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Jana Zikmundova @jzk55.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
#OTD #RedDevils #Belgium🇧🇪
Dessin dans le style du peintre belge René Magritte
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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Trump told you he’d run America like a business. He is. It’s called asset stripping. You go in, sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, & walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag. Venture capitalist politics. Cartoon by Jorge Gonzalez
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
From the Glasgow antiracist rally.
Man in a crowd holding up a sign saying "racism is weird, have you tried hobbies?"
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Hundreds of thousands of Albanians have been protesting for over a week to revolt against their corrupt govt as well as criminal slumlord traitor Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka for plotting to seize their land. Americans could learn a thing or two on how it’s done.
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is just beyond evil. Shame on those who organised and delivered this slaughter!
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Women’s Committee of NCRI @womenncri.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
+400 prominent women; Nobel Prize winners, former presidents and PMs, MPs, UN special rapporteurs, prominent media figures, renowned sports icons, &HR advocates, endorsed urgent public declaration demanding immediate release of #ZahraTabari currently facing execution in Iran. #StopExecutionsInIran
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
And yes, Europe is a lived reality of many citizens: three out of four say they feel they are a citizen of the EU.
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
An important statement about democracy from the Mayor of Budapest.
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Never Again’ isn’t a tribal slogan. It’s a fucking principle
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The best. The very, very best.
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
An epoch of German philosophy has ended. Even though world famous Habermas still took the time to answer questions of young aspiring academics. An example to live up to. RIP www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Jürgen Habermas im Alter von 96 Jahren gestorben
Jürgen Habermas ist in Starnberg gestorben. Das teilte der Suhrkamp Verlag mit.
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The language is self-serving and strange, but what he’s saying is revealing. The US got involved in this absurd war because Israel was going to attack Iran and, the Trump administration, knowing Iran would hit the US in retaliation, decided to get its retaliation in first!
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 02/03/2026
Ongoing “lol” at every entity that cuts a lopsided deal with this guy rather than telling him to fuck off
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP @aodhanoriordain.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
An elementary girls’ school in Iran was bombed. 53 dead. We’re handing the US shamrock in a fortnight. Because money speaks louder than blood.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 28/02/2026
“President Trump's decision to bomb Iran is indefensible. This was not about preempting an imminent threat—it was a strategically misguided power play, with no discernible endgame,” Cato Institute’s Jon Hoffman says.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Labour have alienated the voters they had on the left, and failed to win over any of the voters they have courted on the right. Now their core appeal is all but gone and ever growing numbers of voters have exit options on the left, right and in the centre. Welcome to the Valley of Electoral Death.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
83 years ago, Hans and Sophie Scholl were executed by the Nazis for their acts of resistance against Hitler, together with their friend Christoph Probst. Sophie was 22 years old.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
What Gary Kasparov says. The "side deals" are the very essence of the transaction. And this is how Trump makes foreign policy.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Goodness, things might get a wee bit testy at the upcoming State of the Union.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I predict The State of the Union will sound like an angry drunk who just got dropped by their other half on Valentine's Day. It's going to be epically bitter and messy.
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🤯 Lost in the literature on European identity? 🙌 Juan J. Fernández, Olena Bedasheva & Maria Durbán offer a remedy: they conduct a meta-analysis and show that European identification has many predictors 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Charly Salonius-Pasternak @charlyjsp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
If France is doing it, seeking to create volume (network effect), then others should either get onboard or if they don’t want a French option, then EU could easily fund open source EU versions of all major necessary tools, utilities, apps. …and when Big7 complain, just shrug.
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Kara Fagan 🇨🇦 Liberal @fagankara.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#Canada Carney this week offered one of the most unblinking, if not scathing, assessments of the world order, one that stripped away comforting illusions of continuity and familiarity and acknowledged that we are living through a revolutionary period that demands recognition as such and a response.
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 22/01/2026
“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.” “What does it do?” “We were hoping you could tell us.”
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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A man with his wits about him would have cancelled rather than front this epic failure of US power.
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We’re winning, I hope!
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Mark Rutte has handed Donald Trump a piece of paper with ‘turn over to read our Greenland offer’ on both sides & that will occupy him for weeks
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Outstanding analysis from Anders Puck Nielsen on what is driving the current crisis over Greenland and how Europe should respond. Anders formerly served with the Danish military and is a hugely informed and insightful analyst in this area. youtu.be/PwRsTDlqU8I?...
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Trump's obsession with Greenland
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This short thread is definitely worth a read and some reflection! We appear to have reached that point!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
$1 BILLION per nation to stay on the Gaza “Peace Board” — with Trump controlling the money. Obscene, indefensible corruption. Monetizing the slaughter. There is no bottom. finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-w...
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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
NATO SecGen Rutte “We should be grateful to Trump for his leadership”. Curious if founding NATO member Denmark appreciates the leadership just as much. 😒
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Desmond O’Toole @desmondotoole.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A good start is half the journey!
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Harry👊🇺🇸🔥 @scondrasht.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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Harry👊🇺🇸🔥 @scondrasht.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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