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Ed O’Loughlin

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Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com · 7h
If militant, masked Israeli settlers in the West Bank will jump on a photographer wearing a vest marked "PRESS" on the front and back and attack her with sticks while other journalists are watching... it doesn't take much to imagine how they treat Palestinians when the press are away, does it?
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Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and Washington Post photographer in West Bank
The settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and beat Heidi Levine, a veteran photojournalist. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers did nothing to halt the violence.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 7h
this violence is sanctioned by the israeli state; the people committing the violence are ideological brethren with smotrich and ben gvir. this is not an anomaly. this is not unrepresentative. this is not a fringe minority. this is the prerogative of the israeli government.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7h
American WaPo veteran photojournalist Heidi Levine was severely beaten by Israeli “settlers” in the West Bank, along with Palestinians harvesting olives. Story: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1... Here she is in the ambulance:
Woman with gray hair lying in an ambulance appearing stunned

Photo by Jasper Nathaniel
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 7h
And what an anniversary.. IsraHellis LIE 24/7, year in year out, decade after decade, indefinitely...
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Annie West @anniewestdotcom.bsky.social · 7h
So far this month I've been invited to talk about Yeats in Love with Kieran Cuddihy on RTE radio (really?) join an editor at Hachette for a discussion about a sequel to The Late Night Writers Club (whut) and go to NY to be a guest author with Goodreads. (huh?) www.thedial.world/articles/new...
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The Lucrative World of Literary Scams — The Dial
Why writers are the perfect target.
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Ed O’Loughlin @edoloughlin.bsky.social · 10h
The Inspector has gotten a lot more right wing in his old age.
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 12h
I’d watch a six-part documentary about this photo.
French protester dressed as the pink panther runs away from police and their water cannon
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 15/10/2026
The UK’s ‘reset’ on Israel penalises illegal settlements while leaving the government that protects and expands them largely untouched, writes Dana El Kurd
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Settler ‘rioters’ are Israeli state policy—through deniable means
The UK’s ‘reset’ on Israel penalises the settlements while leaving the government that protects and expands them largely untouched
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KokasHouse @kokashouse.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I mean, they could talk about WHY Ireland is overwhelmingly pro Palestine, (Bloody Balfour, the Black & Tans, occupation, starvation, forced eviction and on and on) but that would involve discussing their own historical abuses and their culpability in this genocide so......
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is advertised in the Liberties for €700 per person per month. Something major needs to happen about landlords.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#BREAKING | Yoel Feldshu, Former CEO of the Israeli airport company "El Al", was arrested by the IDF after protecting Palestinians in the West Bank from settler violence "What I experienced is 1/100 of what Palestinians experience - and the situation only worsens from week to week"
The article
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The situation right now Settlers destroy Palestinian homes in the West Bank The state won't approve any new land for them they have to find simple utilizes, to make shacks, some water tanks The state says they built illegaly and destroys their property This keeps happening all the time.
Huts I saw yesterday
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Ed O’Loughlin @edoloughlin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I don’t think he gets the royalties
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𝚁𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝙰𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗 @evolvedrick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Also speaking of They Live...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann in Parliament in 2009. "My Grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her town, a German soldier shot her dead." "My Grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israel to murder Palestinian Grandmothers in Gaza."
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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“The harsh reality is that State funding per student is now over 30% lower in real terms than in 2008. This country ranks 36th out of 37 OECD countries for investment in higher education as a share of GDP,"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/10/2026
'Gaza is a moral tear in the universe' – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking
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'Gaza is a moral tear in the universe' – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor speak to Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian with Aditya Chakrabortty
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 14/10/2026
BREAKING: Selling books while having an opinion the government doesn't like is now terrorism
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Link www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Sally Rooney’s refusal to stay silent on Gaza makes her one of today’s most subversive writers
Sally Rooney challenges the literary world, refusing neutrality on Gaza and apartheid, proving literature can be morally engaged
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Excellent piece, and ends with a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith: “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.” Sums up a lot of what @astra.bsky.social have been writing about in ETF... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...
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Opinion | What Happens When You Can No Longer Fight a Wildfire? (Gift Article)
This year’s fast moving, virtually irrepressible events are not the seasonal burns of decades past.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The UK is increasingly lost
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I went to see Naza in Boston this week & it’s devastating. It’s currently showing in cinemas internationally, including across the US. Encourage anyone to see it who still denies that a genocide has been taking place in Gaza. Let them hear that directly from the people who have been carrying it out.
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Ed O’Loughlin @edoloughlin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This was a plot line on Silicon Valley the sitcom
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Pretty extraordinary for the Jewish Chronicle to run an op ed & news story about Nigel Farage warning of antisemitism in the Greens without mentioning that he is the only serving major party leader to have been criticised by Jewish groups for using tropes linked to antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Exclusive: Nigel Farage calls on Labour to rule out pacts with Green Party
After Polanksi’s party calls Zionism racist, former Labour minister says: I’m no fan of Reform leader but he’s right hereLabour must rule out electoral pacts with the Greens who have embraced antisemitic dogma
Reform UK’s leader says sectarian politics and importation of fundamentalism have no place in our democracy
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
it’s just great marketing
3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2:
Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3:
Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Poll: Do You Support Strike Action Or Are You Suckling On The Barren Tit Of Capitalism In Hope You'll Get A Drop Of Sour Milk? waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/10/1…
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Here's how this works: Netanyahu sells Pegasus software to friendly powers who use it to spy on their political opposition. Whatever the buyers of the Pegasus software get, Netanyahu gets it all too. And he then uses it to shake down people he dislikes. Quite a scam. And financed by the US,of course
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Komisja Pegasusa kończy pracę. 10 zawiadomień do prokuratury na urzędników z czasów PiS
Komisja śledcza ds. Pegasusa przedstawiła raport końcowy ze swoich prac. Złożyła dziesięć zawiadomień na byłych ministrów i szefów służb, a prokuratura właśnie potwierdziła jej ustalenia: dane z inwig...
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Commemorating the great poet and man of letters Dennis O'Driscoll (1954-2012), this fifth annual Thurles festival presents fabulous poetry and music in equal measures. www.poetryireland.ie/news-events/...
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Partnership Event: Circling the Square | Poetry Ireland
To mark the birth date of celebrated Belfast poet, John Hewitt, The John Hewitt Society presents an evening of poetry in the pub named after him.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
‘For years the Observer tried to get to the truth of Russian interference until we sacked the reporter involved for participating in union activities’
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Man in a gilet stood on platform 12 gives up on reading the display and asks ChatGPT out loud if he is on the right platform for his train. I don’t want to be dramatic about it but Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth using a stick and knowledge of a distant well.
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murchadhfinn.bsky.social @murchadhfinn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“The facts are known but are of no interest to the public” ~editorial Haaretz When you ‘other’ the indigenous population to such an extent that you’re indifferent to the horrors perpetrated on them, you’re sick. ☕️
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
'Gaza’s missing, or last seen detained, handcuffed, tortured, naked, haunt those who survive: “We don’t know whether to mourn them or wait for them.” www.commondreams.org/further/to-s...
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To Speak the Truth: On the Mediated Obscene | Common Dreams
The anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the three-year, U.S-funded Gazan genocide it ignited marks the birth of a dark new world where "the unthinkable has become banal," where many thousands o...
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Israeli authorities demolished around 80 homes in the Palestinian village of Al-Dhahiya in the Negev region of southern Israel on Monday. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20261012-isr...
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Sinead O'Shea @sineadoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
58 students from Gaza have won scholarships to Irish universities but are unable to secure visas from the Irish Government. The refusal rate has risen from 13% last year to 83% this year. The Government needs to grant these visas. See gazascholarsireland.org for more info. #LetThemStudy
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
‘Ireland has had steady deterioration of standards. Space is one of key declines in latest planning guidelines Allowing a 32sq m studio is equivalent of “two parking spaces with a bathroom & a wardrobe.. so small you need air conditioning to ventilate it” www.irishtimes.com/abroad/2026/...
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Ireland vs Europe apartment living: ‘When family come over... this is not what they envisioned’
Irish people happily living in apartments on the Continent highlight a chasm in building standards, attitudes to communal living and sense of stability
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ori Goldberg, Israeli human rights activist and a prominent voice for Palestinian rights, lost his life to colon cancer today, at the age of 50 💔 Goldberg was a man who always said the truth, without filters A terrible loss, he will be missed may you rest in peace Z"L יהי זכרו ברוך 😢
Ori Goldberg
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/10/2026
Physicians accuse Israeli Medical Association of remaining silent as Palestinian healthcare is systematically destroyed.
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Hundreds of doctors demand World Medical Association suspend Israel
Physicians accuse Israeli Medical Association of remaining silent as Palestinian healthcare is systematically destroyed.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Great stuff from the Telegraph. archive.ph/r2nTA
A 29-year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said the high levels of unemployment were “noticeable” in the area.
“When you go into Somali town, as we call it, you just see people outside in the cafes,” she said, gesturing down the road, before adding: “It annoys me, they are loitering around and doing nothing.”
Addressing her own career path, the 29-year-old said: “I can’t work at the moment because of my mental health. Of course I want to work, I went to uni and studied English Literature for two years. I want to be a writer.”
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 10/10/2026
Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students' textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of Jerusalem, prisoners, the Nakba, and freedom fighters. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra...
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Israel is rewriting the Palestinian curriculum in East Jerusalem to erase Palestinian identity
Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students’ textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of…
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇩🇪🇵🇸 German police violently arrest Pro-Palestinian protesters in Berlin as they mark three years for Gaza genocide (Footage: Molitics)
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TheRightIsWrong (TRIW) @therightiswrong100.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Occupied Palestinians in the West Bank live off of their Olive Trees and raising Sheep and Goats; so how do you inflict more damage on them if you are a Land Stealing Occupying Jewish Israeli “Settler”? By burning their 500-1000 year old olive trees and poising their livestock 👇 Satanic Evil Israel
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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Eoin McNamee: Annie Dillard said: “I had been my whole life a bell and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.” You have to make a bell of yourself and allow the world to ring it. (Although being lifted and struck might well be what I deserve.) www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Eoin McNamee: ‘I’m from Kilkeel so I know exactly what an Orange march is’
The author on new short story collection The Comets, the plight of refugees, and his admiration for Gavin Bazunu
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Meta has shut down Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif’s Instagram account, which contained an extensive archive documenting ' #Israel #’s' war on #Gaza, according to a statement posted... appealing for help restoring the page." www.instagram.com/p/DeSPK8NFId... #Journalism #Palestine #Press
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
But partial truths only from the Observer, who fails to report WHO revealed the Arron Banks/Leave EU emails (me and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social ) and that she, unlike me, suffered years of legal threats, online abuse (including Andrew Neil) and then was peremptorily sacked by the Observer
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Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) on X
But partial truths only from the Observer, who fails to report WHO revealed the Arron Banks/Leave EU emails (me and @carolecadwalla) and that she, unlike me, suffered years of legal threats, online ab...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
⚠️ Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, the woman who headed the UN commission that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Prize & @No... 2h
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize to Navanethem
"Navi" Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
#NobelPrize
ustration: Niklas Elmehed
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2026
Navanethem "Navi" Pillay
"for her efforts to promote peace and international law"
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Ed O’Loughlin @edoloughlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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