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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

DON'T PLAY DON'T PLAY DON'T PLAY Martin Leahy at rally in Cork today singing his powerful & emotive track, supported by Andy; get it Number 1 to keep pressure on team/FAI to #stopthegame #dontplay Purchase for about €1: amazon or apple or bandcamp This is about humanity 🙏 #speirghorm

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labcoatjoe.bsky.social @labcoatjoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So called "race realist" objects to being "smeared" as racist

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New: police are being explicitly told to hide the fact they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them. Basically, do not mention this in official police reports. If the tech is completely legal and acceptable, like law enforcement say, why hide it? www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

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‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Irish News covers our FOI on this extraordinary meeting. This far-right group is comprised largely of National Front & neo-nazi linked individuals and target migrant properties on the North Coast. A recent human rights report highlighted the targeting an immigration law practice in Coleraine.. [1/n]

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Northern Ireland council kept no record of chief executive’s meeting with far-right group

A council chief executive held a meeting with representatives of a far-right anti-immigration group without any agenda, terms of reference or minutes being produced, it has emerged.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If Trump made a speech where he rejected the legitimacy of judicial action restraining the State we’d all know what we were hearing. Just because the ideas are delivered by a character consistently speaking in a tone of watered down milk doesn’t change what it means.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Man in the High Castle destroyed every swastika prop after filming, so nothing could end up as a souvenir or extremist symbol.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Much of the German mainstream is (finally) panicking that the AfD may indeed be, from top to bottom, the new Nazi party. It is grimly fascinating that they are still portrayed as ”a few bad apples” whereas all the apples are bad. Every single one.

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Like I'm sorry you are going to start restricting some kinds of water use without even knowing who is using the water??? Hmmmmmmm curious

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

While across the rest of the northern hemispere beavers are increasingly helping alleviate flooding, massively boosting natural ecosystems and local economies, in Ireland they're still barely even mentioned. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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How eight beavers solved a decades-old Tube flooding problem

The creatures were reintroduced in 2023 after being hunted to extinction 400 years ago

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I have never seen such a bunch of reactionaries in my life as the US media establishment. Someone with 0 followers & a sickle in the bio told you to go die so now all leftism is evil. some asshole on an ebike ran into your kid so now bike lanes must be destroyed. Its like watching children do meth

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026

When the Artemis program was first announced, the claim, all over the website, was that the landing mission (which has since been shifted from III to IV) would include "the first woman and the first person of color" to walk on the Moon. Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.

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NASA scrubs promise to land first woman, first person of colour on the moon from web pages | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign to eliminate diversity efforts and language from government organizations has officially reached the moon, with NASA erasing references to its promise to land th...

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The left "The police are inept and corrupt, not all at all suited for almost all of the duties assigned to them" The right "You lefty scum! How dare insult our brave boys in blue! Anyway, the police are working in secret with Muslims and Communists to wipe out white people"

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

If you ever see anyone arguing for more crackdowns on social welfare fraud, remind them that there is none to speak of and that, far from saving money, the last time they opened a tipline for SW fraud it *cost* the state approx €471,320 in wasted investigations.

Screenshot from 2017: Take FOI act cost for Civil Service work of €20 per hour, and presume an average of 1hr of investigation per tip, that’s €471,320 wasted.
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Of 28,022 anonymous reports of fraud to Dept Social Protection in 2012, 23,566 turned out not to be fraud at all.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

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People will make all types of
assumptions about what I was, so I’m going to make that info clear here. I am a
straight male. I am certainly not left wing, nor am I right wing especially not with
Maga or Trump, politically I’d call myself a Third Positionist specifically aligning
most with Nationalist Socialism and Eco Fascism though any Third Positionism
especially those that prioritize its people, nationalism, racial homogeneity, nature,
traditionalist ideals, etc. is one I agree with and would follow. What was I
religiously? Doesn’t matter, really at the end of the day as a friend once said, my
religion is the white race.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Another q for #historians Looking for any research on political surveillance in inter-war South Africa...

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🧵 Fascinated with narcissistic sociopaths, having encountered one in person. The most infamous case is the US President. The medico-scientific community have followed the analysis by some of the world’s most respected profs on Trump with enormous alarm. They have released a new scary analysts [1]

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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I've checked my Irish Media Protest Manual and it says that if you trap people in their cars over a period of time then you are falsely imprisoning them and you should be charged and sent to prison

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Members of the Iranian Jewish community inspect what is left of their synagogue in Tehran after Israel bombed it. On Passover...

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Apropos of nothing, a parasite never lets a good crisis go to waste.

House-builder Michael O'Flynn pauses new contracts amid 'huge concern' over Iran war price rises

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I’m just a dum-dum girl, someone please explain how we get the troopies into Iran and then past all those mountains where surely nothing bad will happen to them

A topographical map of Iran. My, grandmother, what big mountains you have

Also options for getting troops across the border seem to be 1) sail them across the Persian Gulf from Kuwait (seems bad); 2) pakistan (lmao no); 3) afghanistan (lmao fuck no); 4) iraq (see previous answer); 5) turkmenistan /azerbaijan / armenia (no???); eastern Turkey (full of mountains, also seems like a no, dawg)

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Ireland take note. #SpeirGorm

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating. Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Today, Paul Murphy said that the Government are afraid to stand up to big tech, and Micheál Martin replied "How dare you? Who the hell do you think you are? That is a reprehensible assertion."

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.

A screenshot from the Graham Linehan Facebook page, dated January 26, 2017.

"Here's something to watch for: sub-par entertainers/hacks etc smelling that sweet right wing sucker money and making their move."

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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I know I don't shut up about this but, fellow Irish people, if you see a racist sticker when you're out and about, then tear it off. It takes ten seconds. Even if you only manage to tear away a part of it, it shows that your neighborhood doesn't stand with the small, hateful people that put them up

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Near-real time editing of fascist reality via digital image manipulation. Also: Racist as folk darkening of skin tone & that tracks with the white supremacist project at the core of the Trump Regime. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The party line has gone from "women have to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or genAI will be left behind."

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AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

After 14yrs of prioritising Data Centres above housing, Paschal Donohoe is now worried about the waste of resources. He held the purse strings, he shaped the policy and he shat on the public. Spare me the damascene conversion story arc.

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Data centres are not only energy-intensive, they are water-intensive.
Global Al-related water demand could reach 4.2-6.6bn m3 by 2027, four to six times Denmark's annual use.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

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Jihad al-Haqq ۞ جہاد الحق @jihadalhaqq.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Worth reposting here because it is unbelievable how indistinguishable a lot of leftists are from right wing conspiracists

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Gary Gannon TD @garygannontd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

How do they get away with this stuff? They’re either purposefully misleading, or just blatantly ignorant to the facts. Family reunification accounts for less than 1% of inward migration to Ireland. It just means a traumatised person gets to be with their spouse or child while they restart their life

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.eurosky.social · 12/01/2026

The chair of the Legal Aid Board has just told a FLAC conference that the government is refusing to properly fund the Board to deal with the asylum process under the new Pact, and that it's at risk of driving "an organisation in perpetual crisis to actual collapse" #speirghorm

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Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Another 10% were from Afghanistan. You know, that place with the Taliban.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Again I'm reminded of Eddie Izzard talking about Europe's attitude towards Hitler in the 30s: "In a few more years we won't stand for that!"

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot

The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Daryl 𝘊𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘮𝘤í𝘯 🎃 Feehely @darylfeehely.com · 05/01/2026

This is what Patrick O'Donovan is taking aim at, an appreciation post for the outgoing President, not all the illegal content currently being generated by Grok. #IrishPol

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 05/01/2026

Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead

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Just saw a photo that Grok produced of a child no older than four years old in which it took off her dress, put her in a bikini + added what is intended to be semen. ChatGPT does not do this. Gemini does not do this.

Another girl who appears to be just 11 or 12 with a brain tumor, Grok removed her shirt completely.

Stating that the people producing the prompts are the only ones responsible puts an undue burden on victims, most of which have no idea this is happening. This problem + exploitation of children could be fixed in a matter of minutes by the MechaHitler team.

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Slovenia and Spain have condemned Israeli legislation that includes measures to cut water, electricity and communications to facilities run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees #UNRWA Only seven.

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Tammy Garrison @hauntedhideaway.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

This is called pillaging.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

We need to otherize weird right wing billionaires like the smear campaigns they fund against minorities do. Musk leads a baby breeding cult and Thiel wants to suck up the blood of young people. They’re fucking weird and more people need to know.

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Kat La Ronde @katlaronde.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

It’s that time of year again! And by that I mean time to read this hilarious story.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech.

When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.”

What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.

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