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Lisa Fitzpatrick

@marjoriessister.bsky.social
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Theatre lover, author, dog owner, feminist

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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 24/08/2026
Our AI reality belongs to Huxley, not Orwell
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Our AI reality belongs to Huxley, not Orwell
We spent twenty years guarding against Orwell while Huxley let himself in the front door
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The Economist @economist.com · 24/08/2026
Is a reckoning close at hand?
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While Ukraine is under fire, corruption and political chaos abounds
Is a reckoning close at hand?
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Help defend the right to protest on Palestine goodlawproject.org/s/95c3e4
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Help defend the right to protest on Palestine | Good Law Project
The brutal crackdown on our right to protest is happening right now, with people standing in solidarity with Palestine bearing the brunt – so we’re supporting people who refuse to be silenced
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“Draw me like one of your French girls”
A mini schnauzer is reclining on a sofa
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
In case we had any doubt
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Elon Musk's role was 'instrumental' in the Belfast riots, researchers say
The newly crowned world's first trillionaire is once again facing criticism over the violent narratives he amplified on his platform X.
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
sharedfuture.news/the-violence...
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'The violence is continuing': scholars examine embodied memory of conflict - Shared Future News
‘The violence is continuing’: scholars examine embodied memory of conflictby Allan LEONARD6 May 2026 The International Conflict Research…
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Since the Israeli government never lies, this must be 100% absolutely true 🙄
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Lol destroy universities, blow up the creative sector, all for the quick backhander and the consultancy gig they'll get when they lose the next election, absolute clowns.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 02/03/2026
World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.
World Central Kitchen head José Andrés confirms Israel has closed Gaza’s borders indefinitely and warns the NGO will run out of food this week. The group is currently cooking about 1 million hot meals a day.
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Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
SHOW ISRAEL THE RED CARD BAN ISRAEL FROM UEFA & FIFA GLOBAL AND EUROPEAN FOOTBALL/SOCCER #SHOWISRAELTHEREDCARD
SHOW ISRAEL THE RED CARD 

BAN ISRAEL FROM UEFA & FIFA 

GLOBAL AND EUROPEAN 
FOOTBALL/SOCCER 

#SHOWISRAELTHEREDCARD
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway | Marina Hyde
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/01/2026
NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert 🔗⏬
Infographic: Peter Thiel and detail of Palantir’s contracts with UK government departments, agencies and authorities. Where the amount is unknown, the contract has not been included in the overall £672m+ spend. The bulk of the contracts are post 2018, the Olympics contract dates back to 2012 and some work with unreleased dates could be earlier. Design: Lynsey Irvine
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Pixie Thinks🧚🏽‍♀️ @pixiethinkss.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The additional cruelty behind the propaganda of letting chocolate and chips is that they are danagerous snack food items that provide no nutritional value for victims of long term starvation. They do, however speedily advance their diabetic and liver issues and Insulin is not allowed in by Israel.🤬
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I generally dislike conspiracy theories, but I notice that coincidentally Brunel, like Epstein, killed himself in prison. FBI notes detail grim demands Epstein made for procurement of underage girls
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 07/11/2025
Not one work in the exhibition “Global Fascisms” at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt acknowledges the world burning just beyond the door. In Jara Nassar’s words, “What is the role of art when the world is on fire?”
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The Irony of a Fascism Exhibition in Germany
Once a custodian of critical culture, Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt has become a model of capitulation to state control.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 29/10/2025
President Donald Trump's administration has revoked the visa of a Nigerian Nobel laureate after he compared Trump to a brutal dictator, according to a new report.
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Nigerian Nobel laureate's visa yanked after comparing Trump to brutal dictator: report
President Donald Trump's administration has revoked the visa of a Nigerian Nobel laureate after he compared Trump to a brutal dictator, according to a new report. The Guardian reported on Tuesday that the Trump administration revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, who won the Nobel Prize for literature i...
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Good question
Photo of X comment about Trump and Comey
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Rodney Taylor still needs our help! He’s still locked in an ICE camp. He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs. He’s still facing deportation to Liberia. He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored. Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!
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Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 25/09/2025
Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for over 100 days. Now, he faces deportation —for just doing his job. The same energy that defended Jimmy Kimmel should be used to defend Guevara, a journalist who is not facing any charges. Watch @seth-stern.bsky.social on @meidastouch.com for more.
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INCORE Ulster University @ulsteruniincore.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The latest Transitional Justice Institute seminar: “An Omni-crisis in International Law: Iran, Israel, and Gaza.” Excellent discussion and highly recommended youtu.be/xwYc7c6P89Y?...
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An Omni-crisis in International Law: Iran, Israel and Gaza – Webinar
YouTube video by Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
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INCORE Ulster University @ulsteruniincore.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Huge congratulations to Dr Adrian Grant & CAIN for securing funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for his project “Home in Troubled Times: Exploring everyday life and conflict in Northern Ireland using digital archives”, which INCORE is proud to host! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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National Lottery funding for seven Derry heritage projects
The projects include the regeneration of the former Austins deprtment store and St Columb's Hall.
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A man from Northern Ireland was arrested in the US by ICE for “looking Mexican” www.instagram.com/reel/DObSPb4...
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The new issue of Theatre Research International (50:2) will be published very soon, with essays by Dia Barghouti, Yingjun Wei, Naphtaly Shem-Tov, Noemi Herzcog, Linan Xian, and Feng Wei — covering issues in theatre from Palestine, Israel, China and Hungary.
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
www.facebook.com/FreedomFloti...
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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
One arrestee stated: “We want the government to take action on genocide and to stop complying with Israel in killing and slaughtering ... If this was in 1930s Germany, it would be the same as helping the Nazis with their concentration camps”. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/19/p...
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Protesters defy Palestine Action ban - Freedom News
96 arrested around England ahead of legal challenge to group’s proscription, no arrests in Edinburgh and Derry ~ Tim Simon ~ Nearly 100 more people across England have been arrested today (19 July) un...
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DanaKay 🇺🇦 @malketchupstain.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Watch 👇 bsky.app/profile/mapl...
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The Irish government should press ahead with the Occupied Territories Bill, to ban the import of goods and services from illegal Israeli settlements. (And now that I know AirBnB advertise for stays in those territories I’ll be using other apps. I’m disgusted that an Irish company would do this.)
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Failing to learn the lessons of the 1930s
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This doesn’t seem wise at all in the current circumstances, and I wonder at the blind faith the Danish government appears to have in the US. Denmark votes for defence bill giving US access to its airbases
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Noor Lovelace @noorlovelace.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
As someone said prior, the only reason Greta got released is because people were very loud about her specifically. There are still 8 other flotilla members detained, apparently without fresh water in bedbug infested prison. They all deserve to be fought for, too.
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I love Caryl Churchill’s work, and her commitment to social justice. Caryl Churchill pulls out of Donmar Warehouse project over Barclays’ Israel links
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Maggie 🇺🇸⚾️ @lacentrist.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
You don’t even have to be all that savvy to understand what’s going on here. Trump is enriching himself and his family as the sitting POTUS. The corruption runs deep and the meme coin debacle is a dead ringer. He makes Nixon look like a saint. Wake up America. newrepublic.com/post/195068/...
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You Won’t Believe How Much Richer the Trumps Have Gotten This Year
How in the hell does he get away with this? Here’s the answer.
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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The current UK government wants to 'turbocharge' AI with new purpose-built data centres in this country (there are already 153 data centres here). Meanwhile United Utilities just asked us to start considering our water usage because reservoirs are more than 20% lower than this time last year.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Israel has created a deadly concentration camp & is starving civilians, including babies, to death. Everyone knows this is happening. Over the next few weeks politicians will sombrely stand by memorials that read “never again” without, somehow, bursting into flames in the heat of their hypocrisy.
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Sam Tranum @samtranum.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If you want to spread the word about something good to get out and do in Dublin, please let us know about it so we can consider including it in our @dublininquirer.com email newsletter.
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If you know about something to do in Dublin that you'd like us to share in our newsletter, please fill in the form below. It could be an art exhibition, a film, music to go see, theatre, comedy, somet...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – UK politics live
‘Any strategy based on either phasing out fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,’ says former PM
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
Andry José Hernández Romero
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
KAMALA: “I’m not here to say I told you so — fear is contagious, but courage is also contagious.”
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
A friend in Canada has shared this with me. Canadian scholars working on research that is funded in part or in whole through US scholarships have been asked if the work conforms to the current US administration. International collaborations are common in research so this chills partnerships etc
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/b...
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U.S. Presses French Companies to Comply With Trump’s Anti-Diversity Policies (Gift Article)
A letter from the American Embassy in France gave firms that do business with the U.S. government five days to indicate their agreement.
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Is there no mistake that this government won’t make? “UK does not want to ‘escalate’ Trump’s trade wars, says Reeves” - Sky News
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Oxfam GB @oxfamgb.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
📢 The UK Government plans to make deep cuts to the aid budget, claiming it’s a choice between defence spending or humanitarian aid. Yet a small tax on the super rich would raise £24 billion a year. Tell your MP to speak up ➡️ bit.ly/4i0SgK6
Green image with bank notes in the background. White text reads, "We could raise 24 billion pounds a year by taxing the super rich. So why cut aid to people facing poverty?"
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
As @oxfamgb.bsky.social makes clear, Israel’s decision to block aid to over 2 million Palestinians Gaza is “a reckless act of collective punishment, and is explicitly prohibited under international humanitarian law”. Full Oxfam statement here: oxfam.org.uk/mc/yf84ug/
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Lisa Fitzpatrick @marjoriessister.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Zelenskyy is what a real alpha male looks like - courageous and loyal to the people he leads.
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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Give us a follow for more updates on the case, and ways to take action 🤝 Read more here:
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Fossil fuel firm’s $300m trial against Greenpeace to begin: ‘Weaponizing the judicial system’
Experts warn victory for Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a Trump donor, could have a ‘chilling’ effect on free speech
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 04/02/2025
This is the new McCarthyism. And this time, the Witch Hunt will be automated.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Hey MAGA! Just because someone is a woman or a racial or sexual minority doesn’t mean they’re a DEI hire. Yes, there are unqualified people being appointed to government positions in the Trump administration, but they are mostly unqualified, straight white male idiots.
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