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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 3h
Omar El Akkad in conversation with Michael Magee in Mandela Hall, Belfast tonight. A profound discussion about the genocide in Palestine, settler-colonial violence, rapacious capitalism and the liberal middle-ground chasm of nothingness. Free Palestine!
Omar El Akkad and Michael Magee on stage in Mandela Hall. A packed audience in the foreground.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 7h
Viktor Orban travelled to Belfast yesterday, appearing alongside the Northern Irish anti-abortion group Precious Life, "celebrating" preventing Belfast City Hall from joining"International Safe Abortion Day" Precious Life's former director, Jim Dowson, is a far-right extremist with ties to Hungary.
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Viktor Orban was in Belfast last night at City Hall

Precious Life and other prolife groups were celebrating after successfully preventing City Hall from being lit up to celebrate 'International Safe Abortion Day' 

📸 Precious LifeAnti-abortionist resigns from job
Anti-abortion poster The anti-abortion campaign has come in for criticism

The leader of the controversial anti-abortion group Precious Life is reported to have quit his job because of his views.

Jim Dowson, 33, who has admitted previous involvement with hard-line loyalist groups in the west of Scotland, was told he should curb his activities or face dismissal. Notorious far-right extremist returns to Scotland to fund growing anti-immigration protests
Jim Dowson has spent the last 20 years fundraising for the far-right in ­Scotland, Northern Ireland, Hungary and the US.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 17h
"Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians & injured at least 13 others, incl. children & displaced people, in attacks across the #Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to medical sources & Palestinian media reports." Israeli Attacks Kill Ten Palestinians in Gaza imemc.org/article/isra... #GazaNews #Israel
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From Rahaf in Gaza to the people of the Garvaghy Rd 🇵🇸❤️💚
Rahaf, a 16 year old girl from Gaza holds a sign in solidarity with Garvaghy Rd residents. It reads,
Garvaghy road residents deserve peace and justice 
No orange marches!!
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From Gaza to Garvaghy, injustice is injustice.
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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I want to support Labour for obvious reasons but again and again they make it impossible, playing directly into the hands of extremists. It’s not like there are no precedents for their appeasement. Aren’t they scared of where we are & their part in that ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5yjzj8l5k5o
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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
The arrivals of two unescorted migrant boats mark the first uncontrolled landings recorded in the UK since 2025.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UNLAWFUL ARREST On Sunday, police forcefully detained and handcuffed a young man under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act. They stripped him of clothing while dragging him across the floor. He had not committed any crime.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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PAT FINUCANE CENTRE @finucanecentre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.declassifieduk.org/i-was-a-seni...
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I was a senior British army lawyer. This is the truth about ‘lawfare’
Concerns about elderly Northern Ireland veterans are being used to protect the SAS from the Afghanistan inquiry
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Tom Griffin @tcgriffin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A killing linked to theDrumcree dispute. www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...
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Death of a reporter
Why a loyalist gunman shot Martin O'Hagan.
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bryant actually did "there are good people on all sides". Not seeing London riding to the rescue, TBH.
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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sadly taking the soup is where we are 😢 Important piece by Colin Sheridan, Irish Examiner #stopthegame #dontplay www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...?
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Ireland? I will not be watching this team again. My children can decide for themselves
Ireland’s footballers could have shown what happens when people with something miniscule to lose decide that principle matters more than their own convenience. They chose self-interest
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.
Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Jaime" is harvesting figs at min. wage in Madera CA. "There isn't enough good fruit. Usually we harvest through November but many locations have already stopped. We expected to be working longer. Now we need to look for another job as we need this income to pay rent." #WeFeedYou
Crates of harvested figs
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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“... he informed it all with an inherited respect for the power and potential of an emancipatory egalitarianism.” ~ An extract from ‘[John] Hewitt on Ulster’ by Michael D. Higgins (2014) irishpages.org/product/the-...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)
A single building is left standing amidst utter carnage. Every single building has been levelled across a few square miles pictures. Google maps identified one pile of rubble as a school.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Foreign Minister of the apartheid state. How often will the Irish government and the FAI allow these genocide perpetrators to insult us, to insult our team? The games against Israel must not go ahead. #StopTheGames
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Shame is a revolution in itself…” - Karl Marx
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Cllr Brian Smyth @briansmyth99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wish the urgency and fight on both sides of the Garvaghy Rd row was the same around the demise of Lough Neagh. Sure, it's only our drinking water. Stormont couldn't care less.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From forth the fatal fucking loins of these two foes (For the day that's in it)
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is a genuine incomprehension amongst many journalists and politicians that anyone might care sincerely about Palestinians or seriously object to their indiscriminate slaughter. The natural human response to this genocide is something they simply cannot understand.
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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just to fully underline how spiteful this shit is for those unaware: On the left is the route the Orange Order have been ordered to take for the past 3 decades without trouble. On the right is the route that has brought hundreds of cops to Drumcree. The only motivation is sectarian antagonism.
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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The problem with John Self’s post is that he reviews fiction for the Irish Times and that can have a real effect on an author’s career. So when he equates the Garvaghy Road protestors against unionist supremacy with anti-immigrant fash, that’s a real problem for authors writing about these topics.
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Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll be thinking of this the next time this poster describes a novel as a 'love letter' to the six counties
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Carla Lockhart Is claiming this morning that she was keeping the peace in Scarva, unlike what's happening on the Garvaghy this morning. Just a swift reminder of Carla keeping the peace. #Garvaghy #Scarva
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Eamonn Noonan @duhallow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gavin Bazunu, Irish sports person of the year.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Gavin Bazuna ✊✊🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After Sheeran, use of a threat like this cannot be ruled this out.
Daniel Lambert @dlLambo
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Hearing from several sources around Ireland hotel that agents are telling players you must play our you'll never play for a US owned team the UK.
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How grim and predictable from faceless agents profit in the background.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Come on the Irish players! You can do this! Fuck Israel. Don't play those bastards. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 26/09/2026
#OtD 26 Sep 1940 German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist, Walter Benjamin died in Portbou at the French-Spanish border while attempting to escape from invading Nazi forces. The most likely cause of death was suicide stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9870...
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Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tommo's Tears 🥲🎻 (nice one, court artist Elizabeth Cook and The Guardian)
Court drawing of roofer and wannabe racist influencer Daniel Thomas crying tears of Legitimate Concerns in court today. Fucking knob.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Would it not have been easier for him to note who was still there? Save a bit of time.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolute madness that the Parades Commission has "allowed" the Orange Order to march down the Garvaghy Rd.
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
JFC. There is no shame, no conscience, no regard for animals and the natural world.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Micheál Martin applauded at the UN, condemning what’s happening in Gaza/West Bank “Nobody will be able to say that we did not know. Let it not be said that we did not act.’ Meanwhile his Gov has refused visas to fully funded students from Gaza. Talking out of both sides of his mouth
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theonlyjunedoe @theonlyjunedoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE took my friend and neighbor, Alma. Didn't tell anyone. Left her car in a random parking lot. She was about a mile from our homes. She had her uniform on, going to work. We were single mothers after divorces at the same time.We watched out fo each other in this what we could afford neighborhood.
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...
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The Ferret @theferret.scot · 24/09/2026
After anti-immigration riots left dozens of Belfast households homeless this summer, we travelled to the city to investigate links between Northern Ireland’s anti-immigration movement and groups operating in Scotland. Our latest: www.theferret.scot/p/750961d9-452e-…
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Rossa @rossac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@robyninpink.bsky.social Thank you for raising awareness about endometriosis. It's a long struggle to receive a diagnosis and treatment for too many of us. Even when we eventually do, the options aren't great and we have to muddle through with very little support. Solidarity!
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
‘Interactions.’
AP headline 

Six Palestinians have been killed this week in interactions with Israeli settlers
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"One of Palestine’s foremost intellectuals and leaders. Kanafani’s universalism and commitment to Palestine will eternally serve as a model." --Ilan Pappe Available for pre-order now!
Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968
by Ghassan Kanafani

Introduction by Rashid Khalidi
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Luke Pollard on Today talking about “our friends in Saudi”. They’re no friends of mine, Luke. But then again, I don’t get positively horny talking about fighter jets either, you fucking ghoul.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Israel has been found guilty today in Geneva of war crimes including extermination, forcible transfer, starvation, torture and false imprisonment, sexual violence including rape... and many more If it was any other country than Israel all of Europe would boycott them. Instead there will be silence
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Millions of Chopped Landlord Pieces @thirteentwelve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Charlotte Church roasting Ed Sheeran over a Dead Kennedy's cover
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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A mobile phone lights a medical point in northern Gaza, where nurse Ibrahim Radwan treats injured and sick Palestinians amid severe shortages.
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Let this haunt Jim O'Callaghan for the rest of his days. When you've got Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh arguing against you, you know you're on yhe wrong side of history. Minister opposes Gaza student’s challenge over refusal of visa to study at Trinity. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
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Minister opposes Gaza student’s challenge over refusal of visa to study at Trinity
Student who got fully-funded five-year scholarship is among more than 100 denied visas
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