Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸

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Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all

Lammy and Labour disgracing themselves again (as per usual). But there needs to be more noise from @uofglasgow.bsky.social as well- use your institutional power to demand Manar and her family be allowed come to Glasgow

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GET IN MY SON

Fintan O’Toole: Catherine Connolly should keep her inner Basil Fawlty under wraps Accusing our EU allies of being proto-fascist warmongers is not a winning strategy

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Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

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The intense Israeli forces offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at risk. • The unacceptable level of risk has led us to reluctantly decide to suspend our lifesaving activities in Gaza City. • Israeli authorities must immediately guarantee unhindered access and security for humanitarian organisations operating in Gaza City. GAZA - The relentless Israeli offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, has forced Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend vital medical activities in the area due to the rapidly deteriorating security situation. The situation includes continued airstrikes and advancing tanks less than one kilometre from our healthcare facilities. The escalating attacks from Israeli forces have created an unacceptable level of risk for our staff, forcing us to suspend lifesaving medical activities. "We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces," says Jacob Granger, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Gaza. "This is the last thing we wanted, as the needs in Gaza City are enormous, with the most vulnerable people - infants in neo-natal care, those with severe injuries and life-threatening illnesses - unable to move and in grave danger." While large numbers of people have fled south due to evacuation orders, there are still hundreds of thousands of pople in Gaza City, who are unable to leave and have no other option but to stay. Those who are able to leave face an impossible choice: either remain in Gaza City under intense military operations and the deterioration of law and order, or abandon what's left of their houses, their belongings, and their memories, to move to areas where humanitarian conditions are rapidly collapsing.

At the same time, partially functional hospitals across the Strip are overwhelmed due to severe shortages of staff, supplies, and fuel. Patients also face enormous obstacles reaching care, often arriving late and in critical condition. Last week alone, and despite the mounting offensive, our clinics in Gaza City carried out over 3,640 consultations and treated 1,655 people with malnutrition. We have also treated patients with severe trauma injuries, burns, as well as pregnant women and others requiring ongoing medical care who are unable to leave the city. This shows the scale of medical needs. Although we have been forced to suspend our activities in Gaza City, we aim to continue supporting key services in Ministry of Health facilities, including Al-Helou and Al-Shifa hospitals, while they continue to function. Access to and the provision of safe drinking water, food, shelter and care is increasingly restricted. People in Gaza City have been repeatedly and relentlessly bombed. They are exhausted and are being deliberately deprived of the essentials needed to survive. We call for an immediate halt to the violence and concrete measures at the necessary scale to protect civilians. Israeli authorities must immediately guarantee unhindered access and security for humanitarian organisations operating in Gaza City, and acceptable conditions for the safe and sustained delivery of medical care and humanitarian aid, conditions that are clearly not in place today.

Horrific: Doctors Without Borders is suspending medical work in Gaza City due to Israel's violence, including airstrikes & tanks less than 1KM from their facilities.

Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.

My one question about this ludicrous nonsense is, who is the supposed shooter, and what *ACTUALLY* happened to him. Very convenient that he "took his own life".

Yes. This. 1000x this. The best thing the UK (and Ireland) could do to improve its politics would be to start tuning out this American culture war nonsense which has absolutely no relevance to or bearing on our society whatsoever.

How to Practice Politics the Right Way How leaving a cult showed me how people really change. And why the answer isn’t a left-wing Charlie Kirk.

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Maybe it is appropriate then that so many large media institutions are carrying on his “work” to facilitate “open dialogue” by letting the right call for Civil War, retribution, and violence while firing anyone who simply accurately describes the things that Charlie Kirk said and did.

congrats to all the media outlets carrying on charlie's work of silencing speech

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what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

When he’s right he’s right, although as usual, he’s only saying this to pressure countries to buy American oil instead of

This Ukrainian orchestra created an overture imitating the sound of Russian Shahed drone attack. And I guarantee you it’s one of the most chilling things you’d ever hear.

This is exactly how drone attack sounds like : the nauseating moped-like

Just 40 days ago, Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed by an unhinged Trump supporter and the story has basically already vanished from the national consciousness. DO NOT LET IT.

Nothing but silence was the response when this happened. Still is.

Guardian screenshot Farage furious over Jo Brand's 'throw battery acid not milkshake' joke Brexit party leader calls for police action over comedian’s comments on BBC Radio 4 Jedidajah Otte Wed 12 Jun 2019 19.32 BST The BBC has defended the comedian Jo Brand against claims she incited violence in comments she made during a radio show. Brand, who joined the Heresy talk show on Radio 4 as a guest on Tuesday, joked about throwing battery acid at “unpleasant characters” instead of milkshakes. I Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit party and one of several European election candidates that had milkshakes thrown on them in recent weeks, tweeted: “This is incitement of violence and the police need to act.”

CAN YOU IMAGINE CALLING FOR SOMEONE TO BE ARRESTED FOR A TWEET?!?!

#cartoonistsforg4za

Chasing Reform voters who hate him

‘Serious concerns’ over conspiracy theory group forming shadow system of county councils Organisation’s activities ‘risk misleading or exploiting citizens’, says elected Fianna Fáil figure

The SovCit movement comes to Ireland, as if the country didn’t have enough problems already 🤦🏽‍♂️

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Literally my thoughts- no self reflection whatsoever but will blame everyone else but themselves when they get a fascistic government. And then will subsequently persist making the same mistakes.

And of course, it won’t be Labour’s fault at all. Classic.

This Day in Labor History: August 21, 1791. The Haitian Revolution began. Let's talk about the most successful slave rebellion in history!

I stand corrected!

Didn’t he campaign against the AV referendum in 2011?

Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...

A wee message we projected at Sziget last night 👇

This. Many, many times over.

In other news, the Pope has been confirmed to be Catholic

Zelensky Learned the Wrong Lesson From Trump Trump withdrew from the fight against kleptocracy, and other countries have absorbed that fact.

5/ This piece by Franklin Foer makes a lot of sense:

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‘Get your act together’: Donald Trump tells Europe to address immigration Hundreds of protesters gather in Edinburgh and Aberdeen to voice their opposition to US president

Really really hoping for some European leader (any one will do) to tell Mango Mussolini to keep his ignorant comments to himself and to stay out of domestic political issues that have nothing to do with him

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I feel bad for anyone who ever co-authored with him back before he came out as a complete fascist