Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security.

Just a reminder! If you're buying books in support of #BannedBooksWeek buying from Amazon undercuts the broader project of social justice supporting the right to read is a part of. Get your banned books absolutely anywhere else!

Advocacy Director Courtney Thomas on Beloved by Toni Morrison, one of the most banned and challenged books in the country. #BannedBooksWeek

#Gaels #Ireland 🇮🇪☀️🍀

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

A Message to the Police (British) State News of a Crown Prosecution Service Appeal against the ruling of their own judge is unsurprising. He ruled the charge was ‘unlawful and null’ and it was. It is unsurprising because this whole process has not been driven by the police or the courts, it has been driven by politicans backed up by British media. This is political policing. There is no ‘important point of law’. The CPS have submitted nothing new in their appeal. What there is though, is a state wide witch-hunt against Palestinian solidarity. The media were gleefully informed about this appeal before we were. 😠

A Message to the Police (British) State Once again this is a massive waste of taxpayers money, of police time, of court time. Once again there are endless news reports about Mo Chara, about Kneecap but we are NOT the story. Yesterday 104 Palestinians were murdered in Gaza and hundreds more maimed as Israel commits genocide. Entire families wiped out, people bombed to pieces as they slept, young kids with limbs blown off and no medicai­ne to treat them. This is aided and supported by the British State. We will fight you in your court again. We will win again. FREE PALESTINE / TIOCHFAIDH ÁR LÁ 😠

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Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

Two questions for the Irish and Swedish governments - where are Tadhg and Greta, and what are you doing to bring them home?

Imagine looking at the telly for the next 7 years and every time the President is on you shout out that cunt owes me 3 grand

EURO-COUNTRY

@cmatbaby.bsky.social is serious. Like Dolly Parton serious. Like ABBA ‘Voulez Vous’ era serious. Don’t let the satin fool you.

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How can you take anyone seriously when they think brandy and milk is bizarre?

Why does this remind me of ‘we have to have reconciliation before we can talk about unity’? #speirghorm @fiannafailparty.bsky.social @finegael.bsky.social

Cork at 1pm

Dublin at 12.30pm

🎉 Last chance to enter! Win tickets to our People's Princess', the very brilliant Cmat's sold out gig in the 3 Arena on December 5th and support our work at the same time! 1 ticket for €10, 3 for €24, 5 for €30. Bargain! Closing tomorrow night. #SolidarityIsAVerb 💃
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I liked this post initially because I misread a ‘me’ between ‘annoint’ and ‘the’.

Pub quiz! Thursday 30th October, 7.30pm, Teacher’s Club
Cost of entry is €15 per person, with teams of 4 maximum. Great prizes and raffle on the night.
Craic and a friendly battle of wits, to support our work. #SolidarityIsAVerb #FreePalestine

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

There are emergency protests in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla called around the country tomorrow, keep an eye on social media. This is at the Dáil, 12.30pm. #LiftTheSiege #GazaGenocide

NI Secretary must ‘put neck on the line’ and grant public inquiry, says family of Sean Brown Secretary of State Hilary Benn needs to move beyond sympathetic words and “put his neck on the line” to grant a public inquiry into the death of Sean Brown, his family have said.

On the fringes of the Labour conference, Sean Brown's family continued their battle for truth about his murder.

Secretary of State Hilary Benn had earlier defended a Govt decision to oppose the calling of a public inquiry.

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🇵🇸 That's solidarity! 175 great civil society groups have endorsed our National Demonstration for Palestine Saturday. See you at the Garden of Remembrance at 12.30pm, all out for Palestine! #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide 🇵🇸

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

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Fuck Disney. Cancel your subscription and give your money to someone better who doesn't stifle free speech.

Oh shit, I didn't see where this was going at first.

Rubble

"Children of Gaza are being intentionally starved as a weapon of war."

- Dr Mike Ryan, WHO.

Comparative Conflict Mortality (as of June 27, 2025) Conflict | Total Days | Total Deaths Gaza | 629 | 468,240 (2023- | | 2025) | | | | Aushwitz | 1,733 | ~1,100,000 Key observation: Gaza's current daily mortality rate (745) exceeds Auschwitz-Birenau's historical average (635) by approximately 17%. https://www.reddit.com/r/IsraelCrimes/comments/1lmdq8h/the_gaza_genocide_is_faster_than_auschwitz/#lightbox

At a 5:1 estimate (Harvard), the rate at which Palestinians are dying per day in Gaza (745/day) is 17% higher than the historical average at Auschwitz (635/day).

Yes, you read that right.

Dead on.

The president is using the military to dismantle cities that didn't vote for him

The president is using the military to distract from women speaking out against his and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses.

We are not living in ordinary times. Extraordinary responses are called for.

#Áras25

Fascinating study of - amongst other things - unionism’s association with Judaism and its implications. Also Christian Zionism and how that is - and will continue to affect the world’s shameful response to the horrors in Gaza.