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Three of the kidnapped Irish participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla arrived home to a huge welcome last night. They talk about why they tried to break apartheid Israel's illegal siege of Gaza, acting because our governments refuse to. #FreePalestine #LiftTheSiege
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The #farright Danish People's Party (O) now polling 12%, making it #Denmark 's largest right-wing party.
Why? The Social Democrats ignored a left majority to rule with the centre-right, abandoned workers, & led an attack on #humanrights & #migration in Europe.
Some "Danish model"...
#dkpol #EU2025DK

There's surely a pro-NATO newspaper columnist out there absolutely hammering out a piece about how the tenant owed 3 grand is a Russian spy. The Irish Daily Mail probably has the newspaper article on file ready to go

Presidential Election upended by Jim Gavin's statement This shock development leaves the Fianna Fáil Presidential Election strategy in tatters, writes Sandra Hurley.

So, #JimGavin has confirmed he is "withdrawing" from the race for #Áras25.
Technically he can't withdraw at this point, so his name will still be on the ballot, but the campaign is dead.
There won't be a blunt knife in #FiannaFáil tonight...
#SpéirGorm #CatherineConnolly
www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

On Friday, the ultranationalist minister suggested that Israel would be better off throwing the flotilla participants in prison for several months rather than immediately deporting them back to their home countries. Security prisoners - those incarcerated for offenses that intentionally harm national security - are housed separately from criminal prisoners and are not eligible for many of the benefits available to the general prison population. The term is a catch-all term applied to detainees, convicted prisoners and terrorists, and administrative detainees who are held without charges for extended periods, without trial.

"We are in Ketziot prison, and as I promised, those flotilla members, supporters of terrorism, are here in a security prison," Channel 14 reported Ben Gir as saying. "They receive conditions for terrorists here, for everything, terrorist sweatpants, terrorist conditions. This means, there is a minimum of the minimum, that's what I promised and that's how we are fulfilling it."

The Times of Israel reports that Greta Thunberg & her fellow Flotilla crew are being held in a special "terrorist" section of Ketziot prison—or in "terrorist conditions," as Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security put it.

www.timesofisrael.com/thunberg-sai...

Sharepic mit dem Text: Ost und West. Ungleiches Erbe. 35 Jahre nach der Wende ist die Ost-West-Frage alles andere als erledigt. Was bleibt in Besitzverhältnissen, gesellschaftlichen Ungleichheiten und identitätsstiftenden Alltags-erfahrungen bestehen?

Neues Dossier: Ungleiches Erbe

Neunmal mehr Vermögen wird im Westen vererbt als im Osten – ein Ungleichgewicht, das die Debatte um Gerechtigkeit neu befeuert. Was bedeutet das für Eigentum, Teilhabe und die Zukunft einer solidarischen Gesellschaft?

👉 www.rosalux.de/ungle...

Old wounds reopened for Tamils as mass grave discovered since the civil war A shocking mass grave discovery in Sri Lanka reignites global attention on one of the world's highest cases of unresolved enforced disappearances.

Anyone surprised that the “international community” has allowed #Israel to perpetrate its #GazaGenocide should look at #SriLanka, which in just a few months in 2009 massacred 10s of 1000s of #Tamil civilians in a frenzied end to its war with the #TamilTigers/ #LTTE.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Ah yes, nothing says "fuck you" to endless years of FFFG misgovernment like spoiling your vote and helping them take the Áras as well as the Dáil...
Genius.

‘Plean simplí’ ag Connolly chun an Ghaeilge a chur chun cinn mar uachtarán – ‘í a labhairt gach lá’ Deir an t-iarrthóir neamhspleách gur mhaith léi ‘timpeallacht’ a chruthú san Áras ina mbeidh sé ‘nádúrtha’ an Ghaeilge a chloisteáil

“Tá plean ar leith agam leis an nGaeilge a chur chun cinn le linn na huachtaránachta, agus is plean simplí é: an Ghaeilge a labhairt gach lá, faoi mar a dhéanaim faoi láthair”
Sin é!
#gaeilge #CatherineConnolly #Aras25 #SpéirGorm
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Trump directs generals to defend US from 'war from within' The president lamented about the lack of applause from the crowd.

"I signed an executive order…for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances…
This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room…it’s the enemy from within…
That’s a war too. It’s a war from within"
#Trump saying the quiet #fascist bit out loud…
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

Government set to shut down overnight after Senate blocks funding extension Government funding will run out at the end of the day, and lawmakers do not have a bipartisan solution.

The US govt will shut down shortly, after Senate Democrats blocked a Republican bill to extend the funding deadline.
Unfortunately, I don't think "have you tried switching it off and on again" works with nascent fascist regimes, so more effort may be required.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The utter state of Twitter/X under #Musk: not only has the platform become a sandpit for #fascists, white supremacists, and #Nazis to frolic in, but antifascist accounts are now being surveilled and tagged as "terrorists".
#Antifa #farright #Trump

The #TonightVMTV #presidentialdebate, in a nutshell:
- #CatherineConnolly: "As President, and working together, we can shape a new, united, republic"
- #HeatherHumphreys: "The problem in this country, I suppose, is it's very hard to get staff"
- #JimGavin: *inarticulate waving*
#Áras25 #SpéirGorm

Opinion: Ireland must resist EU attempts to slash and burn environment standards for businesses The EU is trying to gut hard fought protections for workers and the environment. Ireland should get in its way, writes Cillian Quinn of ActionAid Ireland.

"The EU is making moves that would trample on hard-fought protections meant to prevent catastrophic workplace tragedies and environmental abuses. Ireland should stand up against that effort." Read Cillian Quinn's piece in today's TheJournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/irela...

The EU proposes delaying anti-deforestation law, again The European Commission has proposed pushing back the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) for another year, to December 2026, citing concerns that its IT system is not yet ready to handle…

The European Commission has proposed pushing back the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) for another year, to December 2026, citing concerns that its IT system is not yet ready to handle the demands that the regulation would place on it.

The consensus is clear: it’s genocide. Now will international law die in Gaza too? | Raji Sourani The clue is in the name: the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. When will we act?, asks Raji Sourani, the coordinator of the Palestinian legal team at the internatio...

Israel has committed & continues to commit genocide in Gaza

There is a UN convention for exactly this kind of horror: the convention for the prevention & punishment of the crime of genocide

What does refusal to act mean for the 🌎’s shared values of rule of law, democracy, human rights & dignity?

Spain's PM says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece.

So Italy and Spain are sending war ships to protect its citizens from drones from its “friend” Israel?

Where’s the Rapture when you need it..?

Danish PM: airport drone incursion a ‘serious attack’ on critical infrastructure Russia denies involvement after Copenhagen and Oslo airports forced to close after drone sightings

“Danish PM: airport drone incursion a ‘serious attack’ on critical infrastructure
#Russia denies involvement after #Copenhagen and #Oslo airports forced to close…
#drones in #Denmark came from multiple directions, turning their lights on and off for several hours”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Saudi Arabia signs mutual defence pact with nuclear-armed Pakistan Pact declares any attack on Saudi Arabia or Pakistan an attack on both, deepening shared security alliance.

Multipolar world 🎤 drop:
Key US client state #SaudiArabia signs mutual defence pact with #Pakistan, incl nuclear umbrella.
#Israel more isolated, #India wedged (key energy supplier protected by its archenemy & #IMEC in question), & #China regional influence extended
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

Australia joins UK and Canada in formally recognising Palestinian state Move comes as Anthony Albanese tries to secure meeting with Donald Trump and amid warnings that recognition could spark ‘punitive measures’ from the US

Effective immediately: " #Australia has formally recognised #Palestine as a sovereign and independent state, completing a landmark shift in foreign policy over the #Israel- #Gaza war."
#auspol #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #GazaGenocide #IsraeliWarCrimes
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sinn Féin to back Catherine Connolly in race for Áras Sinn Féin has announced that it will support Independent candidate Catherine Connolly in the Presidential Election, ending months of speculation over its position.

“ #SinnFéin has announced that it will support Independent candidate #CatherineConnolly in the Presidential Election, ending months of speculation over its position”
#áras25 #spéirgorm
www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

CEARTA - Agóid Náisiúnta na nGael! ✊🅾
Tá na Gaeil ag dul chun sráide inniu!
⏰1.30pm Satharn 20ú Meán Fómhair
📌Cearnóg Parnell, BÁC
🚨Maoiniú •Funding
🚨Tithíocht •Gaeltacht Housing
🚨Oideachas •Education
🚨Cearta Teanga •Language Rights
Bígí linn!
#DeargLeFearg #Gaeilge #SpéirGorm #Cearta #CeartananGael

O’zapft is!! 🍻
Not your average #Wiesn/ #Oktoberfest.
🍺 🥨🛫🦘
#Oktoberfest2025 #Ozapftis #Wiesn2025
(Previous years shown for contrast)

Following Trump, Orban says Hungary will designate Antifa a terrorist group | CNN Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday that Hungary will follow the lead of US President Donald Trump and designate Antifa, the nebulous far-left anti-fascist group that is more an ideology than a...

“Viktor #Orbán said on Friday that #Hungary will follow the lead of US President Donald #Trump and designate #Antifa …as a terrorist organization”
If you feel the need to declare anti-fascism your enemy, you admit your own #fascism.
The battle for civilisation is now.
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Two-thirds of Australians want a review of AUKUS, while less than half think it will make us safer: poll 66 per cent of Australians support a Parliamentary Inquiry into the AUKUS security agreement, according to new polling commissioned by The Australia Institute.

“It is truly extraordinary that of the three countries that are party to the deal, Australia – which bears the brunt of both the cost and the risk – is the only one not to have put AUKUS to a genuine review."

Petition for an inquiry into AUKUS > theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Projected changes in reef accretion potential and resulting increases in water depth at 2040, 2060 and 2100 under various SSP emission scenarios.

Crossing 2°C is 97% certain (UNEP, 2024)

IPCC SR1.5 (2018): “Coral reefs … projected to decline by 70–90% at 1.5°C (high confidence), with larger losses (>99%) at 2°C.”

Perry et al. 2025: “If warming exceeds 2°C, nearly all reefs (≥99%) will be eroding by 2100.

www.nature.com/artic...

"Honestly the Israeli responses are becoming so boring.They say the same thing every time, but they're producing the responses by ChatGPT these days and they spend so much money in the foreign ministry on propaganda, you'd think that they would actually come up with something original”
#GazaGenocide

" #Israel has committed #genocide in #Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry"
There is no more room for Western politicians to obfuscate (or worse, enable the #GazaGenocide).
The world cannot look away.
We must act, & act now.
#FreePalestine
The key passage of the report:
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...