Philip O'Connor

I hate how accurate this tweet is.

I have stood in the rooms where similar forced medical experiments on prisoners were carried out.
The place was called @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social, you might have heard of it.

We were the first journalists to enter the Kurdish city of Kobane since Syrian government forces advanced across the country's northeast in January.
My report here: www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

Call your government TDs and your ministers. Go to their clinics, or Dáil Eireann.
Make them hear you out, and then look you in the eye and tell you why they cannot speak out against the killing of children.
Let them feel your anger, but most of all, your resolve.
This is how change happens.

As I have said many times, politicians exist to serve the people and not the other way round.
It's high time principled, decent, peace-loving Irish people reminded both the belligerent windbags and silent nodding donkeys that supporting and aiding war is not what they were elected to do.

Hamstrung by the number of seats they have, opposition parties can only do so much - but citizens marching and contacting the people they chose to elect them by phone and email to ask why they are not reflecting their wishes is much more powerful and immediate. THAT is the true opposition.

The political calculus is that voters vote once every four years and then do nothing until it's time to vote again, and in the Irish context that is often true - but if enough constituents get off their arses and protest, elected reps can be influenced and their policies changed.

By not calling out an illegal war that has already seen hundreds of children killed, once again the Irish government is at odds with the will of the Irish people.
Winning a seat or election is not a blanket mandate to do whatever you want - it is the granting of the right to represent the voters.

Apropos of nothing
Why not treat yerselves to a nice shiny copy of
Another Fine Mess and read about some of History's funniest catastrophes
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To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.

In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.

This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

21st-century Western geopolitics is just one big racism competition.

How many recused themselves from votes on the housing crisis which they stand to benefit from?
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess ... none.
Not a single one.

It won't be the children of the middle class either. It's always, always the poor.

I am ashamed of my country's recent shameless pandering to the far right. As well as the increase in deportations, many decent, hardworking people who have been here for years have been left waiting for months for renewal of their existing permits to live & work here.

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Lol

Journalists and producers covering the Trump-Netanyahu bombings!
The most important question to ask yourselves today is: Where are the Iranian voices in my coverage, and how can their stories be centred and told?

Now you've made me think what they might be ... 😳

I honestly have no idea how she still gets on the radio - she just blabbers a load of warmed-over British culture-war shite without any pushback whatsoever.

"On the panel this morning, Brenda Power ..." *click*

Jag vet att man ska inte ha förväntningar, men hur fan kunde en fullblodsnazist som ATM skaffa sig en karriär inom svensk media innan hon gick över till politiken?
En synnerligen talanglös krönikor och kommentator.

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Statement by President Connolly following strikes on Iran

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Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

This is the policy of Fortress Europe now - the chance to of a long-term, secure future is the final "pull factor" the racists want removed.
They are prepared to split families and send young people to their deaths, and you will lament ICE and mourn Renée Good, but say nothing for those among you.

What more can be said of those who would bomb children in the name of "freedom"?

Michael D Higgins regrets not calling out ‘disastrous capitalism’ more Former president said much of world’s wealth was now concentrated among ‘a few hundred people’

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Sweden's racist government deported two sisters - without their parents and siblings - to Iran.
Today they were bombed, sending farewell messages to their friends because they thought they were going to die. As yet, they are alive.
Fuck every last one of you racists that voted for this.

Related point, if you are in misinformation research and have been launching study after study to see what Uncle Fred thinks after seeing misinformation PLEASE listen to what @katestarbird.bsky.social and I have been saying for years: effects on elite and official action is what matters most.