Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg this morning will assess a fresh call for a suspension of trade relations with Israel in light of escalating attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank as well as its intervention in Lebanon
A rather menacing tweet from Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna.
Donny Trump with his two dads
A proposal to grant planning exemptions for modular homes of up to 45sq.m in back gardens will be brought to the Cabinet
A conservation measure aimed at reversing the decline in the curlew population has yielded a breakthrough as the first recorded instance of a 'headstarted' curlew that has established a breeding territory has been identified
The Sexual Exploitation Research and Policy Institute (SERP) has called on Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan to investigate the role of so-called 'pimping websites' in the Republic of Ireland
I am so tired of hearing “it’s Netanyahu”, it is, but it is so much more than just one man responsible for such barbarity. It is an army, a large proportion of Israeli society who do or support such atrocities on other human beings.
Who’s going to tell these councillors that the moment they step out of their cars, they’re pedestrians too? By their own logic, they’d need to be in hi-vis at all times.
Rather than tackling dangerous driving or poor road design, the responsibility gets dumped on the most vulnerable people instead.
So much of our language reflects
the common “car first” bias around our streets, & we should never forget that much of that language was the result of deliberate campaigns to specifically re-write our perspective of streets as “for cars only.” This is one of the more subtle, but important, examples.
#WATCH | Israeli army sets fire to the homes of residents in Southern Lebanon.
Burning down civilian homes to the ground because all they want is destruction and occupation.
You think Israelis smashing Jesus statues is rare in Israel?
Think again… watch this.
IDF soldier hits Jesus statue with an hammer
🧵 Yesterday's viral image of an IDF soldier desecrating a statue of Jesus in Lebanon was not the first instance of anti-Christian behavior by the IDF.
Netanyahu "condemned" the action, but this is not the first time IDF (or Israelis in general) act against Christians
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Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
If this man had murdered eight strangers the story would lead every news outlet. But because they are his children, it's "family violence," "domestic violence" -- undeserving of the same attention. Even though this violence is much more common
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
Doris Lessing: “A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.”
I wish people would just leave the basking sharks alone. they are completely tormented by drones and boats and paddle boards etc
It seems to be the best year for bluebells in half a century. Bluebells to infinity in Moore Abbey Wood in Monasterevin.
Not just in patches, but everywhere this year.
Howards End (-ish)
LOL.
سوزان ابو الهوى | susan abulhawa @susanabulhawa victim testimony is enough for me and it should be for everyone. N Novara Media @novaramedia. 8h Guards at Israel's notorious Sde Teiman torture camp have admitted their colleagues use dogs to rape Palestinian captives there, according to a prominent Israeli analyst. N
Western Values Update™: sounds about right
(Outright admissions are still not enough evidence to convince Islamophobes that Israel is fundamentally a Nazi level evil ofc.)
It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I am increasingly of the opinion that the moment Avengers Endgame first hit the theatres, everybody involved in Marvel Studios was cursed by a witch and forgot how to do everything that made people like their films.
Why is no one hair on fire that half a million children have died in the year since USAID was gutted?
Why don’t these kids deserve the same outrage as others dying in war or genocide?
Is it because these children’s deaths aren’t politically advantageous to those running in primaries for Congress?
"When I started writing about the climate crisis in the 1980s I was in my twenties, and I didn’t fully comprehend that there could be a force on this planet so steeped in greed & power that it would sacrifice the earth & its inhabitants for its own narrow interests. But there is, and it’s Big Oil."
NYC study shows men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. When protected bike lane coverage is high, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s.
When protected lanes are limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops sharply.
Good bike investments give women choices.
If they’re doing this to Christian statues on camera imagine what they’re doing to Moslem civilians off camera.
Warns, asks, considers, any hope of this shower actually doing something?
I was caught one night trying to pinch zoom on the small writing on a can of beer one night, and that’s a few years ago now. The signs were there….
