This afternoon Melissa Baird and Michael Kennedy will be talking about the fallout from the failed Sunningdale peace deal in NI in 1974-5

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Did you know that you can explore 1000s of materials (maps, photos, letters & all sorts of ephemera) by exploring our online catalogue: https://ow.ly/xSNg50YKtZQ

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Who owns presidential records? Trump's Justice Department says it's him The Trump administration asserts a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional. Historians warn important papers could be destroyed.

The Trump administration asserts a nearly 50-year-old law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional. Historians warn important papers could be destroyed. n.pr/4sIYv9O

This is an excellent overview of the issue, to the extent it's actually an issue.

US Catholic bishops seem to be directly engaging JD Vance here.

Vance suggested that the pope was unaware of Catholic Just War Theory — thereby missing the pope’s point, namely, that the US/Israel attack on Iran, launched mid-negotiations, cannot satisfy the Just War criteria.

Needed something to binge this weekend. Chose Man in the High Castle on Netflix.

Bad choice.

Decided to turn on the news tonight and seriously could not tell the difference between what I was hearing and the show.

I’m so, so angry at Americans for being so careless with humanity. Shame on us.

Jesus. This is what we should be fighting…every day. Instead, we can’t get ourselves together to resist turning ourselves into a fascist state, much less decide that 8 babies dead in one day should never, ever happen.

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“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

Calling an entire culture (whatever that is) “regressive” and “dysfunctional” is literally like the last step on the way to genocidal ideation.

‘Everything has changed’: bittersweet emotions as Lebanese return south Determined to see their homes, displaced residents use shaky ceasefire to journey to their villages – but the mood turns sombre when they arrive

‘Everything has changed’: bittersweet emotions as Lebanese return south

Murdered women are never the priority, even when it is their own murder.

Stormont is funding CIA-linked firm whose secretive and powerful tech is being used by Trump’s trigger-happy ICE Former employee said they started questioning ‘if we should have built what we built’ as SF minister orders officials to examine what’s going on

In January, Donald Trump's ICE killed in cold blood Reneé Good & Alex Pretti...and then smeared these innocent civilians as "domestic terrorists". Incredibly, hapless and supposedly cash-strapped Stormont is now funding one of ICE's powerful tools.

This is not our first rodeo, folks.

US history is full of examples of how violence & intimidation is used to influence voting.

Moreover, I have no doubt some sort of emergency powers to be used to curtail voting. Mark my words, history shows this is the low-hanging fruit of curtailing democracy.

Wilmington NC, 1898. Election Day 11/8 was quiet. NC Dems gerrymandered wards, intimidated Black voters, stuffed boxes, eliminated ballots w/wrong paper & 2 days later, a local group faked a Black uprising to justify their municipal coup & attack. Two diff events w/long legacies. #RacePlaceandMemory

Also me. 🕯️🏞️🕯️🕯️🌊🏇

Opinion: Pope Leo’s strong voice finds an audience, even among non-believers Rite & Reason: In criticising the pope so harshly, Donald Trump seems to have lost the run of himself

Opinion: Pope Leo’s strong voice finds an audience, even among non-believers

As someone who had to endure an emergency c-section without anesthesia, that scene was not fun to watch. If you know the scene, you know the scene. I remember some of that process, but now I got to see it from the other side. Not sure I needed to see it, though!

Me, too! 😂

I feel like I need to bring a picture of Siouxie to my stylist and say, THAT - that is how choppy I want my bob.

Gloria!

Laura Branigan was amazing…

Man, 1983 was a wonderful music year.

This is what I’ve tried to capture about the trauma of COVID:
“I understood then that there just weren’t enough people willing to surrender to what needed to be done, which made the burden that much larger for those who were.”
…& we went back to “normal,” millions gone, & people wanted to ignore it.

Facts

I want to go to bed, but videos from 1983 are tying me to the couch! Brings me back to my early MTV days…we were lucky to have it from the beginning, and I was a TV kid.

Complying with IHL in large-scale conflicts: movement, mass displacement and maintaining family links In large-scale conflicts, IHL helps limit displacement, protect civilians and preserve family links through advance planning and safeguards.

Movement, mass displacement & maintaining family links in large-scale conflicts: a post with my @icrc.org colleague @helenobregon.bsky.social on @icrclawpolicy.bsky.social.

It's Not You Check out this great listen on Audible.com. “Why am I still single?” If you’re single and searching, there’s no end to other people’s explanations, excuses, and criticism explaining why you haven’t found a partner: “You’re too picky. Just find a go...

This was listed as a must read by @shanisilver.bsky.social on her Substack…I’m already only 2 of 27 in, but, man, do I feel seen!

Noraid documentary on Irish-American funding of IRA wins top Royal Television Society Ireland award A documentary on an Irish-American organisation, which raised millions of dollars for IRA prisoners and the republican movement during the Troubles, has won a prestigious Royal Television Series Irela...

I was JUST looking for something I could use as a documentary about NORAID. Hopefully I’ll be able to catch this on a streaming service.

The US is a federal system of government with the national, state, and local governments sharing power. In migration, it was never a very clean binary divisions between federal vs state power with the heaviest fighting over the location of the line btwn authority. See my recent book + the work of 1/

Taming the world?

That’s what he calls it?

For the love of god, words have no meaning any more.