Dozens of American veterans and military family members were detained after they started protesting the Iran war inside a congressional office building in Washington D.C.
😁 🚨 They are Protesting. 👈 😁
"For we know not what we do" our 5th annual lecture started our week of drawing attention to the penal system in Ireland. We cannot just ignore people once they are behind bars.
If you missed the lecture, don't worry we have a recording coming soon 🎥
No matter what happens with this war, people and governments are looking longingly at solar panels and wind turbines.
When it comes to cycling, the Irish Road Haulage Association is up for a fight, even where there is no need for one irishcycle.com/2026/04/21/w...
An Urban Arrow cargo bike parked in a parking lot where each parking space has large oil stains from cars.
Parking to get coffee and noticing all of the oil stains left on the ground by cars.
If it's not broken liquor bottles discarded by drivers, broken bits of cars left over from crashes, or sand, gravel, and brake and tire dust all over the edges of the road, it's oil and other toxic chemicals.
Trauma-informed care and racialised communities. Webinar: Thurs 23 April 2026
Quote from British Asian research participant: “We were treated as second-class citizens, so… we had to get on with low menial jobs just to get food on the table… I think we’ve passed that anxiety that you might get sacked if you take a day off on to the next generation.”
⏰Last chance to book! Join us tomorrow 23 April at 11am for a webinar with NHS Race & Health Observatory and Coffee Afrik CIC on the impact of trauma experienced by racialised communities, based on our recent report. Register here: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/webinar-trau...
The South Central Ambulance Charity has secured a £250,000 grant to provide trauma support to ambulance staff serving Oxfordshire. A NHS review found chronic trauma exposure to be one of the drivers of low morale and burn out. You can donate directly to SCAS Charity yourself too: scascharity.org.uk
Great to see them putting women right at the front of sport …
And also to celebrate Earth Day, here's this gorgeous video of McKenzie River in Oregon. I need to visit there. That state is so beautiful.
Anybody else's three-year-old recite books from memory at random times? This is one proud mama over here. If I do nothing else right, I hope I instill in her a lasting love for stories. 🥹📚
#WritingCommunity #childrensbooks #parents #reading #kidlit #readers
Well done Spain.
"The new plan, worth €7 billion, triples government investment in public housing over the next four years. It ensures that subsidised housing cannot be reclassified after a few years. It also includes help for young renters and home buyers"
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French polymath Clémence Royer was born 196 years ago today. Now she is most known for her 1862 translation of On the Origin of Species which pushed Darwin's ideas into the realm of human evolution, but in her day she was celebrated for her encyclopedic knowledge.
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#WomenInStEM
Incidentally, It is impossible to test a nuclear weapon in secret. A nuclear explosion creates seismic waves that leave a distinctive signature on seismographs around the world.
The amount of unvaccinated children my daughters age is frightening. All of these moms think they’re smarter than thousands of doctors over hundreds of years. It’s sickening, it’s selfish and I am judging you as hard as I can.
The NHS was built on the principle of medical need, not the ability to pay. 💙
But private donors are gaining influence in Westminster. We need to ensure that healthcare decisions favour the public, not profit.
Donate to help us continue this research: link in bio.
BTW, no nation with nuclear weapons has ever been invaded by America (or by any other nation). If you're wondering why Iran might want to build a nuclear bomb.
The President calls every black person he doesn’t like “low IQ” and the media believes it absolutely critical we draw no conclusions from that
Everyone who became rich, powerful, and culturally dominant in the last decade savaging this country
Will now wake up, one by one, claiming they’ve been in a mysterious ten‑year coma
They’ll describe how it felt to them, how terrible it was for them, and ask for understanding as they heal
Foreign schools are teaching their students advanced Critical Thinking Skills, complex mathematics, sciences, foreign languages, and basic skills to compete in a global economy. Leave religion in the home or church!
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...
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We now have an entire media who would rather see a Farage govt, leading to the demise of the NHS and an alliance with the far right US Christian Nationalist fuckers than support the govt we elected And its drift towards EU alignment
Putin must be laughing his head off.
The Irish government is so unsympathetic towards people invaded by russian barbarians that it is offering Ukrainians a 'generous' assistance package to help them return home, while also planning to terminate contracts for accommodating foreign refugees in Ireland.
Driving through Berkeley on the way to the city. Just passed an overpass and the great big sign on it said only, “SHE WAS 13.“
Oh, my, the next overpass had the same sign.
Bless the resistance and everybody who works in it.
On this day in 1914, a Czech Jewish man was born. On the 15 May 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt with his wife and on the 17 May 1942 to the Lublin Ghetto. They both perished in the Shoah. His name was Karel Bloch
“We’re helping too many people with disabilities” is a hell of a line from a Labor government
@schumer.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @rosen.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @blumenthal.senate.gov @cortezmasto.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social STOP voting to send weapons to Israel. Americans are tired of their tax dollars going to Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza…
@schumer.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @rosen.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @blumenthal.senate.gov @cortezmasto.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
STOP voting to send weapons to Israel. Americans are tired of their tax dollars going to Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza…
No Is a Complete Sentence
You do not owe anyone an explanation of why your answer is no. You do not have to justify your limits or apologize for having them. 'No' is not rude. It is not unkind. It is honest — and it is yours to give freely.
Where in your life does a boundary need honoring?
That is not a picture of a "protected bike lane".
Leonid Ragozin is one of those russian oppositionists who should be deported back to his beloved homeland immediately. It is incomprehensible and scandalous that the Latvian government is allowing this despicable russian propagandist to continue to destabilise the EU from within.
