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Ireland: Judicial review by Gaza scholarship student - awarded place at University College Cork - overturns visa refusal decision by Minister for Justice. Judge criticizes significant errors in handling of application by Department of Justice. Minister told to think again, quickly.

Maybe he needs to send an email from the Communications Clinic to explain it clearly.

We do what we can. Governments not so much. #Macklemore

And yet it refuses.

Trying to get records through the Freedom of Information (FOI) process can be a pain. In this week's FOI Files, @investigates.thejournal.ie examines when public bodies try to delay access to records with no valid reason. www.thejournal.ie/investigates...

I no longer believe a word out of their mouths.

"Enjoying tonight does not mean forgetting about the suffering in Gaza. "It means celebrating the humanity and life that Palestinians have fought so hard to protect." -Liam Cunningham at Macklemore

Minister for Foreign Affairs tells us Defence Forces deployment with other forces overseas will always comply with international law and UN Charter. Then says they will be ordered to join an EU force in Lebanon. But the EU ignores international law where Israel is concerned. As Simon Harris admits.

The latest climate pledges put forth by nations will cut global greenhouse gas emissions by just 6% by 2035, a UN report said Tuesday, weeks before COP31 talks in Turkey. jrnl.ie/7205876

UN report: "The Israeli authorities and forces have committed the crimes against humanity of extermination, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the West Bank, as well as persecution based on intersecting discriminatory grounds, with nationality, race and ethnicity at its core."

The hierarchy of feelings.

Israel does not do ceasefires Ever Independent journalism has been telling corporate journalism this for years and years and absolutely nothing we say can get them to listen or even simply look at the facts in front of their faces Never ever ever ever report that Israel has agreed to a ceasefire

Irish acts Hozier, Kneecap and Beoga joined Macklemore for his Free Palestine concert in Dublin on Monday. Hozier used his time on stage at the 3Arena to urge the government to approve visas for students in Gaza who have secured scholarships in Ireland. www.thejournal.ie/macklemore-h...

A deeply divided Israel heads to the polls on Tuesday for the first time since Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack, with voters delivering their verdict on veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country's rightward drift. jrnl.ie/7205793

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There’s hope

Bill Maher said “fuck you” and called us bitches for being upset he dined with Trump. Then Trump tore into Maher on Truth Social calling him a lying, losery coward. That’s funny to me.

They visited Trump. That is all.

'Free Palestine.' 'Somehow, those words have become more controversial than the suffering that made them necessary.' - Macklemore

Apartheid Israel's genocidal crimes against Palestinians are documented, evidenced, relentless. All enabled by the so-called international community, including Ireland. We have legal obligations under international law to act to prevent egregious human rights abuses. #SanctionsNow

🚨 Man on emission.

'The complex financial structures being dreamt up to fund AI have uncomfortable echoes of what went on in the early 2000s, as debt was sliced up and sold on with little focus on the associated risk.' - Cliff Taylor

@trocaire.bsky.social are you organising this? There is a date but no time or venue?

New. Also old.

12 people control more wealth than half of humanity combined. A 2 minute break down on why a wealth tax isn't radical — it's necessary for our survival as a species. youtu.be/uv7R1oNnF6E...

So close ……..

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

After the first round elections, Congressman André Janones created a WhatsApp channel titled “Lula’s Army.” It ballooned to 10 million people following his commands on how to behave online to counteract Meta’s far-right-favouring algorithms. The right knows how to use socials. We must learn, too.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Which is telling in its own right because virtually everyone who comes into the Oireachtas after being on a local authority says the inertia is off the scale in Leinster House. Councils not having ‘governments’ per se means you can still get something done if you call the right people often enough.

Serbian election fallout will be fascinating as a case study in whether an omnibus anti-establishment movement can settle within a State designed by Vucic’s establishment to suit its own ends. The Student List has been largely defined by what/who it opposes - now it has to define itself without him

This is not a "you didn't KNOW?" post because I truly envy and respect anyone unaware of Linehan's output BUT he's been EXTREMELY racist for years now. Attacking black actors on his wife's show Motherland as diversity hires; podcast screeds about muslims in Ireland; delighting in Palestinian deaths.

'Are we going to wait for the European Union to tell us where to go to become active for peace? The evidence is that the European Union is not in favour of that kind of peace.' www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

The Minister for Defence has described her journey to the Irish camp in South Lebanon and said almost every village has been obliterated by Israel's bombing campaign and said it was as if an earthquake struck. jrnl.ie/7205059t

✂️ Cut the #CostofLiving 💷 Put money in people's pockets 🏭 Invest in jobs and industry Agree with @unitesharon.bsky.social and Unite? 🗣️ Comment and ♻️ share. Make John Healey hear us #Budget2026

Who's Surý now? www.bbc.com/news/article...