Theresa O'Keefe 🍉

Excited to share that our Women of the Borderlands archive is now available. It's the 1st to preserve the voices of women and the gendered complexities of life in and around the UK/Irish borderlands. We are so grateful to our research participants and the IQDA for making this happen.

I'm just going to keep referring to him as the cruelty man.

You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.

Blatant lies told without accountability is not just a US phenomenon. Big Jim is doing a pretty good job of emulating this here. It sits alongside the "I'm an important man, how dare you question me" attitude that prevails across government, HEIs, tech etc.

Sinn Féin: We should totally base all our policies on this.

'Now entering its 21st week and with no end in sight, the current strike involving University and College Union (UCU) staff is the longest in living memory in British higher education, originating from a staff marking boycott in April over proposed job cuts.'

And so it begins... House Dems release explosive 53-page congressional report alleging possible criminal conspiracy, evidence of DOJ cover-up, and call for Special Counsel to investigate the DOJ itself. [free link] substack.com/inbox/post/2...

This man made Stomont an unsafe place for members of the public and charities to give evidence to committees on a range of matters from misogyny to racism. He has shut down Stormont to minotities - handpicked by Jim Allister - his past was well known. UDA have their friends in Stormont. [1/n]

People in Belgrade celebrated following Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic speech conceding defeat to a student-led protest movement in a historic election that ends his long grip on power and heralds a new political era in the Balkan country. reut.rs/4zkXvww

I am genuinely shocked he's still in the job today. Going after the DRCC because they embarrassed him in the solicitors row is probably the most Trumpian thing any Irish politician has done.

Can confirm. I once stood arm in arm around a library entrance. The Gardaí refused to allow us (locals) into the library but instead, escorted far right agitators in to harass staff. I met the local Gardaí a week later. They refused to let me even take notes at the discussion.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Bolsonaro had corrupt media on his side, Meta interference on his side, US propaganda operations, and his party's officials actively sabotaging public transport in Lula strongholds to prevent turnout. Yet he was still beaten by the power of voter turnout.

The Taoiseach is now backing the Justice Minister's actions in intervening to silence a charity. I'm not exaggerating. The Justice minister boasted about his role in pulling the ad himself. The government are intervening to silence messaging they don't like. Fascism is at your doorstep #spéirgorm

It's always about controlling women.

Going with an obvious one but surgical techniques, i.e., video and robotic assisted. Both saved my mother's life this year.

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

The Justice Minister interfering with the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre consent campaign "because it does not represent the views of the Government" is unsettling. Interference like this risks creating a chilling effect and self-censorship within wider civil society. www.iccl.ie/news/justice...

It's always the people you most suspect...

Thanks to Ciara Ní Bhroin for writing this piece on the DRCC consent ad row - props to @aidanobrien.bsky.social who gets a mention www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

This, from the hugely experienced Irish courts reporter, Isabel Hayes, on the Minister for Justice’s performative outrage over an ad about children and consent, is worth reading.

The protests have spread to Serbia. That is Spain France Italy Albania Greece Turkey India Indonesia all protesting at the same time. It's time to force the billionaires out of power.

One of the few politicians to support the Dublin Race Crisis Centre. Him and Green Party @oisinoconnordublin.bsky.social Gary Gannon says justice minister ordering removal of consent ad sets ‘dangerous precedent' jrnl.ie/7202000

I think both the Minister for Justice and the Minister for Health should learn that putting your hand on a political hot plate burns, for educational purposes.

What’s worse is the ad was based off research with real kids and young people. But god forbid, a few imaginary grand parents have their feelings hurt. So on form for the Irish state. “Children should be seen and not heard.”

Shaymaa Abdualu has been offered a fully funded place on a four-year Engineering degree programme at UCC. She cannot travel to Ireland to take her place because her application for a study visa was refused by the Dept of Justice.

It makes me deeply uncomfortable that the Minister for Justice has used his Twitter account to create an online pile on of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre. It also appears to me a dangerous precedent that this minister, and his dept. have instructed the DRCC to remove content that he disapproved of.

Given all of the issues of grave concern in the Justice Department, I find it incredible the pace to which the minister took to his Twitter account this morning, and the speed at which his officials were sent to moderate the content of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

People who have experience working in charities know that being reliant on state funding has a chilling effect on how we do our jobs. The Minister for Justice intervened here to make a political point and undermined the work of those with the expertise to do the job. #spéirgorm

Jim O' Callaghan Mon: I'm the rape understander, rape is terrible and I'm gonna misrepresent the current situation by pointing my finger at solicitors who I've cut funding from. Jim O' Callaghan Thurs: consent is just bunkum. The rape crisis Centre are terrible people.

The headline here is about Aontú and their typical imported Yank culture war shtick. The *story* is an embattled Justice Minister silencing a charity that is working to protect children and adults from abuse. He is behaving like a fascist on a near daily basis and could easily be our next leader.

Christ on a bike. Are we now going to pretend child SA doesn't happen in the home?

The Minister for Justice’s week just keeps showing him in a better and better light.

Jack Ross, CEO of Turning Point introduces an undercover reporter from Al Jazeera to a former UVF man who offers to do a contract killing for the right price. Ross talks about violence but says, once sting revealed, he was joking www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...