Karen Dunne

Just a Girl who married a Guy...

[Zoya🕊️ @Zoya_ki_batein]

The Helsinki Court of Appeal has cleared three men who raped a heavily intoxicated 17-year-old girl in a wooded area in Finland. The girl was so drunk that she had actually been taken to the hospital for intoxication just before the assault. The three men then raped her in the woods right outside the hospital.
Both the District Court and the Court of Appeal completely dismissed all charges and let the men walk free without any convictions.

Judges ruled that despite her severe intoxication, CCTV footage showed she was still legally capable of forming and expressing consent. The court decided that the men could have believed the teenager was agreeing to having sex, ultimately freeing them from all criminal responsibility. It is completely fucked up that a court thinks a teenager drunk enough to need a hospital is somehow sober enough to consent to three grown men. Being drunk does not mean consent. Not saying no does not mean consent. If someone is too intoxicated to care for themselves, they cannot give real consent, period.

[Maïa Dunphy @MaiaDunphy]

We all love a little amuse bouche!

[Chris Webb @Chris_Webb1]

Before #FIFA start pumping the propaganda tonight and telling us all how amazing this #WorldCup has been, let’s remember they oversaw:

- highest ticket prices ever and took a cut from resale sites.

- did nothing about Somalian referee and dozens of staff who were banned from entering the US for no legitimate reason.

- stood by as Iran were forced to train outside the US and travel in on match days.

- overturned red cards after phone calls with the president.

- Americanised the beautiful game with hydration (TV) breaks and 25 mins half time in the final

- guided Argentina through the tournament with less travel, VAR support and blatantly turning a blind due to their aggression and foul play.

[The Rugby Issue @TheRugbyIssue]

Tucked arm, entering ruck off his feat, shoulder direct to head - surely no other option 🛑

Wait….. apparently we’re ignoring these facts and blaming an Irish player for making him tuck his arm 😅

#NZLvIRE #NationsChampionship #NC2026

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​🇨🇵 France stated that this war is basically the end of the American Century..

​Under the Trump administration, the US has lost 50% of its power.

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Six children have been put on life support in the past fortnight in Children's Health Ireland, Temple Street because of injuries they have sustained on e-scooters https://t.co/oARS4exijG

[Richard @ricwe123]

That embarrassing moment when the US and Britain decided it would be a good idea to vote against the UN resolution for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.

And still some people think these are the good guys.....
🥴

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

This is Trump’s Watergate.

Today, the @nytimes released a truly stunning report on the Epstein cover-up by the White House. 

Collusion, breaking the law, evading subpoenas—it’s all in there:
- Trump quashing the files
- The VP, COS, DOJ, FBI, and others colluding in the Situation Room to stop their release and compliance
- Officials lying to the public 
- Admin in-fighting and exits
- Officials who appeared in front of Congress during this time

Read the report here: https://t.co/prgyF2Isfg

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

All pretence cast aside. A vicious attack on the Anti-Zionist movement by the British state acting for the Zionist regime in defence of genocide.

Shameful.
#FreeTheFilton4

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Seven hours. All children.

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

On May 24, 10 of our Land Convoy volunteers were abducted by Libyan forces as they neared Sirte to negotiate safe passage of humanitarian aid into Gaza—exactly as previously agreed.

Now, after almost three weeks of being illegally held without charge, sources say their detention in Libya has been extended for the second time.

This is an outrage. And governments must respond.

Pressure officials to act NOW to secure the safe release of these citizens of Spain, Poland, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Tunisia, and Italy.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

"A Swiss court has acquitted five Palestine solidarity activists, annulled their fines, recognised the reality of genocide in Palestine, and affirmed that peaceful civil disobedience is protected by freedom of expression."

Please RT this until the UK courts do the same.

Thanks.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Millions of views for a bunch of empty words from an American politician, who has no interest in reducing the horrendous murder rate in his own country.

It detracts the focus from meaningful words.

"Never felt pain like this. Forever my best friend."

-Olivia Nowak, sister.

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

Former president Michael D Higgins has called on the Irish government to use its upcoming presidency of the EU to challenge member states on their commitment to the UN charter and international law, particularly when it comes to relations with Israel.
https://t.co/zuBwr7dPMx

[Shafiur Rahman @shafiur]

Ko Tinmaung, a Toronto-based Rohingya activist, has been released after more than 96 hours in Israeli detention following Israel’s hijacking of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the abduction of its civilian participants.

His testimony is horrifying.

He says he was beaten in a dark room by more than five people, kicked, punched, tasered in multiple places, and handcuffed so tightly that the restraints cut into his wrists and restricted blood flow. He says he still needs treatment for concussion-like injuries.

He also says he witnessed other detainees with broken ribs, head wounds, blood from their ears, eye injuries, broken noses and broken teeth. Most gravely, he alleges sexual assaults, including people being tasered on their genitals.

Tinmaung’s testimony also exposes the racial dimension of Israeli violence. He says he was mocked as “Ahmed”, assaulted further, laughed at because of his skin colour, and treated as if his passport had no value because he was brown.

This was a civilian-led humanitarian mission carrying food, aid and basic supplies to Gaza. So where is Canada? Where are the human rights organisations? Where are the global leadership councils, the moral authorities, the professional defenders of accountability?

Silence now is not neutrality. It is complicity.

(Video courtesy https://t.co/WdpDXCJTFR)

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

A father and his young daughter lie dying having been hit with a precision missile (US made) by Israel.

The ambulance crew arrives to try help.

Israel then hits them with a missile.

All on camera.

Proven.

War crimes.

Yet our leaders still arm them & support them.

Why?

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

https://t.co/pDHSOYG0ZK

“At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets at close range. Tens of people’s bones broken,” organizers of the Global SumudFlotilla posted on the Telegram social media app.
“While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality Israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages.”

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

Stop calling it “one bad apple.” This violence didn’t start with Ben Gvir and it won’t end with him unless we confront the whole structure. From the Nakba to today, the policy is the point. Ben Gvir isn’t an “exception.” He is the system, built on humiliation, domination, and dehumanization against Palestinians for decades.

Outrage that stops at one name and against foreign activists only changes nothing. Keep the pressure until every Palestinian is free from israeli dungeons and occupation of their lands and lives.