Mary McBrien

used to wear a wig and gown, now make shows for tv + radio. Former BBC, ITV. All views my own

[TIME @TIME]

According to the brief, Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed. https://t.co/pmmMFkswIB

[Ken Foxe @kenfoxe]

This article is just an astonishing demolition of John Collison’s recent ill-informed piece that had so many Irish politicians salivating.

And that’s without even going into Collison’s risible nonsense about how things like FOI, SIPO, and abolition of dual mandate were bad for getting “sh** done” the way these billionaire tech guys always want it.

That is, getting “sh** done” according to their outlook and without regard to the climate crisis or the rights of the public to access the justice system without having millions of euro in the bank.

https://t.co/32PRwBu8Y2

[Mary McBrien @mcbrienmary]

Class

[RTÉ Sport @RTEsport]

Ole Ole Ole 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

Full match report here or on https://t.co/YXqp4pbqKj : https://t.co/LoesL8MQB8

[Mary McBrien @mcbrienmary]

Heard the phrase ‘starter home’ yesterday and realised the policy is to mindlessly repeat past mistakes #housingcrisis

[Aidan Regan @Aidan_Regan]

Listening to John Cummins on @drivetimerte

Head meets wall !!

“Starter homes”, “property ladder”, “more supply” - the same tired script designed to keep prices high.

This is the bankrupt financial paradigm that broke the housing system.

They just don’t get it.

[Mary McBrien @mcbrienmary]

Whatever way you swing politically, this is upside down logic. To go to a polling station and spoil your ballot means participating in the democratic process, albeit by protest. Staying home does not. Comhghairdeas Catherine Connolly.

[Daniel Mulhall @DanMulhall]

✔️agreed. It shows disrespect for our State not to care who will be its President. To throw a meaningless tantrum instead of making a choice. The irony is that those who advocate a spoiled vote claim to be super patriots. It’s not a patriotic act.

[Gareth Noble @GarNob]

Very good summary by James McDermott BL on RTE Morning Ireland on professional obligations of all barristers.
Many barristers sympathetic to FG and FF rightly furious that the independence of the bar and access to representation for all in litigation bring questioned and undermined by Heather Humphries and her campaign handlers. #aras25

[Mary McBrien @mcbrienmary]

https://t.co/IgolEgd7Zz

[The Phoenix Magazine @ThePhoenixMag]

FREE TO READ: BLOODY SUNDAY: THE REAL STORY
With Soldier F on trial, the Bloody Sunday’s official tale is a story with more holes than Derry’s barricades.
https://t.co/v8o0RBwLt7

[Mary McBrien @mcbrienmary]

@LarryPDonnelly I checked this yesterday and was shocked too. Cultural reach far beyond the numbers

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Every country was put on notice by the ICJ that there was a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza.. every country became obliged under the law.. not to speak fine words, to take action to prevent genocide.. that obligation was activated on 24th Jan 2024"

Chris Sidoti spells it out

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

One of the most disgusting things I have read in quite some time.

Daniel Raab, an American from Chicago who became a sniper in the IDF, brags about how he killed unarmed Palestinian teenagers in Gaza.

The callousness with which he brags about his war crimes will send chills down your spine.

But it also reveals a complete lack of ability to see Palestinians as humans. To him, the Palestinian he had just killed was nothing more than an insect, and as a result, Raab could not comprehend why the victim's teenage brother was devastated by his death and sought to retrieve his body.

So Raab murdered the brother, too.

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

This is how large 🇮🇱 bombs pulverize the old city of Gaza. Everyone in a large are dies.

[Mary McBrien @mcbrienmary]

Ethnic cleansing as a business plan. Perverse

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

This is obviously total looney-tunes stuff, from the way it tries to sell ethnic cleansing as a savvy cost-cutting measure (it'll save $23,000/person/year!) to the buzzword-bingo page on using the blockchain to create some kind of property trust 🧵

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

This camera should be exhibited one day in the Genocide Memorial built in memory of the innumerable victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Shame on all journalists not raising their voice against the massacre of their brave Palestinian colleagues while documenting the genocide.

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

We obtained data from a classified Israeli intelligence database indicating that at least 83% of people killed in Gaza were civilians. The data lists all militant deaths the army was able to confirm. An investigation for +972 Magazine and The Guardian with Emma Graham Harrison

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

IDF officers and soldiers tell Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present https://t.co/CuTtHDFKBo

[Shona Murray @ShonaMurray_]

This is so important

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

"#Gaza : Palestinian lives have been so devalued. It is now the routine to shoot and kill desperate and starving people while they try to collect little food from a company made of mercenaries.

Hundreds of people have been reported killed since the “Gaza Humiliation Foundation” started operating just over three weeks ago.

A lame, medieval and lethal system that is deliberately harming people under the camouflage of "humanitarian aid" with
- Lies
- Deceit
- ⁠Cruelty

Inviting starving people to their death is a war crime.
Those responsible of this system must be held accountable.

This is a disgrace and a stain on our collective consciousness.

Humanitarian principles must be reinstated also to let the experts do their jobs and provide assistance with respect and dignity."

– @UNLazzarini

[Mary McBrien @mcbrienmary]

@DalrympleWill Firing artillery shells into crowds of desperate people. Horror upon horror