"The infrastructure of the state of Northern Ireland was created ... to ensure that the minority of the population who had democratically voted not to be in the British empire would never peacefully acquire sufficient power to ever again democratically vote themselves out of it."
Imagine a doctor working at the hospital to treat his patients and then he receives news that 17 of his family members were killed and his house was destroyed.
I no longer can fathom the pain. My heart goes out to him.
Unbearable!
Likely raped to death.
A doctor. A stellar surgeon. The embodiment of Palestinian ethics.
Likely raped to death.
The racism of Western media who are not covering this, and Western politicians who are not denouncing this, together with the thousand other testimonies and allegations of rape and other forms of mistreatment and torture that Palestinians have suffered in Israeli jails, is absolutely sickening.
The most heart warming thing about Children in Need is how rich people will ask you to pay to feed poor children because the government won't bother taxing those rich people to feed those poor children
Huge respect for this woman. Incredibly courageous to take on the rotten thug that is Conor McGregor. I sincerely hope she has a strong circle of support around her.
I'm thinking a lot about what @AOC warned her fellow Democrats in December 2020: "If these people’s lives don’t actually feel different...we’re done. You know how many Trumps there are in waiting?”
I have been asked on two different networks and by two different male hosts today whether abortion rights are as important to women as the economy. I can't say it more clearly: reproductive freedom is economic freedom. They are intrinsically intwined, as every woman knows.
They are destroying civilian life in Nabatieh, a huge town in south Lebanon. They killed the officials in charge of the town while they were in a meeting, probably discussing how to handle the catastrophe Israel has unleashed on Lebanon.
This is a war crime.
Those who've been urging Ireland to "take its defence and security seriously" are oddly quiet about the state allowing weapons to illegally pass through Irish airspace to be used by an army threatening Irish troops.
UNIFIL statement:
Early this morning, peacekeepers at a UN position in Ramyah observed three platoons of IDF soldiers crossing the Blue Line into Lebanon.
Netanyahu says the Lebanese must "free themselves from Hezbollah" or face "abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza.”
This genocidal maniac must be stopped. He will destroy Lebanon and set the whole world on fire if not.
@fishplums it is a bit wild being in charge of a big machine, but gets easier with time and practice, and basically just realising everyone else drives like a total idiot.
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