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Remember when Humpty Dumpty Nadler said that Antifa is a "fantasy?"
Well, a whole group of "fantasy members"were arrested in TX:
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This was the most brazen American Antifa attack in historyAndy Ngo (Ngo Comment)
I’ll put the entire cabinet meeting in another post. It is interesting that RFK Jr. was not present (?). For this outline, let’s focus on the issue that is exploding the MAGA and anti-MAGA universe on social media right now.Sundance (The Last Refuge)
Border czar Tom Homan discusses violence against federal agents, ‘leaked’ I.C.E. operation in Los Angeles and more on ‘The Story.’ #foxnews #news #usa #trump...YouTube
During an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, former #CIA officer John #Kiriakou described convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey #Epstein as a “textbook example of an access agent.”“The issue,” Kiriakou added, “is that the accusation is he was an access agent for the Israelis, and that’s something the intelligence community really doesn’t like to talk about.”
His remarks came just one day after the #FBI and #US Department of Justice concluded that Epstein was not murdered, did not blackmail prominent individuals, and did not maintain a so-called “client list.”
The findings have sparked backlash among some of former President Donald Trump’s supporters, who had anticipated new disclosures following Epstein’s death in 2019—a case that has fuelled conspiracy theories due to his ties to influential figures in politics, business, and media.
Am Montag wurde zum dritten Mal innerhalb von acht Wochen ein prominenter #Macron-Gegner tot aufgefunden. Alle drei #Todesfälle gelten als mysteriös – und vor allem: seltsam. 🤔
Olivier #Marleix, ein einflussreicher Abgeordneter der konservativen #Republikaner, wurde am 7. Juli 2025 erhängt in seinem Haus in Anet aufgefunden. Offizielle Version: #Selbstmord. Doch wer sich sein letztes Auftreten im Parlament anschaut, sieht einen hellwachen, kämpferischen Politiker. Fünf Tage vor seinem Tod sprach er über #Einwanderung, forderte mehr #Rechte für #Staatsbürger – und trat mit einer Klarheit auf, die überhaupt nicht zu einem Menschen passt, der angeblich kurz vor dem #Suizid steht.
Was Marleix gefährlich machte: Er kritisierte immer offener die Korruption im Umfeld #Macron, sprach von gefälschten Konten und untersuchte Macrons dubiose Rolle beim Verkauf von Alstom an General Electric. Seine These: Das #Alstom-Geschäft war möglicherweise Teil der verdeckten Wahlkampffinanzierung Macrons im Jahr 2017. Pikant? Eher explosiv.
Kurz zuvor: Der plastische Chirurg François #Favre, der angedeutet hatte, brisante Informationen über #Macron Frau – oder besser: „Ehepartner“? – ans Licht zu bringen, stürzte sich angeblich aus dem 12. Stockwerk. Auch hier: #Offiziell #Suizid. Unabhängige Ermittlungen? Fehlanzeige.
Und schon einen Monat früher starb Eric #Denécé, ehemaliger #Geheimdienstoffizier und #Direktor des renommierten Centre Français de Recherche sur le #Renseignement. Ein Mann vom Fach. Ein #Macron -Kritiker. Ein Kenner der politischen Abgründe. Angeblich ebenfalls #Suizid – erhängt in seiner #Wohnung. Nur: Seine Familie und Kollegen zweifeln lautstark an dieser Version.
Drei Tote in zwei Monaten. Drei Kritiker des Präsidenten. Drei angebliche #Selbstmorde. Und null journalistische Neugier im deutschsprachigen Raum. Das ist kein Zufall. Das ist ein #Skandal.
#EUDSSR = #Faschismus #Frankreich
@phlfie I keep trying to advise people against parodies, against any misuse of copywritten material, but so few listen. It's the easiest way for jews to take down your work, just with a copywrite strike. And it can lead to prosecution. I know someone who lost $40K for copywrite infringement.
It's actually really easy to write original song with GROK or ChatGPT, once you get the hang of doing a good prompt. Then you go through it just like you would a parody song, changing words to fit your message.
This article explains recent AI chatbot craziness. It stops before saying that the current form LLM technology is worse than worthless, it is dangerous. We don't need to worry about SCIFI scenarios - it is the people that believe AI that we need to worry about.
The real threat from AI comes from human beings trusting it. Examples:
The Israeli IDF used an AI targeting system when they killed volunteers from the World's Central Kitchen
📺Con lanzamiento de petardos y gritos de fuera, fuera, así recibieron este miércoles los bomberos al Presidente de la Diputación de València, Vicente Mompó.
📱 En la web te contamos por qué:
👨🚒 Huelga de celo en el Consorcio de Bomberos de València en plena campaña de incendios.
La plantilla denuncia sobrecarga, falta de efectivos y abandono institucional, mientras la Diputación oculta el conflicto y prioriza su relato de normalidad.
✍️Carmen Iranzo.
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Wyoming's first new coal mine in decades to extract rare earths
https://apnews.com/article/wyoming-coal-rare-earth-ramaco-mine-e4a3eff0b20039491df2dac99fa8ef0f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Erich Christoph-Borger is with Karl Kraemer and 6 others in Berlin, Germany.www.facebook.com
#geopolitics #EU #environment #climate #economy #stupidity
This strategy was always doomed. The bloc’s fiscal architecture—anchored in austerity, tight budget rules, and a toothless common budget—precludes the kind of ambitious investment needed for genuine green transformation. Unlike the US Inflation Reduction Act or China’s state-led development model, the European Union lacks both the tools and the ideological flexibility to pursue proactive industrial policy.The European Union’s strict state-aid rules, bias against public ownership, and obsession with competition law systematically hamper large-scale green reindustrialization. The result is a paradoxical mix of hyper-regulation and fiscal strangulation, which neither spurs innovation nor alleviates the costs borne by the population. Fragmented governance, bureaucratic inertia, and the dominance of unelected technocrats mean that even where funds exist, implementation is slow, disjointed, and prone to failure.
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In 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Europe’s “Green Deal.” She described the climate plan as a “man on the moon moment,” a revolutionary transformation of the European economy that would lead to net-zero greenhouse g…Thomas Fazi (Compact)
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Wir erleben in #Deutschland, wie unter dem Deckmantel der #Vielfalt und #Gleichheit eine zutiefst ideologische #Vorherrschaft aufgebaut wird, die #Fortschritt verspricht, aber die Grundlagen jeglicher #Freiheit und #Selbstbestimmung untergräbt.
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Tire arrives today. Brakes arrive tomorrow.
And then the e-bike will be back on the road.
Yeah on the motorbike he's clearly angling at selling me.
Iran says a young French-German cyclist is in custody, a French newspaper reports
https://apnews.com/article/france-iran-cyclist-monterlos-detained-351d12802e49b3d799b196a0a03e406a?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Journalist Israel Frey was arrested on charges of incitement and supporting terrorism after posting that “the world is better this morning without five young people who participated in one of the most cruel crimes against humanity” - referring to five IDF soldiers killed in #Gaza.
Writing in #Haaretz, Landsman argues this arrest represents Israel criminalizing dissent itself. She contends Frey wasn’t inciting terrorism but expressing his belief that Israeli soldiers in Gaza are participating in crimes against humanity - a perspective now being placed “outside the law.
The fundamental question being suppressed, according to Landsman: “Is Israel committing a cruel crime against humanity in Gaza?“ Landsman warns that such silencing of dissenting voices is common in countries committing such crimes.
Hebrew haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-07… or archive.is/EuyHu
"איך יכול להיות טוב מותם של צעירים ולוחמים שנהרגו במסגרת תפקידם בהגנה על המולדת?" כך שאלה השופטת רוית פלג בר־דיין, כשהאריכה את מעצרו של העיתונאי ישראל פריי. פריקרולינה לנדסמן (הארץ)
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Das BMI will, um es kurz zu fassen, all jene, die das SBGG in Anspruch nehmen, als Gruppe kenntlich machen. Das erinnert an die sogenannten Transvestiten-Karteien, die noch in den 1970er Jahren bei der Polizei geführt wurden. Eine Praxis aus der Weimarer Zeit, die dann die Verfolgung und Überwachung während der NS-Zeit erleichterte und überhaupt erst ermöglichte.
Bitte unterschreibt hier:
Kein Sonderregister für trans* Personen – Nie wieder Listen gegen Minderheiten!
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Hallo, ich bin Penelope Alva Frank, Transfrau, queerfeministische Aktivistin und Gründerin der queerfeministischen Bewegung Queermany. Ich weiß, wie es ist, jeden Tag Blicke, Sprüche und Angriffe auszuhalten, nur weil ich trans bin.WeAct
<<Too late to stop small boats once people arrive in Calais, says UN migration chief>>
Nonsense! Just give me .50 cal rifle, decent scope and a healthy supply of Raufoss Mk 211 rounds. I'll totally produce empirical proof that it can be done in time! Just hit the engine and there you have it yo! 🤣
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More orderly migration would ease crisis, says Amy Pope as UK and France prepare to announce plan to block crossingsDiane Taylor (The Guardian)
Singer Chris Brown pleads not guilty to 2 further charges over London nightclub assault case
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This Toy Story’s coming to an end.Mikella Schuettler (New York Post)
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The price of batteries is coming down so fast, that this paper has basically said it makes more sense to build a solar project, and then 5-10 years later invest in batteries *then*, when the cost of batteries is so much lower than it is today.
For context, we've seen the cost of batteries in China drop by 30% in a single year (!) for one of the larger tenders in 2025
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Carlos Alcaraz vs. Taylor Fritz and Novak Djokovic vs. Jannik Sinner are Wimbledon's semifinals
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#geopolitics #imperialism #war
A little one-sided, but generally to the point... Unfortunately right now Lavrov is a more reliable source of informations and facts than the whole bunch of Western politicians and media.
Finally, Lavrov responded to accusations by Western intelligence agencies and European politicians that President Putin intends to “occupy” Europe or expand Russian influence. He described these accusations as unfounded and suggested that this “mythical Russian threat” was being created by Western leaders to unite the population in the face of social and economic problems — inflation, unemployment, declining incomes illegal migration — and to distract from their own failures. Lavrov expressed concern that the European Union was transforming into a “military-political bloc” and “an appendage of NATO”, which he described as a “dangerous trend” with far-reaching consequences for all Europeans.
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The Russian Foreign Minister explains in an interview which points Moscow considers non-negotiable in a peace agreement with UkraineThomas Fazi
Cambodian lawmakers pass constitutional amendment allowing government to revoke citizenship
https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-constitution-amendment-proposal-citizenship-c553d43c33f7f6e64892bbf751ff31eb?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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📢 Ansarallah announced on Wednesday, that they had rescued a number of the ship’s crew members, without providing further details
🔹 Nikos Georgopoulos, official with the Greece-based company Diablos Maritime Risks: “This gives us more courage to continue searching for the missing, as requested by the Greek ship operator, and shows that the search plan was correct.”
📰 Report by The Palestine Chronicle JUL-10
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The Ansarallah military spokesman stated in a televised speech that the group's naval forces rescued a number of the ship's crew members.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
some activists who stood up for Julian #Assange have contacted me to ask: can we do something to help #FrancescaAlbanese?
Absolutely! We must act to support her and to contribue stopping #GazaGenocide
What we did for #JA made us rediscover we can overcome
Trump Announces ‘Deal’ to Arm Ukraine via NATO
https://time.com/7301675/ukraine-us-weapons-nato-military-defense-spending-trump-putin-russia/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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State Department Employees Brace for Friday Layoffs
The Trump administration has targeted humanitarian, democracy, and conflict resolution bureaus.
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The Trump administration targets humanitarian, democracy, and conflict resolution bureaus.Mother Jones
United Nations expert Francesca Albanese has slammed the decision by the United States to sanction her as “obscene”, saying she is being targeted for calling out Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese tells Al Jazeera the move is retaliation for ‘pursuit of justice’ in Israel’s Gaza war.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
non riesco a leggere questo editoriale di #MarcoTravaglio senza saltare in aria dalla furia di constatare l'inettitudine delle forze politiche italiane che non hanno voluto risolvere il #ConflittoInteressi dei #Berlusconi per quasi mezzo secolo
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Nelle sapide cronache della quasi discesa-discesetta-discesina in campo di Pier Silvio B. nessuno – ma proprio nessuno – fa notare l’aspetto più surreale della vicenda: il monumentale conflitto d’interessi ereditario di un signorino che è amministrat…Marco Travaglio (Il Fatto Quotidiano)
questo è uno sviluppo che merita approfondimenti: davvero Francia e Regno Unito creeranno un deterrente nucleare comune?
La storia delle #ArmiNucleari NON depone a favore di uno sviluppo del genere
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Una collaborazione nucleare fra Londra e Parigi senza precedenti, pronta ad attivare una risposta coordinata e congiunta in caso di attacco.Sabrina Provenzani (Il Fatto Quotidiano)
quello che abbiamo fatto per Julian #Assange, tutti insieme, in ruoli diversi, chi da giornalista, chi da attivista, chi da giurista, artista, ci deve dare la forza.
Tempo fa io dicevo: io sono un'idealista, la realtà mi uccide. Ora non più
alcuni attivisti che si sono battuti per Julian #Assange mi hanno contattato: possiamo fare qualcosa per aiutare #FrancescaAlbanese?
Assolutamente sì: per lei e per contribuire a fermare il #genocidio a #Gaza.
Quello che abbiamo fatto per #JA ci ha fatto riscoprire la nostra forza
Being brown in Trump’s America is enough to get you arrested by ICE. Call it what it is, RACISM
#racism
dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/9/…
A growing number of U.S. citizens—many of them Latino— say they’ve been detained by immigration agents in what critics are calling blatant racial profiling and overzealous policing. Of course,Daily Kos
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come fa notare il #CentroEuropeoPerIDirittiCostituzionaliEUmani di Berlino ( #ECCHR),
le sanzioni contro #FrancescaAlbanese costituiscono
"la prima volta che uno stato ha imposto misure punitive contro un individuo che ha un mandato delle #NazioniUnite"
Cory Booker and Alex Padilla…want to require CBP and ICE officers to have legible IDs, and they don’t want CBP or ICE officers covering their faces. Would you ever sign that?”
Trump: “Well, they wouldn’t be saying that if they didn’t hate our country." -WTF!?!
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Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Alex Padilla unveiled a bill to unmask ICE agents. Donald Trump responded by insisting the lawmakers "hate our country."Steve Benen (MSNBC)
#geopolitics #EU #NATO #war
Technically, the High Representative’s role is to reflect the consensus of the member states as an extension of the Council, not to freelance as a supranational policymaker. Yet, Kallas interprets her role otherwise, repeatedly acting as though she speaks on behalf of all Europeans — a top-down, anti-democratic approach that is symptomatic of a broader authoritarian trend supercharged by von der Leyen.
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No one better than her embodies the EU’s toxic blend of technocratic incompetence, democratic disdain, hypocrisy, ideological fanaticism global irrelevance and outright stupidityThomas Fazi
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#AfD #rechtsextremistisch #Antidemokraten #schwarwel
Attached: 1 image „Ausschluss vom Staatsdienst: AfD rät ihren Mitgliedern zur Mäßigung“ #AfD #rechtsextremistisch #Antidemokraten #schwarwelstranger.social
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TACO Trump at it again
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Ronny Chieng checks in on the status of Trump's trade war, including the president's half-firm decision on another tariff delay and his new international tra...YouTube
BREAKING: ICE attorney Adam Boyd resigns in protest, calling Trump’s mass deportation policies “morally indefensible.” Boyd says ICE is targeting families, asylum seekers, and longtime residents—not just criminals. via
@Newsweek
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BREAKING: ICE attorney Adam Boyd resigns in protest, calling Trump’s mass deportation policies “morally indefensible.” Boyd says ICE is targeting families, asylum seekers, and longtime residents—not just criminals. via @newsweekThreads
@brucelawson, also an Haiku
Summer sun blazes
Heat waves dance on scorched pavement
Earth yearns for shadows
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Reason 10 To Choose Linux 😍
Linux 🐧 is more private, by default
Own and control your data!
Your operating system won't record your key strokes or dictation, collect lists of devices and their Wi-Fi details, or webcams, printers and anything else plugged in and then send that back to Big Tech HQ.
It's possible to avoid data collection altogether, from the start.
With #Linux YOU decide how to share YOUR data.
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#EndOf10 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Microsoft #Windows #Windows10 #Windows11
@boilingsteam @nanianmichaels
As in regular users did not have extensions. Again, we go back to the initial point, don’t install software you don’t trust.
Plus, as said, most of the times just changing browser settings is more than enough.
DACA recipient from Central Florida among first detainees at Alligator Alcatraz, the Floridian Concentration Camp
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Orange County jail staff could be required to transport ICE detainees, if modified agreement is approved by commissionersJustin Schecker (WESH)
WATCH: ICE Gestapo Arrests Woman HAVING SEIZURE! | The Kyle Kulinski Show
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Kurdish separatist fighters in Iraq begin laying down weapons as part of peace process with Turkey
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Attached: 1 image ✊MUTU MEDIAS LIBRES✊ 316 criminels députés votent pour multiplier les cancers et accélérer la destruction des écosystèmes https://ricochets.Anarchism Space
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#Kallas, the former Prime Minister of Estonia — a country of just 1.4 million people, fewer than reside in Paris — was confirmed as the EU’s new High Representative for Foreign Affairs in December of last year. Since then, she has come to personify, more vividly than anyone else, the **EU’s toxic blend of incompetence, irrelevance and outright stupidity**.
"The entire so-called “antisemitism crisis” in Australia is like this. The overwhelming majority of it is just people criticizing Israel and trying to do what they can to stop the live-streamed genocide they’ve been watching on their screens every day for two years, which is then deliberately conflated with the actions of a few fringe actors with frequently suspicious motives.
“Antisemitism” means criticism of Israel. That’s just what it means now. It used to mean something else, but years of bad faith actors using that word in the most dishonest ways imaginable to defend the most horrific things you’ve ever seen has changed the definition. It is no longer possible to separate that word from this sustained campaign of mass deception.
Anti-Israel sentiment is often treated as if it's the product of mass antisemitism or weird hypnosis whose tricks we'll never understand. But the truth is pretty simple: people don't like Israel because Israel is committing genocide. That's it.
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It’s the genocide. People are mad at the genocide. They don’t hate Jews, they hate genocide."
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#Australia #Censorship #Antisemitism #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
Interview: Israel’s plan to push Palestinians into Rafah is "part of a second Nakba".
"The intention is for this to be more comprehensive than the original ethnic cleansing [in 1948] & the attempts subsequently to displace Palestinians.”
~Daniel Levy, British-Israeli analyst & former peace negotiator
#Nakba #GazaGenocide #GazaConcentrationCamp @palestine .
‘People are going hungry and fainting in the street because they don’t eat enough,’ our team reports from Gaza.Umut Uras (Al Jazeera)
Nachricht von #MAJA
Maja ist im Hungerstreik Tag 36!
Message from MAJA
Maja is on hungerstrike day 36!
#FreeMaja #bringMajaBack #hungerstreik #budapest #budapestkomplex #freeallantifa
I've been looking into alternatives to #GoogleDrive, #iCloud and #OneDrive …
Originally, I was going to move everything to OneDrive, but I've possibly had a change of heart.
I've moved everything from GoogleDrive because ... well, Google. And now, in the #UK, it seems that iCloud is no longer going to be safe as Apple will no longer offer advanced protection – thanks government! I currently use iCloud as a mirrored desktop, so it's on my Mac and laptop. I'm happy with the Mac and MacBook, but I'm not happy that iCloud is now going to be 'open’ to the UK government.
Now, I thought I'd move everything to OneDrive – but storing all my stuff on a US server doesn't sit right with me. So I decided to go with #Filen. Am exploring it at the moment, and it looks like I can sync automatically, so any work I’m doing I can save directly to Filen – which is basically what I'm doing with iCloud.
Spain and Greece have for years restricted outdoor work on very hot days, while Italy and France have started this summer.Laura Millan (Bloomberg)
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This is fucking amazing, poetic, angry, real political stuff about why Ireland sees Palestine. (transcript below)
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Irishness has taken a revolutionary turn in the cultural landscape. And it’s not just an influx of hot people wearing Claddagh rings and Pellador gansies because Paul Mescal got papped rocking GAA shorts. This new development is rooted in something far deeper than Depop. This is about Kneecap and the return to the party in leftist politics.
Depoliticised and stripped of all radical analysis, Irishness on the world stage became a tale of cups of tea, Tayto and drinking yourself to death on a bar stool. Shamrock-washing the colonial memory, lulling all revolutionary potentials. Still groggy from the socialist dreams of James Connolly, we replaced our dark history of struggle and resistance with heritage sites and Riverdance and a gift shop where you can buy cute little leprechaun stickers.
As victims of a bloody colonial empire that brutalised, raped and pillaged the land, we were told to shake it off and turn our Irishness into a brand deal, into a tax haven for foreign direct investments, to blunt ourselves of the sharp parts, to heal our dark hearts and become the non-offensive butt of a joke that doesn’t upset our slave masters.
So we became storytellers, but only telling stories that were preapproved and didn’t have any enemies. We were told to assimilate, to save face or face humiliation, to lose the culture and keep the costume. Maggie Thatcher is watching you.
Kneecap have put the resistance back into politics, awakening a new energy on the left, one that’s rooted in power rather than victimhood, that doesn’t celebrate victory in defeat or get trapped in a comments section with nowhere to go. Showing solidarity for Palestinian struggle, organising and calling out war-mongerers who want to cancel the Belfast bap, we can glimpse the new horizon on the right side of history, where a future finally feels possible and nationalism isn’t a means of exclusion when you can see yourself in someone else’s eyes.
Kneecap marked a return to subaltern rage and protest, invoking insurgency in young people everywhere. An antidote to the end stage of identity politics. An uprising based on shared struggle rather than what side of the wall you were born on. Of left unity rather than the obsession with being right.
So we use our voice, our language to stand up for our neighbours on the other side of the globe. Because without our words, our silence is complicity and power is unchallenged and genocide is sanctioned and dissent is subdued and our past becomes their present with no lessons or lectures, just bodies.
So this new Irishness is a refusal, a refusal to be the punchline in the Paddy Irishman joke, a postcard in an American’s dream, placated by points and pacified by postcolonial revisionist histories. We were told to smile and say thank you. So we smiled through occupation, through the penal laws and plantations, through famine, through genocide. And now our smile is gone and our teeth are clenched. And we look to Palestine because we know empire when we see it.
And when the elite try to paint your grief as graffiti and your resistance as barbarism, we remember how long Ireland took to dig up its own bodies.
Palestine is a country full of culture and history. Our heritage is combining art, music, food, history, stories of many generations where we stand on our land and still exist despite everything that’s happening which is trying to delete our history, our culture, even our culinary heritage.
So Palestine, it’s not just a country that existed for some years, it’s being going thousands of years and carries a lot of culture and heritage. And I’m so proud to be Palestinian and feel privileged. But also it’s very painful, especially in these days when you see what’s happening as a genocide, and how much they are trying with a worldwide effort to basically delete everything Palestinian. But we are still here.
I don't know if there is a God, but I do know that if there is one - at least one I would follow - God loves the Irish.
"The Choctaw...managed to raise around $170 and sent it half-way across to the world to try ease the suffering of the Irish...people they would likely never encounter...money, worth around $4,000 [today]...despite themselves living in hardship and poverty, and having recently endured the 'Trail of Tears' - a series of forced relocations.."
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On the last week of August 2019, we ran a piece about Abraham Lincoln donating money to Irish vic...Harry Brent (The Irish Post)
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but everyone is saying trump is a servant of israel. Isn't that a contradiction?