Paula Gilligan
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Digger. Senior Lecturer in Film and Cultural Studies, Dublin. #socialist #transrightsarehumanrights #FreePalestine
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Paula Gilligan
@gilliganpaula.bsky.social
· Jan 10
Extreme Weather and Global Media
In the two decades bracketing the turn of the millennium, large-scale weather disasters have been inevitably constructed as media events. As such, they challenge the meaning of concepts such as identi...
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As SNAP funds froze, mayors and governors have pledged to supplement the missing federal assistance, while federal judges ruled Friday that the Trump administration should use contingency funds to keep food aid running despite the government shutdown.
Uncertainty hits after vulnerable Americans woke up to a SNAP freeze
Amid a benefits pause, nonprofit groups plan to work extra hours to get food out to vulnerable residents, and local community members are also stepping up.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Until now, Social Security disability benefits got easier to qualify for as a person reached 50+. A new Trump plan would end that.
Under the plan, millions, particularly in red states, could find it more difficult to qualify for disability benefits in the future.
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Under the plan, millions, particularly in red states, could find it more difficult to qualify for disability benefits in the future.
➡️ More: propub.li/4oeO7VO
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Reposted by Paula Gilligan
Reposted by Paula Gilligan
Firefighters rescued five people, including three children under ten, from the top floor of an Ipas centre in Drogheda last night after a major fire.
Gardaí have preserved the scene while the cause of the blaze is investigated.
www.thejournal.ie/fire-ipsa-ce...
Gardaí have preserved the scene while the cause of the blaze is investigated.
www.thejournal.ie/fire-ipsa-ce...
Emergency services tackle major fire at Ipas centre in Drogheda
Arson has not been ruled out.
www.thejournal.ie
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Mas problematico es que el VVD (el PP holandes) ha adoptado gran parte del programa xenofobo de la ultra derecha y se niega a gobernar con los socialdemocratas, bloqueando asi la unica coalicion viable de los 4 partidos grandes moderados.
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I joined the protests at the Broadview ICE detention facility because of what is happening to our immigrant neighbors: children zip-tied and shoved into vans, mothers pulled from cars on the way to school, neighbors afraid to go to church or work.
"Auntie" and "uncle" are used so broadly by us as south Asians that my friend's toddler calls the bin men "bin uncle". NYPost could have found this out in 30 seconds through a process called "journalism", or as a back up option, "knowing people who aren't white".
lmao