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Paula Gilligan
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Digger. Senior Lecturer in Film and Cultural Studies, Dublin. #socialist #transrightsarehumanrights #FreePalestine
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A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.
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
Meanwhile in Belfast...Oireachtas Na Samhna 2025. #spéirghorm
All of a piece.
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.

➡️ More: propub.li/4oeO7VO
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Yesterday, Illinois State Police arrested a protester dressed as Jesus, draped in American flag. When he did not walk, they picked him up and carried him.
I want to see it again! The audience stood in sombre silence for the last song and to the last credit.
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Right wing dickheads want you afraid of foreign criminals coming in, putting "our women and children" at risk, meanwhile this is what they're doing to women and children
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...
Emergency services tackle major fire at Ipas centre in Drogheda
Arson has not been ruled out.
www.thejournal.ie
Excited to see Palestine 36 in a packed cinema theatre at the Irish Film Institute.
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Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL
So PP has adopted the far right agenda, to get elected, so gloomy outlook in the Netherlands. #newracialregimes
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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Meta has privately asked the Irish Government to 'lead a pushback against data protection laws' at European Union level, the same week Niamh Sweeney (former senior employee at Meta) is hired as the new Data Protection Commissioner in Dublin.

www.irishtimes.com/technology/b...
Data protection rules ‘completely out of control’, Meta tells Government
Facebook owner asked Government to lead pushback against data protection laws at EU level
www.irishtimes.com
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Sabrina Sebaihi, Green Party MP (France), denouncing with brio ‘l’Algérophobie’ and obsession with Algeria of the far-right party, RN. RN (formerly Front National) wishes to axe the 1968 France-Algeria accord.
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there were five other people indicted along with Kat Abughazaleh. Brian is one of the Broadview Six.

This is what the administration is. This is the kind of resistance it can’t tolerate.
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.
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3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇

1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK

2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves

3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
metro.co.uk
We have the same problem here with Sinn Fein. Every time we think we could have a centre left opposition, they fall towards anti immigrant rhetoric, which suits the right wing government down to the ground .
This my favourite photo of the Catherine Connolly Campaign-CC and #SexyTadhg!! Lethal combination! We can do it! #unitedleft
What's the New Yorker equivalent of #smearthebejaysus? Clearly Mamdani getting the full treatment. #NewYorkMayoralityElection
"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".