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We are starting to see more and more leakage of far right talking points into the statements of FG/FF politicians. O'Callaghan and Harris will spend the next two years trying to outdo each other over who can dog whistle the loudest in advance of the next GE
We need to see much stronger scrutiny of how public money is spent by external organisations. I want to work with government colleagues to see this addressed. So much taxpayers money is spent by external organisations. We have an obligation to ensure value for money & impact.
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Simon Harris as Minister for Health signed the main contract for construction of the National Children's Hospital in 2019. The project has missed completion deadlines and is likely to cost €2.4 billion. The initial budget was €984 million. Providing no value for money.
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🇫🇷 🇮🇱 🤖 “Une gigantesque campagne d’influence, particulièrement bien financée, court depuis trois ans et diffuse, en toute illégalité, des discours racistes et islamophobes. Plusieurs indices situent de manière convaincante son origine dans le secteur privé israélien.”
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“De par son ampleur et sa durée, cette opération constitue « l’une des plus grandes campagnes d’influence et de désinformation jamais documentée.” (…)
L’Hexagone est, ces derniers mois, le pays le plus visé : on y recense 120 millions de vues en trois ans. Pourquoi ? Une analyse historique des publicités poussées par les commanditaires suggère qu’à plusieurs reprises ils ont souhaité s’aligner sur le calendrier électoral. En 2024, « les publicités visant la France se sont concentrées sur les mois précédant les élections européennes », notent les chercheurs. En Allemagne, en 2026, ces mêmes achats publicitaires se sont subitement arrêtés juste avant l’élection régionale en Saxe-Anhalt, qui a vu la victoire du parti d’extrême droite Alternative für Deutschland.
« Cette campagne est toujours active dans des pays à l’approche d’élections importantes en 2027, dont la France et l’Italie, écrivent les chercheurs. Sa promotion constante de messages antimusulmans et anti-immigration suggère qu’elle peut avoir pour but d’influencer le climat politique en amont. »
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Une adresse IP localisée en Israël
Qui a réellement payé pour ces milliers de publicités, qui ont coûté des millions d’euros ? (…) L’analyse sur le long terme des campagnes montre que plusieurs semblent conçues pour bénéficier à Israël.”
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Le calendrier d’autres campagnes suggère un intérêt pour le gouvernement de Benyamin Nétanyahou. En novembre 2024, une série de publicités faisant la promotion du premier ministre hongrois d’alors, Viktor Orban, ont été mises en ligne le jour où la Cour pénale internationale a émis un mandat contre M. Nétanyahou, juste avant que M. Orban ne l’invite à se rendre en Hongrie.
Plusieurs indices pointent de manière convaincante en direction du secteur privé de l’Etat hébreu comme principal suspect derrière cette opération. Cette dernière avait aussi un volet ciblant Wikipédia, et avait recours à des faux nez qui masquaient leur véritable adresse IP pour modifier l’encyclopédie en ligne.
Or, à la suite d’un problème technique, la véritable adresse IP d’un de ces éditeurs est brièvement apparue, et indiquait une localisation en Israël.”
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Ces métadonnées indiquent que les monteurs des vidéos travaillaient sur le fuseau horaire israélien, et comportaient même les pseudonymes de plusieurs créateurs, dont un certain « ShukiD ».
Le pseudonyme est bien connu dans les milieux politiques israéliens : il s’agit d’un créateur de vidéos qui a collaboré à de multiples campagnes, par exemple pour Moshe Kahlon, l’ancien ministre des finances de M. Nétanyahou.”
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It’s wildly jarring to see media commentary about an election about Israel’s ‘soul’ from a locked down West Bank where Israeli army closures have sealed off towns and villages, settlers roam freely and terrorise Palestinians, schools are shut, commerce choked, and roads blocked.
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Tomorrow, October 30, dockworkers in one hundred ports in nearly twenty countries will engage in perhaps the largest coordinated strike in world history. They are striking for Palestine, against war, genocide and automation.
Nothing in legacy media.
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In a show-trial riddled with procedural irregularities, Germany is seeking to make an example of five activists who organized against the genocide in Gaza. buff.ly/i46zuHe
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Bottom line: Israeli opposition has a strong majority to topple Netanyahu, but they'd rather keep him in office, go to another election round & commit political suicide than form a gov backed by Arab parties, b/c the latter might -God forbid- require ending the Gaza genocide or slowing down West Bank ethnic cleansing & settler terrorism
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This is disgraceful and contemptible.
And is part of a long-term trend of profound moral cowardice combined with cynical opportunisim in @sinnfeinireland in facing off to far right.
Shameful
Sinn Féin proposes long-term residency permit as alternative to citizenship irishexaminer.com/news/polit…
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I am not gonna lie, I almost cried. people are removing a large picture of Vojislav Šešelj the war criminal from a key building in my hometown that has been there for thirty years *since the nineties*. I feel we are literally confronting the bastards that destroyed the Balkans
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The government have actively & systematically misinformed the Irish public about their motivations for removing the Triple Lock.
Joining a non-UN mandated, EU mission to Lebanon will embroil us in Israeli supported operations against Hezbollah, not impartial peacekeeping. 1/2
Irish troops should be deployed to Lebanon as part of a new EU mission and be involved in both peacekeeping and peace enforcement duties, according to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence Helen McEntee.
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Read "The Palestinians Who Rescued Heidi Levine" here: infinitejaz.com/p/the-palest…
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I wrote abt the campus SA crisis that never went away despite the public moving on after the Obama era; the material ways SA punishes victims the rest of their lives while assailants are systematically rewarded; & just tried to put to words what I think is going unsaid right now:
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So it seems Jim O'Callaghan personally intervened to prevent the Gaza students coming to Ireland?
Above all this is cruel, but it is also undemocratic.
'It seemed the refusal followed “a significant change in practice” by the Minister that came “out of the blue” and about which neither visa applicants nor universities here were informed.'
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Above all this is cruel, but it is also undemocratic.
'It seemed the refusal followed “a significant change in practice” by the Minister that came “out of the blue” and about which neither visa applicants nor universities here were informed.'
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jesus christ
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. thecut.com/article/what-it-f…
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Maybe I’m a simpleton but I struggle to understand why frats are even still a thing these days. I remember rolling my eyes from my ground-level dorm one night in like 2010 when a group of rushes stormed past my window doing the “no means yes” chant. We’ve known this shit forever!
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This is among the most under-covered stories in America — Israel is now holding *THREE* young Americans in prison, and no mainstream media is touching it
NEW: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — days before his birthday & during national exams.
He's been held for 3 months with no charge.
Netanyahu just came to the US for the 8th time in Trump's second term.zeteo.com/p/israel-has-kidna…
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🧵 So I wrote the Wired story on the burnerverse, and as part of my reporting, I spent months reading and listening to the convos 20-something men have when they think no one is looking.
It's easy to dismiss the Cornell 7 as outliers, or super privileged frat bros, or byproducts of the Greek system. They're not.
It's also easy to say they're the worst-case scenario. That they represent the nadir of toxic masculinity, or a culture that teaches men from an early age that young women's bodies are disposable. But they don't.
That Snapchat thread? That's the norm. That's the baseline. That type of language is EXTREMELY consistent with the convos these guys are having when they think no one is paying attention. Because most of the time, no one is.
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For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
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