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“Quick-witted” ☕️

Correct me if I’m wrong (I might well be) but the US seems to be doing even worse than post Brexit Britain

The more I listen to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu the more I realise the Europe I was sold as a Cold War child (yes) is a solar system away with no desire to achieve transnationalism with the view of collective and mutual preservation of rights. What a pipe dream. It’s too late.

Camps in which detainees are routinely abused - including the rate of young teens’ pregnancies. That didn’t happen before the detention.

I assume Katja Ollongren was not tapped.

That’s not the take, Ursula. Fortress Europa never was.

I can’t imagine the scale of the consequence on the far right’s discourse of “demographic replacement” but such mass waves need to always be contextualised - they never happen by happenstance or accident - and this will be a test for the Spanish PM

Actually had a conversation at work yesterday about this - could climate denial bring the national front down in the polls following the last few months of horror in France?

The enforcement of the proscription of Palestine Action has been a true mirror of what policing can and cannot do. Faced with an extreme right wing threat that has been present, active, and growing in violence - including through pogroms - policing focuses on small s13 offences.

I wonder if this - 21yo man committing suicide after years of racial abuse - will finally connect some dots in France, from speech and attitudes to dire consequences. Everyone is deploring this as if it was an inevitability. The National Front is so embedded in some regions it’s difficult to assess

I’m not going to use the adjective “dystopian” because we are so far beyond qualifiers: it’s a reality. One of the myths about asylum is that one just has to claim it to receive it. The process is long, painful, and often, traumatic. Those are not experiences that can be distilled down to a formula

Raise your hand if you’ve been personally (professionally) victimised (chronic headache) by the Windsor Framework

Ah yes today is the day

I love the concept of “invading Europe”, and not just because of all the countries European states have effectively invaded and colonised. Europe is not a homogeneous entity and never was.

This is what we mean when we say strong, interdependent communities are a barrier to fascism. If someone comes at your neighbour, they have to come at everyone else.

I was one of those early recipients of the vaccine, so basically tested it for everyone else. I have never heard in small and broader circle that there had been any complications for any of the three available patented ones. I was sick for a few days. Try the typhoid vaccine and get back to me.

The accusations have been coming for years, and I still think the number appears to be low

As we were discussing yesterday, it seems this dangerous and vindictive corner of online radicalisation can only engage in lawfare, that is heavily and externally funded, to pressure and impose. This isn’t a legitimate exchange of views. But human rights are not subject to debate. Hence this.

Happy Cable Street Day for all those who celebrate, and for those who don’t, please start working towards getting there

Living in Belfast means the dichotomy of being worried about paramilitary activity and being very excited about the Fleadh rolling in - between East Side Arts and Feíle, and this year Fleadh Choil na hEiréann, that please, please can we have some relief and joy for 4 weeks. Please Belfast be normal