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@patrickdextervc A lament. Very fitting for the week that’s in it 💔 That captures the mood beautifully, @patrickdextervc

Adagio for Strings by the great American composer Samuel Barber 🇺🇸 The music on my mind this week as I look towards the USA from the west coast of Ireland

David Lynch shares his thoughts on dying and living. 💔 h/t r/davidlynch

I found a lost 1988 Waterboys version of Woody Guthrie's THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND, and set it to a montage of images of the USA I've always loved. And on this auspicious day, here it is. Volume up + full screen, folks 😀 #WoodyGuthrie #America #USA Video edit: @PAULBROWNAP63

Hozier in a fitting tribute to Shane MacGowan and the Pogues beautifully performed Fairytale of New York live on SNL

Apartheid 101

@gardenngather Congratulations Margaret! We have a first time (absentee) voter in my house this year too

My son voted in New York yesterday. When he registered at the polling station the lady shouted out " first time voter" and a great cheer went up. I think all of us who enjoy the privilege of a free vote should celebrate our first and every subsequent vote

What a brilliant letter.

Every single reporter from a country backing and supporting this regime of evil, needs to the hear the words of this powerful woman Rahma Zein : You own the narrative. You own the United Nations. You own Hollywood. You own all these mouthpieces. Where are OUR voices? Rahma said this nearly one year ago. What has changed. Rightfully confronting the American media outside Gaza.

What’s happening in Gaza right now is no longer related to the destruction of Hamas. That stopped a long time ago along with any Israeli pretence of a just war. This is little more than a murderous, barbaric, punitive and increasingly genocidal killing spree.

.@UN Independent Commission of Inquiry says in a new policy paper that the United Nations and Member States are obligated under international law to end #Israel’s unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4eMzlRA

@gardenngather That’s beautiful, Margaret! Did you spray it with anything to preserve it?

It was a lovely calm day yesterday so I made a wreath from materials I gathered in the garden. It's now sitting in the shed with the cats waiting for #StormAshley

We, Irish Healthcare Workers for Palestine, have had ENOUGH of our Government's inaction as we watch our colleagues call for intervention from Palestine and the Northern Gaza Hospitals today. The inaction of the Irish Government is #notinourname #notinmyname #GazaGenocide

@mhdksafa Not a bot, but an outraged 🇮🇪 woman. #JabaliaGenocide #Jabalia

"This is not a humanitarian crisis, Kate, and I'm going to say it very clearly for your viewers to hear: This is genocide [...] Media agencies will have reckon with their major role in the genocide." -- Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan to CNN

The 20 funniest ads of all time: 1. Bible App

Thread on alternative views of iconic landmarks you (probably) haven’t seen before 🧵 1. The worn steps of the Tower of Pisa

every year, roland garros (the french open) asks an artist to create a poster for the tournament today, the collection has become an *incredible* display of tennis as modern art let's take a look at some of the best ones — starting with this iconic 1984 poster by gilles aillaud

His family survived the Holocaust. He founded Human Rights Watch. He directed the ACLU. Now he’s saying Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Excellent CNN interview:

There is one thing we should all be able to agree with Netanyahu on: Any comparison between Israel's war crimes and those of Hamas is, as the Israeli prime minister put it, "absurd and false" and a "distortion of reality". Here's why: * Israeli war crimes have been ongoing for more than seven decades, long predating Hamas' creation. * Israel has kept the Palestinians of Gaza caged into a concentration camp for the past 17 years, denying them connection to the outside world and the essentials of life. Hamas managed to besiege a small part of Israel for one day, on October 7. * For every Israeli killed by Hamas on October 7, Israel has slaughtered at least 35 times that number of Palestinians. Similar kill-ratios grossly skewed in Israel's favour have been true for decades. * Israel has killed more than 15,000 Palestinian children since October – and many tens of thousands more Palestinian children are missing under rubble, maimed or orphaned. By early April, Israel had killed a further 114 children in the West Bank and injured 725 more. Hamas killed a total of 33 Israeli children on October 7. * Israel has laid waste to Gaza's entire health sector. It has bombed its hospitals, and killed, beaten and kidnapped many hundreds of medical personnel. Hamas has not attacked one Israeli hospital. * Israel has killed more than 100 journalists in Gaza and more than 250 aid workers. It has also kidnapped a further 40 journalists. Most are presumed to have been taken to a secret detention facility where torture is rife. Hamas is reported to have killed one Israeli journalist on October 7, and no known aid workers. * Israel is actively starving Gaza's population by denying it food, water and aid. That is a power – a genocidal one – Hamas could only ever dream of. * Israel has been forcibly removing Palestinians from their lands for more than 76 years to build illegal Jewish settlements in their place. Hamas has not been able to ethnically cleanse a single Israeli, nor build a single Palestinian settlement on Israeli land. * Some 750,000 Palestinians are reported to have been taken hostage and jailed by Israel since 1967 – an unwelcome rite of passage for Palestinian men and boys and one in which torture is routine and military trials ensure a near-100% conviction rate. Until October 7, Hamas had only ever managed to take hostage a handful of the Israeli soldiers whose job is to oppress Palestinians. * And, while Hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by western states, those same western states laud Israel, fund and arm it, and provide it with diplomatic cover, even as the World Court rules that a plausible case has been made it is committing a genocide in Gaza. Yes, Netanyahu is right. There is no comparison.