1/ THREAD Over the course of the past 48 hours many of us have witnessed individuals and groups of the far right try to exploit the brutal murder of #AislingMurphy to further their own political goals.
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My jaw dropped at this: "There is no data at all from the police departments in New York City, Miami, Chicago, or Los Angeles."
Thanks to for spelling out so well why we will learn the wrong lessons if we use these data.
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if you'd like to witness something truly deranged I would encourage you to check out the frequency with which Elon Musk replies to an unaffiliated twitter blue account called "musk university" that just quotes him twitter.com/search?q=from%
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Banner says;
"It wasn't the gas, it wasn't the cash, the cop shot him because he was Roma".
Protests in the city of Thessaloniki over Greek police shooting of unarmed 16y/o for 20e worth of gas.
#Greece #policeviolence #KostasFragoulis #16χρονος #Ρομα #Racism
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Police attacked those gathered in Athens for Kostas Fragoulis, a 16-year-old Roma boy who was killed by the Police in Thessaloniki. 30 people were detained in the police attacks. #16χρονος_Θεσσαλονικη #antireport #ρομα #Greece
#KostasFragoulis #Athens
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At the time of the suspension, It’s Going Down had over 108,000 followers. IGD has been on Twitter since 2015 and has never been suspended
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Essential reading from It’s Going Down, a crucial antifascist media collective whose account was permanently suspended last week with zero notice or reason. On Musk Twitter, “free speech” is only assured for his fascist friends.
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I occasionally check into Facebook, and it had a lovely memory for me today....😎😎
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His act initiated one of the largest uprisings in history.
12 years later, crooks and dictators still rule the Arab world.
But the uprising has shown that the peoples of my region will fight for bread, dignity, and freedom when the time comes.
Just you wait...
الثورة مستمرة
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Musk turning Twitter to Reddit
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Keith doesn't get political economy.
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So Leo is Taoiseach again.
Already serious people in politics are saying he’s a ‘right wing free marketeer’. Eh, wut??
This is the guy who has introduced rent controls, eviction bans, mortgage credit controls and Part V mandate increases in housing alone. Wild.
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a thing I think is going to happen, musk will make a big production about bringing back all the msm journos, the freak show will all praise him, but igd, crimethinc and all the other left news sources will stay banned(for no reason)
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Three Palestine Actionists face charges after shutting down the London headquarters of Israel’s largest arms firm. Support them as they fight to prove #ElbitIsGuilty — Mobilise from 9.30AM on Monday 19th December at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court, N7 8JA
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It's common practice since the Rainbow coalition of 1994, Bunreacht limits Govt to 15
Super juniors more a device of political patronage than managerial efficiency
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_
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We have a lot of fun on here with Elon but that he’s openly exploring anti-anti-pogrom ideas is putting potentially thousands of lives at risk.
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People really need to understand how mainstream it has become in some tech VC circles to argue that journalism itself is dangerous as an idea and should be abolished, and that it will be up to the tech world to carry this out.
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The gov has announced a new level of ministers. 'Super Junior' ministers will sit at a cabinet meetings but don't get to vote. Not exactly super.
Maybe not entirely new but first I've heard of it
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Edgardo Mejias, 39, died on Sunday while jailed at the Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island. He had been arrested under suspicion of shoplifting perfume and is the 19th person to die due to New York City’s abominable jails in 2022.
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Mícheál Martin to become Foreign Affairs Minister with Simon Coveney moving to Enterprise. Some “tweaks” of Government Departments on the cards.
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Who got sacked in the Irish reshuffle today?
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River restoration, floodplain reconnection and wetland creation by #beavers. Always amazing to see what they can do if given space.
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Meta was accused of inflaming the Ethiopian civil war. A lawsuit, filed by two Ethiopian researchers and a Kenyan rights group, alleges that Facebook's recommendations systems amplified violent posts in Ethiopia reut.rs/3FW2w5N
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Shirley Eikhard, the singer-songwriter who supplied songs for Cher, Emmylou Harris, Anne Murray, Chet Atkins and found lasting fame penning Bonnie Raitt's Grammy-winning 1991 hit "Something to Talk About," has died.
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NEW:
The three Green Party ministers remain in their posts.
Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South) - Environment, Communications & Transport
Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown) - Tourism/Culture/Arts/Sport/Gaeltacht/Media
Roderic O’Gorman (Dublin West) - Children/Disability/Equality
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In case anybody needed a single tweet that simultaneously sums up with horrifying clarity what’s wrong with education and how inextricably linked government is with the interests of the wealthy.
Tremendous work here by the Secretary of Education.
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Every student should have access to an education that aligns with industry demands and evolves to meet the demands of tomorrow’s global workforce.
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Today's reading.
'The Managed Heart' from Hochschild
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Finally got to watching Andor.
Not generally a mad fan of Star Wars but very very watchable.
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Free from jail but only after my appeal was turned down and I was forced to remove a tweet mocking . #FreeTeacherDude
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FF and FG responding to the fact that their policies over decades lie at the root of record homelessness and growing poverty, amid massive wealth accumulation by a few.
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Helpers on the frontline of the homelessness crisis tell the challenges they face as winter bites, including mental health problems, elderly tenants being evicted and moneylenders targeting the vulnerable
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Even if the journalists banned yesterday get reinstated, that still doesn’t address Loder and Vishal and very few MSM reporters bothered to say shit when they were initially removed without reason.
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While accounts like and were targeted yesterday. had their account struck for speaking up about Elon targeting journalists and remains “temporarily restricted.”
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@RuthlessWe has been locked out of their account and their profile is now temporarily restricted.
Why? For posting a thread that was critical of Twitter’s targeting of journalists. 7/8 of the posts in that thread have been removed.
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Some of these bans, like and happened without explanation weeks ago. No 24 hour news cycle then and they’re *still* suspended.
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And as predicted, while all the mainstream journalists who were banned come back, the indies who specifically track the far-right are still suspended.
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This was always likely. The corporate backed journos will have editors willing to make phone calls for them, have connections and access that will open doors. Activists and indie oulets will go elsewhere but plot twist they're the real engine of this app, so 
twitter.com/egoldmanrevolt…
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It seems my account is banned… but only from Spaces. (This is what I get if I try to join or start a Space)
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Oh.
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‘Two Tennessee Men Arrested for Planning Attacks on Law Enforcement Personnel and the FBI’s Knoxville Field Office’ justice.gov/opa/pr/two-ten
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Recent Yale CEO Summit Poll:
56% said companies should pull advertising from Twitter
69% said Twitter’s best days are behind it
79% said Musk has become a detriment to the value of his companies
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