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Bookaneer808
@bookaneer808.bsky.social
Avid reader, bookseller, likes birds & puns.
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Creator of annual #ReadIrishWomenChallenge - runs every April
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📖 In Glass Houses by Edel Coffey 🏙
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What a fab evening! It was phenomenal listening to Nadine O'Regan in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson, Liz Nugent, Elaine Feeney & Roisin O'Donnell as they spoke about their beginnings as authors, their writing process & inspiration with honesty, insight & humour.
We had an engaged audience too!
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Coming to the UK this April, a signed, special edition, limited run hardback of THE ORB OF CAIRADO novella - @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's latest book from the world of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR!

To find a future, disgraced scholar Ulcetha must face his past.

Preorder: https://geni.us/orbcairado
February 9, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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So in a week of catastrophic flooding the government have decided to move climate from its own section to a subsection under infrastructure and lift the Dublin airport passenger cap. Mighty
February 8, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Sharks on brink of extinction caught in tangle nets in protected Irish waters

"That the Irish Government still allows this form of destructive fishing throughout Irish coastal waters is an absolute disgrace"

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Sharks on brink of extinction caught in tangle nets in protected Irish waters
Seals also among the animals killed as by-catch of growing crayfishing industry
www.irishtimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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The legislation would also deem the facility automatically compliant with Ireland’s Climate Law without undergoing a proper assessment.

This is completely unacceptable!

It creates a dangerous precedent that bypasses laws & democratic processes, and could affect much more than just this facility.
January 29, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Minister for Environment Darragh O'Brien is attempting to rush through approval for a €900 million LNG reserve at the cost of the taxpayer & the planet.

The proposed legislation would give the Minister full responsibility for the planning application & completely change the normal planning process.
January 29, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Columbia Heights (Liam's school district) cancelled school today because of a credible bomb threat at Liam's elementary and multiple ICE vehicles parking in the high school staff parking lot at 6:15am.
February 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to wake up at 5 am and don 30 lbs of tactical gear you bought off amazon to sit in a chevy tahoe in the parking lot of the elementary school where you kidnapped a five year old kid to intimidate his teachers. good luck soldier
Columbia Heights (Liam's school district) cancelled school today because of a credible bomb threat at Liam's elementary and multiple ICE vehicles parking in the high school staff parking lot at 6:15am.
February 2, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Striking numbers which demonstrate, in spades, how tiny is the popular support for the culture of hate that Britain's institutions seem determined to impose on a kind and accepting majority.

(Expect the BBC to ignore it or qualify it to oblivion.)
January 29, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.
January 31, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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At Bridget's Well
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
January 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
www.wired.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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Everybody who perpetrated this while covering it up should be in the Hague

www.reuters.com/world/early-...
January 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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So what I'm hearing is that, in the last five days, two Black Members of Congress have been assaulted in apparent support of the regime's deportation diktat (Rep Frost, punched at Sundance & told he'd be deported; Rep Omar at an ICE townhall) & the regime has arrested four Black journalists.

Huh.
The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution.

This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American.

They must be released immediately.
January 30, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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❤️
January 30, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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The charges against Don Lemon are ridiculous. He’s a target because he’s black, because he’s media, and because he’s a Trump critic, and because Trump and his minions cannot accept any dissent. It’s deeply pathetic, unamerican, and lawless.
January 30, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent

lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember

www.jlundyforsd65.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.

It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
January 28, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act?

RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger

D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war?

R: No
January 28, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all.

Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.
January 27, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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This is dystopian… and not just because they’re dressed like a scene from the handmaids tale.

These are mostly children.

This is where Liam Ramos is being held.

They’re screaming “let us out” and protesting the brutal conditions.

These kids are braver than every ICE thug holding them hostages
January 27, 2026 at 5:28 AM
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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When I say this agency [ICE and CBP] CAN’T be reformed this is why.
January 26, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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LA people: ICE IS IN KTOWN
1/26: 10:15 a.m. CBP 🧊 cluster raids starting in Koreatown, Pico/Union, Salvadoran Corridor this morning.
ICE also in Riverside
January 26, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 7:30 PM