Noreen Bowden
@noreenbowden.bsky.social
NY | Galway | Irish diaspora | into art, architecture, history, philosophy, economics, Irish politics | UND, BC, HKS | #cleantheair | #speirgorm
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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US Rep. Brendan Boyle interviewed by RTÉ on the case of an Irish citizen interned in an ICE concentration camp for several months, a story first broken by @klillington.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
'Five to six' cases of Irish people held by ICE, says Taoiseach
Congressman Brendan Boyle (Democrat) of Pennsylvania
www.rte.ie
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 PM
US Rep. Brendan Boyle interviewed by RTÉ on the case of an Irish citizen interned in an ICE concentration camp for several months, a story first broken by @klillington.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Wouldn’t do it to save grandma, will do it to deport her. We see where your priorities lie.
February 11, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Wouldn’t do it to save grandma, will do it to deport her. We see where your priorities lie.
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The US is shipping people across the Atlantic in chains through our country.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Shannon Airport used for refuelling Ice deportation flights 10 times in past year
The controversial agency chartered small private aircraft for the removal operations
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:33 AM
The US is shipping people across the Atlantic in chains through our country.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
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#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 AM
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
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Bad Bunny for Vanity Fair in 2023:
“What I do, I do from my heart...I believe that every human being has the duty to have empathy for others, to help others, to respect them, to always try to contribute something to society, to bring a positive change.”
www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/0...
“What I do, I do from my heart...I believe that every human being has the duty to have empathy for others, to help others, to respect them, to always try to contribute something to society, to bring a positive change.”
www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/0...
February 9, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Bad Bunny for Vanity Fair in 2023:
“What I do, I do from my heart...I believe that every human being has the duty to have empathy for others, to help others, to respect them, to always try to contribute something to society, to bring a positive change.”
www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/0...
“What I do, I do from my heart...I believe that every human being has the duty to have empathy for others, to help others, to respect them, to always try to contribute something to society, to bring a positive change.”
www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/0...
This was so joyful. Fantastic show!
Bad Bunny ends his Super Bowl halftime show in front of a sign reading "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE"
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
This was so joyful. Fantastic show!
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Tomorrow in Boston: A phone-bank to support extending TPS for Haitians.
February 8, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Tomorrow in Boston: A phone-bank to support extending TPS for Haitians.
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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@motherjones.com had this one last week before it was top of the page @nytimes.com Those of us working on projects for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration have anticipated such a giant whitewash laden with grift. Everyone should read real history right now and support real historians.
1/ @motherjones.com reported extensively on this group, Freedom 250—and the larger effort to whitewash our history and get corporations to fund that destruction—in our cover story that went up last week: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
by @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
by @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 5:46 PM
@motherjones.com had this one last week before it was top of the page @nytimes.com Those of us working on projects for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration have anticipated such a giant whitewash laden with grift. Everyone should read real history right now and support real historians.
People really don’t know their history on this. A friend told me how different her Irish ancestors were from today’s immigrants as “they loved America and assimilated as soon as they got here” - ignoring both how America didn’t love them and how much those immigrants changed America.
February 8, 2026 at 5:24 PM
People really don’t know their history on this. A friend told me how different her Irish ancestors were from today’s immigrants as “they loved America and assimilated as soon as they got here” - ignoring both how America didn’t love them and how much those immigrants changed America.
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the two years of transformation:
February 7, 2026 at 10:49 PM
the two years of transformation:
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The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
February 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
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Organ rejection is one of the worst ways to die naturally (for some values of "natural"). Look it up at your own risk, or take my word for it, accept that they're torturing a man to death, & act accordingly.
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Organ rejection is one of the worst ways to die naturally (for some values of "natural"). Look it up at your own risk, or take my word for it, accept that they're torturing a man to death, & act accordingly.
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"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants"
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
February 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants"
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
No you don't.
If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.
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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
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Pics taken 10 minutes apart of the changing Aurora Borealis over the house. Jan 19th 2026
County Clare, Ireland.
"Aillte"
Episodes 1 and 2 of documentary now available for streaming on TG4.
www.tg4.ie/en/player/ca...
County Clare, Ireland.
"Aillte"
Episodes 1 and 2 of documentary now available for streaming on TG4.
www.tg4.ie/en/player/ca...
February 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Pics taken 10 minutes apart of the changing Aurora Borealis over the house. Jan 19th 2026
County Clare, Ireland.
"Aillte"
Episodes 1 and 2 of documentary now available for streaming on TG4.
www.tg4.ie/en/player/ca...
County Clare, Ireland.
"Aillte"
Episodes 1 and 2 of documentary now available for streaming on TG4.
www.tg4.ie/en/player/ca...
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👀Now that ICE/DHS are planning to buy ‘mega’ warehouse detention centers across the US to house human beings you might want to listen to this gentleman’s history lesson that he delivered at a city council meeting in AZ. Congress needs to have hearings on this like yesterday.
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
👀Now that ICE/DHS are planning to buy ‘mega’ warehouse detention centers across the US to house human beings you might want to listen to this gentleman’s history lesson that he delivered at a city council meeting in AZ. Congress needs to have hearings on this like yesterday.
Really looking forward to hearing this one!
The latest episode of Transatlantic is now out! We dip into the Irish Folklore Collection in search of America- looking at ghost stories, sense of loss, fears over returned immigrants and representations of the American West and Native Americans: shows.acast.com/transatlanti...
37. American Emigrants in Irish Folklore | Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast
shows.acast.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Really looking forward to hearing this one!
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One lesson MAHA disinformation doctors learned regarding COVID is they could make outrageous fake claims and except for a few people here, everyone else would forget.
Things are no different today.
Things are no different today.
February 2, 2026 at 11:38 PM
One lesson MAHA disinformation doctors learned regarding COVID is they could make outrageous fake claims and except for a few people here, everyone else would forget.
Things are no different today.
Things are no different today.
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SHABOOZEY: “Immigrants built this country.”
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
SHABOOZEY: “Immigrants built this country.”
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From yesterday's Irish Times.
February 1, 2026 at 1:51 PM
From yesterday's Irish Times.