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Darren Thornton
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Filmmaker, theatre maker.

‘A Date for Mad Mary’ (2016), ‘Four Mothers’ (cinemas April 2025).

He/Him. 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️✊
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paulmurphy.pbp.ie
"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning."

They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social
Israel is spitting at the world's face, shouting it loud that it will, illegally, attack the Global Sumud Flotilla. If Starmer, Macron, Carney and Albanese really wanted to end the genocide, they would send a naval vessel to protect the flotilla. lapresse.us/world/2025/0...
Gaza, Israel: "Flotilla Serves Hamas, We Will Stop It" - Lapresse.US
Turin, Sept. 22 (LaPresse) – “This flotilla, organized by Hamas, is intended to serve Hamas. Israel will not allow the vessels to enter an active combat zone and will not permit the violation of a leg...
lapresse.us
September 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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bcdreyer.social
“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”
aarum.bsky.social Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · Sep 14
This was a word AND he cussed 😂
September 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
September 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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jamellebouie.net
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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wesleymorgan.bsky.social
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Tremendous piece by Chris Person on the pointless mutilation of film history by morons, overeager tech-heads (a subspecies of moron), and directors who've gotten lost in the sauce of unbridled capitalism.

aftermath.site/true-lies-4k...
They Want You To Forget What A Film Looks Like - Aftermath
The 4K transfer of True Lies is what happens when a company uses proprietary tech to overwrite and denoise history.
aftermath.site
August 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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irishtimes.com
Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it
I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper – but that would now be illegal
www.irishtimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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karsugrue.bsky.social
“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie
August 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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npr.org
An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.
Roles reversed: A veteran Gaza aid worker pleads for survival
An aid worker in northern Gaza tells NPR that people are starving, water is scarce and basic supplies are out of reach. He warns thousands could die in the coming days if nothing changes.
n.pr
August 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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irishtimes.com
Palestinian children detained by Israeli forces: ‘They put on music and colourful lights and started dancing over us ... They had their feet on our backs’
Palestinian children detained by Israeli forces: ‘They put on music and colourful lights and started dancing over us ... They had their feet on our backs’
Two Palestinian teenagers from the occupied West Bank describe suffering and seeing systematic abuses while in Israeli detention
www.irishtimes.com
August 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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tonygroves.bsky.social
The Handala, which is attempting to bring humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, is illegally boarded and effectively pirated by the occupying Israeli army that is enforcing a famine. It’s 2025 and this is routine now.
July 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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bradlander.bsky.social
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...
Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
forward.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
Holding important meetings, lamenting bad things, urging people to do good things. The same routine for 20 months. And all the while the arms exports continue, the surveillance flights continue, trade and investment continues, normal diplomatic relations continue. Complicity in genocide continues.
josiahmortimer.bsky.social Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · Jul 24
Statement from PM Starmer just now on Gaza
“The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible. While the situation has been grave for some time, it has reached new depths and continues to worsen. We are witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe. “I will hold an emergency call with E3 partners tomorrow, where we will discuss what we can do urgently to stop the killing and get people the food they desperately need while pulling together all the steps necessary to build a lasting peace. We all agree on the pressing need for Israel to change course and allow the aid that is desperately needed to enter Gaza without delay. “It is hard to see a hopeful future in such dark times. But I must reiterate my call for all sides to engage in good faith, and at pace, to bring about an immediate ceasefire and for Hamas to unconditionally release all hostages. We strongly support the efforts of the US, Qatar and Egypt to secure this. “We are clear that statehood is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people. A ceasefire will put us on a path to the recognition of a Palestinian state and a two-state solution which guarantees peace and security for Palestinians and Israelis
July 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.

"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.

Here's the trailer:
July 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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joneshowdareyou.bsky.social
"I don't know to say back to them because we are witnessing in real time—live streamed—their annihilation and extermination of an entire peoples, an entire community. So I don't know what more to say to them. I don't know what more to say here."

#GazaGenocide #FuckIsrael
June 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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emmathedame.bsky.social
Another total gem from this year’s #BlueMountainFilmFestival: Four Mothers. An amazing ensemble brings a tale full of heart that manages to avoid tropes and schmaltz. Read my review at @thatshelf.com thatshelf.com/four-mothers...
Four Mothers Review: A Charming Tale of Love and Aging - That Shelf
Darren Thornton’s Four Mothers, an Irish remake of the Italian film Mid-August Lunch, is a very easy film to fall in love with.
thatshelf.com
June 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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dvdcompare.net
BFI's Region B Blu-ray of FOUR MOTHERS reviewed on our site: www.dvdcompare.net/review.php?r...
June 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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neillyneil.bsky.social
Four Mothers is a lovely heartwarming watch - just dropped on BFI Player player.bfi.org.uk/subscription...
Watch Four Mothers - BFI Player
Hilarious, uplifting tale of an Irish son juggling four very different mothers over one chaotic weekend in Dublin.
player.bfi.org.uk
June 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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premthakker.bsky.social
NEW—A US contractor with inside look at the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.”

Some contractors never deployed before—or are ex-cops. None are confirmed as trained for the guns they were given.

They saw the IDF targeting Palestinians.

“This idea that the Israeli military isn't involved is bullshit.”
EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
I thought I was signing up for an aid mission. But what I've witnessed in Gaza is horrific.
zeteo.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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coldamage.bsky.social
70 residential buildings bombed by Israel in #Gaza in the last 48 hours.

If this is what "civilization" looks like, count me out.

#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust
June 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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violentphlegm.bsky.social
Anybody near Wicklow please keep an eye out for this little dote. She's been missing a good while now and we're all losing our minds over her
May 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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patrickfreyne.bsky.social
Great column from Mark O’Connell on Louis Theroux’s the Settlers

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Mark O'Connell: In The Settlers, Louis Theroux does something we have rarely seen him do
Louis Theroux has encountered such people before but they have tended to be fringe propositions with no real power. The Israeli settler movement is different
www.irishtimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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kneecapceol.bsky.social Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · Apr 28
📣 KNEECAP STATEMENT:
They want you to believe words are more harmful than genocide. Establishment figures, desperate to silence us, have combed through hundreds of hours of footage and interviews, extracting a handful of words from months or years ago to manufacture moral hysteria. Let us be unequivocal: we do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah. We condemn all attacks on civilians, always. It is never okay. We know this more than anyone, given our nation's history. We also reject any suggestion that we would seek to incite violence against any MP or individual. Ever. An extract of footage, deliberately taken out of all context, is now being exploited and weaponised, as if it were a call to action. This distortion is not only absurd - it is a transparent effort to derail the real conversation. All two million Palestinian people in Gaza are currently being starved to death by Israel. At least 20,000 children in Gaza have been killed. The British government continues to supply arms to Israel, even after scores of NHS doctors warned Keir Starmer in August that children were being systematically executed with sniper shots to the head. Instead of defending innocent people or the principles of international law, the powerful in Britain have abetted slaughter and famine. This is where real anger and outrage should be directed towards. To the Amess and Cox families, we send our heartfelt apologies, we never intended to cause you hurt. Kneecap’s message has always been — and remains — one of love, inclusion, and hope. This is why our music resonates across generations, countries, classes and cultures and has brought hundreds of thousands of people to our gigs. No smear campaign will change that. Suddenly, days after calling out the US administration at Coachella to applause and solidarity, there is an avalanche of outrage and condemnation by the political classes of Britain. The real crimes are not in our performances; the real crimes are the silence and complicity of those in power. Shame on them. A Palestinian man stands by graffiti in Gaza that thanks Kneecap for "being the voice of the oppressed".
April 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM