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Liam Hogan@liamhogan.bsky.social |
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Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant. Researching Slavery - Memory - Power. Blog > medium.com/@Limerick1914/ Support my work > ko-fi.com/liamhogan
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Iron Spike
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Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.
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The Washington Post
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How far will the fossil fuel industry go to protect itself from climate impacts it helped cause? A $21 billion liquefied natural gas plant in Louisiana will be surrounded by a 26-foot-high steel sea wall to stave off rising seas.
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Seth Cotlar
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When I first saw this I thought "no, that can't possibly be true." But alas, the Times did indeed choose today of all days to publish a right winger's recycled piece about how they don't vote, failing to mention that the author basically thinks absolutist theocracies are cool.
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Sarah J. Jackson
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Liam Hogan
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Frederick Douglass: "America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future." (1852)
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Stephanie Rains
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I read the other day that the Dáil has ventilation set at 10 changes per hour, while many of us are left trying to create ad hoc workplace ventilation by propping doors open with chairs.
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Liam Hogan
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Aside: During the height of the pandemic I thought it was quite symbolic of a century of mostly centre-right governance and our embrace of capitalist hyperindividualism to see fleets of HEPA-filtered SUVs dropping children to chronically underfunded and under resourced schools.
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Liam Hogan
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That the greater burden of disease tracks with socio-economic and spatial inequalities means that govt inaction in updating/enforcing new building policy, indoor air quality regulation and retrospective HVAC investment is a political choice to not level the burden & is thus a form of class war.
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Liam Hogan
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We have learned so much about how viruses transmit over the past four years & yet none of the passive yet effective measures (better ventilation, HEPA filtration) have been adopted as new standards. An opportunity to future proof our buildings & workplaces let slip away. www.rte.ie/news/2024/07...
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Liam Hogan
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"The fascist project was to remake human beings into a new kind of ruthless, hard, pitiless entity [and] to expunge humanitarianism from the political system and from people’s consciences." - Richard J. Evans
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Katie Mack
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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"At least 200 candidates from both the left-wing alliance and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition pulled out of the contest...in order to unite behind those remaining contenders with the best chance of beating Le Pen’s nationalists"
www.politico.eu/article/fren...
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Mike Isaacson
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Worse, they see it as something that actively corrupts society
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Liam Hogan
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So this is not and has never been a case of MAGA redhats being hoodwinked by actors/institutions they should be able to trust. That is a naive reading. They are willing followers of a movement which wants to hollow out and change these institutions of the state from the inside out.
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Liam Hogan
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Peter Fritzsche: “It should be stated clearly that Germans became Nazis because they wanted to become Nazis...”
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Liam Hogan
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Huxley: “Propaganda gives force and direction to [movements] of popular feeling and desire; but it does not do much to create those movements. The [propagandist] canalises an already existing stream." (1936)
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Liam Hogan
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Has that denialism been shattered by the recent Supreme Court decision to grant sweeping immunity (retrospectively to Trump) and to future Presidents to do as they wish with no regard for the law under the pretext of 'official acts'? Time will tell.
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Liam Hogan
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I wrote a version of this thread on twitter over 4 years ago & noted that there seemed to be an inability to accept that there is a considerable political movement in the U.S. which is fundamentally anti-democratic. A burgeoning proto-fascism that is believed in as a way to achieve *shared* aims.
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Liam Hogan
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I’m not sure if the penny will ever drop. It’s been clear for the past few years that Trump's base believes that rights-based democratic values do not serve their interests and so must be critically diminished.
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Liam Hogan
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The MAGA movement will not be shamed by pointing out the basic features of a liberal pluralist democracy. They don't believe in any of it. They see it as a weakness, something that merely holds them back or slows their efforts to reshape their world.
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Brendan Nyhan
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Official act. Immune.
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Liam Hogan
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"Long live the Irish Republic": Thomas Paine, James Napper Tandy and General Kilmaine celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Paris (1798) #StPatricksDay
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Hypervisible
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“The account remains available on Facebook and Instagram where it has more than 1 million followers. Meta spokesperson Erin McPike said the company is reviewing the content and will remove any of it that violates its policies.”
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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This is a profile of a man who does not believe in human freedom. The world is nothing but overlapping hierarchies and if you do not sit at the top of one then you must be made to serve those who do. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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David M. Perry
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it's funny to be looking up a major and extremely well studied event in medieval history and have google scholar direct me to a masters thesis at harvard and an undergraduate senior paper at liberty university.
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Karl Bode
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recall that Tesla was caught automatically disengaging automation one second before impact so they could pretend half-cooked automation wasn't at fault, so the idea that we even have an accurate count of fatalities is preposterous
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BeijingPalmer
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the erosion of the internet seems like one of those gradual-sudden shifts over the last year, as AI drowns out any useful information
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
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Today the Irish Examiner published my piece about the hellscape of platform manipulation and spam that is the modern web. In it, I highlighted that such actions materially benefit Twitter. Now, for the first time in 14 years, I've been suspended by Twitter. For "platform manipulation and spam".
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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"Quietly and with little fanfare, the idea of building new publicly owned housing for people across the income spectrum has advanced...not the kind of public housing most Americans are familiar with: It has a sleek fitness center, multiple gathering spaces, and a...pool"
www.vox.com/policy/2024/...
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John Maguire
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I recently learned that in Norway, when someone asks "how's it going", the standard answer is "up and not crying" and we should adopt this asap
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Randi Mason
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Reminder to new users here: The Books Unbanned initiative, which provides teens and young adults across the US with eBook access, now involves Seattle Public Library, Boston Public Library, Los Angeles County Library, San Diego Public Library & Brooklyn Public Library.
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Elad Nehorai
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Literally, like, literally (The Haldeman guy here is Musk's grandfather)
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Rose 🌹
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We are officially open to the world! Bye bye invites 👋
techcrunch.com/2024/02/06/b...
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jam
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the collapse of google search as a useful source of accurate information is a boon to screenwriters everywhere. "why didn't they just google the house to see if it was haunted" they did and the top ten entries were identical automatically generated real estate ads on different seo-scumming websites
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Liam Hogan
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"We were as keen as men on the freedom of Ireland, but we saw the men clamouring for amendments which suited their own interests and made no recognition of the existence of women as fellow-citizens." - Margaret Cousins (co-founder of the Irish Women’s Franchise League) re: the "inadequate" IPP.
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Liam Hogan
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In 1960 the Medical Officer of London reported that of the 1,259 unmarried mothers seeking help in London, 734 were Irish. In 2016 Irish women accounted for almost 85% of the non-resident abortions carried out in England and Wales (15% of which were from Northern Ireland).
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Liam Hogan
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"[The] coordinated move to criminalise abortion and effectively regulate women’s autonomy cannot be divorced from notions of the idealised version of Irish women (as articulated by the 1937 Constitution)" - Dr. Laura Harris (Abortion Rights in Quebec and Ireland: Divergent Paths)
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Liam Hogan
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"[if only] Mr [James] Connolly were living, [Irish] women would not be in the backward position we are in today” - Rosie Hackett (1970) Hackett was in the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Rising, a founding member of the Irish Women Workers’ Union and a trade union activist.
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Liam Hogan
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"The reality of women’s participation in the political and public life of the Irish Free State was soon undermined by the legislative, cultural and social ideals of 'respectability and domesticity’ for women." - Mary McAuliffe
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Liam Hogan
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“What could be expected from man made laws…however, he said he approved of equal pay for equal work, wonderful he doesn’t apply it. Women will fight.” (1937)
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Liam Hogan
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Lynn: “Mrs Kettle says she works night and day with protest against new constitution’s rules for women, of course they are reactionary...Dev [de Valera] much pained we should not think his constitution perfect for women when there is so much discrimination in many sections.”
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Liam Hogan
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Dr Kathleen Lynn: “the Irish Catholic [newspaper] says [the] constitution is a noble document! That damns it if nothing else.” Lynn was a doctor, suffragist, activist and Sinn Fein politician. She was the Chief Medical Officer of the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Rising.
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Liam Hogan
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"Within ten years of the Free State’s existence, the guarantee of women’s equal status in Irish society had been eroded." - Caitriona Beaumont (1997) Women, citizenship and Catholicism in the Irish Free state, 1922-1948, Women's History Review
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Liam Hogan
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Senator Jennie Wyse Power: "These young girls kept constantly assuring me: ‘When our own men are in power, we shall have equal rights’. They believed that. It may have been due to their lack of experience, but it was part of their faith. I do not know how they feel now.” (1935)
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Liam Hogan
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Thomas Mohr: "The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1935 provided that the citizenship of children born outside the State could only be transmitted through the father. In 1935 De Valera believed that equal treatment in this area would lead to “confusion”.
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Liam Hogan
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For more see Maria Luddy's A 'Sinister and Retrogressive' Proposal: Irish Women's Opposition to the 1937 Draft Constitution (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 175-195
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Liam Hogan
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"Mr de Valera has always been a reactionary where women are concerned. He dislikes and distrusts us as a sex and his aim ever since he came into office has been to put us into what he considers is our place and keep us there." - Gertrude Gaffney (1937)
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Liam Hogan
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"The feminists are getting angry and are moving into action. They seem stung by the suggestion that the normal place for a woman is the home. I shall shortly have another note to meet these persons. Their thoughts are very confused." - Fr John Charles McQuaid to de Valera (1937
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