ljmccartan.bsky.social
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
👤 Joined on 03 November 2024
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@ljmccracken.bsky.social@ljmccracken.bsky.social → @ljmccartan.bsky.social20% Catholics from a 50:50 population. Armed to the teeth cops. Stop & search, arrests and holding on remand disproportionately impacting Catholics & POC. Its Larne barracks - an immigration detention centre and 3 huge loyalist paramilitary racist pogroms in 3 years. Policing reform has failed.
Show PostFwiw this includes me (a British citizen but born abroad), my Norwegian midwife partner, and two of my three children. Nice to know that The Times thinks we are undesirable but has watched “helplessly” as we lived in London.
Show PostUS garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.
Show PostEven if over 323,000 Irish households weren't in arrears with their electricity bills (they are), this would be bonkers.
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