Fergal Lenehan
Apl. Prof. Dr. Uni Jena. Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
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- Reposted by Fergal Lenehan"We are now seeing eviction rates that have not been seen in Ireland since the 1850s." A damning reality laid bare in this piece of well-researched analysis.
- Reposted by Fergal LenehanA study at U Mass Amherst finds that Elon Musk manipulated Twitter to bolster the voice of the Neo Nazi Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) before the German 2025 parliamentary elections. No surprises here. groups.cs.umass.edu/equate-ml/20...
- Reposted by Fergal LenehanOk. You're right. But why stop at cyclists? Let's make pedestrians wear high-vis and helmets too! It's safer right? Actually, let's make absolutely everyone wear high-vis and helmets at all times everywhere (except people in cars obviously!) so people driving cars feel better
- Reposted by Fergal Lenehan5 people told Politico “the planned 🇺🇸🇩🇪 meeting collapsed after State Department officials told the German Embassy in Washington that it was prepared to receive only Christian Democratic and AfD lawmakers, excluding the SPD and the Greens.“ Norbert Röttgen (CDU) rejected that idea. Good on him!
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- Reposted by Fergal LenehanContext: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Fergal LenehanI don't know what it is about idiots who buy newspapers without understanding why they exist or what their business is, but I think gutting books coverage is some kind of canary in the coalmine. These jackasses don't read books, so they assume no one else does either.
- Reposted by Fergal LenehanDiese starke neue Recherche von Yasemin Said @taz.de zum seit Jahrzehnten von der extremen Rechten genutzten ehemaligen #HASAG- Außenlager des KZ #Buchenwald in #Leipzig zeigt neue, teilweise bizarre Details: Dazu ein kleiner Thread aus meiner Perspektive. 1/x
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- Reposted by Fergal LenehanAnne Frank's family had their German citizenship stripped from them under the Eleventh Decree to the Law on the Citizenship of the Reich in 1941. Since they had never become Dutch citizens, they were officially stateless at this point, lacking what Arendt termed "the right to have rights."
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- Reposted by Fergal LenehanPeople are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
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- Reposted by Fergal LenehanReally interesting and worrying piece from @henrymance.ft.com about the future of humanitarian aid in an increasingly isolationist world - he embeds with the UN high commissioner for refugees www.ft.com/content/8600...
- Reposted by Fergal LenehanFour-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice." Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.
- Reposted by Fergal LenehanThe exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
- Reposted by Fergal LenehanI was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
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- Great, we - the EU & the UK - are in a hybrid-war with both Russia & the USA now.
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- Reposted by Fergal LenehanA source confirms to me that this disturbing letter from Trump to the Norwegian PM is real.
- Reposted by Fergal LenehanEurope has some cards too...
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- Reposted by Fergal LenehanSpeaking truth to power. "Do not speak of the security of the Arctic, when its greatest threat is YOU" Greenlandic citizen at Nuuk demonstration. Source: dr.dk
- Reposted by Fergal LenehanI love that the literal translation of escalator into Irish is “living stairs”
- Reposted by Fergal LenehanLots of interesting lines in this: “If you came from a working-class background you saw through the supposedly left progressivism that was determined to put manners on the working class because they hadn’t kept up with the latest codes and jargon."
- Rob Doyle: ‘I’m 43, but I’m still going into my own guts and exposing the weird and the shameful stuff’. The author tells me about his multilayered new novel, Cameo, how he avoids making his working-class roots an ‘identity spectacle’ and why he quit alcohol www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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- Reposted by Fergal Lenehan“Family reunification accounts for little more than 1% of migration into Ireland. Telling people granted refugee status to wait three years – until their children no longer recognise them – is not the stance of a country that professes to cherish the family unit.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
- This image was all over #Connewitz today #le1701.
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- Reposted by Fergal Lenehan"There is nobody more American than American Indians! We are America, how can you possibly target Native Americans? It's legally impossible!" -Chase Iron Eyes tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social about four Oglala Sioux Tribal members being taken by ICE... Three are now missing . LIVE NOW ⬇️
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- Reposted by Fergal LenehanThe scene outside any Irish funeral.
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- Reposted by Fergal Lenehan“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
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- Ironic that these people talk about "treason" & the influence of outside elites while being clearly directly influenced - & financed? - by the US far-right. Deeply shameful that the US ambassador was there. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
- Reposted by Fergal LenehanThe Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
- Reposted by Fergal Lenehan@rickoshea.bsky.social and I had a good natter about translated fiction on Arena @rteradio1.bsky.social earlier in the week. You can listen back here if you fancy it. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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- Reposted by Fergal LenehanMake it viral.
- Reposted by Fergal LenehanFor those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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