Michael Carter
@SeamusXavi
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Husband to @writingfortiny. Dad of 4. Serendipitous feminist. Paediatric Neurologist
Cork, Ireland
Joined November 2014
I had the chance to design Connolly’s campaign branding and visual identity, drawing on the Celtic Revival and vernacular Irish shopfront typography - particularly forms common in Galway, Catherines home. All deeply informed by local aesthetics and design heritage in Ireland.
Unrelated to the incredible news but Its very cool to me how Zohrans campaign design aesthetic has infected the left globally. Absolutely here for the neo-70s bold blocky letter vibes
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Word of Heather Humphreys polling numbers reaches the fox community:
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A woman from a rural working-class family - one of 14 siblings, raised in social housing and shaped by left-wing values - wins a landslide in Ireland’s presidential election. Yet millionaire businessmen and women insist the “spoil the vote” campaign is the real victor. #Aras25
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The latest installment of @DalrympleWill ‘s rich thoughtful series on the history of Gaza 👇
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If you are going to listen to a MYTHBUSTER, this is it!!! Scholarly Reverse Hasbara William & Anita gathered the "A Team" to discuss the history of Gaza & Palestine since the BRONZE AGE. J. Quinn (Cambridge) P. Sarris (Cambr) J. Phillip (Royal H) E. Rogan (Oxf) C. Elkins (Harv)
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Only 2 TDs, out of over 170 in the Dáil, supported people with disabilities & Carers in the Care Referendum - Mick Barry & Catherine Connolly. Catherine has always fought for >all< of us. She’s my president. #Aras25
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The final words of 6 year old Hind Rijab to paramedics (who the IDF also killed) as the IDF fired hundreds of bullets at her 🥺 "I’m not talking because every time I talk blood comes out of my mouth & makes my clothes dirty and I don’t want my mom to have to clean it.”
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The ICJ has just rejected all objections and (spurious) defenses and found that the Israeli regime is in violation of international law in its obstruction of aid, its attacks on UNRWA and other agencies, its mass murder of hundreds of UN staff, its violations of the rights of aid
PRESS RELEASE: The #ICJ delivers its Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory https://t.co/uMXJBTcJq6
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🚨HORRIBLE: An Israeli soldier named Maor Schwartz מעוז שוורץ posted a video on his own page showing himself kidnapping an entire family “children and elderly” from Jabalia northern Gaza Strip months ago.
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These trophy pictures of captured Gazans which young IDF soldiers share for their friends to admire on tiktok remind me of the B&W shots taken by Belgian colonial officers in the Congo after cutting the hands off young plantation workers for failing to make their rubber quota
🚨HORRIBLE: An Israeli soldier named Maor Schwartz מעוז שוורץ posted a video on his own page showing himself kidnapping an entire family “children and elderly” from Jabalia northern Gaza Strip months ago.
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“These findings corroborate what Physicians for Human Rights Israel has exposed over the past two years about conditions inside Israeli detention facilities – particularly at the Sde Teiman camp – where Palestinians have been subjected to systematic torture and killings by
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I've spent time in the wonderful Christian village of Taybeh on the West Bank, which was again attacked by Israeli Settlers this weekend. This was my report for @nybooks: Disappearing Christians | William Dalrymple | The New York Review of Books
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1. Taybeh is a small Palestinian village in the West Bank, ten miles northwest of Jerusalem. The farmhouses that you pass on the road there, the domes of
BREAKING: Israeli settler terrorists are attacking the Christian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, blocking its entrance and preventing residents from entering or leaving the town.
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If there was someone shot in the head tonight in Cork City and my signature was found on the bullet, would you give me a gig @mcd_productions ???? Ye will forever be a disgrace to this country if ye go ahead with this David Drainman gig next Wednesday in Dublin.
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"‘The loss of education is the loss of the future itself’: Gaza’s children and teachers on two years without school With 97% of schools destroyed or damaged, 600,000 children have just begun their third year out of formal education. Three students and a teacher share their
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With 97% of schools destroyed or damaged, 600,000 children have just begun their third year out of formal education. Three students and a teacher share their stories – and their hopes
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Trump got the Israeli hostages back and Netanyahu is now free to bomb what's left of Gaza flat
BREAKING: Israel says it launched 'massive wave' of attacks on southern Gaza 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/R5Fa0ujkY0
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‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins. My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present https://t.co/Hrsx3klOkz
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The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
The trade connections of ancient Gaza It is often forgotten that Gaza was once the richest port in the Eastern Mediterranean, super wealthy from the export of Arabian incense and Indian spices... From the exhibition Trésors sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du
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‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins. My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present https://t.co/Hrsx3klOkz
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The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
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A devastating & factual analysis, with evidence, of Heather Humphreys career & views. Big on blood sports, bad on women, people with disabilities, animal rights, the Irish language & listening.
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