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American, long time resident in Northern Ireland. Political anorak. All tweets and opinions are my own. Now also on Blue Sky: https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/jI3Png5HjJ

Northern Ireland
Joined December 2009
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Debra Savage retweeted
Tonight let's please honor the memory of Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, who was murdered at the age of 37 outside his home in June 1963 and gave his life for civil and voting rights in Mississippi:
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Debra Savage retweeted
These southern states are not red states they are states where Republicans have disenfranchised black voters, have stolen their votes
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Mississippi picked a different protein
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Debra Savage retweeted
Remember and honor Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner and the price they paid when they were murdered for voting rights in Mississippi, 1964:
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Debra Savage retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Democrat Scott Colom has won Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race, unseating Republican incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, CNN and others are projecting. Colom will be the first Black senator to represent the state in over 140 years.
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Debra Savage retweeted
I just published a new investigation into Donald Trump’s taxes. A teaser: The president has stiffed a lot of people over the years. His next, and largest, victim will probably be the U.S. government. Full story below. forbes.com/sites/danalexande…
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Debra Savage retweeted
Otherwise known as a Tory peer whipped in the House of Lords loyally following the party line.
EXC - David Cameron warns Andy Burnham it would be a mistake to seek to rejoin the EU The former PM tells @MishalHusain the focus should not be on reversing Brexit but improving relations And he argues the UK's economic challenges are not due to Brexit bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Debra Savage retweeted
Oh, look. It's another wonderful new mystery by @AnnCleeves - The Dying Light. crimefictionlover.com/2026/1… Things are getting heated in North Devon with all these second homers, but is that enough to inspire murder? Review by @SandraMangan_
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Debra Savage retweeted
Beto walked so Talarico could run.
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Debra Savage retweeted
By derailing the impeachment of Hegseth, all Republicans did was tie themselves more tightly to the cratering Trump while ensuring that Dems are the party that's associated with holding the deeply unpopular, disastrously failing Hegseth accountable when they impeach him next year
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Debra Savage retweeted
As in today's @BelTel (10/11) - a LucidTalk (LT) commentary article re. the latest NI Border polling results...
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Debra Savage retweeted
Worked great at Nuremberg.
Hegseth notes that everything he did was "ordered by the commander in chief" (he was just following orders, you see)
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Hello my dear friends! The visibility of pro-Ukrainian accounts is extremely low these days, but Russian war crimes continue. So in this shameless attention grab, I ask you to go through my latest posts and boost them.
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This is the alley of remembrance in the village of Nemishaieve, just outside Kyiv. Most of them were volunteers. Ordinary people from this village and several neighboring communities who took up arms and fought in the ranks of some of the most renowned and respected brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and National Guard. Among these faces are also those among civilian who lost their lives delivering medicine and food to people during the Battle of Kyiv in 2022. Those who joined partisan units on their own initiative and fought the Russians. Those who were treacherously lined up against a wall and executed by the Russians on the infamous Yablunska Street in neighboring Bucha. These ordinary people are among the last remaining bastions of heroism, dignity, and honor in this world.
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The Irish don’t run from the fight; we are there for it. Its in our nature. One of the oldest words in irish lore is Meitheal. It appears as early as the 12th century in our history books. The thinking is that it was farmers that first used the word during harvest time when crops needed tending quickly, a neighbor would often work a Meitheal; helping finish the task; honour the work, honour the friendship. Without complaints.
Przyjechali z Irlandii zwiedzać Kraków. Zamiast odpoczywać, ratowali ludzkie życie Przyjechali z Irlandii na weekend do Krakowa. Kiedy usłyszeli strzały, schronili się przed napastnikiem. Chwilę później ratowali życie rannych Polaków. Wśród tragicznych wiadomości z Krakowa pojawia się kolejna historia ludzi, którzy w obliczu ogromnego zagrożenia pokazali, czym jest prawdziwa solidarność. Tym razem chodzi o sześciu wolontariuszy Dublin Civil Defence, czyli irlandzkiej organizacji obrony cywilnej. Przyjechali do Krakowa na krótki wypoczynek i przypadkiem znaleźli się niedaleko Rynku Głównego, gdzie w sobotnie popołudnie doszło do strzelaniny. Jak relacjonuje irlandzka telewizja RTÉ, początkowo myśleli, że słyszą fajerwerki. Dopiero po chwili zorientowali się, że ktoś strzela do ludzi. Najpierw schronili się w bezpiecznym miejscu. Gdy napastnik odjechał i bezpośrednie zagrożenie minęło, natychmiast ruszyli pomagać poszkodowanym. I tutaj warto podkreślić jeden szczegół. To nie byli przypadkowi turyści bez przygotowania. Wszyscy należeli do organizacji, której członkowie są szkoleni między innymi w udzielaniu pierwszej pomocy. James McConnell, przedstawiciel Dublin Civil Defence, przekazał RTÉ, że wolontariusze prowadzili resuscytację krążeniowo-oddechową oraz pomagali tamować krwotoki. W takich sytuacjach każda minuta ma ogromne znaczenie. Zanim poszkodowani trafią pod opiekę zespołów ratownictwa medycznego, odpowiednio udzielona pomoc może zwiększyć ich szanse na przeżycie. Co szczególnie mnie porusza, ci ludzie nie mieli żadnego obowiązku angażować się w akcję ratunkową. Przyjechali do Polski odpocząć, pozwiedzać Kraków i miło spędzić czas. A jednak, kiedy zrobiło się bezpieczniej, postanowili wykorzystać swoje umiejętności, żeby pomagać zupełnie obcym osobom. Na tragedię zareagowały również irlandzkie władze. Premier Micheál Martin przekazał kondolencje rodzinom ofiar, a minister spraw zagranicznych Helen McEntee poinformowała, że ambasada Irlandii w Warszawie monitoruje sytuację. W całym tym dramacie właśnie takie historie przypominają mi, że niezależnie od narodowości potrafimy być dla siebie ludźmi. Ogromny szacunek dla irlandzkich wolontariuszy. Przyjechali do Krakowa jako turyści, a pokazali, czym jest odpowiedzialność za drugiego człowieka.
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Debra Savage retweeted
Let's pass the damn bill. If Donald Trump wants to veto Medicare for All and defend our broken healthcare system and Republicans want to sustain that veto, then the American people will know exactly who is standing in the way of real change.
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Debra Savage retweeted
Rip-off capitalism.
Poundland's private equity owners extracted £18.3m in 17 months, bought for £1. £8.6m interest, £3.8m store closure fees, £2.6m debt arrangement plus other fees. PE has £22.5m secured loan, will get paid first. HMRC owed £97m. Trade creditors owed £127m. news.sky.com/story/revealed-…
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Debra Savage retweeted
Replying to @AntSpeaks
Jonathan Ross and the @BBC needs to be held accountable as well. Remember what the two of them did to Andrew Sachs and his daughter, live on @BBCRadio2
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