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September 10, 2025

When The Circus Came To Town

Brian Trainor ✍ It’s been a while since I put pen to paper, so to speak. I don’t know why, but sometimes I go through bouts of being apathetic to writing. As much as I enjoy it – for the most part – it’s a laborious task with little thanks, and leaves rather only the satisfaction that I have expressed myself as best I could, compiled my scattered thoughts and maybe left something small but
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Published on September 10, 2025 13:00

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Eight Hundred And Eleven

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousCancer, One More Weapon in Israel's Genocide ArsenalFrom the streets of Baghdad, I saw a clear line to the bloodshed in
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Published on September 10, 2025 12:00

Sandymount

Frankie Quinn with a poem from his book Open Gates.SandymountStill red waterHolds death coldFree now fromEnvironing tightnessYearning for …?♞♜♝Please don’t enterWhile he sleepsWith open wristsFlowing warm reliefIn strange homely cast iron bath♞♜♝No help neededSamaritans answerNo calls from hereEven now no one recognisesWhat draws sharpness along blue veins♞♜♝Identity unknown, life
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Published on September 10, 2025 07:30

News From Ukraine 💣 Bulletin 160

A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 1-September-2025. In this week’s bulletin⬤ Ukrainian unions’ appeal.⬤  Rearmament questions.⬤ Sumy defence appeal.⬤ Russian indoctrination of Palestinian children. ⬤ Targeting of civilians.⬤ Crimea health violations.⬤ Russia quits anti-torture pact.News from the territories occupied by RussiaDay of remembrance for victims of forced
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Published on September 10, 2025 02:30

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Eight Hundred And Ten

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald rules herself out of Irish presidential raceNorthern Ireland police kept inspectors in dark
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Published on September 10, 2025 01:45

A Morning Thought @ 2856

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Published on September 10, 2025 00:30

A Morning Thought @ 2855

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Published on September 10, 2025 00:00

September 9, 2025

Belfast Prison

Brendan Curran ✒ with a poem from his expansive body of work. Belfast Prison The invisible pain of the tourist game People visit but they feel no painthey see the walls but not the stains. The gun towers and wire have now alas all goneexcept in the souls where the memory lives on. ♞♜♝The once cruel facade now cannot be seenhidden behind the tourist screen A
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Published on September 09, 2025 14:00

Free Speech 🪶 Police Or Permit

Barry Gilheany ✍ On Monday before last, Graham Linehan, co-creator of the iconic TV comedy show Father Ted was arrested by five armed officers of the London Metropolitan Police at Heathrow airport (police officers at Heathrow are routinely armed) as he got off a fight from Arizona for allegedly inciting violence. The arrest was made on the basis of three tweets cited by police, in
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Published on September 09, 2025 03:00

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Eight Hundred And Nine

Ten links to a diverse range of opinion that might be of interest to TPQ readers. They are selected not to invite agreement but curiosity. Readers can submit links to pieces they find thought provoking.Before We Conform, Or Condemn, Let Us At Least Be CuriousNo Kings Movement Announces Next Day of Nationwide Actions for Oct 18Trump cannot govern without the bureaucrats he despisesMaduro
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Published on September 09, 2025 01:00

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