Friend of Palantir, Wes Streeting

This account is fake, it's one that's been regularly renamed several times since 2025 - it started as @vatican-news.bsky.social! From Clearsky: clearsky.app/downingstree...

Wes Streeting as defence secretary

Brenda Fricker, First Irish Actress to Win an Oscar, Dies at 81 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/m... Great in everything I’ve seen her in but do yourself a favor & watch her monologue in the series HOLDING There’s no way for me to overstate how good it is It’s simply a perfect performance &heartbreaking

if you “used ChatGPT as your search engine”, you did not in fact “check” anything

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

One benefit of this ridiculous chain of heatwaves? My electricity bill for the last 2 months was €5. Solar panels are good, maybe?

This is heinous and it’s not just far right accounts that are at this kind of thing. When Pauline Tully’s interview was published, detailing the near fatal assault on her by Pearse McAuley, there were similar “what did she expect”s from people who no doubt consider themselves decent human beings

The US has so many of the dumbest motherfuckers in existence in positions of power I'm surprised they haven't just nuked themselves out of existence trying to print a letter or something.

Trump installs US Attorneys on an acting basis to avoid Senate confirmation. When their acting period runs out with no nominee, the courts can then install an Attorney. Who Trump then fires.

not the point at all, but one of the few measures of real technological progress over the last decade is the fact that you can now charge your laptop, phone, vape, sex toy, and chainsaw with the same cable

Every time the behavior of Pete Hegseth generates a headline, I'm reminded of these lines from Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto, which presaged Marinetti's Fascist Manifesto

To me, any Democrat who runs for President and doesn't begin by promising to fire everyone at ICE on week 1, cannot be taken seriously about anything else.

“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...

Also, if you're comparing the Republicans and Democrats' record on "fiscal responsibility" and determining that the party of record deficits and debt is the more "responsible" option, please stop voting.

On the off-chance that this post is even seen by Stephen, the 25-year-old Democratic Trump voter who thinks that Democrats are "reactionaries," I just want to say: Stephen? You are a fucking idiot. I'm amazed you have lived this long without drowning in the shower.

How is Keir Starmer spending his last days in office? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

See what I mean when I say it's abuse at scale?

Lasair Dhearg paintbombed a racist mural and videoed themselves doing so. Regardless of this the "Concerned Parents Newtownabbey" group are trying to blame "foreign looking individuals" because everything must become a lynching opportunity.

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

This is really bad. However, I volunteer with the Environmental Protection Network, over 800 former EPA employees dedicated to preserving the deep knowledge & mission commitment of the EPA. We & similar orgs will be ready to help recruit & rebuild after defeating the current fascist wrecking crew.

The ACLU has just detailed hundreds of cases of misconduct by immig agents: -kneeling on necks 52x -Agents choking people 10x -smashing car windows 47x -ramming cars 14x -Hit people w/ car 6x Report repeatedly cites ProPublica's reporting B/c transparency takes a village--when the govt blocks it

When Biden returned to the Senate, it was NYT A1. There were multiple stories about the surgeries, including a half-page spread about aneurysms. But Rogan didn't have a podcast then.

Folks. Folks! FOLKS!!!

Why is one organisation representing the laws of one country being left to decide what happens in the world's skies?

I have bad news for folks wondering whether Graham's death could complicate Blanche's confirmation. Even if not confirmed, Blanche can remain acting AG for a very long time, quite possibly until the end of Trump's term. My latest for @lawfaremedia.org: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Karma .

CUBES! CUBES! CUBES!

I don't know what could have legitimized gender studies more than these goofs, which is why they basically want to make it illegal.

A lot of the concerns that McDowell raises about brothels and trafficking in this piece would be more effectively addressed by a sex workers' union than a government report built on garda interviews.

In the seventh month of the second year of the second term, the heat will become unbearable, the skies will turn red, and bowels will loosen across the land.

The Oz Diet™️ (diarrhea)

"...emblematic of the men and women who defined the Republican Party in the first decades of the 21st century, who lacked both the political strength and the moral character to resist a malign force, a man who chose to join that force and its assault on American democracy rather than resist it."

literally this meme:

Ope.

on one hand, it's absolutely a good thing that we've made AI so culturally faux pas that companies who sell stuff are noticing. otoh this is where we always get trapped - if we want a serious movement we have to make spaces & culture that are illegible to capital and resist the urge to nostalgize.

everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you

The boring lawyer who wants to defend the white nationalist administration is named "Todd Blanche"? That's just lazy writing.

Reform is just beyond depraved

Back in the 1990s, Loveline was a smart, compassionate, helpful place on radio and MTV for advice on relationships, sexuality, and addiction issues. And since then, Drew Pinsky's and Adam Carolla's reputations have cratered as much as anyone's can without committing crimes.

This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.

Lol Platner has found his tribe

Carney's Liberal MPs are utterly complicit. Remember that next election.

NYC finally got some more public restrooms

Getting that information from here by any chance? www.datacentermap.com/ireland/

Call em up and rat out your local data centre

This is how the myth of the New Lost Cause becomes institutional reality:

The Brits. Always at it.

On average, that would be a freshwater usage that would support irelands population for 118 years. Used by datacentres that added no justifiable benefit in a SINGLE year.

Thanks only to EU reporting requirements, we know that 18 data centres in Ireland used 627 megalitres of water in 2024. But there are 123 data centres operating here now, and just one data centre, Meta's Clonee facility, used 659 megalitres in 2023. 2/3 www.dublininquirer.com/does-irish-w...