I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

“There is no superior race.” “There is no ‘chosen people of God’.” “It is neither the United States nor Israel.” “The ‘chosen people of God’ is all of #humanity.” —President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro Urrego youtu.be/ieqDlN6_bYQ?...

I’m supporting Connolly, but I know some on the left feel they can’t and I respect that view even if I don’t share it. They are also “unrepresented” in the election but I have seen precisely ZERO of them claim the process itself is undemocratic. Only the far right feel entitled to a candidate.

After years of making the running on immigration, Farage may this week have handed the initiative back to his opponents'. @robfordmancs.bsky.social for @ukandeu.bsky.social on the unpopularity of Reform's proposals on ILR ukandeu.ac.uk/reforms-radi...

Non-Irish people should be told that Ireland is creased with national hilarity because the Catholic conservative candidate who failed to get enough support did a presser to talk about how Ireland had been cheated out of having a real 'people's candidate' while holding a €20K+ Hermes handbag.

Housing crisis is a feature of capitalism, not a bug

To understand Steen's demographic, you have to realize there are people who think a working-class blue-haired barista on minimum wage is the Establishment, while upper-middle-class professional Catholics of multi-generational wealth are the oppressed disenfranchised politically homeless.

it's not indifference. this labour government is racist. this labour government is homophobic. this labour government is ableist. this labour government is xenophobic. this labour government is transphobic. this labour government is misogynist and sexist. it's not indifference. it's malice.

The Daily Mirror nailed it: “World’s most powerful man-baby.”

Spoke to a Turkish cabbie last night, who talked about how the English left felt as if it had disappeared; how he felt unsafe and vulnerable while watching the far-right get more popular. He was in his sixties, living in a tiny flat, and called himself one of the lucky ones. Quietly heartbreaking.

The death penalty needs to be abolished.

The govt is doing all it can to appease the far right without taking them on directly. It's a strategy that has been tried everywhere else in Europe, and it has failed. When you play the game on their field, you lose.

This is what apartheid looks like.

They are calling Ireland a communist dictatorship. If only....

This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.

*Right-wing Americans pretending to be Irish on Twitter explode in a cloud of psycho-sexual rage*

No Maria Steen is good news. She is far more dangerous than McGregor because she would have been treated as a "respectable" candidate by many. Let the RW grifters who have no knowledge about politics throw their temper tantrums.

For 80 years the world applauded Germany for their performative remembrance & guilt culture...meantime Italians are the only ones who learned from their past and are making up for it (and they're doing it while under far right leadership on top of it)

The #GlobalSumudFlotilla was attacked by Israel in international waters. Multiple boats reported attacks by drones. Contact the Irish government. Demand they send an observer to the flotilla. While the flotilla continues, Israel continues to bomb Gaza around the clock. We must #BreakTheSiege

Same regarding Farage and FBPE crowd. Farage is a bigot not because Putin or Russia told him to be, he is a rich white banker from England, it would be a surprise only if he wasn't a bigot who romanticizes the British empire and wants to bring it back.

This is the kind of nonsense Suella Braverman used to spout and got called far-right rightfully.

Centrist/Liberal Americans please stop blaming every bad thing Trump does on Russia. Trump is Trump because he wants to protect the American fossil economy at any cost. Read some books about American Imperialism and fossil economy fgs.

The US government is paying an Islamophobic biker gang from the U.S. $1,500 a day to shoot Palestinians waiting for food BBC has identified three leading members of Infidels MC who also have senior roles at UGS's Gaza operation: Larry "J-Rod" Jarrett, who has been publicly named as the Infidels MC

I guess we should thank Donald Trump for making the relationship between fossil fuels and fascism explicit.

Sadiq Khan's team on Trump's comments about London crime The homicide rate in the US is seven times that of London

The truth is White Protestants in Red States don't care what the rest of the world thinks about them as long as they get to keep their imaginary "White Homeland".

If Labour and Starmer don't defend their Mayor after this hideous Islamophobic smear then what's the point of their existence?

A school removing a book because some white people had their feelings hurt [Telegraph]

The Leftist Cooks have been featured in the British Press (the Guardian/Sight and Sound) and the US Press (Business Insider, some others) but NEVER featured in Irish Press. At all. Despite numerous attempts on our part to spoon-feed our story to various outlets. Isn't that mad?

Independent Ireland TDs accepted Maria Steen’s assurances that she’d work with LGBTI groups because she was respectful throughout the II engagement. Steen, who opposed all LGBTI equality activism & legislation on inclusion & equality,is ok ‘cause she’s got good manners!! II are a bad joke #speirgorm

BBC news bulletin about asylum hotels: bbc have seen evidence of families cooking in a shower due to lack of cooking facilities and working illegally as delivery drivers. The only interview was with a Tory MP saying deport them to Rwanda. The framing is deliberate, cruel and appalling

This is it. There "reasonable debate" is just a hate campaign for minorities to endure.

💔💔Odesa region this night 1 person died, 3 injured

Connolly said that all peoples should have the right to self-determination, and that this should be the case whether she happens to agree with the policies of those in power in other countries or not. http://jrnl.ie/6824142

"Dubai presents the hard-right vision of utopia: a place stripped of workers’ protections or the right to protest... a place where citizenship is defined along narrow ethnic lines... where the super-rich and well-connected can simply do and consume as they please"

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

The Bo Jackson of grifters. Hasn’t found a grift he couldn’t run.

Independent Ireland putting out press releases about halal meat, this entire party has pan-fried it's brain on social media

Truly astounding who steps up and who doesn't

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

'sex matters' -> 'ethnicity matters' you just know they aren't far off from 'race matters'.

The US is going down the same path as Russia and Turkey. It won't be as attractive as before and even the tourism will fall off a cliff. Won't be surprised if record number of Americans begin to leave the country

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

Those ghouls are lining my friends and my family up in their sights and labour have nothing to say for it

Aviation expansion is a disaster for the climate crisis. Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet. Just big business & their own interests. #Gatwick

The “Great Replacement” theory was once relegated to the far-Right fringe, motivating violence like the 2018 Tree of Life shooting and the 2022 supermarket shooting in Buffalo. Now, rhetoric about “replacement” & immigrant “invasions” has become mainstream in the GOP. #Velshi