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Delighted to have had the chance to talk with Minister State Neale Richmond on @irishstewpodcast.com We talked about his brief which compasses overseas development and the #IrishDiaspora #IrishPodcast #SpéirGhorm #IrishPolitics

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

Just truly superb coverage of @sundayofaction.bsky.social Sun Day in the NYTimes. Solar Power is People Power! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/c...

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s an idea. The west has held about $300 billion in Russian assets. They should release 2 billion a day to Ukraine until Russia stops the war, or they disperse it all. Then Russia will have to accept the war has an additional real cost per day

How are we to understand the Information Disordered Landscape created by #SocialMedia ? Is Western Democracy being degraded by #algorithms ? Excellent conversation hosted by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social in conversation with @eliothiggins.bsky.social #USPolitics substack.com/home/post/p-...

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

Agreed. There's still a great deal of confusion over his worldview and motives, probably because he was himself very confused.

A showery September Sunday here in Clonmel, Tipperary, with a real autumnal feel. The perfect sort of day for a good walk to Carey's Castle. Always wonderful to get into the woods here, especially as the season turns. 🍂 #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

If we are to deprive political violence of its power, we must reject anyone who commits or promotes it - and also reject any move to exploit it.

If you can’t comment on a foreign billionaire calling for your government to be brought down, what is the point of you?

Real tour de force testimony from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social this week in Westminster. For close to a decade Peter has worked to reveal the subterranean influence of money on #UKPolitics youtu.be/hckxOuguRus?...

I spoke today about recent political violence, and where it has come from. We need to change the way social media works if we're to preserve democracy - secretive algorithms are placing misinformation and provocative material in front of young and vulnerable people, and society is the loser.

Great to have @joekennedyiii.bsky.social on the #podcast and understand his perspective on #NorthernIreland as US Special Envoy and how that experience is relevant to the current political situation in America #USPolitics #Diplomacy #JK3 #USPol

I'm an immigrant, and I reckon theres a chance I'd know more about Ireland's culture over the millennia than Maria Steen. One important aspect of Irish culture is that it isn't a static fossil. It changes & flows, absorbing from other cultures at the same time as others adopt Irish culture in turn

Perfection from @anntelnaes.bsky.social and @borowitzreport.bsky.social #Cartoon #USPol open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

In his first term, McMaster recalls, “Trump would say ‘outlandish’ things like, ‘Why don’t we just bomb the drugs?’” Now we’re in Trump’s second term, and we’re bombing random boats in the open seas that might or might not be carrying drugs. www.cnn.com/2024/08/25/p...

Three hand-drawn pieces for the @dublinmaker.bsky.social event this weekend, celebrating traditional crafts and Irish makers, and the process of creating. They're also available as prints here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

Morning view at Porto Venere on the Ligurian coast #Italy

“Trump is teaching his many supporters that public office is just a game of revenge” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I heard someone say “We have poverty not because we cannot care for the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.” And if that ain’t the TRUTH

Hosting peace talks with a war criminal and failing to invite the other side is not a peace talk; it is a strategy session.

Second guessing our plan...

Only a mile or two from the edge of Belfast city, a secret gorge conceals a fragment of Irish rainforest. Pure magic.

Today we learned Andrew Cuomo is directly coordinating with Donald Trump, even as this President sends masked agents to rip our neighbors off the streets and guts the social services so many New Yorkers rely on. It’s disqualifying and a betrayal of our city.

Know Your Commissars! A guide to identifying commissars distributed to International Brigade volunteers during the Spanish Civil War, 1937.

#OTD, August 3 1916 Roger Casement is Executed Casement made his name as humanitarian in service of British Empire but later turned against it. He went to Germany in WWI to try to secure intervention in Ireland & was arrested after landing in Kerry www.theirishstory.com/2016/08/03/t...

I Saw These People Today!

Some conflict archaeology spotted on our Far Horizons archaeology tour. Repairs to the bridge at the W.B. Yeats home of Thoor Ballylee, Galway, carried out after it was blown by Anti-Treaty forces during the Civil War. They preserve a "ghost" of that wartime damage (marked with red arrows).

The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.

As Donald Trump and his #billionaire cronies gut America's social safety net in the name of fiscal prudence, the #WorkingClass will be pleased to know that he has managed to rustle up $200 million of taxpayer money for a White House ballroom #USPolitics abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

Lots of #billionaire hand-wringing going on in #NYC. The big question for the poisonously wealthy is whether tossing their millions around can possibly yield a devoted lapdog #NYCMayor or is @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social inevitable? #USPolitics www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/n...

Great to have IrishCentral shining a spotlight on our latest episode featuring historian Damian Shiels You can follow Damian, an expert on Irish participation in the American Civil War, at @irishacw.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm #IrishHistory #IrishPodcast

1) Much of the American economy is dependent on hard-working undocumented immigrants. They do physical work that is unattractive to most Americans. Here's a thought: how about fixing immigration rather than stoking hatred and fear? #USPolitics www.reuters.com/world/us/thi...

In the ’80s, it became obvious that Earth’s ozone layer was thinning—caused by chemicals in old spray cans and AC units. But some on the far right denied it was real. The world acted anyway. We banned the chemicals. It worked. (Researching 80s-90s right-wing conspiracy theories!)

“Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hmmmmm I can feel a storm brewing #USPolitics www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Descending above Merano’s vineyard slopes as the Duomo bells ring out the noon hour #Tyrol #SudTirol #Italy

Delighted to have Damian Shiels aka @irishacw.bsky.social back on the podcast. There was lots to catchup on since we lasted chatted back in 2021 #IrishPodcast #SpéirGhorm

In what kind of world do we live when we are not even sure whether billionaires exists or not??? Source: Forbes newsletter.

As conversations about #CongestionPricing continue, a reminder — only 4% of residents in the outer boroughs drive to work. RPA's Kate Slevin talks about #CongestionPricing w/ @nytimes.com Read: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/n...

Trumpists loathe #PublicTransit. Less oil is burned with the the post-COVID recovery of the #NYC subway system and the implementation of #CongestianPricing The #oilygarchs are unhappy and no doubt are pressing to keep us all isolated in cars #USPolitics www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/n...

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

#HumanRights organization flees #ElSalvador as criticisms of #NayibBukele and his government trigger arrests. #Bukele is the same loathsome, gulag-creating autocrat who was yucking it up with Trump during an April Oval Office visit #USPolitics www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/w...

I’m unsurprised to see Mike Huckabee invoking 19th century racist tropes about the #Irish I’m more disturbed by the Ambassador’s willful blindness to #Gaza suffering from a supposed man of God #USPolitics #SpéirGhorm www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...