Spot on analysis. 👏

Cowards and bullies

This is an excellent piece of research and reporting.

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

Or immigrants or refugees.

Acting like Proud Boys - this is a bigger issue than fuel costs.

“If the negotiations with Iran go poorly, he will likely escalate his threats in ways we can’t even imagine. Even the godless among us pray that he doesn’t act on them.” newrepublic.com/article/2087...

Really? “They now need to show a willingness, to listen to the people who are simply saying that they want to be heard, and then they want to see action from their girlfriend.” www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

Hmmm. “Others who have joined the protest are direct in their rejection of immigration support.” www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

“ the department had padded up staff numbers for its International Protection Office to process cases faster and reject them, “often on spurious” grounds,”

“Where she had written that “the policy of the Minister is to speed up and deport as many applicants as possible”, that was also hidden behind a black rectangle.”

Meanwhile in Europe: “when a hardline interior minister describes rule of law as “neither untouchable nor sacred”, and a justice minister rejects European court decisions, “we have passed a number of tipping points” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

“The Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania and Spain were all classified as “stagnators”, defined as countries where rule-of-law conditions were neither improving nor deteriorating”. We need to do better. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...

“The Social Democrats spokesman referenced “jaw-dropping” comments by the Inspector of Prisons, who recently told the Justice Committee conditions in the prison system were “tantamount to torture”. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

According to a new assessment by V-Dem, democracy is back at 1978 levels for the average global citizen. The gains of the third wave of democratization since the mid-1970s are almost eradicated. The U.S. is downgraded from liberal to electoral democracy. www.democracywithoutborders.org/41651/

What a speech. ☘️

#ProudBlue #USDemocracy Live !!! #Iran This amount of truth is rarely ever allowed. "The one thing we have learnt from history is that we don't learn from history"

Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign" From @financialtimes.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Today's evacuation orders in Beirut displace 100,000s - including elderly people, children, people with disabilities, etc. etc., all having to leave in a hurry with no idea what will happen to their homes. This kind of mass forced displacement is illegal under international law.

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And she’s gone: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Over 400 scientists have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the deployment of age-verification technologies. The letter suggests the widespread deployment of untested AV tech is making the internet less safe. www.politico.eu/article/age-...

BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed and his body has been found, reports Reuters, citing Israeli media reports. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/s9152d

The only way to respond to Trumps terrorists.

The Epstein files grant us a rare glimpse into the kind of machinations that must be happening all the time. As @bylinetimes.bsky.social reveals, Trump's fixer, Steve Bannon, helped Boris Johnson overthrow Theresa May. Blatant foreign interference in our politics. 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the Metropolitan Police has said

In 2015 the Royals were already threatening media outlets and victims re exposing #Andrew They knew a decade ago. www.theguardian.com/media/2019/n...

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...

Love this headline. 🎉😂

“No footage of Mr. Martinez’s killing has surfaced.” So the only evidence is from ICE. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

open.spotify.com/album/3vgnEc... Superb. #U2

Powerful,uplifting read- in times when it’s needed. Thanks again to the ppl of #Minnesota www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.

Sean Canney on @newstalkfm.bsky.social in his role as min of state for road safety. www.irishtimes.com/news/politic...

I cannot wait to see the hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against this in EUrope's streets.... 🙄

“The media are 50% of any problem, and the story most of it loves to tell is of one bad apple. Heaven forfend that we see the systemic problems.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The so-called "pro-life," "pro-family" party is perfectly fine with an 18-month-old child almost dying because of the deplorable conditions at this detention center. Hello? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toddler-hospitalized-dilley-ice-detention-rcna257912

Not the same issue, but do we have an empty homes tax? I have some very nice second home neighbours in Ballybunion, but I do find it wild how many homes there are in the village empty the majority of the time... In a housing crisis

www.thejournal.ie/short-term-l... Including planning permission amnesty

Hot topic for discussion of the Paddy’s Day visit. No?

‘Demand from large energy users, particularly data centres, is singled out as a big barrier. The committee warns that rising electricity demand from these users is preventing renewable generation projects.” www.irishtimes.com/environment/...