Cuba next? open.spotify.com/episode/2KfE...

JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. has captured Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country.

“The main driver of spiralling homelessness figures is not migrants, say sources within the sector, but ongoing “crisis in the private rental market”. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/hous...

“It called for measures to attract migrants especially younger ones who will want to have children here.” www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Watch Bono and Imelda May busking earlier this evening Bono & Imelda May | Baby please come home @ The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, 24.12.2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHxH...

No doubt migration has played a part in vital staffing needed for our hospitals, care homes/services, tech & hospitality: International protection tiny % of much needed migrants. Taoiseach - can we please stick to facts. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

(🚨) The first-ever music album covering the Trump-Epstein Scandal is now on Apple Music. PROOF OF DEVILRY is 18 tracks and 83 minutes of music—with a 27-minute preview below—intended to educate the world on the biggest scandal in US history: a pedophile president. More links below in this thread.

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

Excellent piece by Professor Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social of @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social in today’s Irish Times: Ireland should resist cheap and tough talk on migration…

Brian Feeney highlighting a serious and potentially very damaging misstep by the Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, in relation to the ECHR - this can be corrected ahead of the meeting of Council of Europe foreign ministers in May 2026…

A reminder that women's bodily autonomy will always be politically restricted in a way that men's will never. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Source: YouTube It’s an SNL skit surely?

‘But for Ireland, our new alignment with Denmark and Britain – not to mention Hungary and Slovakia, both vocal far-right supporters of Putin’s Russia – marks an important shift in our relationship with the Council of Europe and the convention. ‘ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

Writing my “looking ahead piece” for 2026 for @voxeurop.bsky.social today. Lesson of 2025 clearly not learned yet. Hopefully the National Security Strategy finally has made it clear… and we can also put the “EU does best during crisis” myth to bed.

Fourteen cases taken against State over age verification of international protection applicants

Does this person teach? God love his students. But excellent research and interviewing from @hlinehan.bsky.social These far right ppl need to be robustly challenged on their inaccuracies,inconsistencies and hate filled propaganda.

He’s not the only one: www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

This excellent piece by @armida.bsky.social (from June) seems particularly relevant today. Reading tip! 🚨

Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

Washington, Moscow skip NATO-OSCE meets, fueling fears of European order overhaul

‘Ireland’s security services have found that the drones at Dublin Airport were large, hugely expensive, of military specification, and that the incident could be classed as a hybrid attack.’ www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

But we’re imagining the rise in misogyny

Only half?

This is excellent- but will govt take any notice? www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

If our Brazilian, Philippine and Zimbabwean communities left tomorrow, this State would grind to a halt – our hospitals would collapse, hospitality would stop and older people in our communities would be bereft of care in nursing homes.’

First item on a new left party agenda is always The Split 🤷‍♀️

All the post WW11 progress reversed. The neoliberal Reagan/Thatcher ideology needs a coordinated world revolution to reverse it- but not another war.

This is unacceptable intimidation from bullies: ‘ A number of individuals involved in the erection of flags have a history of violence and criminal involvement. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Dreadful idea. Really awful.

Excellent piece by my colleague, Professor Ciara Smyth: The real migration crisis is not the one you’ve been hearing about – The Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

I missed this, from a year ago, but the extreme-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) uses not just clear Nazi aesthetics in its propaganda but also a clear Nazi salute. By the way, these are the German friends of Trump and the GOP.

‘adopting far-right positions leads neither to electoral success for centrist parties nor to electoral defeat for far-right parties.’

Note to Dail/govt: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Spot on: open.substack.com/pub/marianne...

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this. We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

This is SO good! ‘It’s only fair to those who worked on the various matters that are mischaracterised in Collison’s piece to do full justice to their work.’

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025... ‘This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.’

Spot on points. - and similarly in Ireland years of failed housing policies do not ‘create conditions in which racism is acceptable or in any way explicable’

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

Was the Department of Justice using experimental chatbots to give immigration advice? It has now retired its asylum chatbot Erin, but has infused Tara, the non-asylum immigration chatbot with AI. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/was-the-depa...

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... ‘A lot of men resent the fact that women have rights and have entitlements and have freedoms, and especially have economic freedoms that make them less dependent.” Instead of seeing those freedoms as a benefit – “

No- you’re crying. #coybig

Ballybough lad saves ireland. Twice.

Very important thread, particularly for liberal journalists and politicians, caught in the far-right gaze… also in Western Europe, where data are similar. This is not necessarily to say that “social justice” has high salience for youth, but they will definitely not appreciate reactionary centrism.