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The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

David Crosby’s father, Floyd, shot HIGH NOON. I felt you needed to know that. The bleak look - unique for a Western of its day - was modeled after Matthew Brady’s images of the Civil War. Crosby was nearly killed when the train coming to town at high noon lost its brakes and ran over the camera.

Remember guys: In Ireland you are officially counted as homeless *only* if you are in emergency accommodation. In your parents' box room? Not homeless. Sleeping on a friend's couch? Not homeless. In a tent on the Sam Beckett Bridge? Not homeless. In the same house as your abusive ex? Not homeless.

Scientist Accused Of Poisoning Colleague Who Got Promotion https://theonion.com/scientist-accused-of-poisoning-colleague-who-got-promotion/

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John Lewis was beaten with clubs wrapped in barbed wire on the Edmund Pettus Bridge fighting for voting rights. Today’s SCOTUS decision takes the sacrifice and fight of all who marched before us and throws it away. We must keep marching — too many have fought too hard to give up.

“Ireland being one of the lowest ranked countries in the world for intact biodiversity. "Nature has been in decline in Ireland for many decades" is among the opening words of the report.” www.rte.ie/news/environ... @irishrainforest.bsky.social

Apologies if I come across as somewhat embittered. But I spent 28 years in West Cork, more than I've spent anywhere else, and it's unlikely I'll ever get back to it. So my sympathies are with people who don't own one house rather than those who own two or more.

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Here's a second, geared mechanism that transforms between cube and octahedron forms. Full video at youtu.be/T9BNMLFHXUw

29 April 1945 | US Army soldiers liberated #Dachau - the first concentration camp created in Nazi Germany. It became a model camp for the entire SS concentration camp system. Over 205,000 people were imprisoned there between 1933-1945. Some 41,500 were murdered. #history

How working lives have changed in Ireland since 1926 census. Insights from @csoireland.bsky.social on the massive changes in the world of work over the last 100 years www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

‘It took nine seconds’: Claude AI agent deletes company’s entire database

I knew someone in West Cork with two summer jobs. The first one at a gym where they'd meet former schoolfriends heading to Australia because they couldn't find a place to live. The second cleaning holiday homes full of expensive stuff which were used for a few weeks a year. That's Ireland 2026.

Astounding how many ppl simply could not understand why the civil war happened 'because how could the 10% of the population who could actually afford slaves convince everyone else that they needed to take up arms to defend states rights and way of life' And they STILL can't see the connection

Some new journalism from me

Disabled people in the U.K. are facing harassment from the public for using a Blue Badge. Many said they have been verbally abused for “faking”, with some being filmed on phones, physically intimidated, or having their mobility aid pulled away. My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

His pace was much better than my bike ride of the same distance yesterday!

And for the fascists who say, "we conquered the land, it's ours," I have at least 2 rebukes: 1. Yes, we know you're a genocidal colonizer, thank you for admitting it 2. The colonizers broke Every Single Treaty with Indigenous Peoples. Now you claim to be the people who cry "jUsT cOmE hEre LeGalLy."🤔

Also, "settlers" is a nice word for colonizers. The 13 colonies were built by colonizers, hence why they were called colonies. And those colonizers were so incapable of surviving on their own that 50%-75% died in the first winter. They survived with Indigenous help, whom they then genocided.

Today former US Border Patrol Fascist in Chief Greg Bovino agreed with a white nationalist as she demonized immigrants & added, "This country was built by settlers not immigrants." 97.4% of people ICE rounded up had no criminal record. 90% are Latino. This is systemic white supremacy. Abolish. ICE.

White Mob Lynches Lint Shaw in Georgia Eight Hours Before Trial calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

BREAKING: Two Democratic Reps. are introducing a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hr and eliminate subminimum wages. Reps. Delia Ramirez and Analilia Mejia are introducing the bill, saying it's unacceptable that the minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

In Seattle's Pike Place Market, vendors claimed that removing cars would cripple them. Nope. Sales actually rose. Remember: Studies show that biz owners consistently exaggerate how many customers drive and undercount those who walk, bike, or ride transit. Info: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Internet so fucking broken, should be greatest library in human history & it’s desecrated. Reminded I was at a musician’s first ever show in NYC only 15 years ago & can’t find any way to search it. Music sites covered it, all dead links. Can’t search google by year anymore. AI has rotted results.

Good morning (St. Augustine, FL)

According to the War Powers Resolution of 1973 (War Powers Act), Trump has ONE day left to secure a Declaration of War from Congress, and another 30 days to bring our troops home if not. $10 says Congress doesn't do 💩 and $20 says no one, definitely not SCOTUS, makes Trump follow the law. #feckless

There’s no such thing as vinyls. They’re records

A classic easy recipe

When I was little and my parents were struggling to get by, a go-to cheap meal my mom would make was ground beef with a can of cream of mushroom soup over rice or mashed potatoes. 48y/o and it’s still one of my ultimate comfort foods. Nostalgia, man. Heck of a thing!

"I think Sting totally intended EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE to be a romantic song, but he only came up with the 'It's about a stalker!' rationale AFTER everyone pointed out it was a bit creepy."

His pace was much better than my bike ride of the same distance yesterday!

The guy who ran a sub 2hr marathon was running around 17 second 100m pace for two hours. I doubt I could run a 17 second 100m pace for 17 seconds.

On this day in 1981, Adam and the Ants released the single “Stand and Deliver”

Michigan wakes up to a stunning display of morning glory clouds, painting the sky with nature's breathtaking artistry. Don't miss this spectacular sight!

Greetings from Hoboken, New Jersey! This city hasn’t reported a single traffic fatality since January 2017!! That’s why I’m here to see what Vision Zero designs they’ve implemented! 😯 Some examples include: curb extensions, intersection daylighting, bioswales! 👏🏽🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏻‍♂️🏙️🌱

KIMMEL: “You know how sometimes you wake up and the First Lady demands you be fired? We’ve all been there, right? — I agree hateful, violent rhetoric is something we should reject… a great place to start to dial that back would be to talk to your husband.”

TIME It stands, reversed before me.

I’d call that picture the flowering of youth!

Their little eyeballs are open and they're getting little hints of feathers 🥹

Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe

Credit to my dad for suggesting this topic ❤️ time to break out the Richard Ellmann again www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

microdosing hell by scrolling the discover tab

One of the great ironies of the peak/trough tendency of freelance music is that the points when you’re busy - dashing around, buying lunch on the go, buying train tickets, plane tickets etc - you’re always absolutely flat broke, however well paid you are for the work.

Or, the Fourth “root”! LoL

#AlbumADay (287) Tim Buckley “Goodbye and Hello” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My 22nd favorite album of 1967

How would you say this in Irish? > I am an engineer. > I_ i_________ m_. Answer: https://www.nativedialogs.com/irish/work-and-jobs?a=2&b=0&c=0

This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

She was born into slavery… and her words now travel the world in U.S. passports... Anna Julia Cooper entered the world on August 10, 1858, in Raleigh, North Carolina—owned, not free. Her mother, Hannah, was enslaved. Her father was believed to be the very man who claimed ownership over them...