Being shot in the face by the paramilitary secret police after dropping your kid off at school apparently is not a kitchen table issue.

I can't even imagine being this hopeful and defiant and brave in this desperate situation. These people are giants.

Patrick O’Donovan is a stupid stupid man. Hate to do a Dunphy on it, but I’ll tell you who he is: He’s the lad that said in an interview in 2017 that the Dublin-Monaghan bombings were carried out by Republicans and when pulled on it, said he “didn’t differentiate between atrocities”

It's a small thing but I'm incredibly heartened to see the response from the Minister labeled as factually incorrect. It's a better calibre of reporting than just verbatim repeating what the government are saying and leaving it up to the public to figure out if they're incorrect. #spéirgorm

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The bravery of people in Iran who protest knowing the potential consequences and punishment imposed by the Islamic regime is extraordinary

Women, we really need to fucking rise up and wipe these cretins out of government.

The lack of substance apparent in our most powerful elected officials is so worrying in these insane times. They believe in nothing but their own survival and advancement. Micheál Martin looks like he's made entirely out of Vaseline.

Something I missed in the release of Palestinian prisoners last autumn is that one of the released is Nader Sadaqa, the only confirmed convicted Samaritan Palestinian militant in the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Crazy how much of all this shit started because women wanted to talk about video games.

Tony Adams: beat the bottom ten teams home and away and do the best you can against everyone else.

"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set

The fucking state of the British government. The pettiness of this.

they are just horrible bastards. apologies to lord buddha, but they are horrible, evil bastards.

New USA same as the old USA

this is all so very dumb

Pro democracy arab intellectuals used to say that there was a difference between the US and Russia or China, because the US at least rhetorically espoused particular ideals. That space between reality and rhetoric could be leveraged, they thought. There's no such delusion today

I was in NYC yesterday. Mamdani is mayor. The city was still hella packed. Updated Headline: Facts show 2.12 million residents of NYC threw a childish tantrum at the idea of a more affordable city, but aren't going anywhere, except convicted felon George Santos

Outstanding.

wild to me that journalists got so scared of being called “liberal media” that they spent my entire adult life dismantling their own industry, reputation, and personal moral compasses. now journalism is an explicit arm of corporate fascism and they’re STILL scared of “having lefty bias” accusations.

This description of, among other places, rural Ireland, will come as news to any of us who had to grow up there before the power of these 'strong men' - priests, parish pump grifters and straight up criminals like Larry Goodman - was broken. That Musk may end up in prison for his myriad crimes.

All the dumb decisions made by the Empire in Star Wars can be explained by the fact that they're Space Nazis.

Seriously, though, fuck these lads.

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

The thing about this - and I can't believe I'm going to bat for someone over shoes that are almost as expensive as my monthly rent - is that the first ones who would rip her to shreds for dressing in cheap garb would be our good friends* at the NYP *Not our good friends

people mock the excesses of 2010s SJ activism without acknowledging they were basically right about everything

Stephen Collins relaxing at home after filing more copy telling us plebs that we've never had it so good.

Still amazes me that people say "you don't get to be racist and Irish" after we had the big "are you a racist?" referendum and nearly 80% of voters said yeah actually they were

As American moves towards eliminating jus soli citizenship, a reminder that the people of Ireland voted to do the same This resulted in precisely 0 benefits or opportunities accruing to existing Irish citizens But it did let us be cruel to a bunch of kids, so who is to say if it was good or bad

it feels weird to memorialise a wonderful actor just for being good at saying the word "shit", but also he was perhaps the best person at saying "shit" ever and that is no small thing

I love Wikipedia.

I love this website

This is class

Reminder that among the Irish acts perfectly happy to play in apartheid-era South Africa in the '80s was Joe Dolan. The actual United Nations even had to ask him not to do it again: www.thejournal.ie/joe-dolan-un...

It is my sad duty to inform you...

"Under this model, formerly colonized nations must ask permission to temporarily access their own heritage, accept conditions dictated by a British institution, and bear the financial and logistical burdens of care, while the museum retains ultimate control." British Museum fully delulu good lord

Would love to stamp this on the forehead over every centrist Dad in the country. Irish is class. The kids are legends.

The USA, 1975.

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

It's unfair to call me part of the Epstein Class says the guy in the Epstein files.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: the Irish Times is a fucking rag.

The headline doesn't do justice to this story

O'Callaghan and Fianna Fáil are aligning themselves with the absolute worst people and politics in Europe, and journalists need to start asking them about it. To date, I have seen little evidence that Irish media is prepared to meet this moment, and I fear the worst.

Listen, all I’m saying is that I’ve seen more pictures of Donald Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein than I have of Donald Trump playing with his son Barron.

Which views the BBC considers unacceptably political in its presenters is particularly telling, isn't it?

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)