Morgan McSweeney reminds me of Chicken Boo from Animaniacs. You look at him and go "He's not a strategic genius, he's a massive chicken!", but the credulous townsfolk get angry at the very notion. But then his ginger moustache falls off and turns it he is in fact, just a massive chicken.

At least now Maria's husband / hypeman can go back to his regular job - playing keyboards in a Sparks tribute band.

"Pushed against the establishment and the establishment pushed back"? Ah come on like, the barrier is 20 votes and Maria Steen couldn't round them up. If the din for her candidacy was loud enough she would have got it, but it wasn't, so she's not.

This reads less like an announcement than a warning

Wishing these two legends the best of luck in the future. It's a tough thing to make a morning current affairs show that doesn't want to make you burst into tears and Mary and Áine are a big reason for such clear eyes - I hope they enjoy their lie ins henceforth!

Luxembourg, Monaco and Malta recognize Palestine. Belgium, legally, does not yet do so, but imposes conditions. 155 UN Members recognize Palestine.

Sort of feel the Catherine Connolly "fabric" line is being wilfully misunderstood. The idea that political violence isn't part of the fabric of the communities it affects fundamentally misunderstands precisely why it's successful. #aras25

United left* is a hell of an achievement for Catherine Connolly, regardless of what comes next. *minus Alan Kelly

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

Some golf club Scottish Tory on the news saying recognising Palestine with no concessions from Hamas is a big mistake. I'd perhaps suggest the big mistake was decades of enfeebling Palestinian diplomacy to such an extent Hamas could gain traction.

If the public wanted a right wing candidate they'd have voted for TDs and Senators to make it so. We shouldn't facilitate or make artificially relevant candidates with no support - what are we, Britain?

Here we are now, all the lads! Listen back to me, Tam, and Stuart on Off The Ball earlier today, on BBC Radio Scotland!

Mary Lou McDonald has suggested Sinn Féin's candidate for President is gonna be a big surprise. Given how late they've left it, it would need to be a huge surprise to justify it...so that's why I think they're going to nominate Chaka Khan. #Aras25 #TiocfaidhArKhan #ImEveryFenian

Sinn Féin has acted so weirdly in the presidential election so far, but if Jarlath Burns ends up being the candidate then it might just be worth the build up. Pearse is a great figure but it'd be a manifest waste of resources taking him out of front bench politics

Call this shit out immediately and shut it the fuck down. Show them that we don't operate on the US/UK rules where you can say any old bollocks without consequences. It's the only thing that will stop them getting a foothold.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

This is so messed up.

This shit is the difference between Trump's first and second terms. In the first this guy would have been a running joke. In the second he could be Director of the CIA.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

top two, very smart

coates is genuinely a generational writer

Remember literally three years ago, when centrist pundits claimed that the trans backlash was really just a wonky debate over the correct medical standards for children? Fast-forward to today and you have members of Congress calling for ALL trans people to be seized and held incommunicado

New meme just dropped

Pouring one out for the big lad

In the months after October 7 I heard so many self satisfied big brain takes about the technical veracity of the use of the word genocide. I hope all the people so pleased with themselves then are truly ashamed now.

jesus christ

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Oh so *now* she's advocating sharing spaces!

I miss Dawn Foster every day, but I really miss her when idiot Labour operatives get their just desserts. She'd have been so fun and bang on correct on all this.

I’m sure there’ll be corrections in equally prominent positions in each of these papers, yeah?

The FBI can't investigate, the WSJ can't report, ineptitude and cruelty go hand in hand, and accountability is zero. We're in such a state.

Brent Chapman can see again after doctors pulled out one of his teeth, flattened it, drilled a hole in it, placed a lens inside and implanted the tooth in one of his eyes. on.nbcboston.com/mRI06Sh

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

Just one more scandal bro. Bro I swear just one more scandal will fix it.

I can just feel in my water that we're due an incoming plaintive and condescending appeal against violence from a political figure who has recently autographed a bomb.

Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Here could anyone do me a favour and find the Keir Starmer tweet on the Minnesota legislators killed on their doorsteps, can't seem to find it but I'm sure it exists. You know, given he's so many thoughts on political violence.

A sitting Minnesota politician was stalked to her own house by someone who killed her, her husband, and her golden retriever, then shot two other people, on JUNE 14TH

You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.

Hmm where were these people when a democratic actual politician was shot dead on her doorstep in Minnesota, I wonder.

be very careful about what you post online

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

The Supreme Court just ruled this meme is constitutional.

Listening to the run of presidential candidates chapping on the door of Kerry County Council today makes me think of this: youtu.be/5bc8PbBpUgA?...

From a Sinn Féin perspective this is probably good - it doesn't say much about the potential next government if they're going to kick any of their big hitters upstairs.

UK parties resignation styles: Labour: Mindnumbing technical error £150k in their favour Tories: Went to sex party, used drug they opposed legalising Lib Dems: Bad thoughts Greens: Accidental use of bus lane Reform: I won't resign and will never stop exploding squirrels with homemade dynamite.

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas