Bizarre photocalls, the signature move of Ireland's hubristic boom times? We are so back!

My first remarks since being arrested last night.

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Oh fuck, not Catherine O’Hara

Beloved podcast in 2020: Hi today we're gonna do a tight 45 minutes on a topic I know you'll all enjoy Same podcast in '26: (77 mins in) so there I am, in a mall in Cincinnati, and something suddenly becomes clear to me...which I'll tell you about after the break (we're nowhere near the point yet)

13 years ago, Republicans blocked the most humble of gun control after Sandy Hook. Republicans and Respectability Democrats got high on what a principled stance 2A was. Now their idiot king gleefully drives a coach and horses through those principles. Republicans sold their soul for nothing.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

It's very funny how Rachel is going Full Irish Ma to the finish line. "You're calling me a traitor? After all I do for you?! Go upstairs and think about what you've done!" #TheTraitors

i really can't stand this dude defector.com/gavin-newsom...

Every time I hear Von Der Leyen it gives me the heebie jeebies. It's not the EU's role to talk tough on defence, and it never should be. The EU should be all about multilateral diplomacy, the social dimension, economic cooperation. There has to be, more than ever, an alternative to the war machine.

O'Leary v Musk: a Gobshite Event Horizon

People from outside Ireland occasionally ask me, "Why is Bono, an international music titan from Ireland, not all that loved in Ireland?". The answer in its entirety is a complex one, but "He sent Dolly Parton a birthday cake and put his own name on it" goes a long way to summing it up.

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

This thread... Jesus Christ

Let's remember that MLK was assassinated while in Memphis supporting African American sanitation workers who were, despite CNN's weird definition, actually members of the working class.

Brooklyn Beckham, bloody hell. He can't take photos of elephants but he's taken some great shots there

Sunday scariest thought I've had in a while but I'm now surprisingly anxious about the San Andreas fault kicking off during a Trump presidency

... Jesus Christ

With a sad predictability, Enoch Burke has gone back to the school again. I'm thinking a lot about the welfare of the student who just wanted to be addressed in a way that made them comfortable, and has had their welfare run roughshod by, of all things, a teacher.

very cool!

Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E." The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop." consequence.net/2026/01/drop...

Any party running against Reform in the next election should do so on a Stop The Defectors ticket

Many people believe immigration is happening in Ireland on a larger scale than it really is, according to the Economic and Social Research Institute

Rachel (left) and Harriet (right) say goodbye in the castle for the final time #thetraitors

Hearing about Enoch Burke's latest legal odyssey makes me think about that Vice article where the guy keeps playing The Boys Are Back In Town until he gets thrown out.

DMC holding up an uncomfortable mirror to Ireland in his items this morning: the first on a scheme to bring Irish people back to Ireland with business grants, the next a cabinet measure to block refugees' families from applying to come here for three years.

Man United 🤝 Squeeze Fuck it let's bring in Carrick for a few

righteous blogging defector.com/how-hard-is-...

There are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.

1) "Technology moves faster than legislation" is one of those things you say when you understand neither 2) If you walked into a chemist of old and you said "Oh aye would you mind altering this pic of a young wan?" and they did, do you think anyone would be leaving that scenario unscathed?

The problem is that Starmer's Labour, the Democrats and their acolytes desperately want to continue with the apolitical, economistic, technocratic style on which they ascended in the '90s, ignoring the fact that politics (and history) are happening, with or without them, and will wash them away.

Can someone go over to McDowell's house and make sure some fresh air is circulating

At this rate Trump will take back the Panama Canal by spring

Remember folks, it's Twelfth Night tonight, so make sure you leave out a ruff and stockings tonight, or Malvolio might not come.

This is unbelievably grim

Nancy gone at Celtic. Bewildering that the board ever decided that the former manager of the Tuscaloosa Hardhats was the man for us tbh

They're showing the Frasier Crane's Humongous Ass episode on Channel 4. One of @chrismarcil.bsky.social 's finest hours!

SNEACHTA!

The last five years of western foreign policy has been kicking down doors to unmitigated horror. Yet all the usual suspects will be shocked when traditional bad actors walk through them.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

Finally got rid of the artist formerly known as Twitter. I kept it only for past posterity for a few months but it's just too reprehensible for all that now. I hope everyone involved gets a life-altering dose of scutter.

This Upton Sinclair quote never misses “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

Nine Delights 2026

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

New York City has a new mayor

Alright let's go 2026!

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)