October 1 means a new thread of horror movies I’ll watch this month #shocktober

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains. RIP Assata Shakur

The farcical spat that has riven Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s “Your Party” exposes a Left increasingly focused on itself rather than on the class it aims to mobilize.

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🎶 Oh Maria, Mariaaaaa/ She’s gotta handbag that’s knocked-off Hermessss 🎶

This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.

TBF, from what I’ve seen, it’s the old boys supporting Steen who think she’s a baddie…

Kimmel’s suspension was shorter than Anthony Gordon’s 💀

Kermode really nailed how I felt about Weapons. There’s a sense of a bubbling satire which I couldn’t quite grasp, and that made me feel stupid. But maybe that’s Creggar’s fault? Still, it’s a lot of fun with some nice scares

Anyone else remember an anonymous Irish blog called The Red Scrapbook from the 2000s? If that was you, I loved it

If wrestling isn’t real then how do you explain this?

The “I don’t agree what you say but I’ll die for your right to say it” crowd are very quiet

Nah this is too Iannucci to be real. Eoin Hayes not racist because “he really loves Barack Obama”

Eoin Hayes will end up leaving politics with more front page scandals than Nixon. A great achievement

You can't convince me of anything other than restoring the whip to Eoin Hayes was the plan from the beginning—he didn't even change his social media bios! Not resigning his seat and running in a by-election as an independent was bad enough, this just adds to the contempt. The so-called "nice" party

“The Social Democrats do politics differently”. Looks like the same careerism and looking after their own to me, but with even more hypocrisy

Making sure the news hit at 7pm on a Friday! What a predictably craven move from the Soc Dems

“The nice party” at it again

I’ve made it to the Westmeath Examiner (and various other affiliated local papers). “It’s a skilled work, thoroughly researched and a must-read for Shakur fans”

Exceedingly good vibes last night at the People’s Forum

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Regular reminder that “debate” is stupid and being considered good at it just means you’re a windbag with nothing necessarily clever or insightful to say

“There can be no justification for violence against members of the media” “Then try to save the journalists of Gaza!” “No, I don’t think I will actually”

Fucking hell, limbs at the golf

That’s me and the next president of Ireland

It’s totally fine if the new Wuthering Heights movie isn’t exactly like the book btw

Would love to see the transphobes’ arrest/hospitalisation on 24 Hours in Police Custody

Liverpool have signed Isak? They kept that quiet…

Deal’s off?…Good

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🚨🇮🇹 Jamie Vardy to Cremonese, here we go! Deal in place with Italial club until June 2026 plus option for +1 season if staying in Serie A. Agreement done right now and Vardy scheduled to travel tonight to Milano in order to start new chapter. #LCFC legend will play in Italy.

🎶I'm sorry Nick Jackson (woo) There is no deal We called off the Bayern loan-to-buy Fly home to replace the injured guy🎶

Late Registration turns 20 today. A decade ago I spoke to some of the collaborators behind Kanye West (who sadly disappeared off the face of the Earth sometime around 2017) about its creation for @passionweiss.bsky.social www.passionweiss.com/2015/09/23/1...

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"For Those I Love’s righteous anger cannot be faked. 'Carving the Stone' is a gritty, gripping piece of work forged in fury and frustration at a darkening in the Dublin atmosphere," writes @deanvannguyen.bsky.social.

GUEST SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT: cultural critic and writer @deanvannguyen.bsky.social joins us at An Clogán's inaugural launch party to discuss Art and Politics in 21st Century Ireland. @thesugarclub, Friday 05 September, 6:30PM - 2:30AM. Get your tickets now, link in bio!

Friday week! A stacked line-up assembles at the Sugar Club, Dublin to launch this stellar new leftist magazine. Get tix via @ancloganmag.bsky.social

A wonderful human being

I logged onto Zoom to chat about Tupac with the great Drew Millard. Before I knew it, two hours had zipped by. You can read the best of my ramblings via the super cool Super Empty, which includes a beautifully designed image of Tupac, Afeni and Mutulu that I adore

New York! On Saturday, September 13, I’ll be at the righteous 1804 Books to chat about Words for My Comrades. Conversation, book signings, crowd members spontaneously doing the Humpty Dance (probably)… register for free via Eventbrite if you can come through www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

I need to listen to Teyana Taylor's album again but without the narration skits to decide if I like the music

Sean Bean is definitely going to do the "Between us we have three Best Actor Oscars" joke when promoting this new movie with Daniel Day-Lewis

As you might expect, Chotiner ties him into knots

Things are going well when you have to put out a third statement…

LIVERPOOL

I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Recently, Boyne wrote that those women who supported transgender women were akin to people willing to ‘pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her’. /5

Chance the Rapper finally made another listenable album