Am incredibly chuffed to have been longlisted for @privateeyenews.bsky.social 's Paul Foot awards for investigation into Labour Together and APCO A real coup for a tiny outlet like Democracy for Sale So good to see such great stories nominated too. 😀 www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...

Our Art Issue is now online, with Jed Perl on the Whitney Biennial, @fotoole.bsky.social on Trump’s precarious sanity, Elaine Blair on the Guerrilla Girls, Mark O’Connell on a death in London, Nick Laird on Seamus Heaney, Susan Tallman on Manet & Morisot, and more. https://go.nybooks.com/4eDS04E

Brilliant by @fotoole.bsky.social for @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. "When the balance of power is lost and democratic accountability is replaced by a cult of the divinely inspired leader, the conditions that exacerbate derangement become the principles of governance." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Fintan O’Toole (@fotoole.bsky.social) on Trump’s derangement syndrome

"...the only evidence that Trump might not be crazy is his obvious determination to seem so." Is Trump employing Richard Nixon's Madman Theory or is he really mad? Interesting essay from @fotoole.bsky.social... 🎁🔗

At least 88 corporations paid ZERO in income tax despite reporting $105 BILLION in profits. Meanwhile the average American paid $14.5% on their income. Our system is rigged to benefit billionaires. It’s time to fix it.

Should be part of his next test.

Don't underestimate what a huge defeat this is for the Trumpist project of destroying the EU and establishing ethnonationalism all over Europe. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right Well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Thank you to all the Members of Congress who joined my Kidnapped and Disappeared hearing last week. As Ranking Member of the Immigration Subcommittee, I’ll continue working to organize Members to stand up to Trump’s lawlessness.

Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived

This is absolutely fantastic. ht: @maddenifico.bsky.social

A DOGE staffer convened a meeting with Department of Energy officials to discuss the future of nuclear power and downplayed the risk of radiation exposure at nuclear test sites: “They are testing in Utah. … I don’t know, like 70 people live there.”

Colm Tóibín compliments “For and Against a United Ireland” in this piece for @nybooks.com. The book, written by @fotoole.bsky.social and @sjamcbride.bsky.social, was commissioned by @arinsproject.bsky.social — a joint project of the Keough-Naughton Institute and the Royal Irish Academy (@ria.ie).

I think @fotoole.bsky.social needs to make nice with Apple's voice-to-text folks.

I'm doing the very first event for my new book 'This is Also a Love Story' on Sunday May 10 at Phizzfest (Dublin 🇮🇪), with @fotoole.bsky.social (thank you to him!). More info & tickets here: phizzfest.ie/event/storie...

Stunning photo: James Bradford in 1961, arrested for reading in the Jackson, Mississippi public library.

Read Fintan O’Toole’s powerful & important essay on Pres. Trump’s war on Iran: no rationale no plan no “story” of a U.S. interest that we are pursuing, at devastating costs. @fotoole.bsky.social @nybooks.com

If you're anywhere in the vicinity of Princeton on Friday please join us arts.princeton.edu/news/2026/03...

Our 4/9 issue is now online, with Pankaj Mishra on India and Iran, Pablo Scheffer on the art of tennis, @yilingliu95.bsky.social on Shenzhen’s engineers, Miranda Seymour on Muriel Spark’s spark, Ben Lerner on John Berger, @fotoole.bsky.social on Trump’s war of choice, & more.

Great event on “For and Against a United Ireland” this morning in DC with the Washington Ireland Program and authors @fotoole.bsky.social and @sjamcbride.bsky.social. Special guests included Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland @little-pengelly.bsky.social and @reptimkennedy.bsky.social. 🧵

Deeply honoured that Sam McBride and I have won the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize for For and Against a United Ireland. www.hotpress.com/culture/fint...

'For and against a united Ireland' by Sam McBride and Fintan O’Toole has won the 29th Ewart-Biggs Prize! 🏆 🎉🍾 The Ewart-Biggs Prize recognises work that promotes peace, reconciliation and greater understanding. @ria.ie @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

We kicked off the US tour of “For and Against a United Ireland” last night in Chicago w/ authors @fotoole.bsky.social and @sjamcbride.bsky.social. Next: NYC, DC, Boston, Princeton The book has inspired dialogue in Ireland and the UK. It’s a thrill to discuss it on this side of the Atlantic.

Fintan O’Toole (@fotoole.bsky.social) on Trump’s meaningless war, all violence and no pretext, all means and no ends https://go.nybooks.com/4rrbXOP

Poignant that Country Joe died in the midst of all this: "One, two, three, four / What are we fighting for?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0v...

Prosecutors are losing key witnesses in criminal cases because they are getting deported by this administration. The lawlessness of ICE and CBP makes us all less safe.

The Trump administration is unsatirisable

Join us in Chicago for an event with @fotoole.bsky.social and @sjamcbride.bsky.social — authors of the acclaimed book “For and Against a United Ireland.” 🗓️ Thursday, March 12 🕟 Reception @ 4:30 pm | Event @ 5:30 pm 📍 The Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren St. ✅ Register here: go.nd.edu/for-against-...

Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/

Great piece on Andrew and imagery. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you're in New York on March 25th you're very welcome to this talk in memory of the great Robert Silvers. www.showclix.com/tickets/fint...

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

This mock-up from the Guardian is rather eloquent

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

The idea that Trump is creating quotas for denaturalization is a gross abuse of power that should scare every single American. Republicans used to pretend they were for legal immigration, but now they are working to strip citizenship from Americans for no reason.

SEN. KAINE: “You said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide… are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEO’s?” Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl skewered by @kaine.senate.gov