Possibly the only time Adams had difficulty in raising money

only eric adams was weird enough to convince people to give up parking spaces to containerize trash in new york city. it is now on mr. mamdani to become strange enough to continue the program and rid the city of loose garbage bags forever

fuck it we ball; give us Eric Adams as US ambassador to the UK, heaven knows we need the comic relief

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"Unforgivable error": Citizens and residents receive cancellation notice of parole and order to leave the U.S. Thousands of people are receiving the email urging them to leave the country. en.cibercuba.com/noticias/202...

Strange time

12k handbag for tribune of the people Maria Steen 👀

Oh shit oh fuck the xenomorphs have Adidas now

Isn't this kind of 10 years too late?

As a grassroots movement fighting to drastically change our reality, we can’t just raise awareness or take to the streets. We must also organize – build power and leadership within our communities to achieve and sustain the change that we want. (2/2)

We just finished up two student leadership seminars. These seminars are a place for Jewish and Palestinian students to learn how to make change on campus: how to fight discrimination and silencing as well as the occupation and horrors in Gaza. (1/2)

who knew that making Verona Ceann Cohmairle would result in effectively neutering her

Because she's an absolute liability to the left and progressiveism

Imagine if somebody said the IRA "are part of the fabric of the" Irish people during the troubles?

Viewing the president of Ireland as leading the opposition against the government misunderstands the role on so many levels that it’s actually impressive

The idea that Maria Steen is a "non establishment" candidate when she represents everything that Ireland was for generations, and which grass roots campaigns fought for generations against successive governments to get away from.

anyone furious that Tipperary County Council didn't nominate Maria Steen or Nick Delehanty should take it up with those responsible: Maria Steen, who didn't even ask their nomination, and Nick Delehanty, who sent an email but never followed up and didn't present to the council

Maria Steen is such an unserious candidate she didn't even apply to Waterford City and County Council, the council where a cross-party group of pro-life councillors did this shit in 2018

Maria Steen has spent her entire public life as a spokesperson for a political group that doesn't disclose its sources of funding, so of course she's the candidate of choice for people who pretend to care about transparency

still needs 3 more but no doubt McDowell and his minions will lower themselves to do so out of spite

Course they do. And their arm twisting and bullying suggesting there is somehow an obligation on everyone else to put them on the ballot when there is no such thing is gaslighting of the worst kind

The reason I'm concerned about Maria Steen being on the ballot isn't that she will win (she won't). My worry is that if she is nominated, it will mean a month of national airtime for a hate campaign against vulnerable groups, carried by a media too scared of being sued to call it what it is

Irish defamation culture is the last remnant of toxic catholic history. Its roots are deeply embedded in power and shame.

They (the media) give away the secret. The killing of Hortman and her husband were not a watershed because we all know the left/Dems will not engage in retaliatory violence. The murder of a right wing commenter is a watershed because we are all certain that the Right will engage in such violence.

right winger getting cancelled vs. trans person getting cancelled

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

The current French parliament in meme form.

It's worth rewatching that bit of The Handmaid's Tale where Mrs Waterford tries to speak to angry uni students, but they stop her by screaming 'Fascist' and 'Nazi Cunt' at her and things turn ugly. The Waterfords make a speedy exit and Mr W complains about free speech denied. 'This is America!' /1

Dan really does nail it sometimes.

I'm going to disagree. Pulling Italy and Germany towards a consensus position has been an extremely slow process, and VdL is an important ally to have on board. Diplomacy takes time but the unity will be with it

The murder of Iryna Zarytska is heartbreaking, yet it was a random act of violence by a mentally disturbed man, and thousands of accounts who have posted gleefully about the mass murder of Ukrainians for years are weaponizing her death for their psycho race fantasies on an unprecedented scale.

I offered a few thoughts about the Charlie Kirk assassination, the continued background hum of political violence in America, and what's different today: the neverending effort to define political enemies through violent acts attributed to all of them. prospect.org/politics/202...

On the horrible murder of Charlie Kirk — and the threat to democracy it created. www.vox.com/politics/461...

Not very good review but makes plenty of good points www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Kind of funny that a *left wing* position on YIMBYism is that building more housing is bad because smallholder capitalists should be ensured high returns on their assets by the government regardless of whether that makes basic necessities completely inaccesible

I'm looking forward to using this

Wild suggestion but Ireland could make itself far more defensive politically by both expanding reconnaissance by sea and air and improving it's logistical capabilities that than expanding the military directly. But building alliance are critical also

That's a fair point

Ukrainian military intelligence reports that Putin is bringing 'historical documents' to prove Russia's claims for Ukraine. Imagine the circus that their press conference will be if Putin gived a history lecture with Trump drooling and snoring in the background.

This isn't going to end well

From Russian POV Pros: - "Temporary" (i.e. not a) Ceasefire - De-facto Acceptance of Conquered Land - Lift Sanctions (Just US, or EU too?) - Western Fuel Imports Cons: - No Limits on NATO Expansion (this was always a piss take) - No Promise to Stop Arming Ukraine Very good deal for Russia overall

Wikipedia article about the guy behind the blog: 'He later founded the alternative news website Steigan.no that is described by mainstream Norwegian media as a platform of Russian propaganda, conspiracy theories, racism and transphobia.'

The story spread among all the usual tankie publications and influencers (Galloway, ugh), so I guess that fits with The Phoenix's usual tankie takes on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Plus the images associated with were AI generated. One debunking here from, er, 2 days ago. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/false-claim-...

Lol

Also, policies regarding priority groups for social housing impact homelessness a lot of homeless applicants are given priority for social housing. Removing this in the past did slightly impact homeless figures

This is pretty good journalism. Would say there's probably some unintended consequences of SEAI grants that are causing more sales of pre 63s that have a lot of impact on tenants as they are more likely to sell to owner occupiers. Also, more money in the system www.rte.ie/news/primeti...