Nick Offerman is a delight as Chester A. Arthur in Death by Lightning, by far my favourite performance in the show, and my favourite character

we've had many Lincolns, including Spielberg's, and now we have Death by Lightning. who will complete the Robert Todd Lincoln Presidential Assassination Cinematic Universe with a movie about Leon Czolgosz splattering William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition?

extremely funny for Netflix to tag Death by Lightning with "Fight the Power". it's about the US president getting shot point blank by a mentally ill con man

listening to "The Ballad of Guitea" from Assassins to get myself hyped before I start Death by Lightning www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHvX...

Irish militarists love to say that their opponents can't debate them, yet it's them who needed the government to put their thumb on the scale by doing a "forum on neutrality" rigged in their favour instead of a citizen's assembly

establishing my "anti-imperialist" bona fides by proposing a red-brown alliance against the ZOG on a racist website founded and funded by right wing Catholics with ties to the US security state

it's really quite something that as far as I can tell, not a single member of government has had anything to say about the conviction of Josip Strok's murderers. not even a token "glad to see justice has been served"

not sure the far right have thought through going "ha, see, it wasn't us, it was organised criminals, a group with which we have no significant overlap" m.independent.ie/irish-news/d...

RTÉ Prime Time: Citizen Ganley, from 2008. informative and insightful. Ganley sued over it and it took over ten years to decide, but RTÉ didn't have to retract or correct anything in the end, just reiterate something they already said in the documentary youtu.be/_BM4K-yueZM

actually our media are extremely reticent to describe politicians as far right, but David lives in Plato's cave and spends all his time making up guys to be mad at

As an Irish person who was alive in 2008 I can confirm that private businesses only ask sovereign governments to guarantee their financing when business is going really, really well

obviously the switch in parties is the most attention grabbing part, but spare a thought for a marine accident investigator getting appointed as II's spokesman on defence and the equestrian industry??? www.kfmradio.com/news/localne...

in fairness to Simon Harris, he isn't echoing Nigel Farage, he's echoing Keir Starmer, the guy who's supposed to be less racist than Nigel Farage but isn't

finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."

me, day one as the normal guy on Jury Duty: your name isn't Pat McCurdy, you're character actor Kirk Fox

Saw someone say that the enraged radicalized wine moms are going to impose Sangria Law and honestly that’s pretty good

FF parliamentary party leaking the minutes of their weekly meeting to journalists in real time instead of launching a leadership challenge will be the death of me

whoever did Naoise Ó Muirí's media training taught him to use the last thing the person you're responding to said as a hook to launch into your pre-prepared remarks, but he did it so thoughtlessly here he couldn't even explain what he meant by his own objection

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

SCOTUS is gonna strike down the tariffs because trampling over the US constitution is one thing, but risking the investment portfolios of the ruling class is quite another

Wow. In another huge upset, Mesmero, the Master of Mentalism, has been elected mayor of Chicago. Political pundits are shocked - he’s a first-time candidate who barely spent anything on advertising, and there wasn’t even an election scheduled for today

Declan Ganley - "Pro-life" campaigner. 🧵

great punchline in this. the Burkes being so disruptive they disrupt a different right-wing grifter's court case

Declan Ganley? more like Declan Langley!

Declan Ganley is a US military contractor in business with Peter Thiel and Karl Rove. his son Micheál's previous job before "refounding" the Bethlehem Steel Company, was as a staffer for Lindsay Graham. he's a stooge for US interests and should be treated as such

Let us together contemplate the stages of pundit grief 1. It's Inconcievable 2. It Can't Happen 3. It Won't Happen 4. It's Unlikely To Happen 5. It Must Not Happen 6. *%&&*Q$#!! 7. Pffft. It Doesn't Matter That It Happened

FG continuing their assault on basic principles of justice yesterday with John Clendennen calling for summary deportation of foreign residents who serve prison time for "serious crime" – in other words, that non-citizens should get two sentences

ok i think that's all of them

Graham Linehan moving to Phoenix is yet another grim chapter in the weird history of Maricopa County, Arizona, secretly one of the US's most cursed municipalities

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

I've seen a few people say "you know actually Curtis Sliwa is a really fucked up guy" and cite stuff he did years ago but he and the Guardian Angels just assaulted a random bystander live on television last year www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/n...

if I had a billion dollars, I would also bet it on the laws of physics

Dick Cheney did not plan 9/11 but he planned the wars that followed, the profiteering off them, the expansion of executive power, the erosion of accountability and oversight, the authoritarianism under the guise of security. a true shepherd of American fascism

Ewan MacKenna is Kieran Cunningham's Wario

the IIEA is quite a shady bit of business if you think about it, primarily funded by the state, to provide policy advice for the state, but also accepts private funding it doesn't have to disclose because it's not a state body, it's just a think tank, that the government started

Mattie McGrath now says supporting Martin and his govt was a mistake. interestingly, in the interview, he says he was promised access to ministers, but when Fran Curry asks if he got the access, Mattie doesn't answer, he just says the govt's own TDs say they don't get access

Even by the low standards of Irish opinion writings, putting out a column that is just "help help I'm being oppressed by occasionally hearing people speak Irish help helpppppppp" is particularly pathetic, and yet

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

Nick Fuentes says Jews are the cause of all the world's problems. Some liberal critics disagree.

Destroying your own career to media train the worst candidate of all time is almost as good as going bankrupt as a bookies

as much as I clown on Dan O'Brien for being a heartless, brainless, unscrupulous ghoul manufacturing consent for Ireland to deepen its entanglements with foreign imperialism, I am genuinely shocked he would sink so low as to support nuclear proliferation

the brilliance of the Futurama episode "Murder on the Planet Express" is that as much as it is The Thing and Alien, it is also fundamentally a Scooby Doo episode

"All changes within margin of error, in other words, no change." sorry, how much longer am I supposed to accept this man as some kind of authority on economics? he doesn't even understand maths?

I can't wait for the "security review" of all IPAS centres to conclude there is no security risk from all the people openly maintaining surveillance checkpoints directly outside them, and therefore no reason for the guards to move any of them along, still

People have literally been posting their full names saying they’ll burn down IPAS centres. They’ve been crowding outside, shouting they’ll set them alight and now someone actually does it and the politicians act SO surprised. GTFO.