Is our problem social media itself or the fact that social media has been weaponized to polarize and disrupt?

If Trump could pass a law stating that it was illegal to do anything that upset the dear leader, he would. And a big portion of the MAGA crowd would most likely go along with it.

US publications, can I suggest that you temporarily replace paywalls with donation requests when it comes to articles of political significance? Good journalism should be paid for, but this is an emergency, and lies are being peddled for free.

I’m beginning to think they lied about liking free speech…

Never thought the name “Jimmy Kimmel” would be accompanied by a physical chill passing through my bones.

RIP #RobertRedford

An important distinction - from @timothysnyder.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Can I ask, if you follow 40,000 people or more, why are you doing that? Doesn't it make your social media feeds a pile of messy sludge.

Very informative. The parade of far right lunatics lining up to embarrass Ireland on a global scale should know that their power would be restricted to throwing tea parties and causing the occasional legislative delay.

Is there a browser that does what Google used to do before it sabotaged itself? A browser that just searches the Internet and provides the most relevant results? I'm so sick of wading through AI bullshit and advertising.

Dear @stephencolbert.bsky.social, Thanks for all the years of speaking truth to power & finding the funny in fascism. Looking forward to following you wherever you land, Your fan, Mar🐫

The weirdest thing about this US administration is that everything that happens is, at the same time, completely predictable and utterly astounding.

Lemme do a Captcha and I'll get back to you...😬 youtu.be/AtkXbPjHOQo?...

Human here

After an absence, a reply I made to a post was randomly liked by a series of strangely over-obvious bot accounts that only post pictures of kittens and sunsets. Are they the only people still here. Anyone out there not a sentimentalist robot?

I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism. forward.com/fast-forward...

Is Trump manipulating the stock markets on purpose to make money out of them?

Glass raised 🥂

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This headline gives unfounded veracity to unsubstantiated and widely contested theories that would not be out of place in the current US administration.

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

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I never realized fascists would be so whiny

Pete Hegseth today

Sure Jack the Ripper killed and dismembered people, but there are always grievances on both sides. Before judging, we need to listen to his perspective.

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

This thread has good advice. If you are going to be on Twitter, be very wary.

Little sleepy guy #Cats

You don't want to read this. And I don't want to write it. iandunt.substack.com/p/you-dont-w...

Oligarchies are weird

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

Bigots and idiots have taken all the fun out of conspiracy theories.

"If someone legally in the United States can be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before Trump’s inauguration." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...

A powerful reading of that Oval Room thuggery from @timothysnyder.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Do you ever put off reading a book because you know you're going to be sad to finish it. That's how I feel about this one.

quote of the day www.ft.com/content/4221...

Worse than a horror story.

Any Irish writers on bluesky please repost

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

I don't think Micheál Martin should meet with Trump on St Patrick's Day. I was uncertain, but now I'm sure. Nothing will be gained.

It's been obvious since January 6 that he was an enemy of the USA, the UK & the whole of the free world. Everybody still in his camp understands this as completely as everybody against it. They just prioritise personal interest over the national & international. And they know it. They all know it.

Donald Trump has betrayed America. If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.

He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.

There was a President in the Oval Office today. His name is Zelensky. He had to fend off two impotent barking dogs sent by Putin. They are named Trump and Vance.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

I’d like to apologize to President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine on behalf of the people of the United States of America

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Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa found dead at home

It's time to delete the Washington Post app