An unelected group of people has decided that their demands outweigh the basic needs of ordinary people across the country - needs that include keeping urgent hospital appointments, seeing dying relatives, caring for children, and obtaining medicines. This is bullying, not protest #FuelProtests

This is not protest. It's bullying. #speirgorm

"An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to their fainting country cling" PB Shelley

History teaches us that the greatest harms often begin with the quiet acceptance of the unacceptable. I have seen where that road leads, and I will not walk it again without resistance.

This is not debatable‼️ We saw it‼️ On this day, January 24, 2026, we witnessed it‼️

“Trump’s imperial project is all gunboat and no diplomacy. He probably mistakes the flattery…of most European leaders for esteem. In reality their deference masks a mixture of fear and short-term resignation.” —@fotoole.bsky.social

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This entire weekend

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

I've never encountered an Irish election so limited in scope. Candidate 1, I agree with strongly on most issues & disagree with passionately on some vital issues. Candidate 2, I disagree with on almost everything except those same crucial issues. This must be how a 2-party system feels #speirgorm

#A_NewHope ✊

"It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage." Robert Frost

I return to Twitter occasionally, out of hopeless nostalgia. It's like having brain surgery while being hit on the face with a cactus.

Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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.