"A source familiar with the matter tells The Hollywood Reporter that Disney is also exiting the deal it signed with OpenAI last year, in which it pledged to invest $1 billion in the company and agreed to license some of its characters for use in Sora."

So. Irish people should look at this and remember how our economy unravelled in 2007/2008. All it takes is the fall of one domino to stop the money wheel from turning. The financial structures behind these firms is a house of cards.

Trump has also threatened to obliterate power plants. “Trump is openly threatening a war crime,” Kenneth Roth, formerly of HRW, said. “I see no difference between what Trump is threatening to do in Iran and what the International Criminal Court charged four Russian commanders for doing in Ukraine.”

Even if civilian structures aren’t the sole target of the strikes, it may still be a war crime to damage or destroy them. A CNN report earlier this month showed that U.S. and Israeli strikes are often hitting within lethal radius of hospitals and schools, even if they aren’t striking them directly.

The U.S. and Israeli bombardments of Iran have devastated tens of thousands of civilian facilities, the Iranian Red Crescent Society says, killing over a thousand civilians so far and damaging infrastructure considered completely off limits in war time like schools and hospitals.

Big new: A judge has ruled that ICE can’t ignore FOIA because of a lapse in funding and must produce records in response to a @freedom.press FOIA lawsuit. That’s great news, in no small part because the records will shed light on obfuscation of congressional oversight of ICE detention facilities.

A push by Stephen Miller and GOP lawmakers to challenge a landmark Supreme Court ruling would strip undocumented children of access to public education.

With so much happening in the news cycle these last few days, we wanted to draw attention to the severe storms impacting Hawai'i over the weekend and the devastation that has left so many displaced from their homes, without power and struggling to help themselves and their communities

today is a great day "The jury found Meta liable on all counts, including for willfully engaging in “unfair and deceptive” and “unconscionable” trade practices, and ordered the company to pay $375 million in damages." www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/t...

The man who oversaw the negotiations between the US and Iran into their final hours last month has now publicly declared that the Islamic Republic is not the one responsible for the war the US and Israel began on 28 February.

2/ Link: x.com/katiemiller/...

In Feb 2026, Katie Miller asked Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale if Palantir shld continue working w/ ICE. He replied, “Yeah. I think we should be way, way more aggressive than we are. I think that all of the pushback in MN is ridiculous…” He later mocked the “10 libtards” at Palantir & laughed. 1/

In 2023, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale wrote that “only certain more intense (more confident?) branches of Judaism and Christianity appear strong enough to resist and survive in a manner that prioritizes their own principles & wisdom over the WMV [Woke Mind Virus].” 1/ x.com/jtlonsdale/s...

the types of podcasts: a guide

i was right too where's my shout-out

In war-torn Gaza, girls and young women rebuild a boxing community, using sport to process grief, challenge norms and find strength amid displacement:

Make your money proud for once. https://store.theonion.com/products/us-dignity-reserves-nearly-depleted-headline-shirt?variant=42627907944517

Government-Funded infomercial from Norway striking back at US corporations and the tech Bros for filling the Internet with slop. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

Emil Michael, a veteran of controversies at Uber, is the Trump administration’s point person in the fight over military use of AI. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4bmtotR

Iran's strategic position over the Straits of Hormuz remains unshaken by US strikes—if anything, they’ve bolstered its status as oil hegemon.

Right. And I also have a career as Batman.

Trump: "Markwayne is also career as an MMA fighter"

Trump says he wants to give Kamala Harris an IQ test

There you go Donald.... walk toward the light....

Trump's hand is discolored and his face is drooping while he stands behind Mullin

Mullin claims TSA is working "for free because of political politics"

4/ JD Vance’s COS RTd Palantir co-founder “Joe Lonsdale’s approving quote of the following screed: …”[W]e Jews can no longer be squeamish about the majority’s invocation of the Christian deity & other aspects of their faith. The neutering of Christianity has been disastrous 4 all of us & must end.’”

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Vance’s chief of staff, Jacob Reses, arrived at Princeton as a Dem, but that “changed when he met Prof. Robert P. George, a Catholic conservative” (& ally of Leonard Leo) who “had mentored…Yoram Hazony,” who has since “become one of the most prominent Jewish defenders of Christian nationalism…” 1/

Yes, this is weird! You’re *supposed to* respond to e.g. the Siege of Sarajevo with disgust and outrage, not bottomless, knee pad-clad indulgence. *You* are the psychos and weirdos, here.

There are two particularly remarkable things in this episode. 1) RFK Jr says that the stomach is microbiome is made up of plants. He specifically says "Your stomach microbiome is plants". It is not. I think he has been confused by the term "gut flora". He is the head of Health and Human Services.

I remember someone asking me years ago what Desmond Tutu would know about apartheid after he called what was happening in Palestine apartheid. I was genuinely dumbfounded. And yes it was on Twitter, before Elon bought no less.

What is accepted in Israel as a lamentable but unchangeable reality (“unfortunately we have no other option right now”), a point of pride (“it’s us vs them, I choose us”) or a zealous mission (“we are fulfilling God’s promise”) is still often treated in the US as if it’s not happening at all

Still funny that it's more controversial to call Israel's system of control over Palestinians apartheid in the US than it is in Israel itself

💫 Remembering Palestinian Journalist Hossam Shabat Hossam Shabat, 23, was assassinated by Israel a year ago today, as he reported for Drop Site and others on the genocide of his people in Gaza. www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...

I need a moment to sit with this. 😅

An Taisce has formally asked the European Commission to reconsider its decision to grant Ireland a nitrates derogation. The derogation decision was meant to be based on the science. EPA data shows that our water quality is declining, and nitrogen went up 10% in 2025. Make this make sense.

Hossam Shabqt was assassinated one year ago today. I felt an affinity for him because he was supposed to be finishing journalism school when the war began, was the same age as my students, and we corresponded. He was unbearably sweet and kind.

"master plan" = ethnic cleansing: Bovino said he had a master plan that was in motion before his exile back to El Centro. It would have neutralized protesters, he said, and made it possible to deport 100 million people. That is a goal that the DHS has widely promoted www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

THIS. LLM generated responses are NOT the same as public opinion polling data. We must collectively reject this as a norm.

In today's edition of our Monument Monday newsletter, we explore an ancient routeway, preserved deep in a Longford bog. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #DiscoverIreland #Archaeology 🏺

NEW: We filed a motion to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from accessing Oklahoma voters' personal data. This is the 24th state, plus DC, where we've taken action to protect voters' privacy ahead of the midterm elections.

Seriously, if I was a member of Seanad Éireann the absolute last thing I'd want to do is suggest that too much public money was being spent on the Oireachtas

i do enjoy when a study comes out that confirms something we all already know, like how that guy you haven't seen since high school who talks like a walking linkedin post is a bozo

Not content with allowing his secret police to execute American citizens in the streets, now Trump wants them patrolling our airports. Unhinged and indefensible.

I don't think you want to be reminding people that Republicans once had backbones, Ted.

NEW study found chatbots supported violence 80% of the time—providing key details & weapon advice. Here’s the rub: there is currently no legal requirement for U.S. chatbot creators to alert law enforcement when their systems flag potential violence. The result is real-world harm. trib.al/XRqylye

I have an alternative proposal to reduce the number of representatives in the Oireachtas, but I don't think the Senators are gonna like it very much

last fall Ezra Klein and the "abundance" folks used the delays in this program to insist Democrats can no longer build anything and just love bureaucracy, but since the Trump admin hijacked the program, caused massive delays, and tried to steal half the funds, they haven't made a peep about it since