> the emperor is at war with the pope what century is it

This is exactly why Hungary’s elections matter so much - and they show that illiberal democracy can be reversed

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

Why, why is the government allowing this to happen? Last year they arrested and terrorized people who held a Gaza protest outside Leinster House. But now nothing. Fire and ambulance services to be curtailed due to fuel shortages caused by protests jrnl.ie/7008778

Damn. Iran just dropped an A+ level troll on Trump in this new LEGO movie. I’m no fan of Iran at all… but this one actually nails him. 😂😂

Can everyone please stop excusing the US president by saying that he has dementia. He's always been like this. It's not dementia. He's a deluded, arrogant, nepo baby, chock full of Dunning Kruger degrees of self-belief and deep rooted stupidity and rich and influential enough to get away with it

My brother has been 7 hours on the bus from Waterford to #Dublin Airport. It’s stopped 10k from it and not moving. He is now WALKING 10k. He’s missed his 2pm flight and no refund. Has to buy two new flights when he had a direct 3hr flight originally as he has to get back before the am. Scandalous

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Iran's 10 point plan seems to put them in a better position than they were in before the war www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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I'm so sick of this. I know it's been said a million times but NATO members have an obligation to assist each other if one of them is attacked, not to assist any member who launches a war. But if he wanted assistance for that he should've consulted them first. 1/2 www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Frankly Natalie Portman should have gotten much more public smoke for her refusal to credit the American Ballet Theater dancer who did the dancing in Black Swan while Natalie pretended she learned ballet in six months. Much more offensive than what Chalamet did.

The art of the deal

The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame. We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.

Ireland can celebrate the Triple Crown. But they don't know if they might be Six Nations champions too without cheering on the English in Paris tonight (?!)

‘As a couple, Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have always been too stupid to understand the vulnerability of the institution that supports them, and they began wrecking it from the inside as soon as they met.’ Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, in the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The UK's legal position on the use of its bases in the Middle East is solid with one glaring hole: The US cannot act in collective self-defence with the Gulf States. It is the aggressor. Ergo the UK cannot assist the US in collective self-defence.

I feel like we (Americans) are above the shark right now.

So let me get this straight ... 1. US bombs Iran 2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate 3. Russia gives Iran targeting info 4. Oil price shoots WAY up 5. US unsanctions Russian oil

Can we please stop pretending these aren't huge red flags?

THE SUNDAY TIMES: Ayatollah killed in blitz from America and Israel #TomorrowsPapersToday

My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see. He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work. Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work. www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Here is Hillary Clinton’s opening statement to House Oversight on Epstein. Clinton says she does not recall ever encountering Epstein and says she knew nothing about his crimes. She also says that Trump should testify under oath and criticizes the committee for not holding any public hearings.

In 1994 Ukraine agreed to surrender the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal in deal known as the Budapest Memorandum.  In exchange for giving up 1,900 nuclear warheads- U.S., Russia & UK pledged to respect Ukraine's existing borders and sovereignty & refrain from use of force against Ukraine.

Of the 4,521 homes built in Dublin in 2025 only 208 went For Sale to ordinary buyers. Something is deeply wrong in the Govts housing policy. Lorcan Sirr breaks it down on the Tortoise Shack podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

This is super interesting. The last one I can read fluently is 1600. I can then still read it and figure out (almost) every word, with some puzzling, but then lose it almost completely at 1200. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

When the midterms come around VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO. You must flip Congress if there is any hope of impeaching Trump and removing him and his toxic regime from power. If you have finally had enough, vote like your life depends on it because it very well might.

This is almost certainly going to get lost amid everything else happening at the moment. But it’s a big story.

key reason you can’t give no 10 the benefit of the doubt on this stuff. ought to be fatal. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

I go on about the bro culture in number 10 a lot but it's hard not to think that a setup that included more women and actually listened to women might have correctly identified that this was utterly disqualifying

🚨Status Orange rain warning issued for counties Wicklow and Waterford for tomorrow with flooding risk

People have to do jail time. Powerful people, who thought they were untouchable. They have to be arrested, tried, stripped of assets relating to their crimes, and sent to jail. Because if it doesn't happen, it will prove to voters that democracy is a sham. And then we're seriously fucked.

Time for the EU to adopt countermeasures against this overt violation of international law.

Child poverty has reached a record high in the United Kingdom as the country’s cost of living soars and its social security safety net falters following years of government austerity.

Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

This is beautiful. #mani x.com/theartofthes...

Sign of the times that when waking up to the headline ‘England Collapses Overnight’ I had to check it was definitely about the cricket. 🏏 #MAshes

There have been a lot of disgusting and surreal moments in the Oval Office over the last 10 months that disgrace the United States, but Trump publicly dismissing the brutal assassination of a Washington Post journalist as insignificant and blowing smoke up the ass of a despotic butcher is up there

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for 6 years for. I gave him my loyalty for free. I've never owed him anything. Let me tell you what a traitor is -- a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries."

Yeah it really backfired. We’re reeling. That’s why we were up all night trashing some of our closest former allies on social media, ordering investigations by DOJ of our enemies, delaying a flight to Palm Beach to rant and rave in the WH, while generally melting down. Libs in disarray.

The current Occupant of the White House is a sewer dwelling scum of the earth scared loser who is lashing out. @RepThomasMassie wife died last year. Congratulations to him on his new marriage. It is clear President Dump is afraid of what is coming.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Scary US has not only bombed another alleged drug boat killing more people- altho we have zero proof they were carrying drugs. Btw Venezuela does not make or sell fentanyl. We don’t know why 3 American war ships, atomic sub, aircraft carrier& bombers- are in the waters outside Venezuela. Wtf

It’s not about your girlfriend. It’s about you wasting taxpayer money.

The America First guy has brought in 566 foreign workers during his 5 years in office to work at his companies instead of hiring Americans. And counting.

Oof. Here's the article that Ruemmler, former Obama White House counsel, dismissed: www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-trum...