I will never understand people who object to wind turbines. Even if they did nothing I'd still think they look sick as hell

Depleted U.S. precision munition stockpiles—and the 4–5 years required to replenish them—could coincide with a period of relatively peak Russian military power vis-à-vis NATO under a scenario in which a tenuous 2027 ceasefire in Ukraine frees Russian forces to reconstitute and redeploy.

As the EU/UK, Japan, India and other powers expand their own military investment, part of this story is not just decline of US power against adversaries but also loss of US influence over former allies and partners

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

The energy crisis is the climate crisis. It’s time the Government recognised that - and stopped burying its head in the sand. You can contact your local TDs to support the motion here: action.uplift.ie/campaigns/ta...

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Greens propose new “On the Move” scheme for EV social leasing Read all about it 👇 greenparty.ie/news/greens-...

“Ceasefire” lol a ceasefire for Israel means you cease, we fire

"COVID vaccines tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden." "People vaccinated against COVID in Germany in 2023 experienced reduced hospitalization rates, fewer long-COVID diagnoses, and lower all-cause mortality than those who weren't vaccinated, according to a new study"

“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.” —Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief American Prosecutor, Nuremberg, 1946

Of COURSE he's insider trading. He's a crook, he's ALWAYS been a crook, he's using the presidency to make billions. He ran to stay out of jail, to make money and to feel powerful, because that's what a narcissist like him gets off on. It was never about helping people.

Dang mouth guard from the dentist is like 5-600 Bucks out of pocket.

My dental hygienist and I were talking today about the sharp rise she's (anecdotally) seen in grinding/clenching over the last five or so years. Maybe that would be a telling metric to track, how many of us are cribbing like horses on a fencepost, alongside the economic numbers.

Samuel Beckett Bridge is a cable-stayed swingbridge in Dublin that joins Sir John Rogerson's Quay on the south side of the River Liffey to Guild Street and North Wall Quay in the Docklands area. #SpéirGhorm

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

Johnny Depp is in a lot of cologne ads for someone who looks like they just hit a Febreze bath after a smoke break

I don't have a problem with protests but I do have a problem with terrorists holding the country to ransom. The fact that no representatives organisation was involved and that we got far right talking points from the start was telling.

Cat loves yaoi confirmed

A really interesting piece on a much maligned and misunderstood tax, and why delaying the increase is madness

Keir Starmer should go immediately... ...to the shops to buy me some cat treats.

Is it going to pay one of the organisers' tax arrears or fines for animal cruelty?

😂😆🤣🤣 He is the dumbest fugging person on earth huh? Not sure which was better, this or "incursion" vs "excursion" with regards to Iran attack.

"The left has one job in the months ahead, and it is not to run their play from the other side of the pitch. It is to name what it would build, who it would build it with, and by what methods."

By no means the worst, but still a very annoying aspect of the blockades has been all of the American conservatives who are hearing about it and acting like this wan

“One piece of clean left analysis was offered during the blockade week, and it came from the leader of the party the blockade organisers have spent two years smearing with homophobic memes.” (1/4)

Irritable reaction of quite a few US based accounts to what should be quite an uncontroversial point in the post below that the world will not stand still even if the US does is IMV a sign of how Americans from all political backgrounds will struggle to adjust to consequences of relative US decline

Netanyahu and Israel got away with genocide in Gaza so now they’re doing it again in Lebanon. They’ve demolished entire villages, displaced 1 million people, and plan to build “settlements” on the land they stole. The peace talks today feel meaningless unless Israel is stopped.

This is so braindead that I’m actually speechless

this being the thing that crosses the line for many rightwingers is so illustrative of how they don’t really care about anything real that actually matters. their problems are all entirely fictional

This is true but it is ALSO wild that the WH thought a grandma who has to Door Dash to remain solvent while her husband is treated for Stage 3 cancer -- was a GOOD news story for them There is a Rosetta Stone-ishness here I can't get past

he won because the marginal voter thought he would make them economically secure, if not rich. he *thinks* he won because of anti-trans bigotry. he has spent his time in office ignoring the concerns of the marginal voter and focusing on the preoccupations of ideologues.

“The Pope is weak on crime” is going to rattle around in there for a good, long time

€505m came out the gov’t surplus. Tánaiste confirmed it’ll affect Budget ‘27. Every cent spent on haulier diesel this weekend is a cent that won’t be spent on disability allowance, homelessness, or carers in Oct. That is not a metaphor. That is the arithmetic Simon Harris just signed off on. (3/4)

I wish someone would insult me to the region of €½bn.

Imaginary George Lucas Vs Real George Lucas

Viktor Orban faces the dreadful fate of a guest fellowship at the Heritage Foundation

I see nearly all the weekenders have gone home, we get our freedom to travel restored, well untill the 1st rear-ender on the M50 tomorrow morn. In other news the fash got their arses handed to them in another part of our continent. traffic.tii.ie/@-9.50344,53...

Maybe me and the boys should blockade the motorway until our own pet political demands are met? Terrible precedent. Highwaymen are back in fashion.

"Direct support for hauliers along the lines of what was in place during Covid-19 pandemic could be signed off by Cabinet this evening", RTÉ reports. Businesses have gotten far too used to handouts since COVID. www.rte.ie/news/2026/04...

It's funny that Trump called Iran tough negotiators because he said "Give up your only two points of leverage forever" and they said "no"

The median European "just shut the fuck up and fix the roads" voter is an underestimated force

i will never forget how elon musk said absolutely nothing at all about the NASA artemis ii mission except one post making fun of that women who took the photo of the launch in the reflection of her glasses. he hates space

Glad to see O'Connell St was cleared without incident. Time to end the protests Talks between US and Iran predicably went nowhere and we could be in for a lot more pain even without these road disruptions. #SpeirGorm

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

They’re ruthless businessmen who will happily destroy the environment and tell us they are ‘putting food on our table’ - 90% of beef is exported and 80% of fruit and veg imported. We have ballot boxes and a democracy if they want change.

Sadly the title “Cumtown” was already taken

This is pure thuggery, why haven’t there been any arrests yet? These illegal blockades are completely outrageous. “Fuel protest organisers promise ‘massive’ nationwide action” www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...