What is really going on in this society that elected Donald Trump president a second time?   I wrote about three stubborn myths about Trump’s support – and why America has experienced a de-alignment rather than a rightward realignment.   My new piece for @zeit.de – and some thoughts in English:

The Kelleher-Scales-Parrott combination for the winning goal will forever be known as the "Cork-Dublin Expressway". #COYBIG #HUNIRL #speirgorm

Not that I believe really anything Nuzzi writes, given her record, but the far bigger scandal here is her claim that RFK Jr. was still actively using psychedelics last year, then became HHS secretary in an admin that is killing people for smuggling recreational drugs.

It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!

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Let's face it, this was bound to happen. It's the washing basket in the back of shot which ratchets up the authenticity... www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

The European Parliament has just adopted a position on Omnibus I, a deregulation proposal that seeks to significantly water down key EU sustainability laws that were recently adopted, including the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence directive. Good luck keeping up EU credibility at COP30…

The majority of people — politicians, business folk and public alike — fail to realise how violent a 2.6°C hotter world (over 4°C in Europe) will be. Displacements, forced migrations and armed conflicts will become the norm at every level, everywhere, including in currently peaceful regions. #COP30

#SpeirGorm 😆

A missile battery in west Dublin, a French warship in Dublin bay and gardai equipped with anti drone guns are among the security measures planned or under consideration during the upcoming EU presidency www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

news.sky.com/story/the-x-... This study focused exclusively on Britain, but he is doing the same in a number of countries, including Ireland. #SpeirGorm

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

In this incisive interview, Dr Madalitso Zililo Phiri dismantles the epistemic hegemony of Eurocentric International Relations theory and maps an emergent African IR scholarship. #AfricanIR #IRtheory youtu.be/SUi1oBH2hVE

F**k Rogan! F**k Tate! Where are all the articles on the PROGRESSIVE FEMALE INFLUENCERS???

It is not an exaggeration to say that we should be acting on the climate crisis on the same scale that we would a war. It will cause that kind of damage. Instead, we’re treating it as if it’s a Tidy Towns competition. #SpéirGorm #ClimateChange

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

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Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris is deliberately spreading disinformation on immigration

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Children should be able to restrict what content their parents see on YouTube

And all State departments and services. #speirgorm

Every Irish politician needs to get off this racist’s website *immediately*. There is no excuse. #speirgorm

Ged Nash also called on the Tánaiste Simon Harris to issue a statement on the arson attack, saying he is someone who is “never found wanting to comment on anything that might occur in our society” and has yet to comment on what’s happened in the town. (1/2)

Given the escalation in tactics by domestic far-right extremists in Ireland, when will the Irish state get serious about the Irish far-right's links with loyalist paramilitaries in the North & British far-right? Or the Irish far-right's international dark money & hostile state actor finances? [1/2]

When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.

Just a terrific thread by a very sharp civ-mil scholar. Thanks, @carriealee.bsky.social

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European responses to the Russia-Ukraine war - the whole special issue is now available here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/BPI/curr...

Transphobia harms all women, part 4,586

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

An old post from late in my Twitter days. I'm going to have to update this in some fashion for the post-generative AI context, but in that context I think something like it remains important -- perhaps is even more so. I do not think these are skills that should be outsourced, even if they could be

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

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While the migration debate remains a central driver of political polarisation, the broader challenge lies in how governments can tackle institutional distrust. https://ecfr.eu/article/europes-democratic-strain-is-a-crisis-of-governance-not-borders/

If I was looking for an internship in Paris, this is the one I'd absolutely apply for: (Disclaimer: I am not hiring for this role, just sharing. Please don't reach out with questions, I won't be helpful.)

⚠️ Netanyahu orders immediate “powerful strikes” on Gaza over alleged ceasefire agreement violations regarding the remains of a hostage. Coincidentally, Netanyahu’s corruption hearing scheduled for today has been truncated due to “security developments.”

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

@aoc.bsky.social from the top rope.

Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle... "On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.” Absolutely. Please get on with it.

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

My piece for RUSI on Ireland‘s defence dilemma

Theres some rather sick and twisted spoiled ballots being shared here. Thats Declan Ganley and Peter Tobins constituency and if the media don't make them own it they're failing in their jobs

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FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT. Thank you @eimermcauley.bsky.social

Far-right AfD lawmakers in Germany accused of using their positions to spy for Russia u.afp.com/Ssub

Those minutes until you find your child after the kindergarten is shelled. If you need to explain what hell is, this is it. The world's biggest child kidnapper, Putin, hit a kindergarten in Kharkiv. There are injured children. There is a fire in the kindergarten.

Others have noted that this doesn’t have anything to say about who rioters were. But neither does it have a single word to say about the terrified people inside City West who were the intended targets of the mob’s violence