The Brazilian president said the deal, which will be signed tomorrow after 25 years of negotiations, as "very good, especially for the democratic world and for multilateralism" www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.

Back in the day I used to think the lads on Fox News were like pro wrestlers, just playing characters , but brother the Newsmax crew just seem to be plain stupid

*Bookmarks in Irish*

You know, I would rather enjoy seeing Neil Gorsuch’s face when someone tells him that because of him and Kavanaugh, the USA is disappearing Oglala at the place that Dakota were mass murdered by the USA. It would be interesting to see if it sparked some shred of conscience in him.

Your regular reminder that the United States of America is not actually a fully democracy by any serious definition of the word, because, among other things, multiple states engage in unconstitutional mass disenfranchisement of voters that render their elections illegitimate & undemocratic.

Pollster: 58% of Americans say Trump's second term has been a failure. A year into term number two, Trump's numbers look worse than any other president. Trump is even worse than George W. Bush after Katrina and a long period in the Iraq War. This is really, really bad.

Other 25 letters apparently unaffected

Dear God! This is what the Irish Times is holding out as the principal attraction in this weekend's edition. Is broadsheet journalism reduced to this? It might be The Sunday People.

Not to oversimplify, but: IF there is ambiguity around whether the mere generation of sexualised deepfakes is illegal, a one-line amendment to Coco’s Law would fix it. Stipulate for the avoidance of doubt that intimate images include artificial likenesses. Then Grok cannot transmit any such material

As the economy has plummeted, the rich in Turkey have in fact gotten much richer. Knight Frank's 2024 Wealth Report showed Turkey had the highest increase (9.7%) in "Ultra High-Net-Worth Individuals" (those worth $30M or more). Autocratic oligarchy offers countless opportunities.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

If they all have jobs and employers to inform, then how can they be paid protesters?????

Taoiseach: “We have issues with a lot of platforms at different times…” 🗣️ “But they’re not generating child sex abuse material… this is a different scale.” Taoiseach challenged on X and Grok, and admits they should be “pursued” in respect of generated intimate images of children.

Ramzan Kadyrov’s rule in the Russian republic of Chechnya rests on a deeply personal pact with the Kremlin — one that operates beyond formal law. If he dies, what follows after him will test that arrangement at a moment of unusual strain for Moscow. 🔗 politi.co/4pLrUyP

Some of the stories in here are absolutely chilling. One US citizen of Somali descent was just riding an elevator with ICE agents and then they detained him for almost half an hour in the freezing cold despite him showing agents his passport card. They only let him go once protestors showed up.

New Stepford Wives movie just dropped.

god forbid gay women have hobbies

The cheek of him, to suggest somehow his speeding and dangerous driving were more acceptable, as he wanted to attend an event related to families with special needs

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

X is refusing to come before the Media Committee, a move described as “disgraceful” by Chair Alan Kelly. labour.ie/news/2026/01...

Yeucchh but worth a read. #SpeirGorm

Just love how British politics has been obsessed about which fortunate party gets hold of a politician with a minus thirty approval rating and favourables of ten percent.

Maybe that explains why we had 4...(our approach more 'free range'...)

Proud out of his friendships.

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

Precedent

‘War for Greenland is boring, let’s talk about the Tories’ is genuinely the weirdest thing for a former ambassador *to Denmark* to say, apart from anything else

“Later, it emerged that Jenrick had been delayed because he had got lost in the corridors of Millbank Tower, getting stuck one floor below the press conference location after failing to find his way up the stairs.”

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Some challenges facing this proposal well outlined here, but original prop as mooted glossed over fact that UA not in posn to fully apply SM rules, regardless of some progress under EU agreement. If UA to become EU Member this decade, it has to be new type of membership approved by unanimity of MSs

One of the more interesting/disturbing aspects of boomer parents is their belief that nothing bad happened to their children when they were just let roam free and it’s only now there are “more weirdos”. And of course violence being the solution to problems

She then performed CPR on her baby.

Oh no did the ICE men get hurt in the feewings???

Faced with confrontations like this, journalists absolutely reframe and reshape their questions to avoid conflict — and to get better clips. In some contexts, that makes sense. In the current climate, journalists need to get *more* aggressive. More pointed questions. Force them to flail.

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

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Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farage’s team has got round to deleting this post. It’s still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.

Jenrick saying he's "put aside personal ambition" too join Reform is the single most shameless statement I've ever heard. If he "put aside personal ambition" he'd disappear. That's all there is.

Jenrick apparently "left his resignation speech printed out and hanging around" and "someone got hold of it". He's got the brains of a 4 year old child - and that kid will be glad to have got rid of them.

More information from the guy whose car had smoke grenades and other stuff thrown in it. The baby's heart stopped and EMS was called to the scene. Yeah, ICE may have almost killed a 6 month old baby yesterday

why would it be the Europeans triggering WWIII when the US would be the ones invading Greenland this is akin to saying Poland triggered WWII because it did not surrender the moment the Germans fired on the Westerplatte

President Emmanuel Macron: “Where Ukraine was eminently dependent on American intelligence capabilities by an overwhelming majority a year ago, today two-thirds are provided by France. Two-thirds.”

Imagine the damage these people could do if they were actually competent

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