As we all know, when you meet someone at a bar they are legally obliged to tell you the truth about their entire life.

Be slave to America's regional order to the displeasure of the overwhelming majority of your citizenry, have no say anyway

EXCLUSIVE: A well placed source close to government has told an anonymous source, who has access to cabinet, that an unnamed official is very happy to go on the record about the hurty feelings caused by President Connolly, on the condition of anonymity. look mammy, I did a journalism

Objectively correct today, and it was true at the turn of the century. If believed people in e.g. Lebanon, Syria or Iraq were real people whose lives matter, we would’ve stopped doing this stuff decades ago.

Politics isn't Bluesky's thing but Ursula von der Leyen has just given a big foreign policy speech to EU ambassadors condoning the US/Israeli war on Iran, announcing that international law and multilateralism are a hindrance to EU interests and basically recasting the EU as a security project.

It seems many of the Iranian emigres living in the West who have done paid work for the US State Department or Israel with the expectation of being appointed Minister for Revenge and Grift in mini-Iran by the last Shah's idiot son have a new found distaste for dynastic politics.

The Speaker of the Knesset makes it clear that Israeli bloodlust has not subsided x.com/amirohana/st...

Bachelor Senator Lindsey Graham tries to bully gulf states to join the war on Iran

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out. I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

We were sent a letter in December requesting information within 28 days of the date on the letterhead, otherwise the citizenship application would be deemed abandoned. The date on the letter was 31 days prior to the letters arrival. They haven't responded to any of our emails in the 3 months since.

Day after fucking day. This is the price Palestinians pay for he Western indulgence of Zionist mania for sixty years. We turned a blind eye for decades to the weekly or daily killing of Palestinian children and now it's normalized. And they will not stop without pressure and punishment.

It would be good if Americans stopped using the phrase "boots on the ground" (which is obscurantist neocon stratcomm) and started using more descriptive language like "invading Iran" or "a land invasion of Iran".

Dictator brain!

fuck this world

I feel the Jewish Chronicle's pain. My "Nude with ruined food" self portrait sequence has also been rejected by every major art gallery.

It's honestly shocking, if not really surprising anymore, how disconnected these weirdos are from basic understanding of how things work.

Objective, neutral coverage from Britain's most liberal newspaper.

Do we think the Guardian would refer to Israeli bunkers ("air raid shelters") as "underground lairs"?

We're in the "putting-IPOs-on-hold" part now. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/med...

“It is naive to think that practising blind and servile obedience is a form of leadership. We will not be complicit in something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values ​​and interests, simply out of fear of reprisals from someone.”

“It is naive to think that practising blind and servile obedience is a form of leadership. We will not be complicit in something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values ​​and interests, simply out of fear of reprisals from someone.” - PM Pedro Sánchez 🇪🇸🇺🇳

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On the Minab school massacre it's depressing to see people once again fall for the story that mass murdering civilians from the air might be a kind of technical glitch. It's an attempt to put a legal firewall between the US/Israeli general staff and the war crimes they've been instructed to commit.

The reason the category of settler colonialism is so vital to the Palestine/Israel discussion is that you simply cannot understand contemporary Israeli policies without it, e.g. in West Bank. Otherwise people resort to talking about the problem as one of "fanatics" - and that's just unconvincing. 1/

It's Iran, Ansar Allah and Hezbollah versus the Axis of Epstein, you heard it here first.

My country is being destroyed in front of my eyes by the West’s favourite genocidal state and I’m supposed to act as though these sociopaths want to have peace. There can be no peace in the fucking Middle East and I promise you that if Israel is not stopped the horrors will reach the West

Ah well nevertheless

Tenants of 36 households in Co #Wexford were told their landlord was delivering eviction notices because of the Govt’s new rental rules, according to a leaked video. Residents heard the landlord would follow “radio shows and political debate” before making a “final decision” on their housing.

every time an irish person moves to england, the gods flip a coin

What's so weird about the Telegraph's framing here is "He fundamentally doesn't like Trump, and he doesn't like this Iran thing" are probably opinions held by a supermajority of British voters.

Riley’s Law is a theory the same way gravity is

Emmanuel Macron has let the US base the air refueling tankers expelled from Spain because of the war on Iran in France. This isn't just because he supports US/Israeli war goals but because Macron understands Spain's Sánchez as presenting a dangerous example of successful (soft) left wing leadership.

Imagine that, Iran retaliating for the Gulf despotisms supporting the US war on Iran and basing US troops! (There's no coverage to speak of about the European Commission/EEAS deciding, without consulting the Council of Ministers, that it will propagandize for the US/Israeli war on Iran.

Firefighter/Paramedics from Tara Street assisted with the delivery of a baby boy on Monday morning. #DidYouKnow our maternity kits on our ambulance now come with a special Dublin Fire Brigade hat for newborns.

It occurs to me that if the government did force UK writers to hand over their work to the big AI companies, that would now among other things mean contributing to the development of US advanced weapon systems.

Sánchez: We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply because of the fear of reprisals from some. We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional and I would also say moral strength of our country

The sheer cravenness of Micheál Martin's government is hard to credit. The worthless Macron has admitted the US war was illegal and our Taoiseach is still out there doing every thing he can to avoid admitting that the US is out of control and massacring civilians.

Absolutely wild media environment. Now it seems every pundit accepts the riots in January in Iran were a CIA operation and they're about to mount another one.

"Unlike his predecessors, Friedrich Merz projects certainty, even when he’s wrong." The Guardian approves of certainty more that being right, not to mind moral. And he is a "trained lawyer". Another one. Is the Guardian aware of untrained lawyers trading out there? I think we should be told.

When Catherine Connolly said the US was a volatile imperial power, the people kicking up most fuss weren't the people who didn't believe her. They were the people who know she's right and don't want to piss off the volatile ass we're kissing in the name of foreign direct investment #spéirgorm

In the Great Unlikability Race, Simon Harris sits back and waits to see Kier Starmer top that one.

Who wants this? Who?

Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.

I've been thinking about the argument about why the US (and its allies) appear to put Israeli interests (as Israelis perceive them) ahead of both national interests, morality and preserving the post WW2 system of international law and international humanitarian law, because it's obviously happening.

Up in the moneysphere, things look calm, profitable, stately and stable. Down below, where we live, it’s a scrabbling mess. Nothing actually working. But always changing. Not for the better, just for the sake of it. It’s like being colonised by an alien species who breathe our discomfort.

The amount of events and festivals around the country using genAI for their promotional images is slightly maddening. All about supporting local, except their local artists.

This is now my hottest linkedin post ever 😐😐😐

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu on 21 November 2024 and it has made no difference to how Netanyahu is covered in the press. We’re all supposed to pretend not to know that he is accused of deliberately starving civilians.