NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

What's behind the 'feral and unhinged' reaction to Heated Rivalry? The lack of mainstream interest in popular romance explains why many were clearly surprised by the huge success of the hit TV show, writes @clionaog.bsky.social @ucc.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

We're launched! In my newsletter this week, I write about our new female-founded media collective @thenerve.news, the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊 broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve

Why is everyone so down on this show? I really enjoyed the first episode.

this new @carolecadwalla.bsky.social stuff is terrifying

Right. A bit more about what we’re up to. Would love feedback, do stick a comment at the end. And do please consider signing up to find out more www.thenerve.news open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

In a statement, AVROTROS said that it could no longer justify Israel's participation in Eurovision "given the ongoing and severe human suffering in Gaza" and the "serious erosion of press freedom". http://jrnl.ie/6814901

About time! about.rte.ie/2025/09/11/r...

We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. We see it as our responsibility to resist AI www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

No, Lord Falconer. Labour should stop pandering to this nonsense. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

23 years ago when me and my friend Paul were devising silly musical schemes, Paul's flatmate Mick was in the next room organising Belong To & starting an LGBTQI+ youth movement. Mick Barron is a legend. I interviewed him about his new book on LGBTQI+ youth activism www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

This beautiful illustration was drawn by Annie West to commemorate the Marriage Equality Referendum, 10 years ago this month. The All-Ireland vibe reminds we may well see a referendum soon on reunification. Another massive moment for Ireland. That got a little closer this week. quick 🧵

quick thread on why the political drive to leave the ECHR is gathering pace in england, as it infects Labour now too, pushing forward reunification in Ireland. 👆 @nialloconghaile.bsky.social @profjacob.bsky.social @edwinhayward.com @kathylove.bsky.social 📌

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City. "He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent." It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

3/Other religious leaders in Wilson’s orbit join in the video to explain to reporters that the man is the head of the household and the wife’s job is to submit. Then they delve into their belief that women shouldn’t be able to vote, with one pastor saying he supports repeal of the 19th Amendment.

New data centre secures planning permission in Dublin, absurdly arguing that being powered mainly by on-site gas turbines means it will “play a part in Ireland’s decarbonisation strategy” - it’s the most deceitful yet common argument thrown out there. www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/data...

Over 54,000 people in Gaza killed. The EU still rewards Israel with a 16B€/year trade deal. We can help suspend it — sign the petition now! share.myvoice-mychoice.org/s/mz99X6Cw

Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action

Day after day - scores murdered by these war criminals. Today a cafe bombed with over 30 dead mostly women and children. Yet still Western media and governments rush to give them cover.

No rioting in Donaghadee tonight? Interesting.

Do they want him shot dead in Kilmainham while tied to his chair?

JFC.

Profoundly depressing account of attitudes underlying the riots in Ballymena.

Looking forward to the 40th annual conference of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, which is taking place next week at the @tlrhub.bsky.social on the 5-6 June 2025. Brilliant keynote speakers and an excellent programme, for tickets see the link below. www.eventbrite.ie/e/eighteenth...

"... the US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity" www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

I’m glad to see this article but it’s after 24 hours of unchallenged corporate guff dominating the news cycle. Tony Blair is a tech lobbyist who is literally writing naive, venal & dangerous policy for Starmer’s government. Call it out. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

It's not Bake Off. It's a global far-right insurgency. To normalise Nigel Farage, is to normalise Donald Trump. We, the media, have to wise up fast. broligarchy.substack.com/p/springtime...

Vittorio Bufacchi: Kneecap should be commended rather than condemned www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Now emancipated from its paywall. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Please share! Fully funded PhD studentship in Digital Humanities and 19C travel writing at U of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

This looks fantastic!

‘Yes, we burned up the world’s resources and destroyed civilization, but for a wonderful time, so we were able to make Studio Ghibli memes, we had help writing emails and we had web searches that just made stuff up.’

How two Irish protesters are facing deportation from Germany over pro-Palestine demonstrations

“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration” My NEH grant has been terminated Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars You can’t say history isn’t relevant

Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 34 MILLION! 👏 LETS DO THIS!

This piece isn't only relevant to the UK, but everywhere, including Ireland. If the only political choices people see are just varying brands of establishment neo-liberalism that benefit purely the wealthy, the door is opened wide to first deep cynicism, then conspiracy theories, & finally fascism.

This week I wrote about vigilance, and how I'm less interested in litigating whether Garron Noone is a racist, than in whether what he said was true or not. It wasn't. And people are right to be alarmed that he said it, and to wonder why he did. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

The brilliant @sarahmaintains.bsky.social reading her beautiful socially engaged poetry. A fitting end to what has been an incredibly rich conference. And a vital reminder that everything we are doing now is against the backdrop of a genocide, wars of aggression, violent repression and social crises

Remarks by Taoiseach Micheál Martin at White House Shamrock Ceremony: "Irish labourers came to help build the new Republic, the beacon on the hill. They even built this beautiful White House." Runaway slave advert placed by slave-owning Irish immigrant and architect of the White House, James Hoban:

Excellent letter in the Irish Times reminding us that Irish builders did not build the White House as indicated by the Taoiseach this week. It was build by slaves including those owned by the Irish architect James Hoban.

Thread of ship's cats enjoying their tiny hammocks. This is the "Kitten mascot of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle at the time of the Suez Expedition, 1956" 🧵 www.facebook.com/iwm.north/ph...

Caption this. We’ll go first: “That’s not the gearstick”

The Fulbright program seems to be at risk. As a former Fulbright scholar that is devastating news. The US risks losing its knowledge base and contacts. woub.org/2025/03/07/f...