Worth thinking about it in these terms. You don't have to trust or like Dimon or JPMorgan Chase but if they're publicly saying a future DOJ won't look kindly on bribing Trump now, that's a good thing and gives other companies pause, too. www.ibtimes.co.uk/wall-street-...

This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU

I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

I'm not sure we should be offering emergency powers to the guys who caused the emergency #spéirgorm

The shift to EVs is happening—fast. Manufacturers can either embrace the long-term transition or chase short-term gains by clinging to petrol and diesel. China is choosing the long view. Many in Europe aren’t. The risk? Ending up with cars no one wants, lost market share, and shuttered factories.

Someone’s dressed in red & circling overhead… 🎁 👀 Ready to open door 4 and meet today’s festive visitor? #RSPBAdvent25

Tonight the Cold Moon rises 🌕❄️ Known too as the Long Night Moon or the Moon Before Yule, it lifts into the deepening dark as we head toward the year’s longest nights. It will be the last supermoon of 2025. Moonrise: 14:44* 📷 @andrewfusekpeters.bsky.social

The truth? The Irish public doesn't WANT their national rivers and lakes turned into stinking, dying, cesspools for profit by a particular commercial sector, that also happens to be very heavily subsidised by people's taxes. Yet that's what this government continues to push for.

It seems the birds aren't the only ones joining in the festivities this year… 🎄 A rather magnificent winter friend is waiting behind door 3. #RSPBAdvent25

🚨🚨🚨Senator Mark Kelly with a special announcement. 1/2

Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.” They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.

Finally opening Monday 8th December 🌳☕️🤗 Great expectations ✨ #PalmerstonPark #Rathmines @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social

It would be in direct contradiction to our climate laws & obligations, prolong car dependency, and be contrary to the 2022-2042 GDA Transport Strategy, not to mention the biodiversity impacts. Unfortunately, after decades of underinvestment in the city, another road is not going to fix our problems

‘This practice of socializing costs & privatizing profits must end.’

Experts have sounded the alarm on conditions in Irish prisons, warning that overcrowding due to record prisoner numbers is leading to “a crisis the likes of which we have never experienced”.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Tetra Pak just launched a heat-pump-based pasteurization system that can cut energy use by up to 77%. Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors. www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...

Two festive friends are hiding behind today's door... Who could they be? ✨ #RSPBAdvent25

Our Christmas countdown for nature lovers is back! 😍🎄 A little bit of wildlife magic every morning... Who's ready to open door 1 with us? #RSPBAdvent

Robins warming up for their festive shift... It's 1st December! #MondayMotivation 📷 Vicky Outen

Possible signs of progress at Killarney National Park? This is the Derrycunnihy area of the Park which is being targeted for deer culling and where there are signs of a positive response from the vegetation. Good news...

Anyway, here's my favorite passage in all of Tom Stoppard's work in what I think might be the greatest play written in the English language in the last century or so, not that everything has to be a competition, but one does like to make lists.

Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.

'all things are made of atoms — little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another' - the 'atomic fact' cited by R. Feynman as being the essence of science. www.ft.com/content/e196...

'Twas the season 1982 🎄 www.rte.ie/archives/exh...

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

A lot of people are pointing out that this guy is no prince among men and that JPMorgan Chase has done some stuff, and right—that’s what makes it so notable that this guy thinks there will be accountability for this stuff in the future. He believes this is the *strategic* choice. That’s revealing.

"And all of us who witnessed it felt it could only be a form of target practice that they were saying ‘Right, today, lads, we’re going to shoot them in the head. Tomorrow, we’ll shoot them in the chest. On Saturday night, we’ll shoot them in the testicles'."

“I’ve seen babies who’ve been shot. I’ve seen babies who’ve lost their limbs. I’ve seen teenage boys who’ve been deliberately shot by the Israeli military in specific parts of the body on specific days. “This clustering of injuries was so striking it cannot possibly be coincidence.”

“I remember baby Zaynab, was seven months old, who died when I was there because there was no there was no formula feed to give her. Days before Zaynab died American doctors had come to Gaza with formula feed. Israeli border guards removed every container.” www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

Beautiful writing. ‘The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march.’ benjamindreyer.substack.com/p/we-shed-as...

Sign at an outdoor classroom for a nature center: “Think outside. No box required.”

‘For the second time, a tiny minority of Dublin 6 [Ranelagh] residents are blocking the will of the vast majority’ 🤯🍌🍌🍌🤯 “Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything”. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

This is good & comes in at just under an hour, including intro & Q&As. Tl:dr - After we've checked our privilege, we should use it. #MoralRevolution www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

The “Who Would Win?” book series relies on the cheap thrill of violence to educate children about the natural world—“and that’s what makes it fascinating,” Peter Sagal writes.

The government's failure to progress DART South west is infuriating. It condemns tens of thousands of people to spending hours every day sitting in traffic.

'“It wd be prudent to inform the public worldwide of the association w/ ALS [Motor Neuron Disease],”.. & to recommend that False Morels (gyromitres) pose not only a short- but also possibly a long-term danger to health & life &, as such, they should never be consumed.”' www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

'“Russia has neither a vote nor a veto over who can be a member of NATO,” Rutte said' www.politico.eu/article/mark...

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Hello US government, Anybody home? #ArtOfTheDeal

That’s quite an own goal by Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien delaying the Finglas Luas by two years, and stalling on DART+ South West till 2030, on World Sustainable Transport Day, no less. Who needs Judicial Reviews when Fianna Fáil’s running the show?

Payback time for the road construction lobby. Here in Galway we have the likes of Noel Grealish TD literally demanding two bypasses. One for the city, which would be a steroid injection for more car-dependent sprawl, and another for the town of Claregalway, already bypassed by the M17.

Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging. Here’s my response:

Eye-opening presentation about demographic decline from Jesús Fernández-Villaverde. He thinks population will peak and begin to fall in 2055, much earlier than UN projections. This problem is solvable with policies that respect peoples autonomy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7_e...

'Underwater Forests Return to Life off the Coast of California... [harbouring] a complex ecosystem that’s teeming with life, cleaning the water and the atmosphere, and bringing new hope for the future' www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...