Oh the irony of Michéal Martin accusing something else of having "not much substance".

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

Prince Andrew to join Harvard's Institute of Politics.

Some good news. The rain will get milder for a few days from tomorrow Friday 😆

Statement from the family of Virginia Giuffre: "At last. Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty. On behalf of our sister, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, we extend our gratitude to the UK’s Thames Valley Police for their investigation…

We want correspondents not courtiers.

Do you think he can sweat now??

I'd say this will be me with the news for the foreseeable...!👀

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

Houseguest Just Going To Lie There Until Rest Of House Wakes Up https://theonion.com/houseguest-just-going-to-lie-there-until-rest-of-house-1819571350/

Bloody hell, Barry Gardner

Very best wishes to Rodney, less so to the others.

Roses are red Violets are blue A regular verb in the past tense Gets a séimhiú.

The people of Free Derry continuing to influence those standing up in the face of authoritarian state brutality.

The Bannon/Farage/Johnson plot to topple May looks pretty damning by November 2018, but starts that summer when Johnson resigns. 15 July Bannon goes on Farage’s LBC show to lambast May. Epstein texts: “Good work on LBC”. Next day he tells Epstein he’s in “London with Boris”

Brilliant column

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

My Mum's 8th anniversary today, & yes it was the ultimate Irish mother power move to die on St Valentine's Day thus ensuring her children would think about her before romance! ##speirgorm ##speirghorm

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

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Sartre needn't have written a whole play, this screenshot would have been sufficient. #NoExit

When your name is all over the Epstein files, but you don’t want your reputation tarnished by being associated with Glinner

“He got Me Tooed” “He got Epsteined” amazing that people have re-invented the police passive for rapists.

The community note is the icing on the cake.

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

How many participation trophies does one guy need?

The Queen of Crisps! #Tayto

Director of Game Over Israel, Ashish Prashar joined me to discuss why UEFA must suspend Israel from International Football and why Ireland needs to follow through on its statements about the ongoing Genocide and not fulfill the upcoming fixture. Out now: www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

Up Drogheda ! sinnfein.ie/news/ireland...

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

White supremacists from around the world met in February to plan whites-only enclaves, expand recruitment, and advance mass “remigration.” Hosted by Arkansas-based Return to the Land, the summit convened neo-Nazi leaders invoking the “Great Replacement” and coordinating across borders. Read more:

I'm going to assume that any creator on Kickstarter or any other crowdfunding campaign would immediately recognize this as a scam, but just in case, THIS IS A SCAM.

Me & @judesherry.bsky.social are overwhelmed by response to this award winning Poetry-Film featuring #DerelictIreland campaign & our ffud streetart Here's closing sequence It's being screened in various festivals across Ireland, UK & Europe Poem: Jennifer Horgan Film: Philip Denvir #SpeirGorm

Golden TV

“Our new Stephen video generator is an easy, user-friendly text-to-video model that can create clips up to two minutes long and will easily trick the commander-in-chief into believing Mexico has deployed nuclear weapons on the U.S. border,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

"The political ineptitude of the magnates of industry and finance was no less than that of the generals and led to the mistaken belief that if they coughed up large enough sums for Hitler he would be beholden to them." Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)

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At the time, Kristi Noem called this ”an attempted murder of federal law enforcement.” And now? Charges dropped. New evidence is “materially inconsistent with the allegations.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

I once had an Amazon seller tell me that they would not refund the item, because I told them it was stolen and I'd seen it on my camera doorbell (Eufy home-hosted, for the record. They said if I wanted one I needed to prove that I'd reported the crime to police

Leading Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane was shot 14 times and killed by loyalist paramilitaries (UFF/UDA) on this day in 1989, in front of his wife and children. A high-profile human rights lawyer, his murder highlighted collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and British security forces.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Major update: Trump mentioned in the “unredacted” Epstein Files more than one million times. FBI scrubbed files before giving them to the DOJ, so many “unredacted” files remain redacted. Khanna reads the names of six men on the House floor Head of Ohio State gynecology received money from Epstein

Gone by the weekend

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists. That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

TIL what DARVO means, a helpful term for this hearing: "An acronym for 'Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender,' a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, such as abusers or sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior."