Cantaba, todavía canta ... elpais.com/america-colo...

1) Pedro Sánchez is now clearly the preeminent figure of the international, anti-Trumpian centre-left, along with Lula a rare bridge between both pragmatic/radical lefts and the global north/south. He is a generational political talent.

Sadly Dolores Keane has passed away. DEP. Few Irish songs as moving as her version of May Morning Dew. youtu.be/KStR6MmcBBU?...

www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025... Fintan O'Toole on Martin Parr

Hugo Padeletti - Danza del derviche buff.ly/oKPIdo5 El salto de la rana entre los yuyos de la zanja, el sol de la mañana sobre los granos de la espiga, la sombra del hinojo sobre las grietas de la tapia,

Ireland through the eyes of the wonderful Martin Parr, who very sadly has passed away.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.ie

The revelation of their plan this week shocked European leaders, who are now paying almost all of the military costs of the war, as well as the Ukrainians, who were not sure whether to take this latest plan seriously until they were told to agree to it by Thanksgiving or lose all further US support.

Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.” Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.

International Criminal Court judge, "sanctioned" by the USA for doing his job, blocked from using internet services worldwide, credit cards, banking... And nobody cares...

The word "peace" shouldn't be used for that sham. Peace is a positive word but this has nothing to do with real peace. The plan is about Ukraine's submission and an opportunity for Russia to continue the war on its own terms, and then continue it against the rest of Europe. No peace.

Find her here substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

Lovely article by John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social Humanity has achieved something truly incredible and almost utopian in New York: millions of very different types of people living peaceably—and sometimes even amicably—side by side open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

Vai em paz, Lô Borges youtu.be/l8ETbYy83Vc?...

Such a moving article by Anne Enright, mourning her mother and clearing out her house. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Dear RoI folks. Please, go vote today. Do it for us, who aren't allowed to, despite birth in the island and a passport just like yours.

A comment from Spain, where fascism is deeply entrenched: I suppose everyone in Ireland realises that these two events are two sides of the same thing #aras #dublinriots (Steen as Burke from waterfordwhispersnews)

Wonderfully entertaining portrait of Patrick Modiano as a young songwriter harpers.org/archive/2017...

DEP Hermeto Pascoal. youtu.be/lZbfNtDCHdM?...

🚨The European Commission want to roll back vital environmental protections under the Trojan Horse of “simplification” We have just 10 days to tell them #HandsOFFNature Their “Red Tape” is our nature, our home, our right! 📢 Speak up now using our tool environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...

Palantir CEO laughs about profiting from killing Palestinians using AI. He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'. But there is only one terrorist here, and Palantir are war criminals.

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

Lo que está pasando ahora ya lo vivimos en Galicia antes, el resultado, 17 años de gobiernos del PP.

I read these two poems on this @madridlitmag.bsky.social podcast where Ellen Merryweather asks me about my chapbook Cacti & other poems @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/madr...

Que le denieguen un trámite a un trabajador porque no sabe leer ni escribir es clasismo repugnante y miserable. Y sí, tener la nacionalidad del país donde uno vive no debería ser más que un trámite. noticiastrabajo.huffingtonpost.es/sociedad/un-...

Our latest podcast is up now on Spotify. Ellie is chatting with Irish poet @jermcurtin.bsky.social who also reads from his work. #spotify #poetryreading #poetry #podcast #poetrypodcast open.spotify.com/episode/6te4...

We've lost the ability to articulate a structural critique of capitalism. We've stopped talking about the material roots of injustice, about inequalities that are produced not by cultural difference but by position in social relations of production @leaypi.bsky.social voxeurop.eu/en/lea-ypi-m...

Spanish ultra-Catholic press suggesting it might be time for a military coup in Spain. bsky.app/profile/econ...

An interview from @robmclennan.bsky.social's blog. I give some background to my chapbook Cacti & other poems, published by Southword editions @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/robm... Grateful to Rob for this.

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jerm Curtin / @jermcurtin.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/12-o...

Protecting sprat means saving a whole ecosystem, from whales and dolphins to local businesses bsky.app/profile/save... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Goodbye to him. From ‘The Hay-Carrier’: “Have you ever saved hay in Mayo in the rain? Have you ever made hay in Mayo in the sun? Have you ever carried above your head a haycock on a pitchfork? . . . For the great gate of night stands painted red— And all of heaven lies waiting to be fed.”

Duncan's work is so vast and so important everyone will have their own favourite. This is mine.

O Día das Letras Galegas de 2025 é unha fermosa homenaxe ao canto e a lírica popular. Este ano adícase ás mulleres cantareiras, recoñécese a quen mantivo a tradición desde as lareiras da cociña e o traballo no campo. A poesía oral crece pola revolución das invisibles. Por máis cantareiras! 🩵

Two lovely books by @roguestrands.bsky.social English, living and working post-Brexit in Spain, Matthew distils the complexity of his situation in spare, deeply-felt, attractive poems. Well worth reading.

Shame, shame, *shame* on you, voting to kill Mac Tire (Son of the Land): the wolf, @fiannafailparty.bsky.social and @finegael.bsky.social www.thejournal.ie/wolves-vote-...

Cats and flowers.

Wrote about how Musk's illegal shuttering of USAID is likely to cause 25 million deaths over 15 years. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-...

The Pogues, Fontaines DC, @lankumdublin.bsky.social, Christy Moore, Damien Dempsey and Thin Lizzy, have defended @kneecapceol.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

Today's commute read is this lovely collection by @jermcurtin.bsky.social, Cacti & other poems. Find more of his work here: www.iambapoet.com/wave/14-jerm... (He happens to be my brother-in-law's brother, and these poems give me a sense of being in places I dream of)

Thirteen ways of looking at Tsvetaeva I came across these wonderful versions in an old Poetry Review (Autumn 1993) published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tsvetaeva's birth. @poetrysociety.bsky.social Wendy Cope

Trump cannot be allowed to hold the hidden levers of Europe’s internal political debate. Europeans must have the freedom to communicate with one another without foreign censorship and interference. This crisis is at least as urgent as rearmament. Johnny Ryan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The right has, in recent years, discovered the political potency of the grief that lingers long after the death of the old working class. After shutting down the coal mines, it is mining the pain of their loss. The political seam is rich and deep. Fintan O'Toole. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Why are European authorities turning the clock back on animal rights? So sad climatica.coop/eslovaquia-a... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lo del lobo es el mayor trágala anticientífico y atrasista de la historia del Congreso de los Diputados. Los cejijuntos y los señoritos haciendo política antiambiental. La naturaleza, como galería de tiro de pijos y analfabetos. Y los diputados, gateando como Paco y Azarías.

4) If Ukraine keeps to the deal--Russia gets important relief and a significant advantage it did not have. 5) Only European states can help Ukraine now--but they need to be active and fast.