The Phoenix have a piece out on Eoin Lenihan.

I've been working on this piece for a few months, and I won't lie it's hurt to go from hearing the suffering inflicted by this transphobic theocracy to seeing progressives sing its praises. The bishops' ban is the most extensive trans healthcare ban in the country. It deserves way more attention.

My next Big Interview for @wired.com is out, and the timing couldn’t be better: In the days before Arm was set to launch its own chip (!) I had the chance to grill Arm CEO Rene Haas on what this CPU means for the chip market, and for the future of Arm www.wired.com/story/arms-c...

We have to (have to!) break this "chat shit for money" version of the internet.

Q: The president just said on Truth Social it would be a 'big mistake' for UK to hold over control of Diego Garcia, but the State Dept said the US supports that handover LEAVITT: The post should be taken as administration policy. When you see it on TS, you know it's directly from President Trump.

Karoline Leavitt took questions for more than a half hour today and not a single one of them was about Trump's role in the ongoing Epstein coverup

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

She did not say what, amongst others, the French and German Foreign Ministers are claiming she said. The video they watched is obviously manipulated,they should have noticed. She did say that a system that enables genocide is the enemy of all humanity. That's because it is youtu.be/iHChlXErbGs?...

Rather than banishing the spectres of deindustrialisation, stagnant wages and rising midlife morbidity, it creates new spectacles of deportation and extrajudicial killings, and prospective annexations of oil wealth and ice fields.. www.equator.org/articles/hom...

A colonialist operation, says Cardinal Pizzaballa www.ncronline.org/news/us-led-...

Irish Aviation Authority are planning to restrict air space in the city to facilitate a single takeaway-food company. Everyone else will lose access to the skies they have now, including photographers, tradespeople, volunteers. Think this is unfair? Have your say today: www.iaa.ie/media/2026/0...

🔴 Tony Blair Institute privately pressed a top EU official working on rebuilding of Gaza to work with Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. Fair to say Democracy for Sale isn’t sleeping at the moment! New story up w/ Lighthouse Reports and Follow the Money democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...

Crucial - and generally totally overlooked part of this story - is *what* the journalists that Labour Together smeared were reporting on How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise That’s why they were targeted

BREAKING: Netherlands to ban 'addictive, polarising & anti-democratic algorithms' Govt wants 'enforceable EU minimum age of 15 for social media with privacy-friendly age verification as long as social media are not sufficiently secure.' #coalitieakkoord www.kabinetsformatie2025.nl/documenten/2...

A decent piece on far right links in Ireland with Australian neo nazis

Check it out. An Clogán website is now live.

A deep dive on two key figures in the Irish far right. hopeandcourage.ie/plastic-pay-...

To understand Steen's demographic, you have to realize there are people who think a working-class blue-haired barista on minimum wage is the Establishment, while upper-middle-class professional Catholics of multi-generational wealth are the oppressed disenfranchised politically homeless.

Solid journalism

Sídhe is the most amazingly talented linocut print maker I've seen in Ireland. Check them out www.instagram.com/possoms8?igs...

We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order". And so it begins.

This speaker at yesterdays Limerick anti-migrant demo asked the assembled crowd if they were 'proud of the people they descended from.' The demo was literally called by Gerard McNamara, in a green cap beside him. McNamara bludgeoned his own father to death. A true patriot of Ireland

The National Party, Blighe and Steenson marched in Cork at the weekend under a 'WWG1WGA' banner. Blighe literally led people around the city with a tricolour scrawled with the imported US QAnon brain-addled conspiracy theory. These PaYtri0Ts are beyond embarrassment.

Two LA photojournalists have been shot with tear gas canisters by DHS HSI, including @acatwithnews.bsky.social who was directly targeted by HSI and struck in the head. Sean is en route to the ER with obvious facial injuries. He was conscious and talking when he left the scene.

Warning From the shithole But Good work from @soundmigration.bsky.social x.com/soundmigrati...

This is class

Need to be extremely clear that the technical justifications offered in this piece are fucking jibberish. You do not make the WiFi better by adding more APs from another network that is effectively unmanaged in the same spectrum.

From Hope and Courage Collective 'In moments like this, you can take the bait and react – or you can take a moment and respond, strategically. Here’s some guidance on what that can look like in moments like these. ❤️'

UPDATE ON MY LATEST PODCAST: Oregon’s Dept of Justice agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to the man wrongly convicted of Michael Francke’s murder—he served 29 years in prison before his release. This baffling case remains unsolved. Who do YOU think was the killer? Listen on ANY pod platform. 🎧

Preliminary thoughts: astonishment. The judge told the gov't to be prepared to answer four specific questions. Gov't showed up and refused.

The US Director of National Intelligence is retweeting a far-right conspiracy theorist based in Malaysia.

The Trump regime invited a washed up organized crime linked rapist to give a speech about Ireland on St Paddy’s day because of course they did.

On Lawfare Daily, @kevintfrazier.bsky.social spoke to @alexreevegivens.bsky.social, Courtney Lang, and Nema Milaninia about the Paris AI Action Summit, whether it marks a formal pivot away from AI safety to AI security and what an embrace of AI security means for AI governance.

Some boy @johnnyryan.bsky.social. class stuff

We will start seeing people fleeing the US seeking international protection before Trump's presidency ends.

This is great and you should read it:

2/2 #Project2025 training video: “It’s probably better to walk down the hall, buttonhole a guy ...as opposed to sending him an email and creating a thread that Accountable.US or one of those other groups is going to come back and seek" @propublica.org @andykroll.bsky.social @nicksurgey.bsky.social

Elon Musk has slashed USAID workforce from 10,000 to 300 in the space of days... The decimation leaves just 12 people in the agency’s Africa bureau, @knibbs.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

“…you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”

If you’ve been an involved participant whom they’ve found useful (which I don’t know if Coristine was) and then try to leave, groups like this will threaten to do things like firebomb your home, hire a person to rape a woman you love, or put a hit out on you. These connections compromise Coristine.

🚨 Coristine was involved with “The Com” (likely where he came to law enforcement attention, as reported by Bloomberg upthread): krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen... “The Com” is a CYBERCRIME network with connections to child sexual exploitation: cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-... h/t @dell.bsky.social

Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump says he’s fired the chairman of the Kennedy Center and named himself chairman.