45% of Republicans think he is "on track to be one of the best presidents in U.S. history". Is it actually raining Kool-Aid in that misfortunate country?

Renowned Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci was born on this day in 1891. “The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.”

The President of Asshatistan is known for his great memory

Well worth a read for its whistle-stop tour of the 20th century: www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...

Well worth a read for its whistle-stop tour of the 20th century: www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

I'm a bit surprised that the question of "whether cats use the w.c." was a live one for the British Sex Society. But the past is a foreign country, and people go around exclaiming "Penis"

Holding up the Panopticon as a *goal* is fucking terrifying and completely unhinged. My mouth fell open reading that

“As America prepares to commemorate its 250th anniversary, the republic is flirting with its own funeral.” My column. www.ft.com/content/dede...

Israeli authorities begin demolition at Jerusalem UNRWA compound amid crackdown

So many not-at-all nutty reasons to seize Greenland! And also people have stopped talking about the Epstein files.

Mental health professionals with a large net seen lurking near the White House

Vlad the Impaler nominated to the Board of Peace for Gaza

Nope

It’s the ass that won’t quit

It’s the ass that won’t quit

La violence perpétrée contre des civils palestiniens a augmenté d’environ 25 % en 2025, selon des chiffres de l’armée israélienne relayés par Haaretz. Dans la vallée du Jourdain, le campement de Ras Ein al-Auja a déjà perdu un quart de ses habitants en une semaine.

Something beautiful for the weekend! ✨ A rare rock crystal tool made by Neanderthals between 200,000 - 40,000 years ago. From a Mousterian level at the Merveilles rockshelter, Sergeac, Dordogne, France. 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me #Archaeology

The leg -standing articles have spread to parts Francophone. Nowhere is safe

An Italian version of The Traitors, but featuring a group of scheming translators

Four Oglala Lakota men detained by ICE in Minneapolis have been located, with one released and three still held at Fort Snelling, prompting leaders to demand accountability, information and an immediate end to the detention of tribal citizens.

Siamese Cat — Lee Sangsoo Resin sculpture www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/05/lee-...

Perhaps some of the Golden Globes winners would be willing to share their awards with Tr*mp to forestall his next tantrum-driven invasion/kidnapping.

Untitled [school girls in a line] Photo by Al Vandenberg, London, ca. 1974. Ref E.434-2010, V & A Museum.

A recent Israeli decision to bar Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups means international staff and aid can no longer enter Gaza or the West Bank. Local staff must rely on dwindling supplies and no international expertise.

Curious to relate, this was not in Ireland

“there’s too many boxes in here you need to tidy them up” say no more

Cork city centre. One dolphin of five.

"Monopoly, did someone say monopoly?"

Intelligent dogs learn new words by overhearing conversations, study finds: New research from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Hungary suggests that exceptionally intelligent dogs, identified as "gifted word learners," can acquire new toy names by simply overhearing… https://ranked.news/129479?u=b

The US is a rogue state that can't be trusted

You can't fool all the people all the time. Mostly.

Now THIS is an extremely worthy boycott target. Punishing a hotel for not housing the Gestapo.

No matter what you’re currently doing you should stop and (try to) read this. A contender for the worst-written article I’ve ever seen and also just barking mad! Does the Irish Mirror have no sub-editors?! #speirgorm (and hat-tip to @apiln.bsky.social)

Ireland’s EU presidency will be expensive, no doubt, but think of the opportunities it will offer us for kidnapping foreign heads of state! It will pay for itself.

I love the "may". If the US justice system can swallow this "self-defence" rubbish, it can swallow anything. Something for US citizens to be concerned about, maybe even newspaper owners like Jeff.

It’s perfectly clear that there is none. This is just robber-baron thuggery

i'm sorry, i know it'll be inconvenient, but it's probably time for everyone else to enforce a massive blockade of this country, hopefully just for a bit; again, sorry to impose

You'd think he'd have more respect for a fellow election-stealer

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Genuinely wonder how European and Irish leaders do respond to this. How are Denmark, Greenland or indeed the people of Ukraine and Taiwan feeling too?

I see the American dictator has kidnapped the Venezuelan dictator

I've gone blind with preemptive rage at the absolute void of consequences the world, our government included, will impose on the bloodthirsty yanks for kidnapping the leader of another country

“Let’s not call it deregistration, let’s call it a death sentence  —  that is exactly what it would be for the Palestinian people,” says @sana.msf.ca, MSF Executive Director, as Israel moves to bar nearly 40 aid groups under new registration rules. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...

Of all the famous figures on Paul McCartney's "Band on the Run" album cover, only boxer John Conteh and musician Paul McCartney himself are still alive. All the others have sadly passed away now. #PaulMcCartney #Bandontherun

Doonbeg

Ah, 28 December: 146th anniversary of the Tay Bridge disaster, which tragically took the lives of 59 people – and rather more happily gave the world ‘Sir’ William Topaz McGonagall’s most famous work

My Xmas present to you all. The book cover that shows the most mistaken assumptions about the content of all time, I believe.

The greatest trick that Santa ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist