Funny watching Paul Murphy and John Clendennen on RTÉ the other day. Clendennen keeps saying "we need a debate about migration" to which Murphy says "okay lets have a debate", and then Clendennen just keeps saying "we need to have a debate". Its very clear what Fine Gael are trying to do here!

In Ireland, we were relatively late switching to metric, so people my age regularly switch between the two, depending on what we’re talking about. I’d buy a kilo of sugar or a litre of milk, but I’m six feet tall.

New Yorker article very much worth reading: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

A distraught man came to Broadview searching for his wife of five years after she was taken by ICE at her court hearing. He wasn’t told anything, tracked her by her phone, and was left weeping in the parking lot.

10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.

“The scandal at the heart of this controversy is not a political one. It is a media scandal.” ~Justine McCarthy The Irish Times ☕️🥐

“The destruction of U.S.A.I.D. [caused] public man-made death. And the cruelty and lethality will only grow as the Administration expands its rollback of public-health advances to the homeland.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This photo encapsulates Trump better than the combined word count of every article ever written about him.

Optimus robots will just kinda follow criminals around and make sure they don't commit crimes again, so we can eliminate prisons. These are all things Elon Musk is literally saying.

jesus christ this is brutal starts at like 1:38 and i think i will make a transcript

Real talk: FF and FG have a victim complex you can see from space and its pathetic

he literally did the meme

Why is the Government playing chicken with Europe on climate? My latest for the Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.

This is the fearless journalism Britannia deserves.

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

Maybe I'm a big dumb dingus but I've never understood why, even for purely selfish reasons, none of these mega-billionaires spend the gigantic sums of money they spaff on space shit or AI on world hunger. Surely, even for an amoral cunt, being the guy who did that would trump building some rockets.

The Holy Land or Palestine, a 1759 map, Tobias Conrad Lotter.

Ah, jaysus. 💕

Yes… Ha Ha Ha… YES.

This particular point underlined by how Poppy Appeal stalls in Northern Ireland will sell badges like this which are gleefully held up by people who celebrate what people like Soldier F did here.

It shouldn't need to be explained to anyone, so soon after the Soldier F verdict, why Irish people might not want to be socially obliged to donate to a charity committed to uncritically commemorating all British wars, including Iraq and Northern Ireland, and financially supporting their veterans.

I see it's time for me to make the point again that the poppy is a fundraising campaign for the Royal British Legion, a specific, mundane entity that is not exempt from scrutiny and does not own the concept of remembrance. You can read its 2024 accounts here: storage.rblcdn.co.uk/sitefinity/d...

The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line. 1/

This person took this when they called the race

roses are red big laughs are hearty

Cuomo Announces Plan To Govern New York City As Independent https://theonion.com/cuomo-announces-plan-to-govern-new-york-city-as-independent/

Nobody is actually giving you a good answer so here's why she's wrong: the negative trendline against Israel in public opinion predates TikTok's emergence by nearly seven years. Also, the largest shift in opinion on Israel in a single demo since 2023 has been among Democrats aged 50yrs and older.

This is what entirely giving up looks like. #speirgorm

Still one of the bleakest quotes I have ever read, from one of George W Bush’s senior advisers.

Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.

April: If we don’t get Housing right in seven months, we’re screwed. November: Housing crisis here until 2040.

Wake up, Dick! I want you to see droves of New Yorkers voting in a Muslim socialist as mayor! Dick?

When the news calls you a “divisive figure” in 2025 that means you did some atrocities

Waking up to the news that a member of the Bush administration has died rather than see a Muslim elected Mayor of New York

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

I watched all of this play out over Twitter. The death threats and abuse that were sent to the 3 women writers of colour who flagged the issues, not by anonymous trolls, but by fellow (some *extremely* high profile) writers. Even as an observer, it has left me feeling sick and wary ever since.

Directing to you all to this piece from 2021 in advance of the BBC and the Times maliciously raking up and rewriting painful history this week www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...

Dick Cheney was a FATHER. He was a HUSBAND. What kind of monster would cackle ablut how he's being flayed alive by demons in a replica of an Abu Ghraib torture cell for all eternity while the angels sing and rejoice above just because he "violated the geneva convention" and "killed a million people"

If Democrats have to answer for their most fringe members then Republicans should have to answer for theirs. The most out-there Democrat is 1/50th as psychotic and harmful as the most out-there Republican.

I don't think it helps the debate about what Democrats should do to pick an obscure thing that some Democrat somewhere may have said -- like on teaching eighth grade algebra -- and then attribute it to Democrats generally.

Labour's Ged Nash again taking Simon Harris to task over not comment/posting on the Drogheda attack that left babies hospitalised. He says bringing half-baked memos to Cabinet sub-committee yesterday in the wake of Drogheda attack "lacks class". "Virtue-signalling", he says. (1/2)

"Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on" [Guardian US]

yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.

My son is on blockers legally from before the ban and we did everything they told us to do and now we are being threatened with social services if we don't allow them to "safely withdraw" medication. They admit that the impact will be "stark" for our kids but they are going to do it anyway.

Delighted to report that I have successfully deployed Fish In The Car against chuggers in Dorchester town centre.

Ireland has a long history of copying British policies after they have failed in Britain, and then doing the shocked Pikachu face when they fail here too I'd honestly rather not see how this one works out for us

Funny how when people talk about ‘reforming’ the ECHR, they always mean removing rights from people they don’t like.

That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988