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Given the wild celebrations from the Evertonians when Liverpool went seven points clear at the top of the League, you guys must be absolutely cock-a-hoop that the gap is now 13. @colmkavanagh.bsky.social

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These are threats, not cases (yet 🤞). But the issue is it is too easy to bring a case and too expensive to defend it, even if we've done nothing wrong. Every credible threat, no matter how SLAPP-y, leaves us to choose: are we ready to risk Dublin Inquirer dying on this hill? Sometimes we are.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Remember when the Very Serious People were saying that Marco Rubio would curb the worst excesses?

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The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

There is still something to be said for the old journalism when you see the lengths to which Bezos and friends will go to destroy it.

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Yes, Trump and Musk are engaged in flagrant self-dealing. But it's no worse than what Joe Biden was accused of doing but didn't actually do.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

White House access is worthless. Leave it to the propagandists. Time to return the press passes and go report on real world impact.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

What she said.

submitted 3 days ago • 1643 comments

... 'to see if the gold is there'.

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I've said, for a long time, that RU's 2016 operation was the most successful intelligence operation in recent history. I think people may finally start agreeing with me...

submitted 4 days ago • 205 comments

We have reached that point where pundits say that Arsenal need Liverpool to lose four matches, apparently unaware that you can also drop points if you only get a draw.

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I have just, seriously, heard Nick Robinson on Radio 4 ask if Germany can seriously call itself a democracy if the CDU/CSU continue to refuse to include the AFD from consideration for power. What. The. Actual.... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... At around 8:23:00 am

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I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

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BREAKING: Pro-democracy forces WIN German national elections Disappointingly weak show by neo-Nazi AfD party supported by Elon Musk, JD Vance, and the Kremlin — they’ll likely again be SHUT OUT of the government Wonderful news for Europe — and critical for supporting Ukraine

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CNN and the New York Times are sending their "heavy hitters" to White House press conferences. This is meant to convey their seriousness in "asking the hard questions", but in fact it just validates these post-truth shitshows. If they were were doing it right, they'd be sending the interns.

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Great piece of writing.

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I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 7 days ago • 108 comments

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

submitted 8 days ago • 1040 comments

The KLF only burned £1M

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 8 days ago • 1494 comments

Anytime those famous “checks and balances” want to kick in, I’m all here for them

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Good, but it's not "left-leaning" journalism. Just journalism.

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It is fascinating to think that for about eight years, there have been Very Serious People who have been asked to speak on radio programmes and the like, who have been working on the basis that Donald Trump is something other than a collaborator with Putin.

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Mediahuis Ireland has sued Elon Musk’s X over the proliferation of scam advertisements designed to look like genuine news articles on the social media platform www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

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Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

submitted 10 days ago • 1890 comments

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This idea that wokeness ended up giving us fascism has confirmed what most of us have long suspected -- that Joel Grey and his decadent friends in "Cabaret" were responsible for Hitler.

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A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.

submitted 11 days ago • 233 comments

Great 3 points against what my friend Paul Cleary called our "lupine adversaries".

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Betting giants spared regulatory action after secret deals with watchdog

submitted 13 days ago • 34 comments

In fairness, I'm supporting the Everton here, after they were sporting enough to celebrate wildly when their fiercest rivals went seven points clear at the top of the league.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

It’s very interesting how media outlets like 404 and Wired who do tech and not DC cocktail party circuit slop have covered the Musk angle best because their guiding light isn’t getting a ticket to next weeks book release party in Georgetown

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

If George Soros held an Oval Office press conference explaining his plans for the Biden administration and then the State Department awarded a nine figure contract to the Open Society Foundations then Washington D.C. would’ve consisted of mostly ash and blood within 72 hours.

submitted 16 days ago • 51 comments

Hopefully Im wrong but Patrick o Donovan gives off extremely “I hate the arts” vibes

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If you've seen my film Barbaric Genius on Netflix you'll know about the astonishing life of John Healy, author of The Grass Arena. I'm very excited that the second volume of his memoirs is coming out, 37 years after the first, via @unbounders.bsky.social unbound.com/books/the-gl...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

The passive authoritarian tense

submitted 15 days ago • 112 comments

5,000 New Irish! I love stories like this. It’s amazing to think so many are coming to Ireland, either finding safety or long-buried roots. People who want to be Irish, not ones who needed to escape this rock, just 30y ago. From theocracy to salvation in a generation. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.

submitted 16 days ago • 764 comments

If you want me to do any good on here we need to grow my audience.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Big Virg's 'Cup Final' line needs clarification. The Liverpool game is now Man Utd's Cup Final. For the Ev it's Champions League final.

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Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

submitted 17 days ago • 121 comments

So cool that there’s gonna be real guys playing football on a field during this online betting event

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