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2025: Brexit party MEP in court for taking bribes from Russia 2019: Brexit party MEP Claire Fox dismisses criticisms of 'foreign agents of Putin' Your reminder that Fox who campaigned to leave the EU because of unelected bureaucrats is now sat in the House of Lords as an unelected legislator 🤷‍♂️

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Last week, DOGE posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the 5 biggest “savings” on that original list, after NYT and other outlets pointed out errors. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

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RIP Crumlin shopping centre, can’t believe u r gone. I want 2 run 2 u 4ever. #Spéirgorm #Ireland

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This shows the way Ireland should be using St Patricks Day - using it as an opportunity to speak up for civil rights, human rights, international law, freedom of press .....#spéirghorm

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The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

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#UnmaskingMusk

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When I landed in SLC, I used the bathroom despite an anti-trans bathroom ban. Nobody cared. Nobody ever does. The truth is, whatever anti-trans laws they keep passing, nobody actually gives a damn or wants to be the bathroom police. This is the ultimate reason anti-trans hysteria will fail.

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Not very fun fact: thousands of Jewish immigrants with whose presence Germany has decorated itself, my parents included, are not voting today b/c they don’t have a path to citizenship, despite living there for two decades or more. www.juedische-allgemeine.de/gemeinden/ke...

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Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

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Went to see #ARealPain today. I don't really follow movie news so I had no idea that it was nominated for #BAFTA awards (or that they were on this evening). I'm not surprised it won, though. It wasn't what I expected but it is an incredible film that I haven't been able to stop thinking about.

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I wrote this on the most consistently terrible, and fatal, idea in centrist politics today. On Fanta, rebadging, and why attempting to win votes from fascists is morally disgusting and politically suicidal. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

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It was called Gulf of Mexico for a reason. Mexico En 1794. #HistoryMatters

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The memes are still coming many days later.

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The IRS was a simple test for DOGE: was it really interested in efficiency and state capacity? If so, you support the tax enforcement, the biggest ROI in govt. Or did it want to minimize parts of the state that bothered billionaires? We have our answer. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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A historic graphic of corruption. The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies. (📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)

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Even if it worked perfectly, what software system could the #ArtsCouncil possibly need that would cost €6.7m to develop? https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025/02/12/arts-council-controversy-ministers-told-6-million-wasted-on-proposed-new-it-system/

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USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...

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so far from small landlords being the beneficiaries here - it is the giant international landlord fund Ires Reit that stands to profit on rent caps being lifted - #housing #rental - it's already massively profitable on the back of hoovering up rental property in Dublin. #Irlpol #Spéirghorm

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Strasbourg Week 🇫🇷 My priority as always is #HousingHousingHousing Meeting with Commissioners Jorgensen & Minzatu this week. #ForTheLoveOfDublin

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The underpinnings of this is that they do not want to provide public housing- at any cost- in the quantity needed. This leaves them with bribing private investment with tenants money to build units instead.

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NEW @motherjones.com: An analysis found Elon's cybertrucks are deadlier than infamous the Ford Pintos, which were the subject of a famous @motherjones.com cover story that prompted a federal investigation. Cybertrucks have had 5 known fatalities in just 1 year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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I'm researching mass incarceration in Irish psychiatric institutions up to late 1990s. Would welcome contact from survivors/ their family members. Email in confidence [email protected]

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It's shocking how, at the end of the day, these companies were just doing DEI for the optics when it was the "in thing". As soon as it isn't, they drop it for the sake of the bottom line. https://www.thejournal.ie/accenture-ends-diversity-equality-programmes-measures-trump-6616454-Feb2025/

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We're just 3,775 signatures away from Ireland becoming the third country in the EU to reach its threshold! To be successful, a European citizens' initiative has to reach one million statements of support as well as minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries.

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💬 "He wouldn't mind me saying this, probably a wee bit more unhappy with things" If anything, Damien Duff has got even more intense going into the new LOI season, his Shelbourne captain Mark Coyle tells @rafdiallo.bsky.social ⚽

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Well done 👏

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Can't stop thinking how stupid you'd need to be to believe this was a genuine mistake

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NASA did a feature on me last year. It was up this weekend but now when you click on the link you get a 404 message.

submitted 20 days ago • 125 comments

How to protect yourself from scams: six easy ways to stay safe

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Dusted off the old Substack to write about... the League of Ireland?! www.gobb.ie/p/organic-gr...

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So it appears Europe isn’t saluting back… I believe the young people call this FAFO. The Swastikar is suffering.

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So Justin Trudeau is now saying the tariffs have been paused for 30 days as they implement a new border plan. Basically, after the markets freaked, Trump backed off of the threats while Mexico and Canada essentially promised to do things that they were already doing.

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Verona Murphy rules that Michael Lowry’s Regional Group can now NOT be recognised as a technical group.

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Huge protest outside the USAID building today against Trump and Musk's illegal shutdown.

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New: Musk and his minions have illegally installed a commercial server to control federal HR databases that contain sensitive personal information, including SSNs, home addresses, and medical histories, according to an OPM staffer www.muskwatch.com/p/musk-assoc...

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Reasons to cheerful: The album version of Welcome to the Pleasuredome is over 10 minutes long. Magnificent. https://deezer.page.link/HiJ8zznQHsW7iQJk9

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Pat McDonagh’s pays his workers €13.56, which is 6cent above the minimum wage and €1.19 below the living wage. Some of the main drivers of the fraying of the social contract are poverty-pay, landlords charging insane rents (Pat👀) and stoking hatred towards minorities.

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Does #AldiIreland think we can't see this crap from here?

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‘I lost 10 years of my life’: how UK betting giant’s unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked

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Donald Trump has openly declared Gaza will be ethnically cleansed. And our media is normalising it 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/trump-conf...

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Remembering Ann Lovett, who tragically died, 41 years ago today, after giving birth alone in a grotto in Granard. 'The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks' by Paula Meehan

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We need another 4000 or so signatures from Irish citizens to meet the threshold on this official EU petition. Conversion therapy is homophobic bullshit. Please sign this. #SpéirGorm

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This is awesome. From a custom knife forging shop in Edom, Texas.

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This.

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Montgomery County Public Schools comes out and tells Trump to pound sand with his EO telling schools that they have to discriminate against transgender students. This is how you refuse to comply.

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