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Ballyogan Library is opening next week! oisinoconnor.com/ballyogan-li...

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Mr. Musk is one of a number of reactionary figures with roots in Southern Africa who found an unlikely home in Silicon Valley and now wield disproportionate influence in shaping American and global right-wing politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

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Tragically, A child has died of measles in Texas. Cases of measles continue to grow in Texas & elsewhere in USA. Please seriously consider vaccinating your child with the MMR vaccine which is safe & effective. Outbreaks at this scale are NOT normal & is facilitated by high pptn of unvaccinated kids

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JFC. Like, literally, USAID was the counter to the Belt and Road Initiative, and removing it has opened up all sorts of opportunities for China to harm the US.

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Five former defense secretaries denounced President Trump’s firing last week of the Joint Chiefs chairman and several other senior military officials, saying that the officers were “fired for purely partisan reasons” and urging Congress to hold hearings.

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Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)

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Gardaí are seeking the public's help in tracing the whereabouts of Eamon Tsekiri (24) who has been reported missing from the Sheriff Street Dublin 1 area since Sunday. Eamon was last seen at around 5:00am on Sunday morning in the Sheriff Street and IFSC areas of Dublin 1.

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Night night sweet dreamies Unconditional self-love doesn't mean you don't see your flaws. It means you love yourself anyways. Love yourself always 🧡

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Workers who served in the U.S. Agency for International Development were allowed a final and brief visit back to their offices to clear out their belongings on Thursday.

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There are no proven benefits to raw feeding yet plenty of serious, well-documented risks. It has never been a good idea but ESPECIALLY NOW. washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/two-w...

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“Widening projects are sold to the public by touting benefits that won’t last, but their unadvertised costs will remain for decades.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

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RFK Jr. is a proponent of raw milk

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BREAKING—Updated report says 2 measles deaths in Texas, not just one, according to RFK Jr cabinet briefing to the White House today.

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The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

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RFK JR on Measles Outbreaks just now: "It is not unusual. There are measles outbreaks every year." It is actually very unusual. This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years.

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First measles death reported in Texas child amid outbreak infecting more than 120 people www.cbsnews.com/news/measles...

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If anyone was still in doubt where the power lies in President Donald Trump’s new administration, Wednesday’s first Cabinet meeting made clear it wasn’t in the actual Cabinet.

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Elon Musk acknowledged that the U.S. DOGE Service “accidentally canceled” efforts by the U.S. Agency for International Development to prevent the spread of Ebola — but the billionaire entrepreneur insisted that the initiative was quickly restored.

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A family whose 6-year-old is battling cancer says a move to slash funding by the National Institutes of Health for research at universities and medical centers would be “devastating.” cnn.it/3EPY8XU

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Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne diseases.

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Anyone who receives or helps someone receive abortion care, even if they access it outside of Montana, would face up to five years in prison. A similar effort to track women is underway in Missouri.

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Breaking news: The Trump administration plans to handpick the reporters who can ask the president questions, breaking decades of precedent in the White House.

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EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help upgrade the FAA's national airspace system.

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The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, just demolished Donald Trump in the Oval Office while supporting Ukraine, wanting Russia to pay, and fact checking Donald during their meeting. 🍿

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"No shells? We’ll take up rifles. No rifles? We’ll grab shovels.” apnews.com/article/ukra...

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Just a reminder that what he's talking about is the private information about every American and business, and there are laws against this access. "Transform the way the government works" by doing what? Targeting opponents? Microtargeting political ads so Republicans never lose?

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Breaking news: U.S. sides with Russia to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning Moscow for the Ukraine war. Washington’s dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides with the Trump administration’s bid to repair relations with the Kremlin.

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‘It’s blackmail’: Ukrainians react to Trump demand for $500bn share of minerals

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(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

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The likely path of the asteroid 2024 YR4 has drifted away from Earth and toward the Moon. Here is what the view from the small Asteroid could be at closest approach to the Moon, extrapolated from the most recent visualization on NASA's Eyes On Asteroids. Sunlight and Earthlight shine on both.

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America will have to live with the shame of what's happening here for years. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

Extortion, pure and simple.

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A year ago this month, Trump said he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies and "do whatever the hell they want" unless allies paid up. We thought it was so important, we ran it on the front page of the @mississippifreepress.org at a time when the New York Times and others didn't.

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"The track (Youghal, bailed out in 2023) recorded just two old age pensioners as paying attendees for the entirety of 2024". Think of the theatres and cinemas and gig venues that weren't saved. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 6 days ago • 561 comments

This is how it’s done.

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Helpful explanations here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Read the real stories about what USAID cuts mean, not the Musk propaganda www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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“Fundamental changes” to cycle path questioned as report with apparent evidence still only being drafted -- Children cycling to schools will need to cross road twice in a short distance.-- Protecting trees "belatedly suggested" as reason, but car parking was original issue. A councillor has…

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DOGE's funding is up to $40MM, @ProPublica.org finds And this: "If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend" www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Last I checked there was a federal criminal statute on extortion that’s enforced by the United States Department of Jus— … oh wait, never mind

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