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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

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Brendan Courtney is on RTE's Lifeline describing how he was attacked on the quays at Queen St Bridge / Ushers Quay when men jumped out of a car and knocked him to the ground and kicked him in the head and face at 9pm last night. He thinks it was gay bashing.

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Me: "Do you worry about civil war?" Former GOP Congressman Joe Walsh: "The MAGA base, they're welcoming violence... Trump wants violence, MAGA wants violence. I just don't think the American people fully understand..." Watch Part 1 of my interview with Walsh, on fascism: zeteo.com/p/trump-maga...

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A nine-week consultation begins today on the London Mayor's plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street (h/t the London Minute) haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/oxford-street haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/oxford-street

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Breaking News: A jury in Illinois convicted a man on murder and hate crime charges in the 2023 stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy who lived at his property.

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"Shameful. I can't think of any other word than shameful." Jim Townsend, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for European and NATO Policy from 2009 to 2017, reacts to the US voting with Russia against a UN resolution on the Ukraine war. #Newsnight

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One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

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The breeding of sphynx cats has been banned in some countries because it's so unethical. Aside from body temp regulation issues they get serious skin problems and ear infections because of their hairlessness. They also have the lowest life expectancy of all purebreds. 1/2

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The war of the Murdochs. Who will seize the crown - and why should we care ? @lionelbarber and I talk with @jimrutenberg.bsky.social mediaconfidential.lnk.to/podcastAh

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Wow -- here's the footage of Trump attacking Zelenskyy during their meeting in the White House

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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...

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