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Best wishes to all those who have observed Ramadan in Ireland and around the world as you come together in celebration of Eid al-Fitr

Glenn Keating is doing this amazing thing. www.justgiving.com/page/cycleco...

Stop me if you've heard this one: "Two rapists walk into an Oval Office..." President Molest-a-Lot and fellow sexual-assaulter Conor McGregor meet at the White House. You must be so proud, Republicans.

Pretty clever.

Putin's bitch.

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

If Biden had done this it would have been a major story that consumed the media for the next week.

Cartoon by Nick Anderson

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

For so many years I held on to the belief that I would get better and that I could have a decent life. It's not to be. How different would my life be without fibromyalgia and fatigue? Very different.

“Go to a cemetery. See all the baby graves there from before the 1950s and 1960s? Then, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their kids. If you are unsure, the answer is, literally, written in stone.”

It's a sign of the times that callousness is now dressed up as intellectualism. That empathy is framed as being as morally problematic as prejudice. That bigotry and hatred is just honesty. That solidarity is treason.

‘we’re talking about human beings’

I am probably on some government lists now but at least I am in good company.

Trump is deplorable. I can't help but think he is trying to rile people up , hoping something happens and then the US tries to justify it's takeover.

I've been awake since 1am. I hope I sleep tonight.

I started rewatching Dexter & it hit me as I watched, in a lot of pain, that I have been living with chronic pain since the 1st time it aired. What should have been some of the best years of my life were misery. I dread to think of another decade, or several like this. I am broken.

Overwhelmed and exhausted.

More of this energy please. https://xcancel.com/mmpadellan/status/1886905137999872451

Looking forward to Dexter, Daredevil, Pokerface and Wednesday

The X Files was ahead of its time. "Fear. It's the oldest tool of power. If you're distracted by fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above." The GOP's plan.

Where are my #PearlJam peeps?

So many have not learned them at all.

Remember, today especially, that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Keep the faith. Keep up the fight.

Incudes my favourite episode of the XFiles.

Few things are more satisfying than watching a show pull off a brilliant and rewarding episode. In the Sunday Daily, our writers and editors answer the question: What do you think is a perfect episode of TV?

This is highly disconcerting. WaPo editors killed an editorial cartoon that mocked Bezos and other tech oligarchs. Will the Post respond to this? Democracy dies with accommodation. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...