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The alarming descent into fascism in the US gathers pace as the rule of law is increasingly sidelined. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

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Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

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‘The Curing Line will address many of the questions human beings are faced with & do not have answers for. It gives the possibility to expand the boundaries of opera. The narrative, the musical language & the staging will resonate to the audience of tomorrow.’ www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...

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Mo Salah. ‘For the people of Liverpool, their greatest footballer is someone really only seen in snatches: a blur, a whisper, a trick of the light. This is also how a lot of Premier League defences have been experiencing Salah this season. www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

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‘Next they came for the judges……’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Tell me it’s April Fools Day ‘A US Catholic podcaster says the time has come for a “Trump-like pope” who will restore traditional Christian values. Anyone who’s soft on abortion, has Marxist tendencies, who’s pro-homosexual, will have to be fired’. ‘pope’! www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

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In Trumpland, ‘defending free speech’ means one thing: submission to the president. By claiming that any regulation is censorship, the White House is bullying Britain to abandon online safety laws and digital taxes. By @rafaelbehr.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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‘EU’s high food safety standards not on the table in any negotiations with the US. “EU standards, particularly as they relate to food health & safety, are sacrosanct. That’s not part of the negotiation, it never will be, not with the US or anyone else,” www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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🔴Trump and Dump For all the talk of Donald Trump's supposed business expertise, the truth is that his only real experience has been in the 'art of the steal', reports Heidi Siegmund Cuda www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-t...

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‘There are no trillion-dollar entrepreneurial ventures in Europe to match Amazon, Google or Tesla. But that is not all Europe is lacking. Also absent are the broligarchs who sit atop such behemoths, some of whom have a tighter grip on power than on reality.’ economist.com/europe/2025/...

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‘Whatever Musk is selling, the US just isn’t buying & neither is the world. His personal ratings are such a drag on Trump that they may even outweigh the benefits that his money brings. In Europe it’s even worse. Why do people dislike him so much? app.theneweuropean.co.uk/story/133334...

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They are obviously slow learners

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Truly exceptional performances by @leinsterrugby 62-0, & 52-0 in successive games in knockout stages of @ChampionsCup Apparently 3 hours of play since Leinster conceded a point. Unrelenting intensity especially in defence. Nothing won yet. But…..

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Truly exceptional performances by @leinsterrugby 62-0, & 52-0 in successive games in knockout stages of @ChampionsCup Unrelenting intensity especially in defence. Nothing won yet. But…..🏉

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109!

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Unbelievable Leinster. That’s 102 unanswered points in two games! With half an hour to go!

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‘The cost of moving Apple’s iPhone production to the US would be prohibitive. “It would take 3 years & cost $30bn to move even 10% of its supply chain from Asia to the US with major disruption in the process. Solely US-made phones would cost more than treble.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Almost better news than Trump’s humiliating climbdown! ‘Mohamed Salah has signed a new deal to remain at ⁦‪Liverpool until 2027, saying he had chosen to stay because he believes “we can win a lot of big trophies together”. 🔴 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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Trump played chicken with the markets for a week. By Weds his trade war on the world had become unsustainable economically, financially & politically. Abruptly, he swerved away from the steepest tariffs he set with the exception of China’. Humiliation. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

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US tariffs: Astonishing about-turn by Trump to pause tariffs for 90 days. It came out of the blue & ran counter to everything else he has been saying. As China tariffs were already high enough to effectively stop all trade, further hikes there don’t matter.’ www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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Watching Trump telling the Justice Department to investigate political opponents. He says they are guilty of treason. America is no longer a liberal democracy.

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‘Trump has blinked. Little more than 12 hours after his radical regime of “reciprocal” tariffs took effect, he has put most of them on pause for 90 days. The convulsing Treasury market may have aided his decision.’ economist.com/finance-and-... from The Economist

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‘U.S. embassies in France, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Spain, have reportedly sent letters to contractors requesting that they certify that they do NOT operate any diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) programs that violate U.S. anti-discrimination law’. www.lexology.com/library/deta...

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‘EU Forced Labour Ban ‘Reg imposes general prohibition on ‘economic operators’ from placing products made with forced labour on the market for the first time, making products available further down the supply chain, or exporting products outside the EU.’ www.lexology.com/library/deta...

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China’s leaders sense that they could win the trade war. Trump wants a lot from China but e.g. does not want to be responsible for shutting down TikTok. Also, Tesla does about 20% of its business in China: huge leverage on the US’ Must Make Musk Anxious. (MMMA) economist.com/finance-and-...

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Le Pen conviction. ‘The judges’ decision, backed by more than 150 pages of legal justifications after a nine-week trial, was necessary because nobody was entitled to “immunity in violation of the rule of law”, Judge Bénédicte de Perthuis. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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The far right hates the justice system with its weasel talk of ‘law fare’. Primarily because the law protects citizens from abuses of power & gets in the way of the drift to the tyranny of the corporate state. Defend the rule of law & the separation of powers! ⚖️

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The beginning of the beginning…. ‘Mass anti-Trump protests in US cities see Americans express their fear and loathing’. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

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Is Trump a socialist now? The world’s 500 richest people saw their combined wealth plunge by $208bn yesterday, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg was the biggest loser; a whopping $17.9bn, Jeff Bezos lost $15.9bn. Elon Musk lost $11bn, taking losses this year to $110bn. A billion here, a billion there…

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‘For the gov’ts of Russia & the US, truth is a mere inconvenience; Putin still claiming that Ukraine started the war & Trump telling a litany of lies to his own people & the world. Europe must work to ensure that words still retain meaning in our troubled world.’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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‘A group of uninhabited Antarctic volcanic islands, home only to penguins, has been hit with a 10% tariff on goods in Trump’s trade war, Heard Island & McDonald Islands, (Australia), are among the remotest places on earth & completely uninhabited’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Is there any chance that Trump’s feared tariff announcement might turn out to be a bit like the Y2K bug?

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Extraordinary that the US Democratic Party is polling so poorly (under 30%). But not surprising. It doesn’t seem to have one individual actually designated as leader to head up the opposition: it’s a body without a head. Until it gets one (it will need a strategy also) things won’t improve.

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Je ne suis pas Marine. ‘Marine Le Pen is the literal author of her own downfall. She is a victim of the strict rules she demanded AND voted for: a ban on convicted corrupt politicians from running for office. The French judicial system has applied the letter of that law.

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15 Palestinian paramedics & rescue workers & 1 UN employee killed by Israeli forces “One by One” & buried in a mass grave eight days ago in Gaza. Civil defence workers were on a rescue mission when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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used to not have toilets, shade or drinking water cause bosses said it was too expensive. With pesticides we would work too close to the spray. Thanks to Cesar Chavez they changed those things. Join us in marching for Cesar Chávez - Francisco, CA farmworker, 28 yrs #WeFeedYou

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Seen on a Wexford beach today. A poignant reminder of the sad trauma of our Ukrainian guests & their longing for home. We Irish know what this means. Tá fáilte romhaibh, a chairde, comh fada agus é ar dhíth agaibh.

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What an absolutely astounding woman on @Tommedian (Tommy Tiernan.) Jocelyn Bell Burnell. One of the greatest Irish scientists of all time, actually just one of the greatest scientists of all time. Such an exceptional & inspirational woman. Robbed of a Nobel prize. But winner of lots more.

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And they kept going.. Ireland 🏉 Women secure record-breaking eight-try victory over Italy. 12-54 www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/...

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Ireland Women put in an excellent first half shift v Italy in Parma 🇮🇹 5-28 ☘️ 🏉 #Guinness6nations

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Trump forced into humiliating climbdown in relation to the status of Canada, ‘correctly referring to Mark Carney as Prime Minister after repeatedly denigrating his predecessor Justin Trudeau as “governor”. Trump doesn’t know the difference between ally & a lie. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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