kevin
@beirne.bsky.social
he/him | irish | mostly posting about rugby, women’s football and my terrible life
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None of these Republicans and most of these Democrats are not all of a sudden “seeing the light on ICE.” They simply understand the worm turning on public opinion and saving face. They will ALL go back to voting for minority brutalization as soon as they can. You can’t keep falling for this.
January 26, 2026 at 11:19 PM
None of these Republicans and most of these Democrats are not all of a sudden “seeing the light on ICE.” They simply understand the worm turning on public opinion and saving face. They will ALL go back to voting for minority brutalization as soon as they can. You can’t keep falling for this.
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Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.
There's another way to look at this. ICE is doing everything the military manual tells you not to do to civilian populations because it creates insurgencies where none existed before.
January 26, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.
Getting reports that Nazi staffers have told Chancellor Hitler that they are not happy to be working with the SS
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
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"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Getting reports that Nazi staffers have told Chancellor Hitler that they are not happy to be working with the SS
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Louise Perry wrote this? Where have I heard that name before? 🤔
![A series of google search results, mostly youtube videos, for author Louise Perry, an obsessive transphobe, with the following descriptions and dates:
It turns out water is wet - by Louise Perry
https://www.louiseperry.co.uk › it-turns-out-water-is-wet
Apr 17, 2025 — It was inevitable that the trans movement would eventually collapse: its leaders were too psychologically unstable, its demands too incoherent, ... [read more]
Trans Support Is Misguided | Louise Perry
YouTube · John Anderson Media
Apr 29, 2025
YouTube · John Anderson Media
I think that what happened with trans is that almost no one actually bought into the claims of the movement.
Transgender Support Is Declining | Louise Perry
YouTube · John Anderson Media
Apr 28, 2025
YouTube · John Anderson Media
Over time people have hardened against the trans movement. And I think that's because the demands of trans activists have been so extreme.
UK Supreme Court Ruling: The Triumph Of Reality | Louise ...
YouTube · John Anderson Media
Apr 24, 2025
YouTube · John Anderson Media
UK Supreme Court Ruling Breakdown: "Woman Has A ...
YouTube · John Anderson Media
Apr 27, 2025
The word woman in the Equality Act has a biological meaning not a socially constructed meaning.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i2yqejjcgxqraht7utv3cn5q/bafkreibmuyvan3jaci3qkbruyxgcuwp6qgj2aguhb4l4rwgdcxgppgldhu@jpeg)
January 26, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Louise Perry wrote this? Where have I heard that name before? 🤔
It also just shows that they still don’t understand the severity of the situation. We can’t even give them credit for finally getting it right because they’re still not getting it right
one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces
January 26, 2026 at 9:48 PM
It also just shows that they still don’t understand the severity of the situation. We can’t even give them credit for finally getting it right because they’re still not getting it right
“The west” will never properly deal with the inherent fascism in our systems until we properly deal with the fact that being a cop is the most appealing job on earth to racists and other emotionally deficient men who wish to enact violence upon people they don’t like
January 26, 2026 at 9:24 PM
“The west” will never properly deal with the inherent fascism in our systems until we properly deal with the fact that being a cop is the most appealing job on earth to racists and other emotionally deficient men who wish to enact violence upon people they don’t like
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according to bluesky, working for ice is a protected class against discrimination lol
January 26, 2026 at 5:58 PM
according to bluesky, working for ice is a protected class against discrimination lol
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so funny to be doing the 8 year old nerd "if we were animals I would be a badger because im strong, and loyal" thing but with your dad's last name
The VCs bros have convinced themselves they are on some moral crusade. They will be behind the scenes trying to cling to power in the midterms and beyond.
Side note, they are also the biggest bunch of dorks
Side note, they are also the biggest bunch of dorks
January 26, 2026 at 3:21 AM
so funny to be doing the 8 year old nerd "if we were animals I would be a badger because im strong, and loyal" thing but with your dad's last name
Bluesky idea: if people who were paid to analyse politics could actually have basic pattern recognition and show any kind of humility in the face of getting every major call of the last decade wrong, maybe they would get less shit for only ever giving the benefit of the doubt to the powerful
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
January 26, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Bluesky idea: if people who were paid to analyse politics could actually have basic pattern recognition and show any kind of humility in the face of getting every major call of the last decade wrong, maybe they would get less shit for only ever giving the benefit of the doubt to the powerful
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Probably because these people don't just want immediate forgiveness, but they still want to maintain their perceived status. They consider themselves "thought leaders" and thus see it as completely reasonable to demand that everyone they declared to be hysterical listen to them now.
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
January 26, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Probably because these people don't just want immediate forgiveness, but they still want to maintain their perceived status. They consider themselves "thought leaders" and thus see it as completely reasonable to demand that everyone they declared to be hysterical listen to them now.
With respect, if your takeaway from this game where the Patriots’ only TD came from an extremely short field on a dodgy turnover is that Drake Maye is the real deal, then I don’t think I’ll be listening all that closely to your NFL analysis going forward
January 25, 2026 at 11:02 PM
With respect, if your takeaway from this game where the Patriots’ only TD came from an extremely short field on a dodgy turnover is that Drake Maye is the real deal, then I don’t think I’ll be listening all that closely to your NFL analysis going forward
I can’t believe this Patriots team are going to a Super Bowl before Josh Allen
January 25, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I can’t believe this Patriots team are going to a Super Bowl before Josh Allen
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rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
January 25, 2026 at 7:57 PM
rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know
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It's obviously good that citizens with smartphones can create multiple records of these shootings and undercut propaganda and government lies about them. But I find it a little deranging that being an informed news consumer in 2026 requires watching what are essentially snuff videos in slow-mo.
January 25, 2026 at 6:29 PM
It's obviously good that citizens with smartphones can create multiple records of these shootings and undercut propaganda and government lies about them. But I find it a little deranging that being an informed news consumer in 2026 requires watching what are essentially snuff videos in slow-mo.
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hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading
January 25, 2026 at 9:12 PM
hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading
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load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society
January 25, 2026 at 2:11 PM
load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society
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The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 11:06 AM
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
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i assume going to the hospital is considered the highest honor for a bolsonaro supporter
Bolsonaro supporters protesting and demanding that he is set free got hit by a lightning bolt, 3 persons are in hospital now.
🚨⚡ Um raio atingiu bolsonaristas em Brasília nesta tarde. Eles estavam aguardando Nikolas Ferreira no Memorial JK para um protesto pela soltura de Bolsonaro quando um raio atingiu a praça. Três bolsonaristas foram para o hospital.
January 25, 2026 at 5:56 PM
i assume going to the hospital is considered the highest honor for a bolsonaro supporter
To be fair, you had to be functionally braindead to think the NRA and all the other right wing gun perverts were anything other than this
This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
January 25, 2026 at 9:23 PM
To be fair, you had to be functionally braindead to think the NRA and all the other right wing gun perverts were anything other than this
That Atlantic article is one of the most infuriating things I’ve ever read. I’m not even going to link it. It’s just some disphit explaining why he’s always been reluctant to call Trump a fascist by laying out three and a half thousands words about how Trump has always been a fascist
January 25, 2026 at 9:02 PM
That Atlantic article is one of the most infuriating things I’ve ever read. I’m not even going to link it. It’s just some disphit explaining why he’s always been reluctant to call Trump a fascist by laying out three and a half thousands words about how Trump has always been a fascist
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it's equal parts great and bizarre to see someone in office who seems genuinely proud to be a public servant
We're getting a snowstorm tomorrow. But New York City is prepared.
January 25, 2026 at 4:50 PM
it's equal parts great and bizarre to see someone in office who seems genuinely proud to be a public servant
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
I was thinking about this and while it is remarkable in some ways, it also makes complete sense that these brilliant and kind people would be the ones to show the moral courage to stand up to fascists in the first place
kind of remarkable how the two high profile ICE killings this year have been alex pretti and renee good, two people about whom NO ONE has ANY unkind words to say. if they could dig up anyone who would willingly talk shit on either person they’d have done it
January 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I was thinking about this and while it is remarkable in some ways, it also makes complete sense that these brilliant and kind people would be the ones to show the moral courage to stand up to fascists in the first place