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⚠️In a final vote, the European Parliament sealed the fate of the few remaining environmental safeguards from EU farm policy, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) putting EU farming at risk⚠️
🗑️💢 @europarl.europa.eu just cleared away the few remaining environmental safeguards in EU farming policy
Two rushed rounds of so-called “simplifications” have gutted years of progress and handed #BigAgri exactly what it wanted: money to pollute with no strings attached ✂️
Here’s what we’ve lost ⬇️
Two rushed rounds of so-called “simplifications” have gutted years of progress and handed #BigAgri exactly what it wanted: money to pollute with no strings attached ✂️
Here’s what we’ve lost ⬇️
December 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
⚠️In a final vote, the European Parliament sealed the fate of the few remaining environmental safeguards from EU farm policy, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) putting EU farming at risk⚠️
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Liam Herrick: Why has Ireland abruptly decided the European Convention on Human Rights goes too far?
Liam Herrick: Why has Ireland abruptly decided the European Convention on Human Rights goes too far?
Precedent could have far-reaching consequences. Who is to say the rights of gay citizens won’t be the next target by a coalition of hostile states?
www.irishtimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Liam Herrick: Why has Ireland abruptly decided the European Convention on Human Rights goes too far?
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It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece
April 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece
This is appalling
Hungary poised to adopt constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ gatherings
Hungary poised to adopt constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ gatherings
The controversial amendment also recognises only two sexes, providing a basis for denying other gender identities
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
This is appalling
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“The misogynistic imagery essential to the anti-European mentality of the American right supports the idea that the EU, being effeminate, is innately weak and will break under pressure from manly America. But the world does not conform to such idiotic prejudices.”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Shredding the Postwar Order | Fintan O’Toole
Donald Trump is reshaping relations between Europe and the US more dramatically than at any time since World War II.
www.nybooks.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“The misogynistic imagery essential to the anti-European mentality of the American right supports the idea that the EU, being effeminate, is innately weak and will break under pressure from manly America. But the world does not conform to such idiotic prejudices.”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
I walked the Abhainn trail today and loved Rosie's concept. The app needs to be a bit more walker-friendly though! Let the audio run in the background, so you can take photos or put your phone in your pocket. Having to walk with it open in your hand, on a river trail, is asking for trouble 😀
April 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I walked the Abhainn trail today and loved Rosie's concept. The app needs to be a bit more walker-friendly though! Let the audio run in the background, so you can take photos or put your phone in your pocket. Having to walk with it open in your hand, on a river trail, is asking for trouble 😀
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1. We should talk about the prevailing reaction to Signalgate – utter disbelief. People who know something abt national security, military affairs, gov't secrets & the law appear stunned by the clowns, idiots & buffoons who “accidentally texted” classified war plans to the editor of The Atlantic.
March 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1. We should talk about the prevailing reaction to Signalgate – utter disbelief. People who know something abt national security, military affairs, gov't secrets & the law appear stunned by the clowns, idiots & buffoons who “accidentally texted” classified war plans to the editor of The Atlantic.
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I wrote a piece for @irishtimes.com about OpenAI’s short story. I feel if we don’t make a concerted effort as humans to help people of all ages gain literacy around AI-generated content, we have no chance at being able to have a consensus reality. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Jennifer Walshe: OpenAI’s short story about grief has critics in floods of tears or outrage. They’re all missing the point
Judging this story as I’d judge a short story published in The Stinging Fly or the Winter Papers is the wrong approach to take. Reading AI-generated stories demands a new type of literacy
www.irishtimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I wrote a piece for @irishtimes.com about OpenAI’s short story. I feel if we don’t make a concerted effort as humans to help people of all ages gain literacy around AI-generated content, we have no chance at being able to have a consensus reality. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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I’m Jewish and the son of Jewish refugees who immigrated to America, so some might accuse me of seeing antisemitism where it doesn’t exist. So it’s sadly reassuring to see that the great historian Timothy Snyder saw the Oval Office debacle the way I did:
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Antisemitism in the Oval Office
A confrontation seen with a historian's eye
open.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I’m Jewish and the son of Jewish refugees who immigrated to America, so some might accuse me of seeing antisemitism where it doesn’t exist. So it’s sadly reassuring to see that the great historian Timothy Snyder saw the Oval Office debacle the way I did:
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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“Washington has become the court of Nero,” Senator Claude Malhuret declared before the French Parliament this week. His speech, whose dark urgency and stark rhetorical force made it a social-media sensation, has been translated and adapted by The Atlantic:
Trump Is Nero While Washington Burns
‘Trump’s message is that being his ally serves no purpose, because he will not defend you.’
www.theatlantic.com
March 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“Washington has become the court of Nero,” Senator Claude Malhuret declared before the French Parliament this week. His speech, whose dark urgency and stark rhetorical force made it a social-media sensation, has been translated and adapted by The Atlantic:
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if you haven’t watched this speech in full by French senator, Claude Malhuret, it’s very very much worth the eight minutes of your time to take it in:
youtu.be/4ka9uYFebN0
youtu.be/4ka9uYFebN0
Speech by Claude Malhuret - March 5, 2025 - Fight the dictator backed by a traitor
YouTube video by Sembilani Sepuluhi
youtu.be
March 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
if you haven’t watched this speech in full by French senator, Claude Malhuret, it’s very very much worth the eight minutes of your time to take it in:
youtu.be/4ka9uYFebN0
youtu.be/4ka9uYFebN0
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
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Hard to believe but 18 years ago, I sent the great Alfonso Cuaron an advance copy of The Shock Doctrine and asked if he might be willing to write a blurb.
He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me.
Share with whoever you think it might help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...
He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me.
Share with whoever you think it might help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...
January 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Hard to believe but 18 years ago, I sent the great Alfonso Cuaron an advance copy of The Shock Doctrine and asked if he might be willing to write a blurb.
He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me.
Share with whoever you think it might help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...
He made a short film instead. This is it. Still chills me.
Share with whoever you think it might help.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7fW...
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Rollo May right on the money here.
January 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Rollo May right on the money here.
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Gabor Mate in conversation with Naomi Klein, introduced by Cecilie Surasky.
Candid, illuminating and inspiring.
Highly recommend:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVfx...
Candid, illuminating and inspiring.
Highly recommend:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVfx...
Minds Under Siege: Dr. Gabor Maté, Naomi Klein & Cecilie Surasky
YouTube video by Science and Nonduality
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Gabor Mate in conversation with Naomi Klein, introduced by Cecilie Surasky.
Candid, illuminating and inspiring.
Highly recommend:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVfx...
Candid, illuminating and inspiring.
Highly recommend:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVfx...
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'Realistically, we should now be imposing the same boycotts on Musk’s hideous fascist US that we once did on apartheid South Africa'
Love this from Stewart Lee who suggests we need to go 'Lindisfarne' & wait out the information dark age' like a medieval monk
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Love this from Stewart Lee who suggests we need to go 'Lindisfarne' & wait out the information dark age' like a medieval monk
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Lee
As Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos attempt to reshape our reality, my advice is to avoid their toxic platforms and wait it out
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
'Realistically, we should now be imposing the same boycotts on Musk’s hideous fascist US that we once did on apartheid South Africa'
Love this from Stewart Lee who suggests we need to go 'Lindisfarne' & wait out the information dark age' like a medieval monk
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Love this from Stewart Lee who suggests we need to go 'Lindisfarne' & wait out the information dark age' like a medieval monk
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
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I fear there is deep truth here.
January 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I fear there is deep truth here.
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"Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands."
Wonderful read from a wonderful mind:
Wonderful read from a wonderful mind:
May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and Why Solitude Is the Seedbed of Self-Discovery
“Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 29, 2024 at 1:01 AM
"Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands."
Wonderful read from a wonderful mind:
Wonderful read from a wonderful mind: