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To understand Steen's demographic, you have to realize there are people who think a working-class blue-haired barista on minimum wage is the Establishment, while upper-middle-class professional Catholics of multi-generational wealth are the oppressed disenfranchised politically homeless.
September 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
To understand Steen's demographic, you have to realize there are people who think a working-class blue-haired barista on minimum wage is the Establishment, while upper-middle-class professional Catholics of multi-generational wealth are the oppressed disenfranchised politically homeless.
Solid journalism
Interviewed Gareth Sheridan this morning - he says it's time for an end to 'left - right divisive' politics.
That's despite being introduced to councillors by Senator Sharon Keogan - who said LGBT+ people were involved in an 'organised takeover' of society... and who has posted "#IrelandisFull".
That's despite being introduced to councillors by Senator Sharon Keogan - who said LGBT+ people were involved in an 'organised takeover' of society... and who has posted "#IrelandisFull".
August 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Solid journalism
Sídhe is the most amazingly talented linocut print maker I've seen in Ireland. Check them out www.instagram.com/possoms8?igs...
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July 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Sídhe is the most amazingly talented linocut print maker I've seen in Ireland. Check them out www.instagram.com/possoms8?igs...
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We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".
And so it begins.
And so it begins.
July 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".
And so it begins.
And so it begins.
This speaker at yesterdays Limerick anti-migrant demo asked the assembled crowd if they were 'proud of the people they descended from.'
The demo was literally called by Gerard McNamara, in a green cap beside him.
McNamara bludgeoned his own father to death. A true patriot of Ireland
The demo was literally called by Gerard McNamara, in a green cap beside him.
McNamara bludgeoned his own father to death. A true patriot of Ireland
June 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
This speaker at yesterdays Limerick anti-migrant demo asked the assembled crowd if they were 'proud of the people they descended from.'
The demo was literally called by Gerard McNamara, in a green cap beside him.
McNamara bludgeoned his own father to death. A true patriot of Ireland
The demo was literally called by Gerard McNamara, in a green cap beside him.
McNamara bludgeoned his own father to death. A true patriot of Ireland
The National Party, Blighe and Steenson marched in Cork at the weekend under a 'WWG1WGA' banner.
Blighe literally led people around the city with a tricolour scrawled with the imported US QAnon brain-addled conspiracy theory.
These PaYtri0Ts are beyond embarrassment.
Blighe literally led people around the city with a tricolour scrawled with the imported US QAnon brain-addled conspiracy theory.
These PaYtri0Ts are beyond embarrassment.
June 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The National Party, Blighe and Steenson marched in Cork at the weekend under a 'WWG1WGA' banner.
Blighe literally led people around the city with a tricolour scrawled with the imported US QAnon brain-addled conspiracy theory.
These PaYtri0Ts are beyond embarrassment.
Blighe literally led people around the city with a tricolour scrawled with the imported US QAnon brain-addled conspiracy theory.
These PaYtri0Ts are beyond embarrassment.
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Two LA photojournalists have been shot with tear gas canisters by DHS HSI, including @acatwithnews.bsky.social who was directly targeted by HSI and struck in the head. Sean is en route to the ER with obvious facial injuries. He was conscious and talking when he left the scene.
June 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Two LA photojournalists have been shot with tear gas canisters by DHS HSI, including @acatwithnews.bsky.social who was directly targeted by HSI and struck in the head. Sean is en route to the ER with obvious facial injuries. He was conscious and talking when he left the scene.
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Need to be extremely clear that the technical justifications offered in this piece are fucking jibberish. You do not make the WiFi better by adding more APs from another network that is effectively unmanaged in the same spectrum.
A Musk lieutenant ventured onto a roof to install Starlink. The Secret Service didn’t know he was there. The incident triggered a confrontation over conflicts of interest & cyber and physical security www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex (Gift Article)
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Need to be extremely clear that the technical justifications offered in this piece are fucking jibberish. You do not make the WiFi better by adding more APs from another network that is effectively unmanaged in the same spectrum.
From Hope and Courage Collective
'In moments like this, you can take the bait and react – or you can take a moment and respond, strategically.
Here’s some guidance on what that can look like in moments like these. ❤️'
'In moments like this, you can take the bait and react – or you can take a moment and respond, strategically.
Here’s some guidance on what that can look like in moments like these. ❤️'
March 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
From Hope and Courage Collective
'In moments like this, you can take the bait and react – or you can take a moment and respond, strategically.
Here’s some guidance on what that can look like in moments like these. ❤️'
'In moments like this, you can take the bait and react – or you can take a moment and respond, strategically.
Here’s some guidance on what that can look like in moments like these. ❤️'
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UPDATE ON MY LATEST PODCAST: Oregon’s Dept of Justice agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to the man wrongly convicted of Michael Francke’s murder—he served 29 years in prison before his release.
This baffling case remains unsolved. Who do YOU think was the killer?
Listen on ANY pod platform. 🎧
This baffling case remains unsolved. Who do YOU think was the killer?
Listen on ANY pod platform. 🎧
Secrets at the Dome: Who Murdered Michael Francke?
Podcast Episode · Echoes of the Unknown · 03/18/2025 · 13m
podcasts.apple.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
UPDATE ON MY LATEST PODCAST: Oregon’s Dept of Justice agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to the man wrongly convicted of Michael Francke’s murder—he served 29 years in prison before his release.
This baffling case remains unsolved. Who do YOU think was the killer?
Listen on ANY pod platform. 🎧
This baffling case remains unsolved. Who do YOU think was the killer?
Listen on ANY pod platform. 🎧
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Preliminary thoughts: astonishment.
The judge told the gov't to be prepared to answer four specific questions.
Gov't showed up and refused.
The judge told the gov't to be prepared to answer four specific questions.
Gov't showed up and refused.
March 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Preliminary thoughts: astonishment.
The judge told the gov't to be prepared to answer four specific questions.
Gov't showed up and refused.
The judge told the gov't to be prepared to answer four specific questions.
Gov't showed up and refused.
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The US Director of National Intelligence is retweeting a far-right conspiracy theorist based in Malaysia.
March 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The US Director of National Intelligence is retweeting a far-right conspiracy theorist based in Malaysia.
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The Trump regime invited a washed up organized crime linked rapist to give a speech about Ireland on St Paddy’s day because of course they did.
March 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The Trump regime invited a washed up organized crime linked rapist to give a speech about Ireland on St Paddy’s day because of course they did.
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On Lawfare Daily, @kevintfrazier.bsky.social spoke to @alexreevegivens.bsky.social, Courtney Lang, and Nema Milaninia about the Paris AI Action Summit, whether it marks a formal pivot away from AI safety to AI security and what an embrace of AI security means for AI governance.
Lawfare Daily: Alexandra Reeve Givens, Courtney Lang, and Nema Milaninia on the Paris AI Summit and the Pivot to AI Security
What happened during the Paris AI Summit?
www.lawfaremedia.org
February 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
On Lawfare Daily, @kevintfrazier.bsky.social spoke to @alexreevegivens.bsky.social, Courtney Lang, and Nema Milaninia about the Paris AI Action Summit, whether it marks a formal pivot away from AI safety to AI security and what an embrace of AI security means for AI governance.
Some boy @johnnyryan.bsky.social. class stuff
NEW: Last year, @johnnyryan.bsky.social made a website for a fake company using a photo of Russian soldiers to purposely elicit suspicion. A US data broker offered him access to thousands of lists of American devices anyway. Many lists targeted US leaders and defense contractors.
Our latest:
Our latest:
Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases
Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
www.wired.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Some boy @johnnyryan.bsky.social. class stuff
We will start seeing people fleeing the US seeking international protection before Trump's presidency ends.
February 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
We will start seeing people fleeing the US seeking international protection before Trump's presidency ends.
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This is great and you should read it:
I got mad at the New York Times after their editorial board released an opinion piece condemning Trump's anti-trans EOs and I decided to write about how the paper of record laundered transphobia into the mainstream and paved the road for Trump's transphobia. www.patreon.com/posts/nyt-ed...
The NYT Editorial Board's Shameless Pro-Trans Stance | Katelyn Burns
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February 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This is great and you should read it:
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2/2 #Project2025 training video:
“It’s probably better to walk down the hall, buttonhole a guy ...as opposed to sending him an email and creating a thread that Accountable.US or one of those other groups is going to come back and seek"
@propublica.org @andykroll.bsky.social @nicksurgey.bsky.social
“It’s probably better to walk down the hall, buttonhole a guy ...as opposed to sending him an email and creating a thread that Accountable.US or one of those other groups is going to come back and seek"
@propublica.org @andykroll.bsky.social @nicksurgey.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
2/2 #Project2025 training video:
“It’s probably better to walk down the hall, buttonhole a guy ...as opposed to sending him an email and creating a thread that Accountable.US or one of those other groups is going to come back and seek"
@propublica.org @andykroll.bsky.social @nicksurgey.bsky.social
“It’s probably better to walk down the hall, buttonhole a guy ...as opposed to sending him an email and creating a thread that Accountable.US or one of those other groups is going to come back and seek"
@propublica.org @andykroll.bsky.social @nicksurgey.bsky.social
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Elon Musk has slashed USAID workforce from 10,000 to 300 in the space of days...
The decimation leaves just 12 people in the agency’s Africa bureau, @knibbs.bsky.social reports
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
The decimation leaves just 12 people in the agency’s Africa bureau, @knibbs.bsky.social reports
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk’s DOGE Decimates Agency
The US government’s primary foreign aid organization is losing the vast majority of its staff, forcing the agency’s lifesaving work to screech to a halt.
www.wired.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Elon Musk has slashed USAID workforce from 10,000 to 300 in the space of days...
The decimation leaves just 12 people in the agency’s Africa bureau, @knibbs.bsky.social reports
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
The decimation leaves just 12 people in the agency’s Africa bureau, @knibbs.bsky.social reports
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
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“…you must be aware that it is not a
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
![February 4, 2025
Edward R. Martin, Jr.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
Patrick Henry Building
601 D Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20530
Transmitted via email
Re: Threats to prosecute critics of DOGE
Dear Interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Edward R. Martin, Jr.:
We write to raise serious concerns about your recent public statements threatening to prosecute those who
"target" or "impede" Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Executive Office of the President. We request that you publicly commit to abide by the First Amendment, which your office is sworn to uphold and Musk himself claims to champion, in any DOGE-related investigations or prosecutions you may pursue.
On Monday, you tweeted a letter to Musk asking him to use the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia to protect DOGE staff and their work and directing him to refer "any questionable conduct or details that [Musk] find[s] or notice[s]" to your office.' In the letter, you assert that "actions in any way that impact [DOGE's] work may break numerous laws," and that you commit to the pursuit of
"all legal action against anyone who impedes [Musk's) work or threatens [Musk's] people." You also state that you will "protect DOGE and other workers no matter what," citing past protests in Washington, D.C., which you refer to as riots.
As you know, DOGE, or the United States DOGE Service as it is formally known, is a government entity established within the Executive Office of the President; by executive order, DOGE is supposed to access only "unclassified agency records." The day before your letter, WIRED reported about and named six young engineers working for DOGE — Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. The experience and qualifications of public employees is of significant public interest.
Following this news report, a user on X — the social media platform owned by Mr. Musk — made a post also naming th…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreibo4srxmqoq44eo4bp5wyc26moq2mvevrpvyul5eibwjeh6l6acia@jpeg)
![X has since suspended the account of the user who posted the names.
As an experienced attorney holding such an important public position, you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the First Amendment protects the right to publish newsworthy information that the publisher lawfully obtains, including names far more sensitive than those of government personnel.' Musk himself has publicly touted DOGE's engineers while citing "media reports" regarding them.
Nor is it a crime to harshly criticize government employees and officials, even if transparency and criticism "impede" their work? Moreover, while certain true threats are unprotected and may be criminally punished, they are limited to serious expression[s]' conveying that a speaker means to
'commit an act of unlawful violence."$ Hyperbolic speech, even using threatening language, is entitled to full First Amendment protection.'
You must also surely be aware that the First Amendment protects Americans' right to peaceably assemble, especially to protest government actions.' The First Amendment severely constrains the government's ability to limit protests in public forums, such as the public streets of Washington, D.C." The government also cannot ban or restrict future protests based on unlawful conduct alleged to have occurred at past protests. 2
Threatening to prosecute First Amendment speech and activity is not only at odds with the U.S.
Constitution, it is also entirely inconsistent with Musk's own stated principles and the right of the American people to know what the government is up to. Musk describes himself as a free speech absolutist and has proposed a massive declassification of government records, opining that all government records should be public by default. '3 Just three months ago, Musk publicly posted…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreigtzd6v5yrwc6ikbo6jmt77r4yc5oikqeop4g3a6qswpxbhjtzxuq@jpeg)
![government employees with whom he disagrees on X.' If it is Musk's intention for the U.S. Attorney's Office to censor the press and public from identifying and discussing those conducting DOGE's work on his behalf, that would be incredibly hypocritical.
It is also vital that the U.S. Attorney's Office maintain the highest ethical standards and avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Rule 3.1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for the Washington, D.C. Bar, of which you are a member, states: "A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous."Is Under Rule 3.8, prosecutors are additionally prohibited from filing in court or maintaining a charge "that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause."l6 The same rule provides that "[i]n exercising discretion to investigate or to prosecute," prosecutors shall not "improperly favor or invidiously discriminate against any person."17
Threatening to file frivolous charges against Americans and vaguely insinuating that wide swaths of constitutionally-protected speech and activity could invite criminal investigations and prosecutions may already violate these and other rules of professional conduct. Actually doing so almost certainly would.
Additionally, publicly offering the Office of the U.S. Attorney's services to Musk in the context of his asserting that protected expression is a criminal act is unbecoming of your public office and your duties as a public servant. Your oath is to the U.S. Constitution - including the First Amendment - not to President Donald Trump, Musk, or DOGE's desire to operate in secrecy and without criticism.
We request that you immediately (a) identify the specific "targeting" of DOGE staff your letter to Musk was referring to and what specific laws you contend it violated, (b) publicly commit to not investigate or prosecute journalists or others for reporting on or publish…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreihjaig2236xfdb6rhe5u5644xzvjc5p2lva7fkj6rc3z3sthfswbi@jpeg)
February 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“…you must be aware that it is not a
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”
crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”