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This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
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“It’s all connected. We are living through an information crisis. It’s what underpins everything.”
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Dublin City Council now posting on BlueSky - this ⬇️ is their second post! - if you’d like to follow/support them being here.
🎶 TradFest 2026 lights up Dublin this Saturday! Enjoy free pop‑up sets from Declan Coles, The Knockadollys, Reylta and Seán Collins across the city. Follow the music and feel the energy of Dublin. Full programme: tradfest.com #TradFest2026
January 24, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Dublin City Council now posting on BlueSky - this ⬇️ is their second post! - if you’d like to follow/support them being here.
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‘Depravity’: US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl
‘Depravity’: US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl
Homeland Security detains toddler and her father and flies them to Texas before returning child on judge’s order
www.irishtimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:43 AM
‘Depravity’: US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl
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What ICE is discovering is that sheer terror is not enough, and any policing of a large population needs the consent or at least the forbearance/cooperation of the community.
Even the Gestapo and Stasi knew this.
Turning the local population actively against you is Keystone capers.
Even the Gestapo and Stasi knew this.
Turning the local population actively against you is Keystone capers.
January 23, 2026 at 7:44 PM
What ICE is discovering is that sheer terror is not enough, and any policing of a large population needs the consent or at least the forbearance/cooperation of the community.
Even the Gestapo and Stasi knew this.
Turning the local population actively against you is Keystone capers.
Even the Gestapo and Stasi knew this.
Turning the local population actively against you is Keystone capers.
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It doesn't always work. People are being abducted every day here, including while being observed. But if people can gather fast enough, it seems to usually work.
January 23, 2026 at 7:20 PM
It doesn't always work. People are being abducted every day here, including while being observed. But if people can gather fast enough, it seems to usually work.
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Police have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”
January 23, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Police have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”
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It has been clear for decades now that politicians, businesses, and the public are failing to make the obvious link between climate impacts we can be highly certain are coming and what they are likely to mean at the societal, economic, and security level.
January 23, 2026 at 12:40 PM
It has been clear for decades now that politicians, businesses, and the public are failing to make the obvious link between climate impacts we can be highly certain are coming and what they are likely to mean at the societal, economic, and security level.
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Dublin City Council’s use of X to stop ‘with immediate effect’, says chief executive
Dublin City Council’s use of X to stop ‘with immediate effect’, says chief executive
Council’s presence on all social media platforms to be reviewed
www.irishtimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Dublin City Council’s use of X to stop ‘with immediate effect’, says chief executive
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We've pulled together a starter pack of Irish Times journalists. We'll update this as more people join the conversation go.bsky.app/PTDxzT1
The Irish Times Journo pack
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November 28, 2024 at 10:19 AM
We've pulled together a starter pack of Irish Times journalists. We'll update this as more people join the conversation go.bsky.app/PTDxzT1
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Remember that joke that Dublin City Council hates Dublin and everyone in it?
January 23, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Remember that joke that Dublin City Council hates Dublin and everyone in it?
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Would be great to see all other Irish universities and colleges follow this example @tudublin.bsky.social
@atu-ie.bsky.social disengaged last week from X with immediate effect. My own personal account signposted a move to @bsky.app over twelve month ago. Starting to see movement from many organisations in Ireland now, I believe in the right direction.
January 22, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Would be great to see all other Irish universities and colleges follow this example @tudublin.bsky.social
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I'm trying a new "rule" lately - I have to take some action for the world I want (a call, a donation, help a neighbor) before I allow myself to settle in to scroll bad news.
I joined the Green Party and I got involved. And being in places where there are other people who want change - and doing stuff together.
That community will ground you and make you feel seen and saner.
That community will ground you and make you feel seen and saner.
January 22, 2026 at 8:50 PM
I'm trying a new "rule" lately - I have to take some action for the world I want (a call, a donation, help a neighbor) before I allow myself to settle in to scroll bad news.
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Please read this piece by my incredible colleague @maanvisingh.bsky.social. It's such a critically imporant account of her experience in MN and captures the horror of what is happening in its totality and with necessary context www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Minneapolis leaders call the ICE surge a ‘siege’. My reporting from there concurs
After covering Trump’s immigration policies from Chicago and LA, the Twin Cities operation feels like a marked escalation
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Please read this piece by my incredible colleague @maanvisingh.bsky.social. It's such a critically imporant account of her experience in MN and captures the horror of what is happening in its totality and with necessary context www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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these guys are really excellent at political communication (guess it's easy when you're right)
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 10:08 PM
these guys are really excellent at political communication (guess it's easy when you're right)
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at this point, i'm increasingly tempted to move to a typewriter
January 22, 2026 at 4:34 PM
at this point, i'm increasingly tempted to move to a typewriter
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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What ICE is doing in the United States Nigel Farage has told us he wants to do in the United Kingdom.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:55 PM
What ICE is doing in the United States Nigel Farage has told us he wants to do in the United Kingdom.
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The photojournalists at the Minnesota Star Tribune are showing up and doing Pulitzer-level work in this absolutely hellish moment.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 10:17 PM
The photojournalists at the Minnesota Star Tribune are showing up and doing Pulitzer-level work in this absolutely hellish moment.
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Seriously, WHEREVER you are in the world, I recommend watching all of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s powerful & already famous speech at Davos.
Can’t underestimate its leadership importance.
Key line: “Middle powers must work together, because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”
Can’t underestimate its leadership importance.
Key line: “Middle powers must work together, because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”
FULL SPEECH: PM Carney’s Most Inspiring Remarks at Davos — Greenland, Trump Tariff Threats | AQ1B
YouTube video by DRM News
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January 21, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Seriously, WHEREVER you are in the world, I recommend watching all of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s powerful & already famous speech at Davos.
Can’t underestimate its leadership importance.
Key line: “Middle powers must work together, because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”
Can’t underestimate its leadership importance.
Key line: “Middle powers must work together, because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”
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First Stoneybatter Book Swap of the year! 11am-12.30pm Saturday 31st January at An Siol, ground floor, 19 Manor St. All very welcome, for book browsing, book donating or just a chat.
January 21, 2026 at 5:29 PM
First Stoneybatter Book Swap of the year! 11am-12.30pm Saturday 31st January at An Siol, ground floor, 19 Manor St. All very welcome, for book browsing, book donating or just a chat.
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“A haunting literary mystery set in Dublin’s Stoneybatter — where memory, family, and the ghosts of Chicken Lane refuse to stay buried.” - Coming in 2026
January 20, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“A haunting literary mystery set in Dublin’s Stoneybatter — where memory, family, and the ghosts of Chicken Lane refuse to stay buried.” - Coming in 2026
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👏😂 People want to join the EU. Nobody wants to join China or US.
Well played Belgian PM Bart De Wever.
Well played Belgian PM Bart De Wever.
January 21, 2026 at 5:16 PM
👏😂 People want to join the EU. Nobody wants to join China or US.
Well played Belgian PM Bart De Wever.
Well played Belgian PM Bart De Wever.
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In the face of European leader after European leader meekly invoking “rules-based order”, “international law”, “closely monitoring”, “the UN Charter”…
It’s almost alien to see someone say “yeah, no, that was a lie and we all knew it.”
It’s almost alien to see someone say “yeah, no, that was a lie and we all knew it.”
January 21, 2026 at 8:43 AM
In the face of European leader after European leader meekly invoking “rules-based order”, “international law”, “closely monitoring”, “the UN Charter”…
It’s almost alien to see someone say “yeah, no, that was a lie and we all knew it.”
It’s almost alien to see someone say “yeah, no, that was a lie and we all knew it.”
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Mark Carney's speech is now only the second most acute analysis of where the world is at right now:
January 21, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Mark Carney's speech is now only the second most acute analysis of where the world is at right now:
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I did enjoy the bit where he called windmills "losers"
January 21, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I did enjoy the bit where he called windmills "losers"
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I keep reflecting on the surrealness of Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, invoking an anti-communist essay by Vaclav Havel to declare at Davos that the American-led neoliberal capitalist world order is a “lie”
January 21, 2026 at 3:12 AM
I keep reflecting on the surrealness of Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, invoking an anti-communist essay by Vaclav Havel to declare at Davos that the American-led neoliberal capitalist world order is a “lie”