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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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There speaks man who sees power thru property ownership lens.

asked why he needed to own Greenland: “that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success … ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do with … a lease or a treaty. “

Debases treaties too

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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I'm sorry to keep posting about this but this should be a government-destroying scandal at this point. How the fuck are you not coming down like a ton of bricks on this? There could hardly be a less ambiguous situation, and yet...!!!
My word. (Again.)

Media Minister Patrick O'Donovan: "At the end of the day, it's the choice of a person to make these images... technology is moving so fast... even if the law is changed there's no doubt about... the advances are far faster than law is able to respond..."
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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Well-installed heat pumps installed in the UK today achieve on average a 64% higher efficiency than those during the early trials 15 years ago.

It is testament to the brilliant installers and to the technology getting better. More in our recent paper:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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This Minister intervened personally to maintain the live animal crib in Dublin, so surely he'll intervene to stop the production of CSAM, right?
Would love someone to ask the Minister who wants to introduce mass online surveillance to "protect children" to justify the government's continued use of X.

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
January 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
January 7, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
www.forbes.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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Geez I'm starting to get worried about our pals the library protestors. No word from them about X running a child porn suicide machine. Have they been silenced in Irish children's hour of need?
January 6, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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The justifications for the invasion of Venezuela from both US govt figures and pundits are a reminder that the US political establishment regards *all the world's resources* as belonging to America by divine right.
January 6, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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He's just a blatant liar, pure and simple.
The US president used to loudly oppose regime change and nation-building but now he loves it - and we have the receipts in this video.

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January 6, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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Tánaiste Simon Harris this evening asked if he'd delete his X account in light of the creation and sharing of non-consensual sexualised images of children and women on Grok, says he'll have to reflect on it.
January 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Simon Harris to continue posting on the child sexual abuse image generating site but shaking his head so people know he disagrees
January 6, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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The same goes for people who express a new-found concern for the poor when an energy transition beckons. They attempt this gambit even today, when renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels.
In reality, such people couldn't give a damn about the planet, or poverty. They are concern trolls.
January 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Many of those who complain about mining for batteries / solar / wind power have curiously never raised a squeak about the far greater extraction required for fossil energy. Funny how they become concerned about the planet only when fossil fuel interests are threatened.
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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Five years ago today.
January 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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OMG, RTÉ is copy-n-pasting the yellow journalism that sane-washes this crime straight onto its website.
January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Which is more dangerous: fascist thugs like Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin behaving as if they're above international law, or democratic governments blatantly appeasing them and their gross violations?

Without change, there's good reason to be very scared of what all this portends for the future.
OMG, RTÉ is copy-n-pasting the yellow journalism that sane-washes this crime straight onto its website.
January 5, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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“Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Fiona Hill testified to Congress in 2019 that Russia was “signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap agreement between Venezuela & Ukraine.” In other words… U.S. could have #Venezuela if we let Russia have #Ukraine.”
#spéirghorm
January 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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On most days I interact with a lot of people who don't keep up with the news AT ALL and I feel like I need to become some kind of town crier with them. It's a heck of a moment to be that disconnected.
January 5, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
January 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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You'll be amazed to hear that on the stock market

Chevron ⬆️9%
Halliburton ⬆️10%
Exxon ⬆️4%
ConocoPhillips ⬆️8%
January 5, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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The pardon for Hernandez makes an obvious & absolute mockery of each & every attempt to rationalise, or even justify, Trump's treatment of Maduro. I'm not sure this single, simple point can be stressed enough. Once again, he proves his critics right & reduces his supporters to epic moral corruption.
January 5, 2026 at 9:04 AM