Davin O'Dwyer
@davinodwyer.bsky.social
Head of Content at Workvivo by Zoom. Dublin-based writer and editor.
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When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!
Such terribly sad news. One of those cultural forces who make all our lives richer. RIP Manchán Magan
Manchán Magan: writer and documentary maker dies aged 55
Manchán Magan: writer and documentary maker dies aged 55
Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair
www.irishtimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Such terribly sad news. One of those cultural forces who make all our lives richer. RIP Manchán Magan
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Good lord, these dudes will never understand that the whole *point* of the "cancel culture" moral panic in which they participated was to create a permission structure for the current crackdown.
Chait et al were used, precisely to produce this outcome, & they'll never, ever look it in the face.
Chait et al were used, precisely to produce this outcome, & they'll never, ever look it in the face.
The Emptiness of Attacking Critics for Their Hypocrisy
It’s hard to defend crackdowns on free speech. It’s easier to simply claim everyone’s doing it.
www.theatlantic.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Good lord, these dudes will never understand that the whole *point* of the "cancel culture" moral panic in which they participated was to create a permission structure for the current crackdown.
Chait et al were used, precisely to produce this outcome, & they'll never, ever look it in the face.
Chait et al were used, precisely to produce this outcome, & they'll never, ever look it in the face.
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Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.
September 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.
1,000% this. The gullibility of those who bought into the entire “Campus Free Speech Crisis” project is staggering.
If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.
September 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
1,000% this. The gullibility of those who bought into the entire “Campus Free Speech Crisis” project is staggering.
Don’t know why I’m finding it so hard to believe that Redford has died. He seemed somewhat eternal, like a famous painting or sculpture, always familiar and reassuring. RIP.
Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
Redford achieved huge critical and commercial success in the 60s and 70s with a string of hits including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and The Sting, before becoming an Oscar-win...
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Don’t know why I’m finding it so hard to believe that Redford has died. He seemed somewhat eternal, like a famous painting or sculpture, always familiar and reassuring. RIP.
Wise words as always from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social - hard to see what will prevent the escalation in political violence we’re witnessing.
The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire
The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire
The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink
thomaszimmer.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Wise words as always from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social - hard to see what will prevent the escalation in political violence we’re witnessing.
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Watch: they're going to develop & execute a plan to steal the election right in front of us, in public, because they know courts won't stop them, they know Dems won't fight, and they know media will never call it what it is. At this point why would they think anything else?
😡 It’s starting again. “The president’s authority is limited in his role w/ regard to elections except where there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the US — as I think…we can establish w/ the porous system that we have,’ said [Cleta] Mitchell…on a podcast hosted by…Tony Perkins.” 9/3/25 1/
Cleta Mitchell Thinks Trump Will Use Emergency Powers to Take Control of Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Watch: they're going to develop & execute a plan to steal the election right in front of us, in public, because they know courts won't stop them, they know Dems won't fight, and they know media will never call it what it is. At this point why would they think anything else?
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This now exceeds the building damage recorded in Hiroshima. www.icanw.org/hiroshima_an...
The UN’s satellite centre (Unosat) has published its most recent assessment of damage in Gaza: around 78% of buildings there were damaged or destroyed by Israel by July this year. More than 40% completely destroyed. Here's an example of what that looks like in Abasan al-Kabira in the south.
August 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This now exceeds the building damage recorded in Hiroshima. www.icanw.org/hiroshima_an...
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Dr Morgan McMonagle: As a surgeon in Ireland, I had never seen “wounded child, no surviving family” on a hospital chart
Dr Morgan McMonagle: As a surgeon in Ireland, I had never seen “wounded child, no surviving family” on a hospital chart
A former colleague in Gaza is getting his children to lick salt before bed to stave off the hunger pangs. Even last spring, children were eating weeds and grass
www.irishtimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Dr Morgan McMonagle: As a surgeon in Ireland, I had never seen “wounded child, no surviving family” on a hospital chart
In decades to come, right-minded people will wonder how this was allowed to happen.
Mass starvation spreading across Gaza as supplies sit outside enclave, aid groups warn
Norwegian Refugee Council among more than 100 organisations calling for governments to take action
www.irishtimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In decades to come, right-minded people will wonder how this was allowed to happen.
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Every day, the same story, the same moral pit. The fall of this murderous government can't come soon enough. The only suitable place for Netenyahu is in court for war crimes.
Gaza: More than 30 people killed 'as Israeli troops open fire towards Palestinians waiting for aid'
Gaza: More than 30 people killed 'as Israeli troops open fire towards Palestinians waiting for aid'
More than 30 people have been killed after Israeli troops opened fire towards crowds of Palestinians waiting for aid, according to witnesses and hospital officials.
news.sky.com
July 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Every day, the same story, the same moral pit. The fall of this murderous government can't come soon enough. The only suitable place for Netenyahu is in court for war crimes.
The US is facing a turning point, as Paul Krugman clearly describes here. Civilian protesters are going to die at the hand of US troops, I fear. And I don’t see how the country pulls back from the brink - things can get much worse before they improve.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-no...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-no...
This Is Not a Drill
American democracy is on the line right now
paulkrugman.substack.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The US is facing a turning point, as Paul Krugman clearly describes here. Civilian protesters are going to die at the hand of US troops, I fear. And I don’t see how the country pulls back from the brink - things can get much worse before they improve.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-no...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-no...
This is a fantastic essay by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social about the hypocrisy of the “brave truth tellers” in our public discourse. Nails their cowardice perfectly.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ideas-that...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ideas-that...
Ideas That Cannot Be Spoken
Spotting cowards in the public discourse.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
April 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is a fantastic essay by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social about the hypocrisy of the “brave truth tellers” in our public discourse. Nails their cowardice perfectly.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ideas-that...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ideas-that...
The Unlightenment.
Historians will propose in due course a name for this current phase we are witnessing in the United States. My early submission: The Great Dismantling.
April 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Unlightenment.
Such sad news. Really loved Kevin Drum’s writing - he was a great political blogger, and a reliably independent thinker. He also discussed his illness with admirable frankness. Feels like a terrible loss, at this time in particular.
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Health Update - Kevin Drum
With a heavy heart, I have to tell you that after a long battle with cancer my husband Kevin Drum passed away on Friday, March 7, 2025. No public memorial services are planned. In lieu of flowers, ple...
jabberwocking.com
March 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Such sad news. Really loved Kevin Drum’s writing - he was a great political blogger, and a reliably independent thinker. He also discussed his illness with admirable frankness. Feels like a terrible loss, at this time in particular.
jabberwocking.com/health-updat...
jabberwocking.com/health-updat...
Good piece from @davidfrum.bsky.social here. Every Trump voter is culpable in this fiasco - it was crystal clear that Trump was going to do Putin’s bidding in this and every other matter. Dark days ahead.
Sunk in shame for this un-American administration and its cowardly enablers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
At Least Now We Know the Truth
The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Good piece from @davidfrum.bsky.social here. Every Trump voter is culpable in this fiasco - it was crystal clear that Trump was going to do Putin’s bidding in this and every other matter. Dark days ahead.
The “Russia Hoax” doesn’t look like such a hoax anymore. Trump is behaving like Putin’s pet, as has been the case since 2016. We can all guess why someone so desperate to appear dominant is happy to look so deferential to Putin.
"The US is opposing calling Russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine" - shocking stuff from @christopherjm.ft.com on just how quickly the Trump administration is swinging behind Putin's Russia. www.ft.com/content/7380...
US objects to calling out ‘Russian aggression’ in G7 statement on Ukraine
Trump administration splits with allies on holding Moscow responsible for war
www.ft.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The “Russia Hoax” doesn’t look like such a hoax anymore. Trump is behaving like Putin’s pet, as has been the case since 2016. We can all guess why someone so desperate to appear dominant is happy to look so deferential to Putin.
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So, this is very far down the list of things horribly wrong with this infamous scene, but isn’t “Say it’s carol singers” a pretty bad tactic for trying to scheme some alone time to make a gross profession of love to your friend’s new wife? Wouldn’t most people respond “oh cool, I’ll come listen”?
December 17, 2024 at 5:00 AM
So, this is very far down the list of things horribly wrong with this infamous scene, but isn’t “Say it’s carol singers” a pretty bad tactic for trying to scheme some alone time to make a gross profession of love to your friend’s new wife? Wouldn’t most people respond “oh cool, I’ll come listen”?
Spot-on analysis from @hlinehan.bsky.social here. Without the illusion of choice once offered by FF-FG, the next few elections could lead to serious disaffection. Who knows what sort of realignment lies in store for us, but we can’t be complacent about the dangers such disaffection can stir up.
‘Our system of proportional representation is praised – rightly – for incentivising consensus and civility. But it can also lead to entropy.’ My article in today’s Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
Hugh Linehan: Beneath the vote for stability and small-c conservatism, darker currents are stirring
Our system of PR is praised for incentivising consensus and civility. But it can also lead to entropy – a gradual decline into uncertainty and disorder
www.irishtimes.com
December 3, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Spot-on analysis from @hlinehan.bsky.social here. Without the illusion of choice once offered by FF-FG, the next few elections could lead to serious disaffection. Who knows what sort of realignment lies in store for us, but we can’t be complacent about the dangers such disaffection can stir up.
“Housewife of the Year” is genuinely one of the best films about Ireland I’ve ever seen - it’s both hilarious and unsettling, generous and scathing. This country was an oppressive theocracy, where women were the primary victims. This doc shows us what that felt like in practice. Must watch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Between 1967 and 1995, Housewife of the Year, an annual competition for housewives, took place in Ireland.
Our new documentary tells the story of not only the competition, but of a remarkable, resilient generation of women.
Go see this uniquely Irish film in cinemas this weekend 💕
November 22, 2024 at 12:19 PM
“Housewife of the Year” is genuinely one of the best films about Ireland I’ve ever seen - it’s both hilarious and unsettling, generous and scathing. This country was an oppressive theocracy, where women were the primary victims. This doc shows us what that felt like in practice. Must watch ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️