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French speaking. Irish 🇮🇪 Interested in politics and History ‘n all things French and my cats and wee dog.
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Ireland is claiming Rosie O’Donnell as one of our fiercest warriors, if only on the basis of her cogent wit (“Joffrey with a spray tan”)
July 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Ireland is claiming Rosie O’Donnell as one of our fiercest warriors, if only on the basis of her cogent wit (“Joffrey with a spray tan”)
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Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started | Jordana Timerman
Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started | Jordana Timerman
Nayib Bukele has shown how brutal control can be sustained not just through force, but by raising the cost of speaking out, says journalist Jordana Timerman
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started | Jordana Timerman
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The brain drain of US universities begins.
The brain drain of US universities begins.
Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
The brain drain of US universities begins.
The brain drain of US universities begins.
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Says it all!
April 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Says it all!
Hits the nail on the head yet again. 😂
April 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Hits the nail on the head yet again. 😂
The orange bufoon has blinked!
April 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The orange bufoon has blinked!
Where will this end? “Emperor Nero” also looking like the the “Emperor without clothes”…
A violent US Treasury selloff, evoking the COVID-era ‘dash for cash,’ has reignited fears of fragility in the world’s biggest bond market reut.rs/3YplHxr
Sharp US bond selloff revives flashbacks of COVID-era 'dash-for-cash'
A violent U.S. Treasury selloff, evoking the COVID-era "dash for cash," has reignited fears of fragility in the world’s biggest bond market.
reut.rs
April 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Where will this end? “Emperor Nero” also looking like the the “Emperor without clothes”…
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April 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Excellent thread. Wow. Wonder if Trump being shown any of this! Doubtful. No doubt keeping him in his gilded throne
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A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
April 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Excellent thread. Wow. Wonder if Trump being shown any of this! Doubtful. No doubt keeping him in his gilded throne
Love this
So proud of my culture. Happy Paddy's.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=riXc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=riXc...
The Muppet Show - Danny Boy
YouTube video by Eletrodo
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March 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Love this
Let’s MEGA!
Fund managers have said that Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda has instead unleashed a Make Europe Great Again trade that is reordering global financial markets. www.ft.com/content/2e81...
March 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Let’s MEGA!
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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Ex-Finnish PM, Sanna Marin, in The Economist - "To start, Europe must rid itself of the dangerous illusion that it is weak—and stop acting like it” 👏👏👏
February 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Ex-Finnish PM, Sanna Marin, in The Economist - "To start, Europe must rid itself of the dangerous illusion that it is weak—and stop acting like it” 👏👏👏
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The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan...
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-papua-...
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-papua-...
The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan
To America where Elon Musk, the world’s most economically wealthy and spiritually impoverished man, is staging a coup.
mrhenrymorris.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The Papua New Guinea Courier's overseas correspondent on America's Coup Klux Klan...
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-papua-...
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-papua-...
From Le Monde
Maarten Wolterink (Pays-Bas) Cartooning for Peace
Maarten Wolterink (Pays-Bas) Cartooning for Peace
January 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
From Le Monde
Maarten Wolterink (Pays-Bas) Cartooning for Peace
Maarten Wolterink (Pays-Bas) Cartooning for Peace