Máirtin Ó’Caoiṁ (O’Keeffe)
@mokeeffee.bsky.social
Irish European. Located in England. Planning move to Spain over next 3 years.
History/Politics/Media
History/Politics/Media
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Tariffs apply to goods, not services. Zero in on the goods-producing sector, and you'll discover that it's hemorrhaging jobs. Indeed, the start of the trade war marks the peak in that sector, and it's been in recession ever since.
November 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Tariffs apply to goods, not services. Zero in on the goods-producing sector, and you'll discover that it's hemorrhaging jobs. Indeed, the start of the trade war marks the peak in that sector, and it's been in recession ever since.
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This is outrageous from Keir Starmer.
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
news.sky.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This is outrageous from Keir Starmer.
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
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Michael Martin should have been clearer, telling the Russian war criminal to mind her own business.
It does highlight the ridiculous situation where Russia can veto Ireland’s use of its defence forces.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
It does highlight the ridiculous situation where Russia can veto Ireland’s use of its defence forces.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Kremlin claim on Irish neutrality 'nonsense' - Taoiseach
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has described as "nonsense" a claim from the Kremlin that Ireland is losing its neutrality.
www.rte.ie
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Michael Martin should have been clearer, telling the Russian war criminal to mind her own business.
It does highlight the ridiculous situation where Russia can veto Ireland’s use of its defence forces.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
It does highlight the ridiculous situation where Russia can veto Ireland’s use of its defence forces.
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
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Reversal of their bigoted policy - failed before it began.
🔗 www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Another #TrumpFail
🔗 www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Another #TrumpFail
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reversal of their bigoted policy - failed before it began.
🔗 www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Another #TrumpFail
🔗 www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
Another #TrumpFail
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So, without much ado, we've kind of lost the first major city to climate change. (Tehran, metropolitan area 15 million people.)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian: “When we proposed relocating the capital, we lacked the budget…
“People said it was impossible, but now it’s no longer optional.
“We can’t keep adding population and construction here. Expansion is possible, but the water problem cannot be solved.”
“People said it was impossible, but now it’s no longer optional.
“We can’t keep adding population and construction here. Expansion is possible, but the water problem cannot be solved.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
So, without much ado, we've kind of lost the first major city to climate change. (Tehran, metropolitan area 15 million people.)
The media still giving the Reform leadership team a free pass on this. UK not a serious country. If this was another European country there would be numerous articles calling out leaders.
on.ft.com/3LSzn0H Former leader of Reform UK in Wales jailed over pro-Russian bribes
on.ft.com/3LSzn0H Former leader of Reform UK in Wales jailed over pro-Russian bribes
Former leader of Reform UK in Wales jailed over pro-Russian bribes
Nathan Gill sentenced to 10 and a half years for statements made in the European parliament
on.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The media still giving the Reform leadership team a free pass on this. UK not a serious country. If this was another European country there would be numerous articles calling out leaders.
on.ft.com/3LSzn0H Former leader of Reform UK in Wales jailed over pro-Russian bribes
on.ft.com/3LSzn0H Former leader of Reform UK in Wales jailed over pro-Russian bribes
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EU explores cutting costs of carbon border tax on UK electricity producers
Client Challenge
www.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
EU explores cutting costs of carbon border tax on UK electricity producers
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'Doesn’t want to go there': Trump ego stunts White House plan to course-correct on economy
www.alternet.org
'Doesn’t want to go there': Trump ego stunts White House plan to course-correct on economy
twp.ai
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
'Doesn’t want to go there': Trump ego stunts White House plan to course-correct on economy
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Nigel Farage now says his former school colleagues have "mis-rembered" him singing vile "Gas 'em all" Nazi songs...Seems odd that they all misremembered the same thing....
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Nigel Farage now says his former school colleagues have "mis-rembered" him singing vile "Gas 'em all" Nazi songs...Seems odd that they all misremembered the same thing....
Wet Leg @ Portsmouth Guildhall
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Wet Leg @ Portsmouth Guildhall
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The "Dominic Cummings is a genius" types were worse than Dominic Cummings because they enabled Dominic Cummings.
The "Boris Johnson is a genius" types were worse than Boris Johnson because they enabled Boris Johnson.
Now go away and write that out a thousand times.
The "Boris Johnson is a genius" types were worse than Boris Johnson because they enabled Boris Johnson.
Now go away and write that out a thousand times.
November 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The "Dominic Cummings is a genius" types were worse than Dominic Cummings because they enabled Dominic Cummings.
The "Boris Johnson is a genius" types were worse than Boris Johnson because they enabled Boris Johnson.
Now go away and write that out a thousand times.
The "Boris Johnson is a genius" types were worse than Boris Johnson because they enabled Boris Johnson.
Now go away and write that out a thousand times.
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Gosh. What a shock.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Dominic Cummings ‘poisoned the atmosphere’ of Boris Johnson’s No 10, Covid inquiry finds
Report from inquiry’s second module also says Johnson as PM ‘at times actively encouraged’ chaotic culture
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Gosh. What a shock.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
He is insane.
Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behaviour’ punishable by death over video.
Gift article
on.ft.com/4r2lz3E Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behaviour’ punishable by death over video
Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behaviour’ punishable by death over video.
Gift article
on.ft.com/4r2lz3E Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behaviour’ punishable by death over video
Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behaviour’ punishable by death over video
Threat comes after lawmakers tell members of US military that they must refuse illegal orders
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
He is insane.
Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behaviour’ punishable by death over video.
Gift article
on.ft.com/4r2lz3E Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behaviour’ punishable by death over video
Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behaviour’ punishable by death over video.
Gift article
on.ft.com/4r2lz3E Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behaviour’ punishable by death over video
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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*Pops over to X* Has he? Has he been? YES! He's published an 1,835-word tweet rebuttal of a report he hasn't read!
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
*Pops over to X* Has he? Has he been? YES! He's published an 1,835-word tweet rebuttal of a report he hasn't read!
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Mortgage repossession orders in England and Wales reached 10,853 in 2024-5 - the highest number in five years.
Tragedy for thousands - years of austerity, real wage cuts, insecure jobs, over-lending, hike in house prices by builders and estate agents.
Bankers profit from repossessions.
Tragedy for thousands - years of austerity, real wage cuts, insecure jobs, over-lending, hike in house prices by builders and estate agents.
Bankers profit from repossessions.
Stories from court as home repossessions hit five-year high
BBC journalists in the East of England and London attended various county courts as mortgage-holders and renters appeared in front of judges.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Mortgage repossession orders in England and Wales reached 10,853 in 2024-5 - the highest number in five years.
Tragedy for thousands - years of austerity, real wage cuts, insecure jobs, over-lending, hike in house prices by builders and estate agents.
Bankers profit from repossessions.
Tragedy for thousands - years of austerity, real wage cuts, insecure jobs, over-lending, hike in house prices by builders and estate agents.
Bankers profit from repossessions.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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If the pro-life and anti-Christian persecution groups truly believe in their causes, why are they quiet about the president hosting a tyrant at the White House who had a man brutally assassinated and dismembered and who is part of a regime that persecutes Christians?
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
If the pro-life and anti-Christian persecution groups truly believe in their causes, why are they quiet about the president hosting a tyrant at the White House who had a man brutally assassinated and dismembered and who is part of a regime that persecutes Christians?
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I'd say if you charged the platforms one day's revenue for every breach it would lead to some rapid innovation...
RTE news : Tackling AI deepfakes like 'whack-a-mole' - Art O'Leary
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
RTE news : Tackling AI deepfakes like 'whack-a-mole' - Art O'Leary
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Tackling AI deepfakes like 'whack-a-mole' - Art O'Leary
The head of the Electoral Commission, An Coimisiún Toghcháin, has said that tackling election deepfake videos is like "whack-a-mole" because they can pop up all over the internet.
www.rte.ie
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I'd say if you charged the platforms one day's revenue for every breach it would lead to some rapid innovation...
RTE news : Tackling AI deepfakes like 'whack-a-mole' - Art O'Leary
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
RTE news : Tackling AI deepfakes like 'whack-a-mole' - Art O'Leary
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...