Ruairí Newman
@rnewman.ie
Irish 🇮🇪🇪🇺. Bibliophile & IT workaholic.
#ADHD #Autism. #Liberal as fuck. #Sweary
Trans Rights are Human Rights. 🏳️⚧️
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Fuck Putin.
For humans, by a human; AI regurgitates, not creates.
#ADHD #Autism. #Liberal as fuck. #Sweary
Trans Rights are Human Rights. 🏳️⚧️
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Fuck Putin.
For humans, by a human; AI regurgitates, not creates.
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Ruairí Newman
@rnewman.ie
· Dec 7
Ideologically, I’ve been anti-violence most—if not all—of my life. However, I’m becoming more and more convinced that in the case where you have groups of people loudly advocating for policies to remove basic human rights from people on the basis of protected attributes, it can be necessary. (1/2)
Two Russian shadow fleet tankers in the Black Sea are burning. It seems they were hit by Ukrainian drones, opening up a new front in the naval war, so that justifies an #explodey
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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SAY NO to #Musk, #Bezos, #Trump & co. It’s time to #EndOligarchy. Imagine a world where wisdom & empathy lift us up, while #greed & #hoarding are left behind. Collaboration beats #exploitation, and competence trumps #grift. The future is ours to build—let’s make it bright.
#WealthTax #Limitarianism
#WealthTax #Limitarianism
Why Stupid People Become Successful
YouTube video by According to Nicole
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August 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
SAY NO to #Musk, #Bezos, #Trump & co. It’s time to #EndOligarchy. Imagine a world where wisdom & empathy lift us up, while #greed & #hoarding are left behind. Collaboration beats #exploitation, and competence trumps #grift. The future is ours to build—let’s make it bright.
#WealthTax #Limitarianism
#WealthTax #Limitarianism
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A little-known process that requires insurers to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
External reviews are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them.
By @deldeib.bsky.social
External reviews are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them.
By @deldeib.bsky.social
This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
www.propublica.org
October 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A little-known process that requires insurers to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
External reviews are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them.
By @deldeib.bsky.social
External reviews are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them.
By @deldeib.bsky.social
I live in #Oldcastle, Co Meath. While the usual racist dickheads are spouting off about the racist “protest” here on 24th Sept, a significant majority of the people who protested were not from Oldcastle. There were cars from outside the town clogging up the whole town, as well as at least one bus.
October 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I live in #Oldcastle, Co Meath. While the usual racist dickheads are spouting off about the racist “protest” here on 24th Sept, a significant majority of the people who protested were not from Oldcastle. There were cars from outside the town clogging up the whole town, as well as at least one bus.
From Reagan to Trump: the inexorable and execrable descent of the USA into Nazi-style fascism.
ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.
ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint
A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.
www.newsweek.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
From Reagan to Trump: the inexorable and execrable descent of the USA into Nazi-style fascism.
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For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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You can't hear this enough.
Morelle: Here’s the problem whenever the president speaks—and I hate to make light of this because he’s the president—but it’s almost always just fantasy.
This week he’s suddenly a scientist, telling us what we should do for a fever if you’re a pregnant woman.
It’s an endless series of baloney.
This week he’s suddenly a scientist, telling us what we should do for a fever if you’re a pregnant woman.
It’s an endless series of baloney.
September 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
You can't hear this enough.
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What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody
State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.
gothamist.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Turned off the sound on the golf — can’t listen to any more of the American fan contingent who are either extremely drunk or are under the impression that they’re at an American football game.
September 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Turned off the sound on the golf — can’t listen to any more of the American fan contingent who are either extremely drunk or are under the impression that they’re at an American football game.
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A sizable chunk of mainstream media outlets feel more comfortable criticizing Zelensky's outfit choices than Trump's foreign policy choices.
News sections have to watch what they say, lest they show bias by including too much factual reality, but the fashion section is free to report and opine.
News sections have to watch what they say, lest they show bias by including too much factual reality, but the fashion section is free to report and opine.
August 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A sizable chunk of mainstream media outlets feel more comfortable criticizing Zelensky's outfit choices than Trump's foreign policy choices.
News sections have to watch what they say, lest they show bias by including too much factual reality, but the fashion section is free to report and opine.
News sections have to watch what they say, lest they show bias by including too much factual reality, but the fashion section is free to report and opine.
This would be a good opportunity for France to completely block Xwitter. And to make the case to the European Parliament for blocking it across the EU. Who knows? If they made legislation against propaganda networks tight enough, we might finally get rid of Facebook too.
Musk refuses to cooperate with the French probe into TwitterX.
He’s never met the French authorities, has he?
He’s never met the French authorities, has he?
Musk's X says it won't cooperate with 'politically motivated' French probe
Elon Musk's social media platform X on Monday accused French prosecutors of launching a "politically-motivated criminal investigation" that threatens its users' free speech, denying all allegations and saying it would not comply with the probe.
www.reuters.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This would be a good opportunity for France to completely block Xwitter. And to make the case to the European Parliament for blocking it across the EU. Who knows? If they made legislation against propaganda networks tight enough, we might finally get rid of Facebook too.
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Musk refuses to cooperate with the French probe into TwitterX.
He’s never met the French authorities, has he?
He’s never met the French authorities, has he?
Musk's X says it won't cooperate with 'politically motivated' French probe
Elon Musk's social media platform X on Monday accused French prosecutors of launching a "politically-motivated criminal investigation" that threatens its users' free speech, denying all allegations and saying it would not comply with the probe.
www.reuters.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Musk refuses to cooperate with the French probe into TwitterX.
He’s never met the French authorities, has he?
He’s never met the French authorities, has he?
Torture is now acceptable on US soil, apparently.
July 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Torture is now acceptable on US soil, apparently.
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“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009.
Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It
Hamas wants to destroy Israel, right? But as Mehdi Hasan shows in a new video on blowback, Israeli officials admit they helped start the group.
theintercept.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009.
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Boycott Amazon for the same reason.
July 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Boycott Amazon for the same reason.
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Watching that video of Diddy beating Cassie to a pulp made me sick to my stomach and mad as hell.
It apparently made Bill Maher think she was the problem and Diddy was in the right.
Why the fuck are Democrats still giving attention to this woman-hating Trump-loving piece of shit?
It apparently made Bill Maher think she was the problem and Diddy was in the right.
Why the fuck are Democrats still giving attention to this woman-hating Trump-loving piece of shit?
June 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Watching that video of Diddy beating Cassie to a pulp made me sick to my stomach and mad as hell.
It apparently made Bill Maher think she was the problem and Diddy was in the right.
Why the fuck are Democrats still giving attention to this woman-hating Trump-loving piece of shit?
It apparently made Bill Maher think she was the problem and Diddy was in the right.
Why the fuck are Democrats still giving attention to this woman-hating Trump-loving piece of shit?