Every centre-left grouping in Irish politics supported a pro-Russian line, along with the Trumpesque tactic of calling every uncomfortable question or inconvenient fact a smear. No idea how to vote next time.
The democratic left in Ireland enthusiastically rowed in behind this. That’s a very uncomfortable thought
October 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Every centre-left grouping in Irish politics supported a pro-Russian line, along with the Trumpesque tactic of calling every uncomfortable question or inconvenient fact a smear. No idea how to vote next time.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.
Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.
October 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.
Side effect of this monumentally stupid name is that every news update I read is like a page from some sort of British politics Choose Your Own Adventure gamebook
Jeremy Corbyn has been removed as a Person of Significant Control from Your Party's holding company
September 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Side effect of this monumentally stupid name is that every news update I read is like a page from some sort of British politics Choose Your Own Adventure gamebook
His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
August 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
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Catherine Connolly says “the Ukraine” in every speech on the war. She opposes Ireland providing Ukraine paltry combat medic and de-mining training, and objects to all EU arms funding for Ukraine.
She took part in a PR blitz for Bashar al-Assad in Syria, but wouldn’t clap for Zelenskyy in the Dáil.
She took part in a PR blitz for Bashar al-Assad in Syria, but wouldn’t clap for Zelenskyy in the Dáil.
July 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Catherine Connolly says “the Ukraine” in every speech on the war. She opposes Ireland providing Ukraine paltry combat medic and de-mining training, and objects to all EU arms funding for Ukraine.
She took part in a PR blitz for Bashar al-Assad in Syria, but wouldn’t clap for Zelenskyy in the Dáil.
She took part in a PR blitz for Bashar al-Assad in Syria, but wouldn’t clap for Zelenskyy in the Dáil.
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After a period of indignant denials, anti-trans activists always reveal themselves to be everything their critics said they were
Ex Labour MP and current member of the Women's and Equalities Committee, Rosie Duffield, retweets a post calling it the *slur for trans people* committee
Just say the f word, Rosie. You know you want to
Beyond unacceptable
Just say the f word, Rosie. You know you want to
Beyond unacceptable
July 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
After a period of indignant denials, anti-trans activists always reveal themselves to be everything their critics said they were
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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A very concise and sober column by @stephenkb.bsky.social about how nonsensical Starmers approach sadly is.
#giftlink
#giftlink
Migration cuts are a luxury the UK cannot afford
Reducing freedom of movement comes at a cost and governments shouldn’t pretend otherwise
on.ft.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
A very concise and sober column by @stephenkb.bsky.social about how nonsensical Starmers approach sadly is.
#giftlink
#giftlink
For what it’s worth this also applies to my wife and child in Ireland. Assisted through birth by foreign-born experts on the day of a racist riot in Dublin City centre.
Pretty much all the midwives who ensured I and my babies survived my two births were apparently footnotes to a squalid chapter in my country's history.
NEW: Keir Starmer says he wants to close a “squalid chapter” in our country’s history as he sets out measures to reduce immigration.
Starmer says between 2019-2023 while Tories were “telling people with a straight face that they would get net migration down”, it quadrupled.
Starmer says between 2019-2023 while Tories were “telling people with a straight face that they would get net migration down”, it quadrupled.
May 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
For what it’s worth this also applies to my wife and child in Ireland. Assisted through birth by foreign-born experts on the day of a racist riot in Dublin City centre.
It’s also like a zombie virus in that you can respect someone for years, trust them implicitly, and then have the dawning realisation that they’ve been hiding a bite and have already started to turn.
i know it's been said many times but i really can't get over how transphobia literally rots people's brains until they're slobbering and obsessed with gametes and chromosomes and don't realize how insane they sound. it's like a zombie virus
April 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It’s also like a zombie virus in that you can respect someone for years, trust them implicitly, and then have the dawning realisation that they’ve been hiding a bite and have already started to turn.
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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"I'm pausing the tariffs... for an hour"
April 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"I'm pausing the tariffs... for an hour"
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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
The hard left will never forgive Eastern Europe for wanting independence from the USSR in the first place.
February 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The hard left will never forgive Eastern Europe for wanting independence from the USSR in the first place.
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a pox on the houses of everyone, in the UK, the US or elsewhere who, despite not seeing themselves as reactionaries, decided that trans kids were somehow the most important issue in the world at a time when so much else was going on, and who got their wishes now, but at what cost
Donald Trump has just released a national under 18 trans care ban executive order. I am working through specifically how it tries to do this, and will live tweet here section by section as I read through it.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
It is not yet on the website, but has been released via press release.
January 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
a pox on the houses of everyone, in the UK, the US or elsewhere who, despite not seeing themselves as reactionaries, decided that trans kids were somehow the most important issue in the world at a time when so much else was going on, and who got their wishes now, but at what cost
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this would be vile and insulting from anyone, to have it come from Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth makes it even fouler shit.
NEW: Here is Trump's anti-trans military executive order. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces
www.whitehouse.gov
January 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
this would be vile and insulting from anyone, to have it come from Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth makes it even fouler shit.
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it's a shame that C.S. Lewis' Tash depiction is soaked in racism because 'And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted' is such an apt depiction of people like Johnson.
To be clear here, the “good Christian” leaders of the Republican Party are outraged by a solemn plea to show frightened people mercy.
You’d think the bishop gave a sermon inciting an insurrection at the Capitol or something.
You’d think the bishop gave a sermon inciting an insurrection at the Capitol or something.
January 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
it's a shame that C.S. Lewis' Tash depiction is soaked in racism because 'And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted' is such an apt depiction of people like Johnson.
True, and there’s going to be a lot of cognitive dissonance from self-styled feminists watching the rapist would-be dictator kicking the minorities they hate in just the way they’ve asked for.
The assault on trans rights and trans existence is one aspect of a broader assault on gender, LGBTQ rights, and feminism that ultimately aims to reinstate a rigid patriarchal power structure. That this movement has the willing collaboration of self-proclaimed feminists is to their eternal shame.
January 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
True, and there’s going to be a lot of cognitive dissonance from self-styled feminists watching the rapist would-be dictator kicking the minorities they hate in just the way they’ve asked for.
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I find it so interesting that after literally beginning her bestselling book series with a parody of small-minded petit-bourgeois British bigotry, that is almost precisely exactly what JKR now exemplifies.
[CN: #TransHate]
Rowling has attacked Wu here for being stereotypically feminine, but on the other hand has attacked another trans woman for being "large" and "tattooed."
You can't win.
Rowling has attacked Wu here for being stereotypically feminine, but on the other hand has attacked another trans woman for being "large" and "tattooed."
You can't win.
December 24, 2024 at 1:00 PM
I find it so interesting that after literally beginning her bestselling book series with a parody of small-minded petit-bourgeois British bigotry, that is almost precisely exactly what JKR now exemplifies.
Been blocking the people I hatefollowed on the other site. This is personal growth.
November 22, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Been blocking the people I hatefollowed on the other site. This is personal growth.
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This is true, although no one is brave enough to say it. We live in a prosperous period of an incredibly wealthy society, right-wing politics is driven by prejudices that people have mostly embraced for the sheer libidinal thrill of it, and those politics are growing because it's fun for them
I think the hatred that fueled this election is a luxury good. Life for most people is so facile and consequence free that they turned politics into pro wrestling. "Politics as usual" isn't the problem they say it is, it just got boring, so now they want to break things and see what happens.
November 18, 2024 at 11:05 PM
This is true, although no one is brave enough to say it. We live in a prosperous period of an incredibly wealthy society, right-wing politics is driven by prejudices that people have mostly embraced for the sheer libidinal thrill of it, and those politics are growing because it's fun for them
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Again it's fucking insane that people are still throwing around their 2016 era takes about how Democrats need to reject neoliberalism after the entire electorate just got on it's hind legs and demanded the working class be beaten into submission until their doordash burritos are $12 again.
November 11, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Again it's fucking insane that people are still throwing around their 2016 era takes about how Democrats need to reject neoliberalism after the entire electorate just got on it's hind legs and demanded the working class be beaten into submission until their doordash burritos are $12 again.
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This just hit my inbox, from the Trevor Project
November 8, 2024 at 9:00 PM
This just hit my inbox, from the Trevor Project
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Prometheus's worst days were the ones where the eagle was slightly late
August 23, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Prometheus's worst days were the ones where the eagle was slightly late
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The judge in Giggle vs Tickle definitely had Helen Joyce’s number
August 23, 2024 at 1:06 AM
The judge in Giggle vs Tickle definitely had Helen Joyce’s number