Brendan

He can always turn himself in at The Hague instead.

Fianna Fáil running a thieving landlord is a bit on the nose.

Israel kidnaps our citizens and attack our troops, and instead of doing something Micheál Martin rolls onto his back looking for belly rubs from the yanks.

Aoife Grace Moore sums it up doesn't she. "We need to be careful when politicians start punching down, it means they have no policies that can help you."

Over my dead body (and turn of phrase and not an invite, something I need to clarify with Israelis)

And Micheál Martin is currently considering watering down the already watered down OTB replacement bill. No defending the citizens he's supposed to serve, pure complicity with murderers.

I imagine most journalists get into the job with ambitions to make a difference with their writing. It must be depressing for those who see their dreams die and they find themselves picking words out of the engagement hat in hopes that if they annoy enough people it will simulate relevance.

The hot food counter in Dunnes Cornerlscourt.

This woman is on fire in the EU parliament.

It's impressive that they managed to come up with something that so clearly displays the rapacity of colonialism without using the word "plantation" once.

Not sure who won. It's a toss up between Catherine Connolly and Kieran Cuddihy's uncontained contempt for Jim Gavin's waffling.

"We have all this private wealth and public squalor." Welcome to the revolution comrade Cuddihy. ✊🏻

Half and hour into the presidential debate and I'm giving Humphreys a second preference just to spite Jim Gavin.

This has got to be an attempt to get Hamas to refuse a peace deal. Tony Blair as a viceroy, ffs. He's one of the few people alive who may have murdered more Arabs than Netanyahu.

Something I wish leaders in Europe would cop on to. He's a bully. Bullies pick on the weak. Don't show weakness and don't be afraid to hit back or they'll take everything.

Tax cuts and pleading poverty, another Paschal Donohoe budget it is so.

I'm on the spectrum. I'm 76. RFK Jr can fuck off into the heart of the sun.

They won't solve the housing crisis so now they're trying to turn people against each other to take the heat off themselves. An appalling abdication of responsibility from government.

I often find aggressive cynicism is an excuse for personal inaction and/or indifference. They're reacting to someone still willing to fight as it shames their own acquiescence.

Even more dishonest is implying that "advocates of irreversible medical interventions" exist when doctors and sane people not contorted by anti-trans hatred know puberty blockers are reversible.

Pretty awful stuff from the economist here. The change in gender identity was between trans binary and non-binary (and vice-versa) with only a single child (less than 0.5%) changing to cis.

Is Danny Healy-Rae linked to consuming brain melting amounts of alcohol?

Not to give oxygen to the idiot, but this is a prime example of how neurodivergence is viewed by a lot of people as a sickness and not natural diversity. It's more worrying to me that a lot people share similar opinions.

On the plus side, this will be a godsend to primary challengers.

any excuse not to pass the OTB or even their watered-down replacement.

Sitting here waiting for the free speech warriors who whinged about cancel culture to say something about the increasing state repression of free speech across the western world.

Cancelled after Trump FCC chair threatens ABC would be a more accurate headline.

The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk by media across the English speaking world is disturbing. He celebrated the murder of Democrat state representatives, preached hate, and mocked compassion. I'm not justifying his murder, but we need to be honest with who he was. He was not a good man.

Problem is they stopped building public housing, and left a decade where barely any housing was built at all. Then threw money at hoteliers to store homeless and refugees, instead of creating more fiscally responsible state infrastructure, while pleadin poverty and handin out middle class tax cuts.

I only stopped to read this to find out why a picture of Prince Charles made it on my timeline.