Lorna Sixsmith

I have, but then forgot about it!

High Court orders Martina and Ammi Burke to be jailed for two weeks each for contempt of court The pair faced contempt charges for interrupting a High Court hearing last month.

Mammy and Ammi joining Enoch in jail!! www.thejournal.ie/martina-burk...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander said the Strait of Hormuz is closed and Iran is to set any ship trying to pass on fire, Iranian media reported. Live updates ➡️ reut.rs/4aK7TEn

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Yes, 21 and 23, both in final year of their BA.
Published a rom com (set on a farm of course) last year. Still farming. Almost finished a history MA, loving writing the thesis and planning a historical novel.

How are you?

Gosh, I'm not on here much. In terms of Upscrolled, I dunno, have joined it but haven't spent much time there yet either. Too many platforms and so much depressing news! How are you doing?

Just set up an account on Upscrolled

Minister wants X meeting over 'disturbing' Grok concerns Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence Niamh Smyth has requested a meeting with X over concerns that the AI tool Grok is being used to create sexually explicit images of adults and children.

Women's Aid said that it will no longer maintain a presence on X.

"This online violence against women and children - especially girls - has often devastating real-life impacts and we no longer view it as appropriate to use such a platform to share our work.
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January 7, 2026 This morning, a federal agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good as she was driving away from ICE agents on a residential street in Minneapoli...

January 7, 2026

I thought Trump was “the ultimate capitalist.” He’s helping farmers by putting them out of business and putting them on welfare? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Two signs. Dear world: we are sorry. Most Americans. No Faux-King Way.

Apologies in order.

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

Motherfucking wind farms…

The decades of granted powers that lead to a US dictatorship.

Holy Crap look at the posted job applications for Alligator Auschwitz! The amount of money these so called Guards will be making is insane! 🤬🤬

Journalist Rachel Shabi, who is Jewish, weighs in at LBC on the fallout of Bob Vylan’s controversial performance. #GazaGenocide

Terrible

British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency

British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?

@nickkristof.bsky.social to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, after Rubio denied deaths due to USAID grant cutoffs: "The only debate is whether to measure the dead in the thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

Listen to this speech from the president of Ireland. The days of using baseless accusations of antisemitism as a rhetorical weapon to bully people into staying silent are long gone.

Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and nonbinary production of Twelfth Night Director Phoebe Kemp said: "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us"

The man remains truly excellent and this is going to be amazing
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid

Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Excellent keynote by @caitbeaumont.bsky.social at #WHAI2025 I particularly enjoyed the use of photos in the presentation- made it very moving too

Having a great day at #whai2025 learning, laughing and making connections. A huge well done to the organisers and speakers. Feeling really inspired towards the end of the first day.

Off to a cracking start at #WHAI2025 up first Helen Doyle Maynooth University on the history of dangerous lunatics

Calves and piglets At 5am I check that new calf Pebble has been suckling.

My weekly post from the farm debbiekingsley.substack.com/p/calves-and...

@elainepf.bsky.social I should have taken a photo of you during your presentation and posted it! Really enjoyed your talk and excellent delivery too

Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow:

George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.

Your trade adviser, Peter Navarro, says 90 deals in 90 days is possible. We're now 13 days into the point from when you lifted the reciprocal, the discounted reciprocal tariffs. There's zero deals so far. Why is that? No, there's many deals. When are they going to be announced? You have to understand, I'm dealing with all the companies, very friendly countries. We're meeting with China. We're doing fine with everybody. But ultimately, l've made all the deals. Not one has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them? I've made 200 deals.

You've made 200 deals? 100%. Can you share with whom? Because the deal is a deal that I choose. View it ditterently: We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it. They don't have to do business with the United States, but I set a tariff on countries. Some have been horrible to us. Some have been okay. Nobody's been great. Nobody's been great. Everybody took advantage of us. What I'm doing is I will, at a certain point in the not too distant future, I will set a fair price of tariffs for different countries. These are countries-some of them have made hundreds of billions of dollars, and some of them have made just a lot of money. Very few of them have made nothing because the United States was being ripped off by every, almost every country in the world, in the entire world. So I will set a price, and when I set the price, and I will set it fairly according to the statistics, and according to everything else.

I'm just curious, why don't you announce these deals that you've solidified? I would say, over the next three to four weeks, and we're finished, by the way. You're finished? We'll be finished. Oh, you will be finished in three to four weeks. I'll be finished. Now, some countries may come back and ask for an adjustment, and I'll consider that, but l'll basically be, with great knowledge, setting-ready? We're a department store, a giant department store, the biggest department store in history. Everybody wants to come in and take from us. They're going to come in and they're going to pay a price for taking our treasure, for taking our jobs, for doing all of these things. But what I'm doing with the tariffs is people are coming in, and they're building at levels you've never seen before. We have $7 trillion of new plants, factories and other things, investment coming into the United States. And if you look back at past presidents, nobody was anywhere near that. And this is in three months.

Will you call President Xi if he doesn't call you? No. You won't? Nope. Has he called you yet? Yep. When did he call you? He's called. And I don't think that's a sign of weakness on his behalf. But you would think it's a sign of weakness if you called him? I don't-I just look- Well, what did he say? If people want to-well, we all want to make deals. But I am this giant store. It's a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there. And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I'll say, if you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.

NEW: TIME publishes interview with Trump.

This is a REAL section of the transcript.

It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.