John Horan

Good.

I will admit to being heartily sick of the pretence in Irish discourse that the only choices are nothing without the UN, ignoring the P5 dictatorships vetoing anything in the UN; NATO crippled by Trump’s attempts to veto; or doing nothing about attacks while pretending to be moral paragons.

A photo of figure skaters Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, and Isabeau Levito. Above them, text reads “Alt, Gay, and from New Jersey”: The “Babes of Glory” are TikTok Fancam Fuel. The post was made by Them.

I can’t stop laughing about “and from New Jersey”

The Ukraine War Grows Deadlier More civilians are dying now than when Biden was president

It is pure #horror

People need to realize:
#Putin is an evil murderer, comparable to #ISIS and #Hamas terrorists!

When will #Europe step up to respond?
@ec.europa.eu

Thxs @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

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This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.

Even with the recent stuff about Carbery and Crowley falling out of favour with Farrell because they don't "stick to the script".

At what point is the script/the system/the program itself the issue?

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Same.

Liam Conejo Ramos, 5, and father released from Dilley immigration detention center Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who was detained by immigration officers in Minnesota last week, and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, were released from a detention center in Dilley.

Oh thank God, this poor kid and this poor family www.ksat.com/news/local/2...

The weirdest conspiracy theory of all is that 15 minute city thing. Why would anyone not want 15 minute cities? I mean you can still live in the countryside if you want but all villages, towns and cities should have amenities within 15 mins.

I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that the normal conspiracy brained folks were damaging whats really quite a good idea. What was striking was that the Tories were happy to go along with them.

The Who, meet the new boss, etc. etc.

So it’s another blackmail effort.

Trump is trying to give Russia exactly what they want & call it a ‘peace deal.’ It’s in fact a guarantee for a bigger war.
Donbas is Ukraine’s main line of defense. The region is heavily fortified & holds Russia back from attacking the rest of Ukraine, & from there the EU.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

In one of the recent encounters, one of the thugs threatened someone by asking if they hadn't learned from the Good incident. That right there betrays they know what it was, and what it was intended to be. I hope the legal team is gathering stuff like this.

To repeat: Abolish ICE.

From a friend in Minneapolis, just now:

I love that this place exists in Ayrshire!

Near Aldi in Airdrie (closed now unfortunately)

bsky.app/profile/alan...

#TheNerdReich

immigration is not a military attack, regardless of how often far right folks shriek otherwise

Hear me out, I have a cunning plan……

Might be easier to get out of than a Sky Sports contract.

What makes this so much worse of a betrayal is that there is a war raging in Europe. Trump looked at this and decided that this war made us Europeans weak enough to take advantage of. We should never forget that.

Ukrainian resilience is not exceptional, this narrative only creates the illusion that we can withstand anything. In reality, we are just normal people caught in an awful situation, who needs help, not a pat on the shoulder.

DO YOU HAVE ANY TROPHIES OR AWARDS I CAN HAVE?

Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because