@mokeeffee.bsky.social
Irish European. Located in England. Planning move to Spain over next 3 years. History/Politics/Media
U.S. Supreme Court finds Trump overstepped authority in imposing tariffs under emergency law
The decision came down Friday
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
Trumps tarrifs ruling.
www.rte.ie/news/us/2026...
Again, it feels insane how little attention is being paid to this. The build up to Iraq was months long, in the open, full public debate. This stuff is currently below Toy Story 5 on the BBC website.
20.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 705 🔁 164 💬 33 📌 8Imagine working for GB News and finding Godwin a step too far!
20.02.2026 15:01 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A popular app in Denmark identifies American products so that Danes know not to buy them
www.independent.co.uk/tech/us-boyc...
So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.”
When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?
www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...
Maybe the US congress could ask the UK parliament to run the enquiry into the US elites involved. They seem to be untouchable.
19.02.2026 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"The Talarico dustups are among several incidents in the past few days that show the Trump administration’s enthusiasm for censoring speech by both the press and ordinary citizens."
Paywall-free gift article:
COLBERT on Thin-Skinned Trump’s fascist @jamestalarico.bsky.social ban: “Because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this… They're trying to control what we watch, say, read — The most dangerous kind of cancel culture is the kind that comes from the top."
18.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 1436 🔁 467 💬 27 📌 18Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.
18.02.2026 11:50 — 👍 4197 🔁 651 💬 149 📌 48
Interesting case. The club has been there for years. Hoxton Hotels recently finished the build and opening of their 1st Irish hotel. Why didn’t the soundproof that side of the hotel? They also have plans to open their own nightclub in the basement (former RiRa’s).
www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...
Of course with the introduction of UK ETA & EU EES the advantage of EU membership & CTA is twofold for removing travel friction.
18.02.2026 13:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👋 I’m not particularly against but would prefer Schengen. Only issue I see with CTA became clean when Sunak saw it as an easy way to direct some of the asylum seekers to cross to the republic. He looked on it as a win & refused to accept then back.
18.02.2026 12:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There is now a good debate to be had around the CTA, it really doesn’t have the same value to Ireland as it did in the past. Of course the real reason CTA is still in place is for the communities in NI.
18.02.2026 12:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0When Pro-Europeans say "If they want us in, they'll give us optouts for the euro and Schengen", why stop there?
Why not optouts from FoM, budget payments, CAP, and common foreign and security policy?
Polish PM Donald Tusk: “Poland does not foresee participation in President Trump’s Peace Council.
“Poland will not send Polish soldiers to the Gaza Strip. Poland is not interested in co-financing development projects in Gaza.
“Our money is needed for investments in Polish cities.”
I do wonder if one of the lessons from this war will be the impact of new comms platforms owned by individual players has on the management of information. Are the owners playing both sides? Who is watching them?
18.02.2026 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cracking down on #Telegram, #Russia authorities accuse it of leaking correspondence to foreign intell agencies
"Telegram was considered relatively anonymous service, used by our military.
Now there are numerous facts, confirmed by our agencies, indicating that foreign intell agencies have access"
Someone really does need to ask them if the same goes for Irish ancestry or Western European ancestry such as Poles or Jewish ancestry. How pure does White and those who give her a platform, want the blood to be?
18.02.2026 10:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
White appears to favour not just banning Nus Ghani, Kemi Badenoch. Shabana Mahmood and Rishi Sunak from parliament - but here goes further to endorse "deporting every single one", as Steve Laws advocates for every British-born minority and every migrant.
18.02.2026 09:15 — 👍 29 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1"So will it be the same act but with a different label?"
Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷♂️
As #Reformatories announce a 6 person shadow cabinet & the rest of us wonder where the fuck they're going to magic up another 16 psychopaths from, there's receipts.....🤣🤣🤣
17.02.2026 14:47 — 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 1Free press is great!!!
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My latest post digging into the Measles situation in England
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
What’s you take on the ex Times journalist being the one who was running the PR campaign? Is there another problem with journalist being involved in political orgs and this is leading to lack of trust across all demographics?
17.02.2026 16:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Canada bets on 'Build at Home' defence strategy to reclaim sovereignty — and revive readiness
Plan aims to award 70% of federal defence contracts to Canadian firms within a decade
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Spain eyes criminal probe of X, Meta and TikTok over AI ‘pornification’
17.02.2026 10:18 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
From his current wikipedia:
“Bhatti founded the group Muslims for Britain which campaigned for the UK to leave the EU during the Brexit referendum. He argued that EU policy prevented immigration from South Asia and that leaving the EU would make it easier.”
A line of argument that hasn’t aged well.
Morning @hugorifkind.bsky.social might be best thing for these elections to go ahead, Reform Ltd win big but get seriously caught out by 20 x Kent madness.
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