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A tale of two Taytos: How an anthropomorphic crisp became a symbol for Irish identity How a half-man half-crisp in a suit became a symbol of the Irish diaspora—and an important part of the Brexit deliberations

In advance of #stpatricksday, here's a thread of essential articles about Irish stuff which you can present to international friends who wish to understand us better.

First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...

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Christofascist clowns to the left, jihad jokers to the right
And here we are stuck in the middle, the EU

We’re all fucking toast
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Ireland to send military officers to US, Britain and France as defence attachés for first time Defence and Foreign Affairs Minister Helen McEntee is to bring the proposal to cabinet today for the establishment of the network.

Ireland is to move forward with deploying its first defence attachés to embassies in the US, Britain and France, The Journal has learned.
jrnl.ie/6972252t

The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike.

Photo: IRNA

The words piss-up and brewery spring to mind

Trump is really going to love the inevitable fall-of-Saigon scenes breaking out in the region’s already chaotic airports, thanks to this panicky plea

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

This sort of Democracy-bashing bollocks is straight out of the MAGA Handbook of How To Do Fascism 👊

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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Btw, the reason all these rich guys are having to turn to AI assistants to run their lives is that they don't realise how reliant their predecessors were on the invisible labour of women.

So powerful

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

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In Liz we Truss 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Took me a few minutes to figure out why I was randomly humming ‘Happy Hour’

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MAGA = Make American Gulags Acceptable

David Muir, Tony Dokoupil, and Tom Llamas in image about dokoupil's bad ratings

So weird that these aren't all the same guy.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

True, a fair point. Though it’s also stuffed with delusional gowls…

Lots and lots of it

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Move over Ireland, there is a new worst country in Europe Spain has become a Left-wing pariah state thanks to the radical politics of its socialist prime minister

The Brits. Never Not At It 🖕
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4eae576...

Jesus take the wheel

Trump: "I don't have to sleep. I've been on a plane sleeping for twenty--I mean, sleep on the plane! I don't sleep on planes. I don't like sleeping on planes, you know? I like looking out the window watching for missiles and enemies, actually." #SnakeOnAPlane

Or 5 Death Stars 🌚🌚🌚🌚🌚

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(pic: Ishaan Tharoor)