Shane Stokes

Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.

Nigel Farage must allow an independent investigation into Reform UK so the British public can be assured that all links to Putin's barbaric regime are rooted out.

Is it a coincidence this is happening after the Epstein vote? Has Putin got all the cards now the files “have to be released”?

What has changed in last a few days other than that?

BREAKING: AOC on MTG retiring:

"She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."

Opinion: Beware of the judicial review red herring Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis. In recent weeks, journalists, developers, tech entrepreneurs, the Minister for the Environ...

Fact check by Dr Orla Kelleher www.irishlegal.com/articles/opi...

& my podcast with Irish Times & Progress Ireland www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

"Neither ABP nor the bats can be blamed for the fact that the developer hasn’t delivered on the planning permission in Killarney, just as they can’t be blamed for the estimated 90,000 other homes nationally (including c.45,000 in Dublin) which reportedly had unused planning permissions in 2025." 💯

Ireland's "gold plated" implementation of EU law on show in Luxembourg this week cc @progressireland.bsky.social

Absolutely a must read, even if just for this paragraph:

Well done to the worst ever

It’s almost like electing Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend to be PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES isn’t such a good idea…

If it's only Democrats in the Epstein files, why didn't Trump release the full unredacted files on day one of his presidency? Seems to me that if these files were chock full of Dems and no Republicans, the regime would've jumped on that ASAP.

Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.

Nothing to see here. Just the White House needing to reassure the public that Piggy doesn't want to murder members of Congress. 😩

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Put the big dog in the crate (or another room) until the little dog has finished

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.

This isn’t controversial.

A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

This guy heads up health in the US?

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

You are very welcome - really serious, that’s superbly written. I’ve been on the Aran Islands a few times, they are amazing. If you come back again, Wild Ireland in Donegal would be worth a visit. It’s a wildlife sanctuary with wolves, bears and other creatures. It’d be a great area to visit by bike

If Trump is revealed in the Epstein files then he needs to be impeached and arrested immediately.

Amazing writing! Glad you had a good time, @dbfreelance.co.uk

So, without much ado, we've kind of lost the first major city to climate change. (Tehran, metropolitan area 15 million people.)

Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States:

- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats

Those are just factual statements.

Calm down. It’s not like this president sent a bunch of scumbags to hang his own Vice president.

BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard just announced they won’t classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols anymore they’re calling them ‘potentially divisive.’ Potentially divisive? Listen, a noose isn’t a conversation starter. A swastika isn’t a debate topic. They are dangerous hate symbols. Full stop

But, you know, the problem is "objectors" and judicial review

The provisions that we have been found not to have transposed are some of the most fundamental EU laws for protection of water quality, i.e. to stop our rivers and lakes from turning green, to have waters we can swim in and drink without getting sick, that support abundant life such as fish etc

It's hard to express how problematic non-transposition, and non-implementation of environmental law is. It creates a legal vacuum that means decision makers don't know how to handle planning applications, enforcement agencies can't enforce, and the courts are often called in to plug the gap

If joking about Charlie Kirk is considered “violent rhetoric,” how do we describe open calls to hang members of Congress?

Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?