Mel Farrell

There was huge resistance in the electorate to Heather, whether it was anti govt, anti FG or whatever but there was.

Saw plenty of 'Heather for Unity' posters. She started on that theme and maybe they moved the other way when the polls kept going the other direction.

She did. Repeatedly. She suffered sectarian abuse.

Reassess the sequencing. Overseas far right groups aren’t being ‘drawn’ to these events at CityWest… they are drawing them up, designing these events.

Air alert in Kyiv, warning of threat of ballistic missiles, reports of launches and fast incoming targets, then the sound of explosions in the Ukrainian capital - all in the space of six minutes. Explosions also reported in Zaporizhzhya and Dnipro.

No, Putin doesn’t want peace.

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Another great win under Unai Emery. Five in a row #avfc

A tweet from Sky News reading 'Aston Villa fan Andrew Fox says he has received online abuse and even death threats following the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the match in Birmingham.' A follow up tweet says 'This is a correction of a previous post that incorrectly identified Mr Fox as Jewish'.

A page from the Henry Jackson Society website for Andrew Fox, Research Fellow, which says he joined HJS in 2014 and that 'Andrew specialises in Defence, the Middle East, and disinformation'.

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

The orange is not popular - and that's all around the world

This is THE Kremlin talking point, the one that all tankies and bots use.

They never respond when asked why countries neighbouring Russia WANT and ASK to join NATO.

This is where American political historians and political science scholars need to take a closer look at how Miller has used what was once the institutional backwater of the Homeland Security Council now staffed with MAGA loyalists to increasingly marginalise the established NSC

Hours after Russia launched one of its most destructive terrorist attacks on Ukraine, Donald Trump publicly thanks Putin.

Many have noticed a pattern that on the days Russia attacks Ukraine the worse, Donald Trump goes on social media and thanks Putin. This has happened repeatdly.

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

We are witnessing the most lawless behavior by a leader in American history, just daily, extraordinary abuses of power. National Democrats must speak out in a loud and clear voice against Trump's escalating authoritarianism. It is time now.

On Euronews I highlighted that Ukraine isn’t just Europe’s shield - it’s also its teacher.

What Ukraine learns - and invents - today will shape how the EU and NATO deter Russia tomorrow.

Apathy about the threat posed by Putin is extraordinary, 11 years into his hybrid war.

BREAKING

A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment.

His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

CANDIDAT PROCENT LOCURI PAS 46.19% 51 BEP 26.93% 29 BEA 8.7% 9 PN 6.31% 6 DA 5.7% 6 •PSDE 1.03% 0 • AN 0.9% 0

The Pro-European PAS party has secured 51 seats, an absolute majority in Moldova’s parliament.

A good result and a slap in the face for Putin.

Sport can be a tonic
#avfc #rydercup

Academics disagree with Catherine Connolly's 'German militarisation' comments History and politics professors say foreign aggression was behind the rearmament under Adolf Hitler, while defence against Russian aggression was the purpose of Germany's current spending increase

Professor Robert Gerwarth, director of the UCD Centre for War Studies, said similar comments about German rearmament were being made by the German left and parts of the pro-Russia far-right in eastern Germany. #spéirghorm #spéirgorm

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

Putin's People Party gets caught in the act again
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump should find whoever negotiated the Afghanistan withdrawal and read them the riot act, TBQH. I wonder which president that was?

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power.

This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

Would be nice if we saw someone in the West taking a stand and showing leadership in the face of America's slide to authoritarianism.

Today, Trump claimed not to know who Peter Mandleson is. An obvious & egregious lie but one which highlights why the regime is so keen to silence anyone telling the truth. On the current trajectory, he will soon be able to claim that he's never heard of Melania without any pushback at all.

After testing Poland’s drone defenses, Russia tested its disinformation response too Disinformation tried to blame the drone incursion on Ukraine and make out Poland to be weak and confused.

👀 It wasn't just Poland’s airspace that Russia entered this week. It was cyberspace, too.
Russian drones entered Polish airspace in the early hours Wednesday ... then NASK national research institute analysts spotted increased levels of disinformation.

The best hope for America's continued future as a great power lies in Trump's indiscipline and incompetence undermining MAGA attempts at authoritarian regime-building in ways that enable Democrats to win in 2026 and 2028

Thread on the Russian threat.

WHO's Ryan 'disillusioned' with world over Gaza crisis The World Health Organization's Deputy Director General said he is almost "entirely disillusioned with the world" as the women, children and men of Gaza are abandoned.

The World Health Organization's Deputy Director General said he is almost "entirely disillusioned with the world" as the women, children and men of Gaza are abandoned