Sean MacGabhann

This obsession with reaching across the aisle to people who want to tear your arm off will kill democracy. Find everyone who doesn't want to do that and work with them, there are plenty of them.

This is an *incredibly* good idea.

My problem when I speak to English friends/in law as is they don’t take any of this seriously. The shoo away any likelihood of this happening the vote for these very people “because they don’t mean it”

Old friend of mine shared a piece he agreed with on Facebook the other day. It was an anti-Starmer rant from an anonymous account called 'We are the 52%' - one of the 'we haven't had REAL Brexit' types (plus a paean to Charlie Kirk).

My mate lives in Poland.

People who are generally upset with how their lives are going, and also feel there are too many people around who look different, can never actually be appeased.

Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.

Six arrested after large protest near Dublin IPAS centre Gardaí have begun a criminal investigation after violence broke out at a large protest outside an accommodation centre for international protection applicants at Citywest in Co Dublin.

1. Violence didn’t just break out. It was so preplanned that far-right ‘bloggers’ were able travel from England to attend.

2. Name it. It’s far-right violence.

3. If the targets of violence are singled out for race or ethnicity & other groups are not targeted in a similar way, that’s racist. [1/2]

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

I’m less concerned about part of the White House being torn down, and more concerned about the fact that it’s being replaced with a $250m privately funded ballroom. I don’t think people who intend to leave office in 3 years typically spend a quarter of a billon on a 4 year construction project.

Jesus.

Long past time to just arrest all these fash

Produced != Made

It’s like pub chains saying all of their food is “prepared” in their own kitchens

A Maccabi club source told the UK Jewish News that the intervention of far right political activist Tommy Robinson pledging to attend the game as a Maccabi fan was the "final straw" for their decision about the risks of accepting tickets amid this row
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

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The message it conveys is that Trump will not be leaving The White House voluntarily.
He believes he owns it, not that he's a tenant.

Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Have you started calling it the shinra building yet?

As an Irishman abroad who often condemns Irish racists, I’m going to disagree with this one

It is hypocritical of Irish people, a tribe who benefited more than most from emigrating everywhere, to complain about migration now. And I can’t be racist for saying that.

Same applies to Lam

As an Irishman abroad who often condemns Irish racists, I’m going to disagree with this one

Condemning anyone who had some kind of benefit who also wants to withdraw that benefit to others is nowt to do with race and it’s just muddying waters to say so

Politics is ultimately an intellectual exercise - as the Master says. What we are living through right now is what happens when a critical mass of people in government and opposition believe that you can skip the hard work of thinking.

Being out of govt for 14 years really has broken Labour. There is no courage, no confidence, no sense of being able to get things done - instead we get repeatedly shameful outcomes and failures to act.

New Reform MP and former Tory Danny Kruger says the police in England and Wales would lose ‘operational independence’ and be put under the control of any Reform government. This is how MAGA fascism creeps in.

Britain has a messiah-wish. Polanski is the latest in a line that contains Farage and Corbyn and Johnson and Thatcher. They expect someone to come along with a wand and solve problems that really require reflection, collective hard work, and compromise.

The woman hosting this shit is CMO at a VC firm that funds AI projects. But the great @nytimes.com does not disclose that

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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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...

I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice? "You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
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Maudlin nostalgia is a central trope of right-wing populism and apparently now extends to the 'good-natured antics' of 1980s football violence, a serious problem at the time. A bit like the 'say what you like about the Krays, but they looked after their own and loved their dear old mum' mush.

Reform council leader says she has launched hunt for ‘cowards’ behind leaked video Linden Kemkaran told fellow Kent councillors those who disagreed with decisions would have to ‘suck it up’

Proper clownshow

If you know people thinking of voting reform, it’s imperative you persuade them otherwise

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Israel reportedly halts supply of aid into Gaza as it launches ‘massive wave of attacks’ – Middle East crisis live Ceasefire close to total collapse as Israeli military says it has launched strikes in response to ‘blatant violation’ of agreement by Hamas

All those idiot journalists with their “well I don’t normally agree with Trump (wink wink) but you have to respect his ability to create this ceasefire”

Cretins

Zero ability to analyse or think critically

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Israel says Hamas broke the ceasefire. Hamas says Israel broke the ceasefire. Meanwhile, Trump got half the media to declare he brought peace to the Middle East with headlines we all knew wouldn’t last.