I asked a friend who lives now in the US what people think of their federal government.
"It depends on where they get their news."
I asked a friend who lives now in the US what people think of their federal government.
"It depends on where they get their news."
Bloodied schoolbag
Last day at school.
03.03.2026 11:14 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Unusable bike lane due to mud from construction site.
Cork City Council has done great work, for example enabling families to cycle down to the Marina.
But then this happens - so no more safe cycling.
This is not tolerated on the carriageway. Why on the bike lane?
Are wind farms still paid for power by reference to gas prices?
03.03.2026 11:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cybercriminals swipe 15.8M medical records from French doctors ministry
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Von der Leyen and Swiss President Guy Parmelin signed eighteen new agreements to modernise the strategic partnership. The new regulatory package will now have to go through the ratification process in Bern, with a likely referendum expected by 2028
03.03.2026 10:57 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Germany www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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No public shelters in Nazareth.
A. To provide a bomb shelters in my hometown.
03.03.2026 10:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
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"When Donald Trump welcomes Friedrich Merz to the White House on Tuesday, the German leader will pile on praise over the lethal US-Israel strikes on Iran."
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
No public bomb shelters provided in Nazareth, The biggest Christian town in Israel.
03.03.2026 10:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0More precisely, if Rutte holds that belief he is wrong.
03.03.2026 10:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1The BBC is lost
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Only one EU leader has condemned the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran as a violation of international law: Spain.
Not participating in the initial attack is not the same as publicly opposing it.
Rutte claimed our leaders are welcoming it, and this has not been disavowed. And now Europe is about to be dragged in
Indeed.
But this is not correct I think: "NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte believes he is speaking for all Europeans when he says Europe supports the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran."
Extraordinary crowds as a mass funeral procession begins in Minab, Iran for the 165 school girls & teachers killed in the US/Israeli school strike on Saturday.
Many outcomes of this war are uncertain. But a renewed generation of hatred towards the West is now baked in.
(🎥 Alireza Akbari)
Also part explains why Iranian strike packages started to include UAE and Bahrain, etc. If it's plausible AWS data centres were powering Claude local use, their legitimacy as a military target become more explicable.
03.03.2026 08:55 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 4Are data centres legitimate military targets in an AI-enabled conflict? If so, should that be a factor in permitting whether your Gulf monarchy/Nebraska town/London public swimming pool allows one to be sited there?
03.03.2026 09:09 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0The UK's legal position on the use of its bases in the Middle East is solid with one glaring hole: The US cannot act in collective self-defence with the Gulf States. It is the aggressor. Ergo the UK cannot assist the US in collective self-defence.
03.03.2026 09:27 — 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0Today’s podcast will be on (what else!) the Middle East, with my colleague Colin Sheridan who served with UNIFIL in Lebanon and lived there for a number of years afterwards, and an Irish broadcasting working for Saudi owned Al Arabiya in UAE… some interesting takeaways
03.03.2026 09:21 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Screenshot of the cover page of a report by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, presented to the Human Rights Council during its 61st session (23 February–2 April 2026). The main title states: “Defending dignity and claiming rights: human rights defenders hold firm to universal values as others desert them.” Below it, a boxed summary explains that the report presents the voices of human rights defenders from 82 countries, based on 300 submissions, examining challenges they face and offering recommendations to international actors.
Today at 14:30 CET, I will present my final report to the UNHRC, bringing forward the voices of HRDs at a time of growing attacks on human rights & the international system meant to protect them.
📑 Full report: docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/61/40
📺 Follow my remarks live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k14...
But even there bsky.app/profile/alem...
03.03.2026 09:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Von der Leyen is losing - not gaining - power:
By speaking where she has no mandate, she’s alienating her own College, enraging member states, and betting EU credibility on Trump’s war aims.
A Commission president who has lost the Council (!) doesn’t need to wait for 2029 to become irrelevant
He does have his supporters though. bsky.app/profile/vond...
03.03.2026 09:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Historic Irish newsreels digitised and made available for free online
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2026...
DENMARK SAYS ITS WILLING TO FUND FRENCH EU+ DETERRENT POLICY
After Macrons speech yesterday Denmark is willing to assist in funding an EU+ nuclear deterrence policy. Others are expected to follow. It’s quite extraordinary how quickly the realities of the situation are dawning on EU+ nations.
