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Poignant that Country Joe died in the midst of all this: "One, two, three, four / What are we fighting for?"
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Prosecutors are losing key witnesses in criminal cases because they are getting deported by this administration.
The lawlessness of ICE and CBP makes us all less safe.
The Trump administration is unsatirisable
Join us in Chicago for an event with @fotoole.bsky.social and
@sjamcbride.bsky.social — authors of the acclaimed book “For and Against a United Ireland.”
🗓️ Thursday, March 12
🕟 Reception @ 4:30 pm | Event @ 5:30 pm
📍 The Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren St.
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Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/
Great piece on Andrew and imagery.
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If you're in New York on March 25th you're very welcome to this talk in memory of the great Robert Silvers.
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Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."
This mock-up from the Guardian is rather eloquent
Worth remembering that none of this would be happening were it not for Julie Brown's brave and brilliant investigative journalism. This is why it matters and why they want to kill it.
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
The idea that Trump is creating quotas for denaturalization is a gross abuse of power that should scare every single American.
Republicans used to pretend they were for legal immigration, but now they are working to strip citizenship from Americans for no reason.
SEN. KAINE: “You said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide… are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEO’s?”
Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl skewered by @kaine.senate.gov
“If the murder of Alex Pretti…cannot be called murder, an authoritarian regime has passed one of its crucial tests: it can reverse all meanings…making the victim the perpetrator, the perpetrator the victim.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
“The effluence of extreme affluence”. @fotoole.bsky.social in full flight
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So in the UkK the repercussions from Epstein scandal have taken down a chief-of-staff, a prince, an ambassador to the US and will soon take doen the prime minister himself. That's what a functioning democracy looks like. And in the US...???
Worth adding that the MAGA campaign to bring McGregor to power in Ireland has close to zero support in Ireland. The vast majority view him with revulsion. He has never stood for election because he knows he would be humiliated.
Exit polls show socialist Antonio Jose Seguro has crushed the Far Right candidate Andre Ventura in Portugal’s presidential runoff.
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
The cover of A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2025 by Martin Doyle
Cover reveal of my new book and a link to pre-order. You’re welcome 🤓https://www.lilliputpress.ie/products/a-hosting-interviews-with-irish-writers-1991-2025
“If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.” —@fotoole.bsky.social
Our 2/26 issue is now online, with @fotoole.bsky.social on the murders in Minneapolis, Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison’s sense of humor, @juliangewirtz.bsky.social on the new microchip race, Vivian Gornick on Arundhati Roy, @rhodesben.bsky.social on Robert McNamara’s sins, and much more.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Troublemaker is my middle name.
