Shrill by Mouth

https://amp.rte.ie/amp/1500848/

I am here for the personal pony drama amp.rte.ie/amp/1500848/

I wrote about Andrew Tate's return to the U.S. and rape as a model for authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

for every wolf you kill i'm going to personally eat one of your ponies

Toni Morrison: “Racism may wear a new dress, buy a new pair of boots, but neither it nor its succubus twin fascism is new, or can make anything new. It can only reproduce the environment that supports its own health; fear, denial, and an atmosphere in which its victims have lost the will to fight.”

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

A reminder that this move to remove protection from wolves is also coming from Ursula Von der Leyen who's an aristocratic horse girl after her ancient pony was killed by one wolf.

The @ec.europa.eu is a joke really.

"The stance of the Trump administration only exacerbates the growing recognition that allowing US companies to dominate the internet economy across much of the world was a terrible mistake."

The EU Commission is investigating the €1.2M Erasmus+ funding of the World Youth Alliance - organisation promoting anti-abortion #disinformation.
👏Huge thanks to MEPs @luciayar.bsky.social, @joannasw.bsky.social @krzysztofsmiszek.bsky.social, @marianoichl.bsky.social & Hanna Gedin for pushing this!

Sure, why not, get advice from an institute with a mission to "advance US policy interests" and "promote and advance American values".

Yeah that's exactly what we need to be spending billions on right now, what else would we spend it on? 🏘️👩‍⚕️🚊

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."

Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

Happen to be near the site of a convent institution I’ve written about. Wondering if any of these places have *not* been converted into gated “luxury” housing. The developers sometimes give them vaguely religious names but this one has been called after another order entirely…

People need to have more patience, everyone knows Keir Starmer may not issue a statement on things like Ukraine until he has consulted his wise Council of Transphobes

I guess it's kinda funny that when Micheál Martin finally gets to do his White House visit it'll paint him as the world's most cowardly man

It’s important that it’s made clear that trump hasn’t demanded Ukraine’s resources for the USA. He has demanded them for private corporations

Whilst saying that Micheal Martin should speak up for the undocumented Irish in the US. Such a disgrace.

Ireland’s military industrial pivot: ‘Ideally’ 14 fighter jets.
Based at Shannon.
Costs officially estimated at up to €2.5 billion.

We're going to have to build an entire infrastructure for these jets. Bet that hasn't been put in the cost.

€2.5 billion to spare?
Ireland has contracted the US Defense Department agency the Institute for Security Governance (ISG) as consultants to advise on reorganisation of the Irish Air Corps, army and navy.

And guess what?

"You guys need lotsa Fighter Planes."

Patients on low incomes missing out on vital cancer treatment, warns leading oncologist Prof O’Kane, speaking at the IPHA conference, became visibly distressed describing tough conversations with patients

Ireland has money. It chooses how to spend it. In vogue is expensive military hardware. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

The anti-vaxx grifters and the social media platforms that amplify them are responsible for this. It could happen here too.

This snake oil salesman has his kids vaccinated and the best health care that millions can buy.

You might remember that Bishop Phonsie allowed these far-right podcasters host an event on Church property in Co. Waterford back in September.

Pollution from Big Tech’s data centre boom costs US public health $5.4bn Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise

It couldn't happen here, now could it?

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John Wilson: Could Ireland benefit as climate change makes wine production difficult in warmer climes? We are likely to see a move to cooler regions and countries including Scandinavia, Britain and, yes, even Ireland

Yaay, can’t wait to see the Irish wine industry take off. We may have nothing to actually eat in future but we’ll hopefully be too hammered to care.

www.irishtimes.com/food/drink/2...

Tweet from @addamschloe nazi: *blows dog whistle* leftist: wow, that sounds like a dog whistle, an expression deliberately made to have plausible deniability centrist: buy plausibly, they could deny that

Being radicalized increasingly since 2016 has just been banging my head against this post indefinitely.

fresh audio product:

• Anatol Lieven looks at the global dimensions of Trumpism
• Quinn Slobodian muses on whether Trump is a neoliberal, and examines the three major strands of DOGE-ism

www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

JD Vance champions tech imperialism in Europe The European Union needs to defend its sovereignty and end its dependence on US tech monopolies

Last week, JD Vance gave Europe an ultimatum: it can align with the Trump administration, or face its wrath.

To comply, Europe needs to embrace the extreme right, repeal tech rules the US “will not accept,” and allow Silicon Valley to dominate its market. It should tell the US to take a hike.