Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

Fuel protest leader James Geoghegan has animal cruelty convictions and Revenue judgments

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Hegseth Reverses Helicopter Crew Suspension Over Kid Rock Flyby

In an extraordinary move, Hegseth reverses Apache helicopter crew suspension before Army even investigates the incident, undercutting the service's authority and underscoring his contempt for legal guardrails in the military
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Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing The president couldn’t get back to the White House quickly enough!

After less than 90 minutes of watching several of his own handpicked justices tear his arguments apart, the president abruptly left.

If only someone had warned us

'It doesn't feel like it can get any worse': How Irish families in Cuba are navigating a country in crisis A decade after Cuba’s opening to the world sparked optimism, Irish families who built their lives there are confronting failing hospitals, evaporating tourism and a fuel crisis

I spoke to Irish people living in Havana about how the Cuba medical system has collapsed and daily life is grinding to a halt, as the Belfast rap group Kneecap join a humanitarian convoy to the Caribbean island facing a so far unrelenting US oil blockade.

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Power blackouts, fuel shortages and mass emigration: Cuba’s crisis weighs heaviest on the elderly The country’s ageing population is growing more isolated as mass emigration, inflation and fuel shortages leave older citizens struggling to cope

Power blackouts, fuel shortages and mass emigration: Cuba’s crisis weighs heaviest on the elderly

My latest dispatch from Havana for @irishtimes.com

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What a paragraph.

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seems like the clearest purpose of the war is to reopen the thing that closed because of the war?

NEW: A fundraising email from President Donald Trump’s political action committee has a provocative pitch: using an image from Saturday’s dignified transfer honoring six fallen US soldiers, it promises access to the president’s “private national security briefings.”

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Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.

The Pentagon burned through $5.6 billion worth of munitions in the first two days of its Iran assault, according to U.S. officials, alarming some on Capitol Hill over how quickly the military has depleted scarce supplies of America’s most advanced weaponry.

Reporter: You said the war is "very complete." But your Defense Secretary says "this is just the beginning." So which is it?

Trump: You could say both.

Will be on The Moncrieff Show to talk about the situation in Cuba at 2pm.

Why is the US blocking oil imports to Cuba? Podcast Episode · Inside Politics with Hugh Linehan · 4 March · 23m

I spoke to Hugh Linehan on Inside Politics about my reporting in Cuba for @irishtimes.com

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World Report Sunday 1 March 2026 From the unusual to the topical, World Report brings you interesting stories from around the world.

My world report on the elderly Cubans facing their country’s crisis alone is on RTÉ playback now.

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What a walk along O’Reilly Street in Havana will tell you about Cuba’s crisis.

The US will allow Venezuelan oil to be resold to Cuba through private-sector intermediaries. Deals involving the Cuban military or other government institutions will remain prohibited. ft.trib.al/jSGPOlE

Opinion | Trump Is Turning the F.C.C. and F.T.C. Against Free Expression Trump appointees have transformed the F.T.C. and F.C.C. into instruments of ideological enforcement.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Under President Trump, the FTC and FCC are “engaged in a hostile takeover of the marketplace of ideas,” writes the editorial board.

The killing of cartel kingpin Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera should relieve pressure from Donald Trump. But Sheinbaum's move has also created political and security hazards at home. ft.trib.al/jfKLYXo

‘We could see the smoke rising’: Irish family on holiday in Mexican resort town engulfed in violence Paul Kenny’s planned route home showed burnt-out cars along the side of a highway

‘We could see the smoke rising’: Irish family on holiday in Mexican resort town engulfed in violence

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Former ICE instructor says agency slashed training for new officers A former instructor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the agency has cut “vital classes” from mandatory training for new officers.

Breaking news: A former ICE instructor accused the agency of dramatically slashing training standards for new officers and lying to Congress about it as the Trump administration seeks to rapidly expand its mass deportation operation.

‘I want to see the final chapter of this’: Cubans demand change but fear US military action Cubans face hyper-inflation, crumbling homes and social services, mass emigration, and now fuel shortages triggered by a Trump administration focused on regime change

‘I want to see the final chapter of this’: Cubans demand change but fear US military action

For @irishtimes.com

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Thanks for reading 🙏

‘The city is like a ghost town’: Inside Cuba’s tourism collapse as fuel runs dry Cuba has received no oil or fuel for a month after US president Donald Trump cut off Venezuelan supplies and pressed Mexico to stop shipments

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I spoke to Cubans hoping for change as the fuel crisis grinds daily life to a halt in Havana. In today’s @irishtimes.com

How an Embittered Brit Decimated the Washington Post Inside Will Lewis’s disastrous attempts to revitalize the paper.

must-read from @charlottetklein.bsky.social on the disastrous Will Lewis tenure at @washingtonpost.com nymag.com/intelligence...

‘The city is like a ghost town’: Inside Cuba’s tourism collapse as fuel runs dry Cuba has received no oil or fuel for a month after US president Donald Trump cut off Venezuelan supplies and pressed Mexico to stop shipments

My latest from Havana for @irishtimes.com

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‘The city is like a ghost town’: Inside Cuba’s tourism collapse as fuel runs dry Cuba has received no oil or fuel for a month after US president Donald Trump cut off Venezuelan supplies and pressed Mexico to stop shipments

‘The city is like a ghost town’: Inside Cuba’s tourism collapse as fuel runs dry

I will be on the 6.1 news on @news.rte.ie talking to Tommy Meskil about the crisis in Cuba.