Money down the drain in this #Nato #proxy #war

Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up” The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties — inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count.

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up”

The U.S. government altered its tally of American casualties — inexplicably scrubbing 15 wounded-in-action troops from the count.

theintercept.com/2026/04/22/i...

Supporting data centers is the political equivalent of rolling around in the flaming bag of shit on your porch.

This is straight out of @edzitron.com's most recent essay.

It's a sign that operations aren't profitable, scaling to meet demand burns money even faster, but it's the only way they can get more money to burn, and they're run that ski ramp as high as it can go.

All Special Emergency Arrangement contracts should be cancelled by Tusla - Social Democrats Forged references provided for staff at unregulated children’s care homes are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the potential harm of Special Emergency Arrangements, according to Social Dem...

Forged references provided for staff at unregulated children’s care homes are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the potential harm of Special Emergency Arrangements.

It’s time to call a halt on these shambolic, unregulated and frankly dangerous substitutes for State care.

The REAL Squid Game: Whistleblower exposes Israeli war crimes in Gaza YouTube video by Declassified UK

👉 NEW VIDEO -- "Straight up murder": Former Marine Commando EXPOSES Israeli war crimes in Gaza

WATCH HERE 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Qr...

@thejournal_ie Costs involved in the building of new homes have spiked by "€15,000-20,000" due to the US war with Iran, according to one developer. A housing summit in Dublin heard that the sector risks a slow down if the war continues.

Developers who already have the most subsidised housing market in the EU (up to €144k per unit), want an additional €20k.
The sad thing is that the Govt will probably give it to them. They will do anything to avoid building homes themselves.

Isabelle (@isareksopuro on the other place) made a map to monitor data centers all around the world

It tracks construction + nearby power plants + local AI legislation, and follows the politicians behind their bans (+ if they're getting paid to do so!) and it’s bloody great.

trackpolicy.org

The Job Guarantee and MMT: A Conversation with William Thompson YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

The Job Guarantee and MMT: A Conversation with William Thompson youtu.be/L_3Q6Q_hTio?... #modernmonetarytheory #MMT

The tedium of our politics I wrote yesterday about the incoherence of neoliberal politics. Waking rather too early this morning, as the sun was rising, another thought occurred to me. After a day of watching the news media and ...

The tedium of our politics www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04... Why is our politics so boring?

#backtothepast but this time with the dangers of #AI along for the ride.

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

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Remember this when next they want you to vote for #Europe and more integration. #FailedProject back to the #EEC

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A man in India made thousands of dollars scamming 'super dumb' MAGA fans on IG with a fake AI influencer

• Helped pay for his med school

• Tried a liberal version but it didnt work

“Democrats know it’s AI slop .. The MAGA crowd is made up [of] super dumb people. And they fall for it"

(via WIRED)

#howirelandworks #FFFGenabledgenocide #SignTheOTB #now

For anyone that has any concerns about the speakers at this event in Cork City on Sunday 25th April, see the contact details of the hotel that's hosting them. Please be respectful to the staff when you voice your concerns.

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

DETE increases military export licences to US, Germany It failed to publish because of “a new IT system”.

After failing to publish data on Irish companies granted licences for military exports to the US and Germany because of “a new IT system”, the Department of Enterprise has confirmed the licences increased by tens of millions of euros between 2024 and 2025

www.ontheditch.com/department-o...

#EU #notinmyname

It's all a bit redolent of this explanation by Bernard ... (Yes, Prime Minister series 2 episode 8 "The Tangled Web") ...

Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business Senator Eileen Flynn's comments on far-right use of the tricolour have made her a lightning rod for online abuse — because viral hatred is highly profitable

Really need to remember to share a link to the piece

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Fingal councillors vote to pause planned rent increase – but it’s unlikely to happen “The setting of differential rents is an Executive Function,” said the council’s director of housing. Meaning it’s not the councillors’ job.

Fingal councillors voted to pause a planned rent increase – but it’s unlikely to happen. “The setting of differential rents is an Executive Function,” said the council’s director of housing. Meaning it’s not the councillors’ job.

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

UN experts call for immediate suspension of trade agreement with Israel.

A ‘minimum requirement’ under intl. law. “The EU can’t claim to uphold human rights while sustaining preferential trade with State whose conduct amounts to genocide”

It will be rejected. Unless we move Israel inside Russia.