🚨 Deal at ambassadors meeting on the loan to Ukraine and the 20th package of sanctions against Russia.

Now written procedure of silence assent. Which will close tomorrow afternoon.

Hungary’s incoming PM Péter Magyar wants to forge closer ties with Austria and other Central European countries to build more influence in Brussels.

Vienna appears open to the idea.

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EU warns of serious and prolongued energy crisis.

EU's Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen: Even if we have peace tomorrow, this will go on for months or years. EU trying to protect wider economy #Iran #Trump #Energy #Economy #EU

Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Not only was Eisenhower not president for D-Day but he also waited 2 years for the cross-channel invasion. He was probably right to not gamble on one in 1942 and that caution was a marked contrast to whatever is going on now.

UK passes anti-tobacco bill to create a ‘smoke-free’ generation Shops will soon be restricted from selling tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009.

Shops will soon be restricted from selling tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009.

"The Hungarian and Slovakian ambassadors briefly took the floor," said one EU diplomat, as Hungary's veto on a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine fell.

It is objectively bad for democracy that both blue and red states are doing extreme gerrymanders.

But the only feasible solution — a national ban on partisan gerrymandering — has only been endorsed by one party. And it's not the one complaining about Virginia right now.

Nice photos from inside the Fruit and Vegetable Market revamp, from a presentation at a Dublin City Council meeting.

A unionist trying to subtly remove that implant would expand tax devolution to mayors in England to fund and commission the vast majority of high cost public services - health, social care, non-pension welfare, education etc. Shrink departmental budgets so much to make Barnett inconsequential.
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If you were a nationalist trying to subtly implant an irresistible centrifugal force in the constitution of Britain, devolution to national Parliaments making laws and powers without need to raise the money for them, and actually chipping in more via the Barnett formula, would be the way.

Tonight's your best chance of seeing a shooting star this spring. Get our top tips for viewing the Lyrid meteor shower | BBC Sky at Night Magazine Top tips for beginners observing the Lyrid meteor shower 2026 at its peak. How to see spring's best meteor shower.

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It's astonishing that Singham is still peddling this nonsense. The UK *did* pursue this under Johnson-Frost and, for good reasons, it was rejected in 2020 - as Singham knows because when that happened he still refused to accept it (& evidently still does): www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1384... 1/3

With silage season approaching, farmers are reminded to ensure silage pits and effluent storage facilities are fit for purpose and compliant with DAFM standards, helping to protect water quality and the environment.

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#Kildare #YourCouncil

If a reconstituted US system emerges after Trump, do we call it the Second Republic or the Second Empire?

Iran’s FM spokesperson:
Iran has not decided to join the new round of talks with the US, as Washington keeps changing its stance hour by hour and lacks consistency and a unified approach in its decisions.-IRIB

We, the extended family of 2nd & 3rd cousins, lost contact or indeed knowledge of his branch, we knew more about our Brooklyn 3rd cousins. But the old fantasticTwitter algorithm. just before Elon poisoned it with fascist blue ticks, brought us back into contact as a result of these sort of tweets.

Will Mandelson sink Starmer?

Two things can be true at the same time:

1. Russia's economy is in deepening crisis that without a change of course could threaten cohesion of a post-Putin Russian state.

2. As long as Putin holds the system he built together the Russian state remains an acute threat to Europe.

Of the near #cenus1926 2,000 strong Russian (Lithuanian) Jewish community most lived in Dublin (around the South Circular as you'd expect), a few hundred in Cork, most of those recorded outside of these urban areas, as in Tipperary, were commercial travellers.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

You ever think about the fact that soy sauce in spanish is just "i am sauce?"
I do
I think about it a lot

U.S. Nuclear Chief Andrew Hugg escorted out of Pentagon today after spilling top secret national security information to stranger at a bar - an investigative reporter. She recorded the entire conversation

Just another example of only the best in this cast of morons!

#SheShed

There were 7 Jews in Tipperary in #Cenus1926, 5 same family aged 23 to 16 lodging in a house in Tipperary town working for father who is living in Dublin. A Russian born electrical engineer saying in a Clonmel hotel. A Patrick Nash in Clonmel Asylum who may not actually have been Jewish. #speirgorm

He was a politician then and leader of a party that was a middle class voter coalition with deep urban and rural roots. He can now say what he actually believes. When the country was a 3 party system, all 3 where "national" parties even Labour with support across the "divide", those days may be over

The Virginia redistricting was put to the voters, the Texas redistricting was not, but do tell me more about "democracy" you dumb fucking MAGAts.

I'm watching the Jimmy Savile documentary on Netflix and it's remarkable how much it's actually about how Thatcherism hollowed out public institutions such as hospitals so that they came to rely on the largesse of private entrepreneurs who, now being indispensable, were able to act with impunity

AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation.

She represents us and the rage we feel.

Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.

Pennsylvania's appellate court confirmed that access to abortion is a fundamental right under the Pennsylvania Constitution.

This decision is a win for all Pennsylvanians.

The government shouldn't be making your healthcare decisions - you should.
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