How do you spend €500 million on an energy support package to so little effect? You have to really, really try.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

And another instance of media (misframing), this time from Germany where a national broadcaster, reporting on the murder of Alex Pretti, referred to a "fatal gunfire exchange". There was, of course, no "exchange".

This is a disgraceful headline.

The shooting does not deepen the US "immigration crisis".

It deepens the US democratic crisis.

Of course, it's also the case the black and brown people have been facing state violence long before Trump without it making headlines.

Solidarity to the people of Minnesota and the fantastic turnout in opposition to ICE. #ICEOUT

Trump's "board of peace" seems mainly like a post-presidency grift for the trump family - yes a way to usurp the UN but also to keep monetizing the presidency out of office.

Not unlike the Clinton Global Initiative, I'm afraid. But with more private $$ to the family and less do-gooder veneer.

Ending birthright citizenship is a prelude to taking away citizenship for anyone they want.

“THIS ISN’T JUSTICE AND WE KNOW IT.” What we see today, masked agents & neighborhood raids, is no coincidence. It’s the same old playbook of intimidation & systemic racism Dr. King fought against.

This reign of terror is designed to create fear and divide us. NOT ON OUR WATCH! ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻

Americans don’t want Canada, Venezuela, or Greenland.

We want to be able to afford groceries, housing and have lower healthcare costs— LITERALLY the most basic of human needs.

De-shamrock Trump!

The Gist: The Abuse Factory X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.

You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.

It’s a feature.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

This:
"I find the discussion about the extent of Greenland's potential strategic usefulness to the US laughable. It's not about US interests, but about the interests of Trump and his rich friends. This is not a political thriller, but a mafia action film".

Renee Nicole Good was killed by ICE. We demand full accountability and ICE out of our communities immediately.

The Perverse Logic of the Government’s Immigration Policy The Government’s narrative is that asylum seekers are a cost that must be reduced – by making Ireland an unattractive place for those seeking international protection.  This ignores that fact …

The perverse logic of Government’s immigration policy: it points to the benefits that immigrants bring to the economy. Then it says there are too many immigrants. And if you point out this contradiction, you're accused of wanting to close down the debate! tinyurl.com/r3s9myka

Can progressives work (together) to end FF/FG perma-government? First test Galway West by-election ...

If you’re curious about “25 ready baked ideas” for #housing they include building garden sheds & dark studios the size of 2 parking spaces; super inflating land values; & new shortcuts that risk “irregular practices”, public safety, the environment, & incurring fines on climate targets #halfbaked

The Overton window moving ever further to the far right ...

The Affordability Deficit We have an affordability deficit.  Even with low unemployment, solid job creation, relatively low inflation and reasonable economic growth, nearly half of households are finding it difficult making…

50% of households find it difficult making ends meet. Temporary measures won’t solve this. We need to promote wages and incomes, reshape market prices, and provide free public services. Affordability is one of the foundations of an alternative government: tinyurl.com/wzj3usnf

Profits and Threats in the Irish Housing Market While the VAT cut on food services was farcical, the tax cuts for property developers was insidious. It was framed as necessary measures to increase apartment construction viability.  But the …

Hospitality VAT cut was farcical. But tax cuts for property developers were insidious. Developers’ lobby told the Government – give us more subsidy or we won’t help meet your housing targets. And the Government blinked. Because it has no strategy: tinyurl.com/bdfc9kwd

Judging from her remarks on RTE's This Week earlier and a quick scan of her Facebook page, Humphreys seems to regard the role of President as some sort of trade ambassador. A limited vision, to put it mildly.

This.

Pay rises for construction workers are solution to housing crisis, not the problem, says union Pay rises are the solution to the housing crisis and not a problem, a union has claimed.

“Pay rises for construction workers are solution to housing crisis, not the problem, says union”
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This is one of the councillors who Gareth Sheridan has support from. #SpeirGorm

Amazon's bid to overturn B.C. labour ruling granting unionization to its workers rejected | CBC News British Columbia's Labour Relations Board has rejected a bid by e-commerce giant Amazon to overturn an earlier decision that awarded union certification to workers at a facility in Delta, B.C.

Amazon reached deep into the union-busting playbook in Delta, BC. It failed.

@unifor.org workers held the line and won.

Now quit the stalling and get to the table.
#MakeAmazonPay
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Ireland will disporportionately suffer from the 15% tariff. Over a quarter of all Irish goods exports go to the US. The EU average is 8%. How is this a good deal for Ireland or the EU?

What do Ireland’s best paid chief executives earn? Top executives’ average pay package rose by 31 per cent to €4.36m last year

Average CEO pay in large Irish publicly quoted companies rose by 31%. Average employee wage rose by approximately 4%. Increase in CEO pay rose nearly 8 times faster. This should be a political issue.

What do Ireland’s best paid chief executives earn?

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

We're Not Spending Enough Voices are growing louder. Government spending is getting out of control: ‘surging public spending’, ‘rising faster than planned’, ‘fiscal incontinence’; and the killer punch: public spending has doub...

We’re being told public spending is getting out of control. But Ireland is a low spender. We’d have to increase public expenditure by up to €15 billion just to reach EU averages. We need to significantly increase spending – and the revenue to pay for it. tinyurl.com/bdfpetw9

Delighted something is finally being done to put the Sean McDermott Street 'Magdalene laundry' to good use and recognise the generations of working-class women and girls incarcerated there.

Fintan O’Toole: Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why? The range of departments engaged in this alarming disappearing act suggests it is not accidental

Memory holes and the unpublishing of inconvenient truths - illuminating piece (paywalled unfortunately) by @fotoole.bsky.social
Official documents are quietly disappearing from departmental websites. Why?
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