"What started as a Smith & Wesson partnership has degenerated into a Thelma & Louise ending."
A well deserved outcome for both of them.
Question: Congress, how much further are you going to let 🤡 drag the rest of us over the cliff w him???
202-224-3121
democracy.io/#/
thinking abt this bc there is currently a controversy on tiktok where people are misreading and spreading a statistic from this article, saying that 62 million men were either in or interested in a telegram chat about drugging and raping their female partners when really it was like 1000 people max
Nature is so fricking amazing.
Fantastic. Statue of that bull please.
I dunno but I think if you apply for, and complete a medical degree funded by the Irish State and block another candidate from taking that place BUT THEN decide not to practice but become, say a… TD.. that you should repay the state for that training. Looking at you Jack Chambers and Leo Varadkar.
I mean it’s not just that. It’s also the fact that it went down badly with their most important supporters in the US: Evangelical Christians.
Whereas the first three, fine by us. Carry on.
Murder children - no sanction
Rape prisoners - no sanction
Quadruple tap EMTs - no sanction
Take a sledgehammer to a piece of concrete - Jail.
Israel.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for economic reform to address HIGH LABOR COSTS, energy prices, taxes, and SOCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS.
Merz looked at the billionaires ripping you off, and he decided your Wages, Pensions and Benefits were the problem.
Germany vote him OUT.
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
In the space of a few weeks in 2025, Simon Harris required armed gardaí at his family home due to multiple bomb threats, while former taoiseach Leo Varadkar was subjected to a homophobic tirade by a self-styled citizen journalist who filmed the confrontation for social media. A man is due before the courts in July in connection with an alleged assault on Mary Lou McDonald and two canvassers the day before the presidential election last year. The incident was filmed and went viral online. So, last week when a video of Senator Eileen Flynn speaking about racism and nationalist propaganda went viral, a predictable and inevitable online pile on began, with posts attacking Flynn's "patriotism" or perceived
Much of the abuse directed at Ms Flynn came from Irish accounts run by people who benefit from algorithmically amplification (so called blue tick accounts), and content monetisation. Monetisation is now a commonplace feature on social media platforms like X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, that allows the company to "share" revenue. The more attention (likes, shares, comments etc) a post gets, the more revenue a user earns. Influencers also often have accounts on three or four platforms and post dozens of times a day, and can also benefit from tips, and paid subscribers so it is difficult to gauge how much they earn, but a single viral post on X can generate over €300 for an influencer, so this can become a quite lucrative activity for not a lot of work. Power
The abuse directed at Ms Flynn did not only come from Irish accounts; international social media influencers whose attention was already on Ireland since the fuel protests latched onto it too. Defiant Ls, an account run by a Macedonian influencer who promotes Maga content shared the video, as did the account LibsofTikTok, with the caption, 'Irish Senator Eileen Flynn says that she is "terrified" to see her nation's flag and thinks it's "disgraceful" to fly it', received more than 250,000 views and over 1,300 comments, mostly abusive. LibsOfTikTok has nearly five million fans and the account is run by Chaya Raichik, a right wing influencer who has previously targeted schools, hospitals and libraries across the United States. Victims of her attention have gone to be inundated with threats of violence.
I have a piece in the Examiner today on how content monetisation is fuelling a new wave of online harassment
Irish influencers with monetised accounts are mimicking the behaviour of people like Chaya Raichik, the owner of LibsOfTikTok, who has turned online abuse & harassment into a business model.
The absolute fucking opposite of what we should be doing
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There are 105,000 uninsured vehicles on Irish roads?!? What the thundering fuck! How ridiculously incompetent is our system?
We won.
Tesla Chicago is closed.
Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability.
Organizing works.
@teslatakedown.com
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.
Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
This reads like just another babbling manifesto by a mass shooter which, of course, is exactly what it is.
Oh so Frenchie is a psycho IDF stormtrooper? Fuck. #TheBoys
QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood.
8bit ftw
He did NOT go there..... 😮
You've got my vote Lisa.
HATE IS UGLY
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As long as they have racist fascist Ken O'Flynn as a member, Independent Ireland can get fucked.
Another census disaster. Bringing down laptops of academics across the country. Tuts.
Hey @bbsouth.bsky.social it’s spelled ‘indecent’ you illiterate racist fuck.
Hurro Ben!
Me, my husband and my small white bichon Jack Russell cross sitting at a picnic table overlooking Kenmare bay. On the table in front of us sit a fresh pint of Guinness and a lager.
Don’t know about the rest of the country but it’s only a CRACKING evening in South Kerry.
Get that. Which is why more funding needs to be provided to create more jobs in local archives and libraries rather than giving that money to Silicon Valley billionaires who don’t need any more money. 😉
Shouldn't be free again... as the yanks say... PERIOD.
The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history
