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Eoin O'Callaghan

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Irish man in London Love UK. Pro EU.

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Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · Jun 29

Well, surprise, surprise! So now, having pulled out of the Iranian Nuclear deal 8 years ago (which was working btw) and "obliterating" Iran's nuclear capabilities, all Trump has delivered is the incentive for Iran to have the bomb - so they can never be attacked again. Trump is a fool for the ages.

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Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · 2d

Her defense of this yesterday was laughable. Hadn't heard or read the comments, but still knew they were taken out of context!

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Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · 2d

I see the magic money tree is back 🌳 #KemiBadenoch

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8d

Don’t stop rubbing their noses in the teachings of Christ.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

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Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · 7d

100%. This is the bit that pisses me off. Getting brownie points for riding an "electric scooter" (without a helmet mind you!). Then he owns and drives a Petrol Range Rover P400. You know... eff off William. Don't try to have it both ways.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8d

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.

But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · 9d

Far more issues than that. The US numbers rose much more quickly. This makes it look like it's a much more recent development in the US than it is.

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Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · 9d

It's a load of horse. Nonsense.

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Congresswoman Julie Johnson @repjuliejohnson.bsky.social · 10d

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the presidency.

They should have negotiated with us and put forth a funding bill that protected health care.

Instead, they chose to skip town. Republicans own this shutdown.

#RepublicanShutdown

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10d

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 11d

Labour have introduced the Youth Trailblazer schemes to 8 areas across England to help young people to get the education, training or work they deserve.

Here we have the PM & Chancellor listening to young people already helped by it.

Our Labour government is changing lives for the better!

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Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · 11d

💯 and it's unbelievably damaging in our current media landscape. All I'm interested in is seeing this Labour govt actually doing and hopefully they'll focus on that.

Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · 11d

This 💯. Watson's interview doesn't warrant this response at all. JK is obsessive now (as well as being mean, petty and vindictive). Has JK no friends to have a word with her one has to wonder. I mean, harking back to a witch comment 3 years ago? 🤔🙃

Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · 11d

Hate to tell you but they're all (all mainstream press) reporting this. JK just can't help herself. She's addicted to the fight 🤷‍♂️

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Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · 11d

💯. That's my overwhelming reaction too. JK has been turned into a bitter, mean obsessive who isn't able to step away from the "battle" that's going on daily in her world. Quite sad.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Former FBI Deputy Director McCabe says he hasn't been contacted "at all" by the FBI about Comey and adds, "if my interactions with Comey was gonna be the basis of this entire prosecution, it's unbelievable that prosecutors wouldn't at least want to sit down and hear what I have to say about it."

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12d

Can't we just get healthcare

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Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · 15d

😂🤣🔥

Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · 15d

100% this. He's gone way down in my estimation with his interviews this morning. Not 18 months into a govt and agitating for the Leadership. Pathetic as well as very damaging to the Labour Party.

Eoin O'Callaghan @eoineoc.bsky.social · 15d

Perhaps, but if Labour are insane enough to switch to him it guarantees they're out. Ppl are just not interested in this sort of shortermism in politics. They want real change which is in fact difficult to deliver. It's not about just one person.

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David, The King of Kemptown @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 22d

This is the second time I've seen politicians (Khan, now Mordaunt), seek to deflect from @zackpolanski.bsky.social 's entirely legitimate points by attempting to infantalise him (sixth form politics / president of a student union).

The arrogance of Labour and the Tories in their two-party system 🙄

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22d

Zack Polanski, "Are you comfortable with the most powerful man on earth banning books, militarising the police?"

Penny Mordaunt, "That's not the point"

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22d

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22d

A man very recently called for “involuntary lethal injection” for the mentally ill and the unhoused.

Literally talking about murdering other humans—and he still kept his job.

Brian Killmeade, Fox & Friends.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22d

The UK doesn’t have First Amendment free speech protections, but the Brits don’t GAF‼️

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22d

Just a reminder, Trump openly said after he got Colbert fired that he would get Kimmel fired next. And he did.

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